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  • Poetry » Lyrical
    Apple Butter Charm
    5

    Apple grinds are not filtered out; they cling to the capillary walls inside you, speaking selfless confidence in your ears during your wasteland-nights. It slides off your skin into a ...


    xanthan gum - Jul 29, 2006 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Lyrical
    If only we had more Time
    2

    If only we had more time. The time together could have been shining. But since our time was short. I'll have to make this quick, Every minute, every second we ...

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    Shadow Sparrow - Jul 29, 2006 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Lyrical
    Good Times and Bad
    3

    I've seen her only in chosen times.But every time i found myself wondering forward into their eyes.I've only talk to her in awkward silences.Which kept my heart beating with violence.And ...

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    Shadow Sparrow - Jul 29, 2006 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Lyrical
    Delusions of Grandeur
    3

    The storm is wicked. Half-drenched in underage champagne, I stare as God’s woody fingers swirl and spin in a world of majestic half-truths. Full-blown masts sweep me away, a magic ...


    xanthan gum - Jul 28, 2006 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Lyrical
    West Point Fairy Tale
    12

    Posted this one on TSR but I figured I might as well re-post it over here. ** West Point Fairy Tale Stop that-- I can't breathe when you're looking at ...


    Areida - Jul 28, 2006 - 3 min read

  • Poetry » Lyrical
    Nonsense
    4

    Slipping past a metal fence,And into the future – The pain of being loved, Like true love: the synapse-shaking, Lip-burning type that compacts your Lungs into playthings at three in ...


    xanthan gum - Jul 27, 2006 - 2 min read

  • Poetry » Lyrical
    Hide and Seek
    3

    and it was sweet perfection, a collection of simple memories. Don’t you remember? together among miles of emerald grass, the popsicle juice spilling down your chin, our endless games of ...


    Zelalem - Jul 26, 2006 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Lyrical
    A Moment's Thoughts
    3

    I'll breathe before I run again. Lure me in before I wake up and this moment's just a passing dream. Your eyes call me, make me long for more. Are ...


    niteowl - Jul 24, 2006 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Lyrical
    Torn Miracle (reposted)
    3

    Sweet sisters’ mine, here now forever more. after a lifetime of separation— of ignorant incompletion— I am fulfilled. Heart, is alternately light and heavy. I am torn— twixt two families, ...


    Jiggity - Jul 24, 2006 - 2 min read

  • Poetry » Lyrical
    Windowpane
    3

    Blood splatters on the window sill, I stand, poised, tip-toed and tasting the flammable air. Wallpaper adorned with flags and the thought of united we fall, it slips down the ...


    xanthan gum - Jul 23, 2006 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Lyrical
    Return
    7

    You know the subject. RETURN It wasn't as if you left your house in order: hell in a handcart would be more appropriate, holding your headache in your hands through ...


    backgroundbob - Jul 23, 2006 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Lyrical
    Student
    8

    Depression weighs heavily, Soaking the exam papers— I’m already drowning in— And the ink trails down my face, The dark veins of my soul Eyes droop wearily, And I squint ...


    Jiggity - May 23, 2006 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Lyrical
    Ultramarine Eternity
    2

    Welcome to the evermore pool Opulent and crystalline, you drip Sweet stillness on sour minds. Echoes of souls within Its cryptic depths – locked Water-tight clandestine Fingers golden in the ...


    xanthan gum - May 14, 2006 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Lyrical
    battered shins
    1

    battered shins and you with your John Lennon glasses (pick between your teeth.) a phonographic needle of the brain bop shu bop bop. and me Miss Mercy Blue Eyes, cold ...


    Caligula's Launderette - May 14, 2006 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Lyrical
    Breathing the Green Girl
    2

    Breathing the Green Girl I am a cactus girl of spikes and spines and wooden needle spokes. (venus rising—odysseus waning) como agua para agave. Saguaro with pot-smack holes, a nest ...


    Caligula's Launderette - May 12, 2006 - 1 min read


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