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    *Found this in a bottom drawer. Not sure whether it's a touch too confessional and/or pretentious. Comments? breath held the world may quiet, still. Unzip these eyes. Douse with color ...

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    Cameron - Feb 17, 2008 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Lyrical
    And Then
    11

    Safety comes from distance, clearly. Someone lock me in isolation-- blind me, bind me, cut me, find me breaking in icewater perspiration. Set like stones in hazel cement, my pupils ...


    Fangala the Flying Feline - Feb 17, 2008 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Other
    Shadows of Obscurity
    6

    Shadows of Obscurity Moonlight creeps over the horizon. Darkness evokes all that is bright. I linger into the shadows, to find my prince of night. He possesses all that keeps ...


    SkaterPunk2011 - Feb 16, 2008 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Other
    Valentine
    8

    [pre]You've given me your heart, but I don't know why. You always seem to give me another try. I've made my mistakes, that is true, But the only one for ...


    Cariad - Feb 16, 2008 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Other
    Lupins
    3

    I stood quite still Right on the hill For I did not—no— Could not move I was trapped And I knew it For the lupins Had imbued it— A ring ...


    Lil Dono - Feb 16, 2008 - 2 min read

  • Poetry » Dramatic
    What you've overlooked
    7

    you stare at me with bitter eyes, resenting me for privilege You've never tasted my tears, say i never shed them You say I know nothing of pain You say ...


    Pickle810 - Feb 16, 2008 - 2 min read

  • Poetry » Dramatic
    Blood heart.
    13

    Blood heart.Chapter one."skies of violet, cherished days, burning hearts of blood."The sun was as liquid as ever, the sky as deep as a sea and the water as clear as ...


    vines-of-beauty - Feb 16, 2008 - 3 min read

  • Poetry » Other
    Stone Cold
    5

    Stone Cold His hands felt of concrete, as they traced along my back. Shivers of cold ran down my spine. Trying to gasp for the air slipping away. Holding on ...


    SkaterPunk2011 - Feb 16, 2008 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Dramatic
    Bloody Pearls
    11

    Bloody Pearls I feel you linger closer. And you breathe down my neck. I’m holding back on what’s killing me. For I know what is to be. The piercing pearls ...


    SkaterPunk2011 - Feb 16, 2008 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Other
    Trigger Switch
    10

    Trigger Switch As I touched his frozen lips And shivered at the icy fingertips I tried not to let out a scream When I realized it wasn't a dream I ...


    SkaterPunk2011 - Feb 16, 2008 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Narrative
    The man in front
    7

    He is the man in front Who bears the brunt, Of what is out there, A war of two men in disrepair. Of the drone of guns, The battle of ...


    Eimear - Feb 16, 2008 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Narrative
    One Good that came from Crime
    21

    One Good that came from Crime There’s a lady from the supermarket Sits at the counter by aisle ten. She puts a twenty In the cash drawer And deals out ...


    Teh Wozzinator - Feb 15, 2008 - 2 min read

  • 5

    A bard of yore strode in to fight, a sight uncommon even then He came to help his kingdom, clutching sword and clutching pen And holding fast the reins of ...


    Rigel - Feb 15, 2008 - 2 min read

  • Poetry » Lyrical
    Valentine?
    14

    Not much can be said of a crush that I have. It comes and it goes, but It should be known. True feelings can confuse, ones heart they consume, but ...


    piepiemann22 - Feb 15, 2008 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Lyrical
    A Fell North Wind
    8

    A fell north wind blows chilling the air around me, but nothing can match the sadness in my heart. I lose myself to all sense of time. I feel nothing, ...


    piepiemann22 - Feb 15, 2008 - 1 min read


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