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  • 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 » Narrative
    Chaos
    3

    Trapped in emotion,Lost in confusion,Always looking in from the outside,The chaos in this world,Will make me lose my mind.Civil War and cyber lore,Millions of cars and a race to Mars,The ...


    Tassen Spellbinder - Jul 22, 2006 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Narrative
    Rebel with nothing to fight
    9

    The war is done,The right has one.Defeated and banished,Is the evil one.Cheers and celebrations galore,And all are jolly like never before.But alone in the peaceful world I find,That many a ...


    Tassen Spellbinder - Jul 22, 2006 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Dramatic
    Pen Marks on Wine Glasses
    3

    Life is a pen, darling. If we cannot erase, then - must we resign ourselves to leave the page?Are not more beautiful when marred? Immersed in navy blue regret on ...


    xanthan gum - Jul 22, 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 » Narrative
    The Siege
    5

    From beyond the horizon the armies come, marching in time with the drum, and the many trumpets sound, until the message shakes the ground. They sing: "Lo, we mighty armies ...


    Tassen Spellbinder - May 16, 2006 - 6 min read

  • Poetry » Dramatic
    A quick, penned thank you
    2

    (I had to write this for school. I figured I'd post it.) Feeding print in finery At the hypocenter of Death-defying reality – You feel the guilty casualty Of a ...


    xanthan gum - May 15, 2006 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Other
    Nonentities at Hypocenters
    2

    Alone, child, you whisper You cannot face this world With thin air on your arm – Searching from darkness, You scrounge dumpsters And struggle to shine light All the way ...


    xanthan gum - May 15, 2006 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Dramatic
    dirty dancing
    5

    dance floor sagas are created and shattered among liquid stripes of light and congealing techno beats that fuse hipbones together. lean fingers scrabble for a taste of flesh real skin ...


    Skye - May 15, 2006 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Narrative
    writing challenge 4-17
    4

    'Rapture me,' you sang to me, 'Please succumb my soul from this wretched body.' I apologized, and refrained from doing so. 'Apathy,' you explained, 'Is greater an opiate than religion.' ...

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    Cornelius_Quinnsomer - May 15, 2006 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Other
    The Sunset
    13

    Something from the archives of my life. I think I wrote this a year ago. Enjoy. The Sunset The waning light glanced off the bay piercing the sand near were ...


    IceCreamMan - May 14, 2006 - 1 min read

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    The only draft that has been drafted is the one presented here. Not my best work, but it's something recent that I'm fond of. The Tragedy of a Tradeoff (Haiku) ...


    imoffensive - May 14, 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


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