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  • Poetry » Dramatic
    Wide and Quaking Blue
    3

    Wide and Quaking Blue Mention something In painless prose To remind me who she’s wandering away from Lanking gloriously at half-assed fancy cocktail parties With a martini in one hand ...


    ConvolutedEmpty - Nov 7, 2005 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Dramatic
    Fireflies
    2

    It’s stings at the insides of my nose Coarse, stagnant scent Desert(ion) of red A place in half-empty overturned glass My world is crimsom tinted Alight and on fire A ...


    ConvolutedEmpty - Nov 7, 2005 - 2 min read

  • Poetry » Dramatic
    I'm in Hell
    11

    How was I to know That today was to be my final day? That my hours were limited, Torn from me as a thief Would steal a wallet. I thought ...


    forest_ofthe_nightingale - Nov 7, 2005 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Dramatic
    At the Window
    2

    I just wrote this a second ago. I was in a melancholy mood... Any comments? AT THE WINDOW I sit and glance as the seasons pass, At the window. I ...


    edders05 - Nov 7, 2005 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Dramatic
    -force be with you Padawan-
    2

    -force be with you Padawan- the one armed Yoda hangs from the table chained to my keys his eyes closed (shut tight) in thought his head twists side to side ...


    Caligula's Launderette - Nov 7, 2005 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Lyrical
    clockwork
    8

    clockwork I wish I could see the inner workings of your mind you claim to have misplaced me behind gears and screws that pop off at the ends, loudly- that ...


    Caligula's Launderette - Nov 7, 2005 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Lyrical
    A Shortcut To The Sea
    3

    OK, now it's in the right place I hope! A Shortcut To The Sea The velvet-soft Quiet Of Night. My skin thrills At the touch of Chill wind. Steep steps ...

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    Lyrical - Nov 7, 2005 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Lyrical
    Dreams
    6

    my eyes come undone. it's the sun, the sun has come. and my thoughts are one. how come? how come you breathe so slowly? short breaths, softs breaths, like they ...


    Mattie - Nov 7, 2005 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Lyrical
    Searching
    3

    silence and words part playing hide and seek in the dark it’s your surprise i litter you with that blue light and catch your eyes just right the game is ...


    Mattie - Nov 7, 2005 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Lyrical
    Remnants of You
    6

    i watch as you lick your lips wet and take a drag from your cigarette that filthy habit that disgusting routine how do you make it taste so sweet like ...


    Mattie - Nov 6, 2005 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Narrative
    El 'Mo'
    10

    There is a dark skinned cowboy who runs the mexican ridges of the Tiajuana river valley his pointed boot spurs glinting in the sun his hat tipped just so and ...


    Caligula's Launderette - Nov 6, 2005 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Other
    to Brad: Lytic
    6

    this if for you Brad (Incandescance), after reading someone's critique on one of your recent poems, I was inspired to write this for all the poetry of your people don't ...


    Caligula's Launderette - Nov 6, 2005 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Lyrical
    Untitled II 11-06-05
    4

    Solid granite presses against my back as I look up to the sky back and forth my hand moves unable to follow the journey of simple space dust follow me ...


    Caligula's Launderette - Nov 6, 2005 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Dramatic
    Untitled 11-6-05
    2

    She speaks with every woman's mouth, bending words and wisdom love hides underneath pressed linen in her dark cedar chest festering and growing tired she doesn't touch the lock she ...


    Caligula's Launderette - Nov 6, 2005 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Dramatic
    Corrupt World
    14

    *Left now*

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    deleted6 - Nov 6, 2005 - 1 min read


Pain is filtered in a poem so that it becomes finally, in the end, pleasure.
— Mark Strand