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I almost forgot how you felt
I saw you before you saw me. Still walk the same. Still carry the world like it owes you something. And just like that— a flood of years came rushing through a single glance. We hugged. God, that hug. Longer than polite, shorter than what I needed. We sat, coffee between us like a buffer, but your eyes still knew too much. You made me laugh. Too easily. Like my body remembered what...

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Categories: almost, beautiful, courage, heartbreak, relationship,
Form: Free verse
52 days but almost 8 months
there's a movie i used to watch over and over as a kid it's why i love old glass and putting flowers in coke bottles there's a tooth on my bottom row that sticks out you told me it was cute that's why i stopped asking my dad for braces i have a friend who used to...

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Categories: almost, 12th grade, absence, confusion,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Almost
pulchritudinous rhymes with ‘She makes food for us’ ~ well, almost… ...

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Categories: almost, beauty, food,
Form: Senryu
A Life of Almosts
She's lived a lot of "almosts" She almost drowned under the pulsing weight of the river's temperamental waters when she was 12 Later on, she felt time itself suspend as she spent her last few seconds wondering if death would take her quickly, while her car spiraled down the I-50, barreling off the ice-ridden road at a deadly...

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Categories: almost, hope, suicide,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Almost Engaged
Youthful Israeli embassy couple, almost engaged, gunshots fired in the May DC eve, murdered sweethearts, hate, it never pauses, almost had hope, shalom to the world. ~...

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Categories: almost, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Elegy



Premium Member Things I Almost Understood
A soggy teddy bear lay on the shoulder of the highway— head twisted, limbs askew, its damp fur clinging to gravel and its sightless eyes beseeching heaven. I watched from the backseat, wondering if it was dropped in sorrow or thrown in rage, or left behind after something that didn’t leave anything else. Two women in white nightgowns ran across their front lawn on a frosty full...

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Categories: almost, childhood, high school, imagery,
Form: Free verse
almost thuh whisper
. oh my did y'all hear that 'twere thuh soft uv ...

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Categories: almost, allusion, beautiful, muse,
Form: Imagism
Almost Human
She was a good dog but at times she could be a , like the way she would look back when I called her with a certain demeanor, perhaps borrowed from my ex-wife. I wonder sometimes about old souls, animal spirits and all the other confusing mishmash that folks fall back on when a dog looks at you as if it were taking you for...

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Categories: almost, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Almost Morning
It’s almost morning, but not quite. Which is the time of day I enjoy most. I’m amazing, and kind, and whatever is on my mind. There’s grass underneath me. If I head west, there’s only concrete and potholes. The grass parts way. I danced a bit too much. Like a dancer does. A wishing well. I fell...

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Categories: almost, morning,
Form: Free verse
Almost Something
I worship not with hymns or knees, but in the rustle of the trees, in socks that vanish in the wash, and toast that lands, of course, jam-squash. I’ve built a chapel in my brain, with pews of doubt and tea-stained rain, a steeple made of “Could be, though,” and sermons whispered soft and low. No angels here, no Book of Rules— just dreams...

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Categories: almost, god,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Almost but not quite
Having been, seen and so known, light of our true self full blown, although we know who we are, we operate below par. How much longer should we wait, to fully assimilate, this awareness all the time, mirroring heart’s bliss beat chime?...

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Categories: almost, light, self, spiritual,
Form: Jueju
ALMOST HER
The dream fills me with hope, But opening my eyes, Waking up to reality, Shatters them all. Dreams bloom like flowers in the spring, While present is like a rainy night mixed with thunderstorms. Would it have been better if I wasn't me? Or if i would have been the dream-me? Because if the dream fades, Who am I left to be at all? But...

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Categories: almost, 11th grade, deep, dream,
Form: Free verse
Almost Mine, Always Loved
"Why don’t you speak like you used to…?" You smiled… but your silence echoed louder than a thousand words. How do I stay calm around you, when every part of me still belongs to you? You’ve moved on, your heart now rests somewhere else… And I? I’m still stuck on the page where you left. How do I claim something that was never mine to...

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Categories: almost, deep, lonely, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member almost feel guilty
Vibrant red cherries with grinning white centers Hanging in a clump, conversing with their relatives Fresh and sassy, showing the world their prettiness I almost feel guilty eating them But not really...

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Categories: almost, food,
Form: Free verse
the ways almost down
cosmic constant, sneaks to be diluted pinned down with prison franks playing footsie not a long ride loveless daybeds abandoned signals fighting eyes across trafficked lies earthern worms bait filled cells in bread tape worn in xrays of osiris skipped eventually in tag enough to walk down walking home, down further than, better days sinkers on a string blankets of kelp, poisoned and learned the baby won't need a pack...

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Categories: almost, angst, care,
Form: Blank verse

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