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Don't SettleLove, the real kind, is never simple. / It is the one thing that makes life worth it in the end, / and something that wonderful and sought-after is never going to be easy to get.

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An inadequate poemA poem falls short; I'd like, instead / to draw a single line from me to you / and watch it curl into a word

@marsha-singh10

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Finding Myself: Two in OneThere are roots that / delve deep in our bones, / wrapping us like our skin.

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The Last Time I Felt LoveI remember the evening / that we sat clinging / to paper cups

@lilyofthesea22

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making itignore all possible concepts and possibilities --- / ignore Beethoven, the spider, the damnation of Faust --- / just make it, babe, make it:

Charles Bukowski20

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run your fingers over the lettersyou don't understand at all do you / not truly / you think

@megan-hundley91

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cultivation of gratitudeThank you ~ / for a life not to trade / blessings, in spades

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I Know Depression (Slam Poem, Edited Version)Everyone talks about depression as if they know it. / But what they don’t know is that depression is a hooded figure standing just outside of a wooden doorway, / it’s feeling the blood dripping down your skin and having the sick thought of “Oh, look how beautiful the red is” (they always say red is my color).

@miranda-santoro52

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The Meaning of LoveBoth light and shadow / are the dance of Love. / Love has no cause;

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Words, Sentences, Paragraphs... Infinity.Words swathe me in calm, / Sentences, paragraphs that soothe. / Viridian verbs burst through the grey,

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The Poem (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)Once on a yellow piece of paper with green lines / he wrote a poem / and he called it "chops"

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The Art of ProcrastinationMountains on mountains erupt from the earth's chambers of burdened lava and collapse back into their hellish landscape just as quickly / Waves assault the beach in frenzied randomness, striking their mark upon the sand and washing it away in the same breath / Birds flail about, learning to sail the clouds while dolphins soar their vast expanse of golden sea

@english_jam_darling30

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I’d Rather WriteI’d rather write than speak / My pen is always responsive / My ink doesn’t judge my mistakes

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beerI don't know how many bottles of beer / I have consumed while waiting for things / to get better

Charles Bukowski52

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How to Be a WriterA friend asked me / how to be a writer. / I wanted to say,

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How I Love Youlike cellophane wraps hard candy / like ink loves to dry / like hot sauce drenches noodles

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A LifeTouch it: it won't shrink like an eyeball, / This egg-shaped bailiwick, clear as a tear. / Here's yesterday, last year ---

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Little SlutI didn't want to send you pictures of my body / Naked and vulnerable / I told you no

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OkayIf there was one word / One word, isolated by itself / That I cannot stand above all others

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When the heart of a poet gets brokenHe doesn't burn photographs / He doesn't join therapy sessions / He doesn't smoke too many cigarettes

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universesome nights you will feel / like there are a thousand galaxies / exploding in every inch of you

@aleeshafaleesha25

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Beauty?What is *beauty?* / To some it is flowers / or

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man or bearThey told me to sit small, / legs crossed like folded paper, / voice tucked behind my teeth

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Summer Heat Summer SweetSummer heat summer sweet / With a wealthy nature, rich pheromones erupt / Birds n tha bees escape the trees

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