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ToritheMonster

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  • Emerald Eyes

    I remember a timeso many years ago when you jumped on my lap, arched your back and sighedEmerald eyes.I remember a placeso many years ago where you'd lie in the ...

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  • Black Horses

    Black horses in the sea,Oh, they’re pulling at me.See the dark closeAroundOh, velvet blackness,Not a sound.Watch memories.They’re drifting by.Of truth and virtue,Death and lies.Icy waterHears my c

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  • Religion

    The Christian people in my life, they look like me and you. But 'cuz I'm not the churchy type, they call me "dirty Jew." I cannot talk religion, their bible ...

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  • Boredom

    So, I was trying to convince my friend that poetry is fun to write, and it can be about anything. We got into a sort of contest- we both had ...

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  • Dreamy's Insane Poetry Thread

    So, here's where I plan to post all the random poetry I write in my free time. But be warned! None of these poems makes any sense. They are, for ...

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  • Dread the Dark

    Wrote this for school. I thought I'd share.____________________________________Like a pen in timid handsHeld on edge, squeezing tight-Ink clouds eyes, vision bannedQuench for the dying light. Shadows

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  • All There Is

    Here's a villanelle I wrote. I hate villanelles, but we had to do one for school.____________________________________________________________________Stumble blindly into arms of HisFear, the heart of

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  • Dandelions

    She could remember the dandelionsSweet, and yellow.And she had always wished for them to be honeysuckleBecause she heard it was sweet too.But she had never tasted it.And as she got ...

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  • mockingBird

    So, here's a poem I wrote, in the style of e.e. cummings. I also got inspiration from Sylvia Plath. I won't tell you what it means just now, but perhaps ...

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  • Land of the Free

    While I'm a Brit, I've spent a lot of time in America- my family spends the summer holiday there. Here's a free verse poem I wrote about how corrupted I ...

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  • Only Natural

    So, I do not write love poems or love-related poems or anything of the sort. But I just had to get this out there; because it is a vision that's ...

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  • Yeah, I Dream

    So, this is a poem I wrote for school, but it took on a life of its own. It's about my dream for the world, for America (I spend enough ...

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  • Posies

    Wrote this for fun, but I might use it in a slam. Tell me what you think!To my terrible English teacher, who seems to think that all teens are the ...

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  • Straw in the My

    Okay, before you go saying how bad this is, let me get one thing straight: I have no memory of writing this, and it was saved on my computer around ...

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Poetry is my cheap means of transportation. By the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started. I would like him to be slightly disoriented at the end, like I drove him outside of town at night and dropped him off in a cornfield.
— Billy Collins