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  • Poetry » Lyrical
    rockstars have no hearts
    3

    yes, total stranger, i resorted to attempting telepathy two nights ago, when the silence was cutting, unforgiving, threatening to plunge my mind into insanity before long. so i thought, a ...


    Liz - Jan 15, 2005 - 2 min read

  • Poetry » Narrative
    *Sleeping Heaven*
    8

    An old tire swing, a white wooden porch. Sunshine and fresh breezes play. I see you walk up and run to you. I hug you and kiss you and hold ...


    InnerTurmoil - Jan 14, 2005 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Dramatic
    You and I
    7

    So I'm bending the rules, and writing a preface, but not about my poem, more about it's inspiration. If anyone (moderators) can tell me where a good place to put ...


    A.O. Avalon - Jan 14, 2005 - 2 min read

  • Poetry » Lyrical
    [You]
    6

    Hours of watching you, Like I used to, Yet this time, You didn't watch me back. Minuets passed and courage grew, One word to you is all I need, Just ...


    Wulie - Jan 14, 2005 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Lyrical
    deleted
    6

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    Lingering_Shadow - Jan 13, 2005 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Lyrical
    'Shades of Hypocricy'
    6

    A little iffy about the title still...Any advice/comments would be appreciated. It’s not enough, never enough To wonder at the sun, I want to feel the heat, Anything to feel ...


    Lingering_Shadow - Jan 13, 2005 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Lyrical
    [Time]
    8

    So here we are, Time has passed, And the promises have been broken, I remain the hostage of your past. I can no longer last, with these emotions inside of ...


    Wulie - Jan 13, 2005 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Lyrical
    9
    5

    This is all one poem, I'm not posting 9 at once. i had I LOVE YOU scratched i had I LOVE YOU scratched across my throat in black ballpoint and ...


    Liz - Jan 13, 2005 - 8 min read

  • Poetry » Lyrical
    My Life for now!!
    5

    Tears and sweat I don't know when yet. Questions need answering answers need questioning. I don't know whats happening. I bow like a sapling. This is not the me that ...


    InnerTurmoil - Jan 11, 2005 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Lyrical
    [Is this my good bye?]
    3

    Another day rising to its end, The bus journey home confronts me, Screaming kids and splitting headaches, Goodbye for another night. The questions in my heart riding to my confusion, ...


    Wulie - Jan 11, 2005 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Lyrical
    Closing Chapters
    5

    Closing chapters of my life, trying not to look back as I loosen my grip on childish fantasies, now phantoms. The fog clears and i see what was really there ...


    asyouwish - Jan 10, 2005 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Narrative
    Undefiled
    8

    She strode past soot-stained buildings, past grungy gamblers, clinking chips and taunting each other, slurring obsceneties and bragging about fictional escapades. Her white dress, unnoticed by the gamblers, flows delicate ...


    asyouwish - Jan 10, 2005 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Lyrical
    Oh So Obselete
    6

    Watching her hands, I think if I have only one regret (I don’t think I could handle more) let it be that I didn’t learn how to make magic, make ...


    convintojm - Jan 10, 2005 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Lyrical
    The Fairy Tale of Childhood
    16

    Do you remember when we used to play limbs intertwined one person two heads? How about the coppery taste of blood As I pulled your first Tooth? A callous sacrifice ...


    Myriadne - Jan 10, 2005 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Narrative
    Connection
    8

    He sat on the edge of his bed at midnight staring at into the night. Straight ahead is nothing but an empty field. Barren-a piece of the earth that the ...


    Chevy - Jan 10, 2005 - 2 min read


What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.
— J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye