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  • Poetry » Lyrical
    My Nightmare
    7

    It did not take much for them to abandon me. Just a shooting pain, tearing me away from the lights of my glory. I had been their star, the winner ...


    forest_ofthe_nightingale - Oct 19, 2005 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Dramatic
    two is an odd number
    9

    you gave me nightmares about those emerald eyes: submerged in saturday-night delights, singing songs I never wanted to hear, filthy with the thought of seduction. in the crush of the ...


    Firestarter - Oct 19, 2005 - 1 min read

  • 3

    "The View From My Window is of the Roof" 10/19/05 The view from my window is of the roof each tile uniform and gray. Sure, there is a window down ...


    Cicero - Oct 19, 2005 - 2 min read

  • 7

    Let everyone sing and everyone dance, while she lies in this empty, forgotten room Empty and forgotten like her. Beautiful eyes, covered by a sheet of sadness emotionless breaths being ...


    Angel17 - Oct 19, 2005 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Lyrical
    Abyssus abyssum...
    5

    for years I've been crying into a pillow full of goosedown the mantra of ghostkisses and spiderflys gnashing at my head my only thoughts are missing you you're a truebluekid ...


    Caligula's Launderette - Oct 19, 2005 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Other
    (Title pending)
    2

    If you have any suggestions for a title, I'd like to hear them. I stand along the shoreline, The fish quake with fear, For they can see me casting, And ...


    Halloween - Oct 18, 2005 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Other
    king of spades
    3

    there are puzzle pieces strewn across dilapidated, wooden tables, and we try to revive the remnants by forcing the corner-angles into our nearly correct places. but Big Brother says that ...

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    emotion_less - Oct 18, 2005 - 1 min read

  • 2

    Once there was a house, Pink roofed and cracked walls within. The path twisted and turned, The fence splintered passers by and the chimney never worked. One there was a ...

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    onsa - Oct 18, 2005 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Other
    Accident
    2

    Darkness overtakes my weary soul upon a pedastool of gold I stumble upon the hardened ground I could fall on my face and not make a sound A castaway, that's ...

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    Moon_Child - Oct 18, 2005 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Lyrical
    Spectrum of Emotion
    2

    Your name Will forever be for me Love, and pain And so many unfathomable emotions Tumbling together in a waterfall Forming an ocean that can never be crossed. It’s nights ...

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    Once Upon A Dream - Oct 18, 2005 - 1 min read

  • 4

    I liked this. I couldn't anticipate where it was going, but I felt guided along the way. Even with changes in time and place, your voice remains consistent. The canvas ...


    Ieatworms - Oct 18, 2005 - 2 min read

  • 5

    Missive It wasn’t so long ago That I was living this history, Not writing it. Your hands made a lush country of my body, Boundaries drawn with my hot blush ...


    Ieatworms - Oct 18, 2005 - 2 min read

  • Poetry » Dramatic
    Unreciprocated
    6

    If the chainsaw in my head cut through the night Could you sleep through it? Or would you wake discontented? If I showed you my truth, Could you accept it? ...


    Halloween - Oct 17, 2005 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Other
    Torn
    2

    There's too much on my mind I can't seem to close my sleepy eyes Tears falling down like rain on my face staining my cheeks for everyone to see The ...

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    Moon_Child - Oct 17, 2005 - 1 min read

  • 5

    This feels like the same as your other recent poem, "Living Alone With Green Carpet" ... same subject matter? Anyway, I thought this fitted very well neatly together. You seemed ...


    Firestarter - Oct 17, 2005 - 1 min read


To be a master of metaphor is the greatest thing by far. It is the one thing that cannot be learnt from others, and it is also a sign of genius.
— Aristotle, Poetics