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The Icecream Peoplethe lady has me temporarily off the bottle / and now the pecker stands up / better.
Charles Bukowski46
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Sit backSit back and relax / Feel the waves wash over your back / In the melting sun
@toothache21
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I Have Found What You Are Likei have found what you are like / the rain, / (Who feathers frightened fields
E. E. Cummings22
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epithetand here i am again / at the intersection / of pedestrian language
@TomLeveille93
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Bitter Sweet**It finally stopped raining,** / after endless hours of trying to fall / into the deep rhythms of sleep.
@xxxxx333
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As Is The Sea Marvelousas is the sea marvelous / from god’s / hands which sent her forth
E. E. Cummings19
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LucidI want to sleep forever and reside in my dreams / To frolic through a collage of different spectacles and scenes / An escape from the insufferable, cruel world at large
@roberta-day20
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FPOTD: good mid-of night, my beautiful muses, living and imagined~*for M. both / a living one, and / imagined, too*~
@nat-lipstadt41
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Quiet GirlI would liken you / To a night without stars / Were it not for your eyes.
Langston Hughes6
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It Is At Moments After I Have Dreamedit is at moments after i have dreamed / of the rare entertainment of your eyes, / when(being fool to fancy)i have deemed
E. E. Cummings14
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In Artemis’s WoodLovers entered a forbidden forest bower, / And as they stalked that range, with eyes glazed, / She offered up her hind. Now, with doe eyes,
@ormond39
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"After Light"Speaking of broken hearts / and mended fenced in mem'ries / I am painting skies
@Moi-Cherie43
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don't forgetthere is always somebody or something / waiting for you, / something stronger, more intelligent,
Charles Bukowski29
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These eyesI’ve seen eyes that capture all that I am and pull it to the front so I see it all, good and bad. / Eyes that looked so deep I imagine I could fall into them and get lost. / Eyes that have seen until the end of the world and so much more.
@lunamist7
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Anxiety, Anxiety, AnxietyStill silence filled with the warmth of your body radiating on me while we sleep / I wouldn't dream of being anywhere else other than lying next to you / The light is just dim enough that I can see
@msblessing16
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If I Should Sleep With A Lady Called Deathif I should sleep with a lady called death / get another man with firmer lips / to take your new mouth in his teeth
E. E. Cummings14
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A recipe for disasterI'll see what I can make / out of the leftovers I have. / Although, it's never too long
@zarab20
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My ReasonsYou asked me why I like you / But I didn’t want to tell / Some of my reasons are cheesy...
@She_Writes29
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I kinda sorta think I'm falling for youThere comes a day in your life where you meet someone special… / You try so hard not to admit it but you just can’t hold back the way you feel… / I like you.
@madison-347
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That Rain PoemSitting in some car in a forgotten parking lot / Grey marks the skies / Lush green plants peeping in
@english_jam_darling28
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Limits of A Real Fine LineThe difference between actions and habits, / is often measured by the person you're asking. / One bump, one line, one half ounce . . .
@bad-luck30
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Are you okay?Are you okay? / Are you alright, are you fine, are you good? / Are you adequate, are you decent?
@andromeda_green18
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Angel?In That Moonlit Night Standing In The Abaft, / Watching The Towed Flaccid Wooden Raft, / I Thought That I Saw An Angel Resting,
@Atul28
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three a.m.It's 3am / I'm on the phone / No one's awake and I'm alone
@LManagram18
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"Still alive!"I appreciate your concern, and yes, / I'm still very much alive. / I'm just a father with a full-time job,
@eliotyork19
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