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Skye

  • Dreamt

    I drifted deeper and deeper into my soul. Folds of it swept over me, Rocking me softly to sleep. As I loitered on the edge of consciousness, I thought I ...

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  • Embers of Love

    You. You planted the ember of white-hot anger inside me. You fanned it to life, Feeding it with an almost imperceptible breeze. Slowly, the fire grew. Now it is a ...

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  • Forever Waiting

    Nervous and tense outside.But inside there is peace,An oasis of hope for a thirsty soul.Like a butterfly suspended on a petal.Outside, eyes pricked for any sign of danger.But inside, peaceful ...

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  • Unrequited Love OR Seductress (Can't decide)

    Come. Steal away my agony and pain. Bear me to a place fair to look upon And leave me there to the glowing starlight. Leave me to the butterflies that ...

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  • Untitled

    Light. It fell on a quivering, sensitive mouth. Lips. Lips were mouthing words, Words I did not want to hear. Pain. Absorbing, beautiful pain. Pain eased itself through every pore ...

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  • Haiku: Insanity

    Cool and refreshing As a smooth, cold spring in June,Insanity reigns.

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  • Really Short Short Story

    This is the true definition of a "short story." Read and enjoy. I appreciate any and all critique, so don't be shy! Author's Note: This was written for my Reading ...

    9 min read
  • Haiku: Daring

    White paper; naked Daring me to fill it up Daring me to write.

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  • Haiku: Rice Krispies

    I don't know where this came from, but I'm posting it anyways, even if it is a bit retarded. It helps if you imagine the sounds. Oninonepea (sp?) is such ...

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  • Untitled

    Dark sucking up life Black overpowering love Empty cheerless smiles.

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  • That Word

    Die. Why is that word Only one little word Such a beautiful song? Why do I relish in its Sound? Taste? Caress? The shiver in the air As it leaves ...

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  • Shell

    Do I really suffer? You say I do, But I have ceased to feel. Your sheet of tears hides my face and distorts my view. Do you think it Sad ...

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  • Folly

    I remember Your folly. You called the moon Imaculate Its color Pure Its shape Perfect Its caress Soft Its light Eternal. I remember My folly. I took your word As ...

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  • Her.

    I'd rather grind glass into my eyes. The pain is laughable When I compare it to what I see When you talk to her. Her voice is high and ditzy ...

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  • Hott.

    I watch your IM conversations u r so hott Back and forth Endlessly How can you stand it? For a moment I wonder what it's like to be Hott. I'd ...

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  • Hard.

    For EJ. I love you, girl. Will I ever tell you how I Really Feel? You find it easy to Express But I am not so lucky. You will probably ...

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  • The Light at the End of the Tunnel

    shadowed nights and slicing moonbeams opposite the scintillating sun a kalaidescope of yawning abysses and crystal caverns my heart skips beats as i recover beautiful memories that will again be ...

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  • The Un-dream (Circle Version)

    everyone's watching but i feel so unpretty everyone's moving and i can't make a sound why does it feel like there are no empty spaces? then the vision is over ...

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  • Say Good-Bye to the Music Man

    in your mind, jagged melodies are cutting themselves to pieces while a senseless snarl of sound disintegrates into lilting lyrics and bass-lines that reverberate in your chest cavity. in your ...

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  • flashback

    Code: Select alla single silver note prolongs� �a breath withheld� �the slightest of shiversand a fragment of a shipwrecked night� � � � � � � � � � � ...

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  • dirty dancing

    dance floor sagas are created and shattered among liquid stripes of light and congealing techno beats that fuse hipbones together. lean fingers scrabble for a taste of flesh real skin ...

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  • self-portrait: the villian

    I posted this originally on TSR, but I figured it wouldn't hurt to post here either. So if it looks familiar, don't be alarmed! ..........***.......... she adjusts her fake pearls ...

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  • Getting to Know Me

    Meghan sat on the front step of her house, lost in thought. In the West, the African sun blazed brightly one last time before sinking gradually below the horizon. A ...

    4 min read
  • Slow-motion

    night air sticks to the insides of my ribs dizzying breathlessness on the verge of tears, terror – .....................can you feel it pulsing now? passion never really was our strong ...

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  • Tim (Revised)

    Help it. Please ***--*** "it's been another bad day," you admit, as you fashion broken words out of skin and veins so deeply blue. convinced of your lack of conviction, ...

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  • looking heavenward with gravity

    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

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  • For Walt, with Reverent Indifference

    For Walt, with Reverent Indifference Poems, vaguely wafted in night air, uncaught, unwritten,Which, let us go forth in the bold day, and write. For him I built eloquent houses out ...

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  • up alleys city never saw cold

    up alleys city never saw cold ...are anna and boy crushing words and noses and losing forever more by the minute .......;..yes ...anna and bedsheets and carbon and decay and ...

    1 min read
  • inventing silence

    the slurred phonetics of a flickering lightbulb hung like guilt over our heads and sent our shadows screeching across windowpanes and vacant voids disguised as mouths. silence crossed the floorboards ...

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  • line by line.

    these filthy sidewalks starchy backbones pretending blinding spinal columns to walk and spit on gracing ground for parasites we’re barely sightless [parasiteless] barely broken facing shards of brea

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  • lost between the cracks

    REMOVED. Thank you for all the comments.

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Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
— Bernard Malamud