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  • Poetry » Dramatic
    Fly away with me
    5

    If you could sprout wingsAnd fly away,As free as a bird,Over the mountains,Would you?If you could soar over a lake,Up to the trees,Dance with the clouds,Would you?If you could laugh ...


    Raven - Aug 4, 2006 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Dramatic
    Potential
    8

    So what if words were art and we could paint a masterpiece over this falling sky, trying to hold it up with fortifications and architecture and all the pointless beauty ...


    xanthan gum - Aug 4, 2006 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Dramatic
    Alone and falling
    5

    Always aloneAlways in darknessNever awakeYet never asleepI feel like I'm fallingThrough both Ice and Fire.*No one knows what I'm going through,Because no one knows how I feel.Will someone wake me ...


    Raven - Aug 4, 2006 - 1 min read

  • 5

    K - Screw everything you know about reading a real "poem" and try reading the words for what they are.. because this is more of a.. Freestyle? Yepp. Written by ...


    LiNdSeYo7 - Aug 4, 2006 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Dramatic
    [oldstyle] edit
    2

    Loved the ending, (laughed a bit at the title). When did darkness become salvation from the light? absused from overuse, I fearWhen did we all throw our hands up and ...


    xanthan gum - Aug 4, 2006 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Dramatic
    Love handles hold too tightly
    6

    Get off my fucking couch. Pretentious, legs rent open and lips so bloated that you sound dumb, you are dumb. It seems to burn and bubble where you stroke my ...


    xanthan gum - Aug 3, 2006 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Other
    untranslatable
    8

    what am I doing? I speak as though you’ll understand the drips and eddies, tides of lunar gold across the shore. This is my mind (not that it's always so ...


    bubblewrapped - Aug 3, 2006 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Other
    Nail Staircase
    4

    yeah, yeah, i know. The nail marks never started at the top - no, we were always halfway when we realized we were falling down, down with nothing to leave ...


    xanthan gum - Aug 2, 2006 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Dramatic
    thoughts through scissor blades
    10

    Let me try to understand There’s this feeling in my hand It is a blade sinking deeper in my skin? Did I rip, with my right hand? And watch this ...


    AstrangedbeaR - Jul 31, 2006 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Lyrical
    On Spiritos
    16

    On Spiritos - A Poetic Freewrite: 31 July, 2006 A none too lucid rambling of my subconscious, from a long, long time ago. NRJ-TSR. Enjoy! . . . I’ve found ...


    Dream Deep - Jul 31, 2006 - 2 min read

  • Poetry » Other
    In Search of Sleep
    3

    Tossing and turning throughout the night I listen to the nearby train Who cries out in the lonely night For company, The hum of the TV, Trying my best to ...


    Kay Kay - Jul 31, 2006 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Other
    Ode to Someone's Mother
    6

    caught in the undertow of a thought carried away on the broken back of an undisciplined rhythm passing through subatomic slipstreams and defective dream catchers laughing waves of an alien ...


    BarrettBenedict - Jul 31, 2006 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Other
    Starter Speech
    5

    Calligraphy is accomplishment burned and etched into lambskin paper lining ancient walls, modern minds. Axis titled, the earth is crooked, like melting clocks and bacon, but we are the ones ...


    xanthan gum - Jul 31, 2006 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Other
    Upon that Meadow
    5

    I found this in my photobucket... and I have no idea... where it's from, but surely I must have written it... if I didn't then I have no idea where ...

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    Elizabeth - Jul 30, 2006 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Other
    Gambling in Paris
    9

    Don't shout at me, I'm only here for a few minutes! Have fun; here's my contribution for the day/week/until I'm back. Loads of good stuff going on around here. GAMBLING ...


    backgroundbob - Jul 30, 2006 - 1 min read


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— Wes Moore, The Other Wes Moore