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  • Incandescent

    Kyll writes sappy poetry while sleepy. But hey! It's not silly! Progress! :D

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  • kerosene

    Written for Aley's Poetry War and left unedited because everything I try makes it worse lol.

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  • disconnect

    Inspired by a turn of phrase glimpsed in the Debate forum (bless you Lizz).

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  • expecting

    I. expecting startling discoveries but never finding the soft moss swimming in a

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  • Bulwark Maintenance

    Bulwark (Nautical) a solid wall that encloses a deck to protect people or objectsPolish our iron love so that it never rusts.Bathe it in solution; scrape off the salty crusts.Pray ...

    1 min read
  • Lune

    In their abode above the alpine crests, cast in light shed by stars, she mourns.The sun is dead.The earth below, who long since saw its final swan, ____________sits silent before ...

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  • pennyflipper

    pennyflipper comes around,spots some copper on the groundbuilding up, and luck is boundto smile at him with upside downed:a silly superstitionsince copper dropped is copper lost;the face which lands b

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  • Viral Hobos

    A ring rose from sleepers who lurked in the lobes of the storehouse of starches -- like hungry hobos, they hitched a ride on a one-way train ofmotion. And they ...

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  • Heliokinesis

    I am swimming in a complex of cochineal. It coats the carpals of the spray I hold in handand drenches dendra all around me in a brio brume. But all ...

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  • Orpheus [Edited]

    Thanks for all the helpful suggestions. Here's the revised version.OrpheusI look to my left;there’s nothing there buta stretch of sand, like snow -pristine,unbrokenin the dead light – it glistens

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  • The Birth of Magic [COMPLETELY Rewritten]

    For Rosey Unicorn's Beginnings of Magic contest. Original post under spoiler.---The birth of magic was like thebirth of flame, the kindling and tinder lying complacent one moment, consumed the next ...

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  • Hearts are like windmills

    Inspired by this poem.Hearts are like windmillsand love like the windwith emotions the weatherwhich constantly shiftsas love sends a-flurry the heart like the windsends the blades of the windmill arou

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  • To My Love I Have Never Met (Villanelle)

    I felt like writing a My Love I Have Never MetTo my Love I have never met,Destined though we are to wed,I wonder, “Do you also fret?”And wonder, “Do you ...

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  • Hello, Shadow

    In psychology, one's shadow is comprised of the all the hidden and repressed desires a person has, hidden and repressed because they are the undesirable aspects of our personality.---Hello, ShadowHell

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If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.
— Woodrow Wilson