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Premium MemberScrawls Of Heartbroken Stillness

...I turn the leaves of my old diaries.
Wherein my passions and anxieties
Together with your dried rose petals, sleep.
They savor your scent and bitterly weep.

Our glances, touches, cuddles, and k...
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Categories: bitterly, life, pain,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberI Saw A Woman

...I saw a woman standing there
Her clothes tattered and torn
I saw a woman standing there
Her face looked so forlorn

A women full of worry lines
Grey streaks throughout her hair
A tear was roll...
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Categories: bitterly, courage, emotions, journey, lost,
Form: Free verse



the cake shop

...The Cake Shop
There was a small cake shop near the bath-house
If I had money, I would go in there for a coffee and a cake
the girl behind the counter smiled; I fell under her spell
and my heart b...
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Categories: bitterly, adventure, art, best friend,
Form: ABC

Premium MemberApollo and Daphne by Bernini A collaboration with Di11y Da11y

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We start at the end, with the warmth of his breath on her skin
Baulked by proximity, he never knew how to begin
A golden-tainted obsession, bitterly laced with lead
Transformed rapture to qu...
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Categories: bitterly, art, perspective,
Form: Ekphrasis

The Epitome of a Walking Riddle

...she considers herself the epitome of a walking riddle,
gentle by default but still lashes out bitterly.
she tries to understand the world around her,
but still feels like shes in a dream she can’t...
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Categories: bitterly, angst, emotions, for her,
Form: Free verse



A new spring

...The bitterly heavy rains had cleared,
and though the afternoon heat
reeked more of eternal summer
than of spring, we felt her hover
through our wide-eyed gazes, 
the unapologetic smiles and in 
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Categories: bitterly, education, imagery, nature, spring,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberNevermore, Whatever For?

...My eyes wandered through an old photograph.
Pausing suddenly, I dissolved in tears,
remembering how, the first half of half
of my life, you were with me all those years, 

and how my young love,...
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Categories: bitterly, grief, hair, humor,
Form: Other

A Puzzlement

...Can you

Could you

Solve this conundrum

Decipher this dilemma

Troubling me?

How do you find 

What seems lost forever

How do you seek 

What is no longer found?

What do you ca...
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Categories: bitterly, conflict, confusion, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

I Don't Understand

...I don't understand it
And I never understood it

How vehement disdain can beat in the chest
And how vitriol can dance in the mind with unrest

The cold, blank stares that quickly turn to a fake...
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Categories: bitterly, betrayal, confusion, dark, feelings,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Premium MemberFishing

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We set off full of hope into the night
as it grew blacker towards the end 
of the jetty where shorelights
dimmed to a distant glow. 
Wind drove a swell to boom 
and crash against the pylons be...
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Categories: bitterly, father son, fishing, silence,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHush

...Hush, listen can you hear it?
the sound of buds breaking free
sight of seeds pushing through earth
life returning, the hum grows ever louder.

The pace is starting to increase
more and more the...
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Categories: bitterly, spring,
Form: Free verse

Premium Memberfoggy freeze dried memories

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icy daggers serrated his chilly mind
memories sharp as polar bear’s claws 
wielded reminiscent evocation in pain
how he longed for selective amnesia

heart and reason at war with the enemy
a ...
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Categories: bitterly, war,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBestial Beds - Mar 6

...Babble on, Babylon!— The bell is bellowing 
Its booming bane! Bastards and baseborn bumblers 
Beware, and beg bitterly for better 
Birth above! O’ you bashful, bawdry bunch!...
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Categories: bitterly, bible, death, fear, myth,
Form: Alliteration

Shadowed Games

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Shadow Games

While my back was turned, you slipped into the store,
Went to the washroom, then out once more.
You could’ve retraced your steps, stayed out of sight,
But you leapt the chain—m...
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Categories: bitterly, angst, betrayal, blessing, dark,
Form: Free verse

Fragrance In The Earth

...Sweet balmy fragrance of time
Come and romance with my spiritual mind
Come and touch the petal of love
And untangle the age-old mystery from above
Open your hands and fill this empty space
And w...
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Categories: bitterly, age, america, beautiful, business,
Form: Free verse

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