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  • Poetry » Narrative
    August Rain
    15

    August Rain She stood alone, silent in the ruins of her own surrender; she breathed plumes of steam in the bitter Monday daybreak; her body radiated to all around. All ...


    ZanyPlebeian - May 1, 2006 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Other
    Hell is a Place
    3

    Hell is a Place Hell is an over-and-under place; it is fueled with the souls of pilgrims and the tongues of shepherds. The raven crows at twilight for broken water, ...


    ZanyPlebeian - May 1, 2006 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Dramatic
    Ode to John Keats
    4

    (Sorry, double-post. )


    ZanyPlebeian - May 1, 2006 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Dramatic
    Antechamber to Unreality
    3

    Up until this point my life has been A collage of empty nights depleting me until I have fragmented nothingness Deep within my heart You, so nameless to the public ...


    xanthan gum - Apr 30, 2006 - 1 min read

  • 3

    No more motion activated towel dispensers. No more battery powered toothbrushes. 8 line highways but still cramped, work from home Internet ads oh the T.V We need to do what ...

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    Colier - Apr 30, 2006 - 2 min read

  • 9

    Bent, and pretending confusion-You moan over the insistence of paid programmingClutching and grippingThe sounds are primordialBut so are weAnd that turns us on.Suddenly there is blissProlonged with ex

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    Colier - Apr 30, 2006 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Dramatic
    Fast Mouth
    2

    That fast mouth, I had one before. The orange peeled hemisphere- it closes you in But I've known that before If you watched the landscapes trickle away would it ever ...

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    Colier - Apr 30, 2006 - 1 min read

  • 9

    Revised Version: My Fate (rough title, will likely change it later) Floating through the space of life; Follow the yellow brick road. Holding hands with fate, Her touch becomes cold. ...


    IceCreamMan - Apr 29, 2006 - 3 min read

  • Poetry » Other
    "Unrelated point"
    2

    Speckless blackening gape, Above turrets, towers and escalators Without any greying moon Mazes of terraces and guttering, Chimneys black, emitting no smoke. Rising damp, inadequate pipes Only gardens


    Sophie - Apr 29, 2006 - 1 min read

  • 3

    (I hate this cute little rhythm, and for it, I apologize.) Empty melodies in frigid air, a taste hollow and lacking will - so fallen on black ashes where they ...


    xanthan gum - Apr 29, 2006 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Other
    The simple, post-Pain news
    5

    Emily says to me, in a voice so perfect and hushed, that the world never paid her the ears or hearts she's due. The very same hunger and island has ...


    thorn - Apr 29, 2006 - 1 min read

  • 11

    I am a slave In the ocean's power For one good wave, I'll work for an hour Just a ittle tidbit. And I really was surfing,like, half an hour ago.


    Karma - Apr 28, 2006 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Narrative
    Ode to John Keats
    2

    Ode to John Keats Several days after having read "Ode on a Grecian Urn." John Keats nudged my shoulder this morning softly; I grumbled about the hour and looked out ...


    ZanyPlebeian - Apr 28, 2006 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Other
    Alaska.
    6

    This is my first attempt at poetry in quite a while, so this could be interesting. Be merciless. That day I took a walk in the rain, across a piece ...


    Ohio Impromptu - Apr 28, 2006 - 1 min read

  • 5

    Alibird, I hate to say it , but I know I can't delay it. Alibird you're a turd, you stink like a bog. Alibird your absurd, your favorite food is ...


    Araidne - Apr 27, 2006 - 1 min read


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