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  • Poetry » Other
    The Campfire
    5

    Campfire that burns, a sign of hope. Allowing us to see, to feel from the heart. The light that glows, giving all peace. A sense of kindness, a feeling for ...


    piepiemann22 - Jan 30, 2007 - 1 min read

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    looking heavenward with gravity moonlight tastes our wind-chapped faces, upturned, triggering the shivers that had been fused to our spines since God first bled rain onto steaming, skull-splintered as


    Skye - Jan 30, 2007 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Other
    Messages and Bottles
    7

    As I walk, I bury my soul in time capsules, shoring up against the dreaded want. Someday, preserves will save our lives, and when that comes they’ll all be sorry ...


    bubblewrapped - Jan 30, 2007 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Other
    Denying Dusk
    14

    1/22/07 -- Imp tried poetry...thoughts all welcome -- Words on a summer-night I really don't recall; you see, dusk was coming quickly and Autumn whispered palls. Pallid days sans sunlit ...


    Poor Imp - Jan 30, 2007 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Other
    Drop the Leash
    5

    You shouldn't have called. I can make it without you. I don't need you. I don't want you. You're a crutch; That helpful third wheel. But I can ride on ...


    Via - Jan 30, 2007 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Other
    Gems
    3

    Open your eyes. No wait, I take it back. Open your ears. Wind rushing, Dogs barking, People singing. And talking, always talking. Which is why it’s good To open your ...


    carelessaussie13 - Jan 29, 2007 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Dramatic
    An Awe-Inspiring View
    4

    A sunset, gold and blue A purple-silk wrapped debut Tracks across the western sky God in nature glorified The ocean waves crest and wash Against a line that's never crossed ...


    Phoenixfire - Jan 29, 2007 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Lyrical
    Kiss the Cook
    4

    Metal fork, sick yellow. Scrambled eggs sprinkled with salt, the critique at the tip of your tongue. The topic is so direct that you are hidden behind your wall of ...


    bonafide - Jan 29, 2007 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Dramatic
    How Can You Love Him?
    8

    This is my first posting of a poem or a story or anything. I'm not quite sure on the puncuation so if you have any advice let me know. Thanks! ...


    Seriena - Jan 29, 2007 - 2 min read

  • Poetry » Dramatic
    Flat
    5

    She took her raisin hands and brushed coiled scars and barbed curls from my hitchhiking eyes. "Destination is always nowhere in a hurry." Peddlers whistle so fast only dog's ears ...


    bonafide - Jan 28, 2007 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Dramatic
    The Press of Small Hours
    4

    ....a train lowing What does it mean, to low?in a star-plucked field, This is pretty, but it means very little, besides perhaps "separated from fate". But judging by the fact ...


    bonafide - Jan 28, 2007 - 2 min read

  • Poetry » Dramatic
    kaleidoscopes dulled to black
    6

    fuck him. is what you'd think I'd say but I'm too caught up with yesterday. only he can sing those memorable suicidal serenades with his lullabies to paralyze and heavy ...


    beyond.the.horizon - Jan 28, 2007 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Lyrical
    Soldiers in a Wood
    5

    I wrote this for an english class assignment. I don't usually write too much poetry, so I'd appreciate any advice you have to give Tall, they stand in rows- Erect ...


    last mohican - Jan 28, 2007 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Dramatic
    Grinding with Jehovah
    2

    Brown sweat on my fingerprints, I wipe acoustics’s brow again with a rag from the stranger's Levi jeans. It's stained with holy water and blotches the souls we've bled profuse ...


    xanthan gum - Jan 28, 2007 - 1 min read

  • Poetry » Dramatic
    Ghost
    10

    a ghost lingers in the doorway silently watching and listening to the lives that flow around it it. . . or him I cannot tell which but sometimes in the ...


    Phoenixfire - Jan 27, 2007 - 1 min read


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