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  • Poetry » Dramatic
    Hitching a Ride
    6

    Is this how the old man feels? The pain is low, indentured servants nibbling at organ-walls, sloshing hydriodic acids that spray up to the tongue, up caustic rivers of life ...


    xanthan gum - Aug 13, 2006 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Other
    Italy, July 2006
    7

    The heavy air promises a storm. As we climb up, the clouds climb down. Breath is elusive. I trip, fall. You look back to offer help but I wave away ...


    Chanson - Aug 12, 2006 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Dramatic
    Soma
    4

    Someone once told me that the apocalypse will be blue, and that the saddest day of our lives is when we look into the mirror and know our own eyes. ...


    faith - Aug 10, 2006 - 1 min read

  • 7

    I want your words, but I don't want to pay. Let me pick apart your syntax and sew it back up like a curious child and an unfortunate frog. I ...


    faith - Aug 10, 2006 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Narrative
    ex.tincture
    6

    JIM: A unicorn, huh? —aren’t they extinct in the modern world? LAURA: I know! JIM: Poor little fellow, he must feel sort of lonesome. - The Glass Menagerie, Tennessee Williams ...


    Caligula's Launderette - Aug 10, 2006 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Other
    Bleet
    9

    it seems this little girl with ribbons in her hair and shrapnel in her face are all part of God's plan it's good to know that in the billions of ...


    BarrettBenedict - Aug 10, 2006 - 1 min read

  • 5

    August 3rd Things never stay the same Break my psychadelic waves of nausea, bringing me back to the surface, spluttering and coughing up so many multi-coloured dreams. Beneath your bed ...

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    Kippy - Aug 10, 2006 - 2 min read

  • Poetry » Dramatic
    The One-Way Ladder
    10

    [i]This is one of the shortest poems i have written for the last three years! Read on! [/i] The One-Way Ladder There is a ladder, an eternal one, NO one ...


    Sohini - Aug 10, 2006 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Dramatic
    Milkman!
    4

    Mighty Chopsticks In the hand Of The Supreme Spider Warrior Send chills down spider arms But not their legs And then they swim away But not fast enough For None ...

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    Sharty - Aug 10, 2006 - 1 min read

  • 10

    An overly taut piece of night, so dark, cool and lovely, flowed above and about my head atop a sliver of bone that shone and glimmered A delicate tracery of ...


    Jiggity - Aug 9, 2006 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Dramatic
    Still-Life with Buffalo
    9

    "Still-Life with Buffalo" By K.J. Hascall Revised 6/15/06 I cannot write lofty prose about Trafalgar Square, for I have never set foot on English soil – neither can I comment ...


    Cicero - Aug 9, 2006 - 2 min read

  • 6

    Inspired by the Big Head Todd and the Monsters song "Bittersweet." Title suggestions are greatly appreciated! Some of the line breaks are bit off because of the format of this ...


    Cicero - Aug 9, 2006 - 2 min read

  • Poetry » Dramatic
    Random Sonnet
    7

    This sonnet has no name, if anyone can suggest one that would be useful. Enjoy. Look up high and maybe you will see, Soaring in the open clear azure, A ...


    Afyr - Aug 9, 2006 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Dramatic
    My Loves
    15

    Nothing can rival my first piece of magnificence, but this comes close. I like sharks I like sharks And money And money I'm so rich I own a shark Someday ...

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    Sharty - Aug 9, 2006 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Dramatic
    marbles
    6

    I think this is one of the best poems I've read of yours, Brad. (No wonder that you won best poet on the site! ) There's just one minor mistake ...


    Wiggy - Aug 8, 2006 - 1 min read


For in everything it is no easy task to find the middle ... anyone can get angry—that is easy—or give or spend money; but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, with the right motive, and in the right way, that is not for everyone, nor is it easy; wherefore goodness is both rare and laudable and noble.
— Aristotle