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  • Magus

    So I was prompted to write a poem (the first one without being forced), by working out a potion, its ingredients and such, then turning it into a poem.I'm horrible ...

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  • Kay-as

    So, I think this is narrative poetry. Maybe. It tells a story, but it's more abstract, I think. Anyway...hope you enjoy. ///Thereabouts we flee,Whereabouts we run,Faster, faster—Towards light.We emb

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  • Conversation 17

    So, I think this should go here? Anyway, this is the poem dasiamari and I wrote for the Poetry Pairs Contest. Yes. Tell us what you think?--They say true beauty ...

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  • Rushing

    Rush-rush-rush, it’s all you ever do shooting for the horizon, shooting for the moon. Your head’s on fire,

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  • Loneliness

    Loneliness is when you’ve been told that a heart suffers alone. It’s said you can be lonely in a crowd, which is true. But loneliness can be good,

    6 min read
  • Love Like a Couch

    Love Like a Couch It is usually soft but of a texture never quite remembered It

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  • Mankind

    Mankind The boy stealing from a thrift store. The boy killing a worm, thinking it a snake. The boy falling from a tree for ten years

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  • The Magnolia Leaf

    The Magnolia Leaf It is sleek moor hills lined with light, hiding a cavern beneath. The cavern could mark you like red dirt, but doesn’t stain your hands.

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  • Shotgun Wedding on a Bus

    Shotgun Wedding on a Bus You see an insult. I accept. Dogs love you and children ignore me.

    7 min read
  • Circle

    circle perch for birds, a snowdrop of a rusty cloud--ice

    8 min read
  • Honey Queen

    A/N: So, I found a picture of a cool looking flower. This somehow led to this less than happy-happy poem. I'm unsure of how this happened, but I'm contemplating the ...

    2 min read
  • Ballerina

    A/N: I feel bizarre. I blame this on my female relatives. Anyway, glad you checked this out and hope you enjoy and/or have concrit ("I don't like this" is unhelpful). ...

    3 min read
  • Frigid

    Seeing the world through different lenses is a conundrum. Left eye pink, right eye blue— neither rose-tinted All is somehow stainless steel, boring and rather bland, when it comes to ...

    4 min read
  • Us and Them

    You first knew the truth about us and them in a California ranch house with a pulp in your lap. In the other room, your grandmother coughed up phlegm and ...

    13 min read
  • Deer

    Free verse poem.

    9 min read
  • Selkie

    Free verse poem.

    13 min read
  • State Park

    mother had fun placing rocks, where algae and lichen and moss and dirt grew and sprouts took form and

    6 min read
  • monster

    cath said you were born of wind and i agree but the earth touched you, for you are a sandstorm personified

    3 min read
  • Firstborn

    I am firstborn, so I’ll always see them; see the good, indifference, and evil. It’s not like they’re too different from humans. They’re what we would be if we, for ...

    18 min read
  • Under the Sun

    I wish sometimes for new mythology, for something new under the sun. I wish for humanity’s spark of genius, of madness, of brilliance,

    13 min read
  • Snakeskin

    Free verse poem. Dark.

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  • Human/Nature

    Toying with an idea, somewhat rushed.

    3 min read
  • 58th Street

    My first poem for NaNoPoMo. :D

    7 min read
  • Ouroboros Obscura

    Free verse/borderline prose poem. Based off acupuncture "dreams".

    9 min read
  • Slayed

    A free verse poem on what equality means.

    8 min read


Poetry lies its way to the truth.
— John Ciardi