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you call her art
...they painted her backwards, a body half-forgotten by gravity, half-claimed by the red. not blood, but the color of memory when it refuses to fade. her hands— not reaching, but remembering wh......
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Ichha Ghosh
Categories:
collapses,
12th grade,
Form:
Free verse
Four Cold Paws
...A dark cloud forms as tears fill her eyes, spilling into a stream that runs down her face. She bites her lip to quiet the echoes of her cries. A lump forms in her throat, pulsing with the ache sent s......
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Allyson Scully
Categories:
collapses,
animal, beauty, best friend,
Form:
Free verse
Herculean hero
... Our towering talisman…glowering totem…manic volcanic Viking King.. The flowering genesis of a powering nemesis… Herculean but Sisyphean struggles showering.. The penury of injury…intrigue ......
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Toby Bennett
Categories:
collapses,
spoken word, sports,
Form:
Ballad
Nine five one three
...Nine, five, one, three— Is that truly all that remains of you? What fragments of me linger in your mind? If only you would take a moment to slow down And gaze upon the world that unfolds ......
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Annie Lander
Categories:
collapses,
america, anxiety, appreciation,
Form:
Alliteration
Words Rearranged To Create Poetry
... they told me it had to rhyme it had to mean something— something big— like death, or love, or the smell of gasoline in a motel parking lot. so I just sat there with a busted lighter and a......
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James Mclain
Categories:
collapses,
12th grade,
Form:
Free verse
I hate my neighbour and want to murder them
...I hate my neighbour and want to kill them. I imagine their car being squashed by trucks like jam sandwiches. Red crusts. I daydream that their staircase collapses like factories ready for demolitio......
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Thomas Harrison
Categories:
collapses,
death,
Form:
Free verse
Old Shaftesbury Woman
...Concrete dust drifts like sand across a coastal path. An old woman battered with facial features that hung on her face, Disconnected and hanging. She leans forward in her blumonge, waterproof, u......
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Polly Davies
Categories:
collapses,
character, class, culture, humanity,
Form:
Free verse
I FEAR FOR MYANMAR
...I had slept in peace but woke to echoes of gunfire the kind that doesn’t come from enemies but from brothers turned into rivals. It spills like crude oil in rivers like wildfire tearing throug......
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Hakim Fuhad Mansaray
Categories:
collapses,
12th grade, america, war,
Form:
Free verse
Volcanic Eruption Of The Soul
... Unmet expectations strike hard, hurting where they languish long. Unkept promises are blows earned, hitting where they find no resistance. Unkind words are slashes harsh, ripping through the......
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Subimal Sinha-Roy
Categories:
collapses,
analogy, anger,
Form:
Free verse
I write my illusions, not out of cowardice, but from that stubborn mercy
...I write my illusions, not out of cowardice, but from that stubborn mercy I owe to my own spirit that withers under the weight of time, reality, with its arithmetic of pale bones, rarely adds up to ......
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Dan Enache
Categories:
collapses,
fantasy,
Form:
Free verse
Above it All
... I’ll write of roses never touched that fade in wilt, then praise their hue, and though their rot perfumes my metaphors, I’ll never stoop to caress their blooms, and as rivers choke on o......
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Mark Massey
Categories:
collapses,
angst, anxiety, art,
Form:
Free verse
Fire
... Flames swallow oxygen, duplicitous in their deeds, circumventing steel barriers— steel barriers doubling over. Ashen soot cakes the walls; walls crumble, interlacing with soot. Pyres of......
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Sara Jama
Categories:
collapses,
allusion, dark, fire, imagery,
Form:
Other
Devils we call lovers
... Maybe devils are people we call lovers — the ones who are our weakness, our mistakes, the ones we lie for, the ones we would kill for. I have done the most foolish things for love — a lit......
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Julius Mungai
Categories:
collapses,
africa, best friend, black
Form:
Rhyme
Zen mode
...the event horizon collapses pure intent reshapes life’s lucid dream spontaneity free from desire manifests as a divine bliss stream soul is a diamond free from blemish pulse dual and single ar......
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Unseeking Seeker
Categories:
collapses,
spiritual,
Form:
Quatrain
How to make love to a didgeridoo VI
...Antiquated pipeline geysers ravage starry nebulae, blast ash. The hurricane bankrupts reed origami masts. It splits overripe pomegranates. Wild animal guitar buzzes, echoing through shattered valleys......
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Josh Moore South Dakota
Categories:
collapses,
humanity, ireland, lost love,
Form:
Free verse
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