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Wiggy

  • Slow Down

    This is my poem Slow Down. It's the first work I have posted on here, and I would really appreciate some feedback on it. Thanks so much! Slow Down Slow ...

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  • Soul Dance: Now Revised

    Soul Dance Dance Dance ‘til your heart erupts out of your chest And foxtrots over the moon: One two three, one two three- Relentlessly seizing your emotions And baring your ...

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  • The Firefly's Glow

    The Firefly’s Glow Do you remember The fireflies that danced Between our hands, Tantalizing us with their glow? How we ran than night, Dashing through the meadow Like tameless spirits, ...

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  • Inscription of Love: UPDATED 8/18/06

    Anthony Simmons trudged through the snow, glancing up on occasion to glare at the Christmas decorations that surrounded him. The blow-up Santas and Rudolphs mocked him with their smiling faces, ...

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  • The Journey of a Writer

    Hey ho everyone! I just got the acceptance letter for this piece today from the editor of Skipping Stones. I wrote this in 8th grade, so I just wanted to ...

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  • Gone with the Wind

    Gone With the Wind tumbleweed leaves shimmer on the emerald carpet; the old, gnarled women fan their branches, grasping for the shreds of their youth. scaling the walls of Jericho, ...

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  • Betrayal

    Betrayal The wind slices my face As I stumble to the top. The smoke billows out From me As I perch precariously On the edge. Was it worth The thirty ...

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  • Time

    Time Your time is not my time, but my time is Yours. What is eternity? Is it a hallowed-out turtle shell, completely void of straight edges? Is it a (vibrant) ...

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  • Butterflies

    Butterflies Thousand of butterflies swirl like a milkmaid churning butter. Up. Down. Ceaseless whirling. Devouring my heart- tickling it with their antennae. Crash. Boom. Bang. Goodbye butterflies.

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  • Change

    Change This is it. Aeolus tugs at the door as I scamper to slam it one last time. There she is. My heart leaps into my throat. I tried to ...

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  • Smile

    You smiled at me. How can one simple upper turning of the lips completely disarm me? How can it make me forget where I am? I don’t know how, but ...

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  • Cinderella

    Cinderella _________________ You’re coming. You’re coming closer to me, weaving your way in and out of the crowds, your aqua eyes focused on my widened pupils. What’s going on? I ...

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  • Memories

    Memories Two empty black sockets stared into Eva’s frightened eyes. The game had started like any other. After ten minutes of arguing over who was “it” first, Eva’s paper had ...

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  • Daddy's Baby Ruth

    Dear Daddy, Why was Mommy crying? You see, Daddy, Mommy started crying on my birthday yesterday. Her big, fat tears were dropping onto my chocolate cake. I started crying ‘cause ...

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  • Fairy Tale

    Here--my fairy tale. Coaxing, smiling, you caress my quivering heart. Dazed by white dresses, I brace myself for what lies here with (without?) you. I tread the plush path, your ...

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  • Crystal Tree

    There she stands- limbs embracing the sky, olive coattails flapping lazily in the wind. Crystal tears dangle-- frozen--in time. The last of her kind-- firm, steady, stong. A woodpecker alights, ...

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  • Hospital Nativity

    Hey guys! I can't believe this is only the second story I've posted on here. I hope you guys like this one. I'd really like to submit this to the ...

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Very well; I hear; I admit, but I have a voice too, and for good or evil mine is the speech that cannot be silenced.
— Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness