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herb

chained: i am still searching for what lingers of you

  • Writers Corner Re: the bodies long buried; longingly yours

    something further than superficial i want to be noticed & known. reverie has never been my calling, but if that is what is needed for you to dissect me down ...

    May 28
  • Will Review For Food Re: I want to review your poetry!!

    if it's not too much trouble, could you review ??

    May 26
  • Writers Corner Re: the bodies long buried; longingly yours

    something shakespearean they say all the greatest romans (or greeks,) were too ambitious-- spreading their wax wings until they melted, aspirational in inspiration. trailblazers-- pushing forward and

    May 19
  • Writers Corner Re: LMS VII: sunlit linen & wine-stained fingertips

    bound by these thorny vines to the altar, bridal & bloodied, what was meant to be innocent & naive is ruined by the incessant flies that seek out the warmth ...

    May 18
  • Writers Corner Re: the bodies long buried; longingly yours

    they say that the worst kind of grief is the kind that consumes you, but i have always wanted to be eaten & disappeared. an anything dump (2026) comments are ...

    Mar 26
  • Writers Corner Re: mint's miscellaneous mushroom

    LOVE LOVE LOVE !!

    Mar 25
  • YWS Re: The YWS Big Book of Records

    i'm not sure if it was added, but last year during NaPo, i wrote 182 poems! (after recounting)-- the most poems written so far during a NaPo! my 2025 thread:

    Mar 21
  • Writers Corner Re: memorial of being: gone with the time

    [preface] laika was a dog sent to space. part of the soviet space program. she died of dogs know so much more than we do (oh laika, oh laika, oh laika) i ...

    Feb 8, 2025
  • Writers Corner Re: memorial of being: gone with the time

    i think i would hate being laika--- her death was our life, but with life and death being consequential does her life become our death? we send out myriads of ...

    Feb 3, 2025
  • Writers Corner Re: memorial of being: gone with the time

    i am pulled to you like tide: fading in and out inconsistent to the brightness of a sun, instead harsh moonlight and obfuscating shadow. slowly encroaching down my seafoam and ...

    Jan 31, 2025
  • Writers Corner Re: memorial of being: gone with the time

    tw/ suicide, death i keep having this dream where i am watching myself die in the hands of someone i love and it happens over and over and over and- ...

    Jan 29, 2025
  • Writers Corner Re: memorial of being: gone with the time

    you drink your coffee with cream and two pumps of chocolate. i say that isn't enough and you side-eye me so i just grip my strawberry bubble tea harder. you ...

    Jan 29, 2025
  • Writers Corner Re: memorial of being: gone with the time

    our lives are asynchronous, you live in the stratosphere, grazing the space-line as i lay on the road, frozen in the skid marks of lovers past. i am stag-adjacent, my ...

    Jan 28, 2025
  • Writers Corner Re: memorial of being: gone with the time

    he tells me his name has been passed down--- his great-grandfather had it first--- and i wonder if he knows how much weight i think is in a name. to ...

    Jan 10, 2025
  • Writers Corner Re: memorial of being: gone with the time

    e. fading glory you hav nevr ben idolzd bfor. it hs left you fr good. yr no lnger a sint nly a bystndr to yr own mstks bckspc bckspc try ...

    Jan 6, 2025


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— Roald Dahl