Outside(A) Poems - Poems about Outside(A)

...Together with or within proximity to people or a person. Community, unity. The invisible thread that attaches from you to me. Wherever you may be, recently I’m manifesting that place is next to me. ......

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... A skin that feels borrowed, a voice that sometimes cracks with unfamiliar tones. Mirrors offer shifting landscapes, a fleeting cast of characters I try on like costumes, none quite fittin......

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...TV news broadcasts the motel dark, she lies flat, belly soft with rabbit tattoos, ash smudged into the sheets. My boots drip clay and pesticide, fingers stained from counting nickels. Outsid......

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... I stand waiting patiently, on bated breath, outside a gilded gate. The scent of freshly burning frankincense glides over the clouds. Looking down, I nervously play with the skin around my nai......

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... The chest, a hollowed birdcage, ribs splayed wide, No fragile heart to flutter, only tide Of absence, pulling, churning, cold and vast, A landscape where all joy has long since passed. No p......

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... The moon, a silent voyeur in the pane, Watches my stillness yet I writhe in vain. A paradox unfolds, a weary plight, Engaged in slumber yet devoid of night. My body lies, a landscape soft a......

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... The bus pulls up a rumble and a hiss, Excitement buzzes, chatter fills the air, A day of learning something we can't miss. With backpacks packed and permission slips like this, We find our ......

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...A crow struts into a bar, it's a crow, not a native American. There's a hot wind blowing through town Texas Rangers are drinking on the job. A young beauty is busy capturing boys' hearts on her......

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...Line of Inquiry... as an entity in the dream we conjured we know not we are both the dreamer and dreamed how then may we wake up when we are in trance in bondage to illusions we ourselves stre......

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... Please excuse me if occasionally I repeat myself…If these words you’ve heard before… but if you want a true depiction of what the world is like…go inside any bookstore. Outside a bookstore ther......

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...I guess I had the looks the charm and charisma to attract the sort of girl who lacked a character when kindness is seen as flirtation obsession does occur in one moment you showed more than any......

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...I'd grown tired of all the stress and worries of my life. I thought it might be best to take a rest. I’d hop into my car and drive off into the starlight Without a real direction, maybe vaguely we......

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...The town fathers are long neglected by scavenging vultures, locked up as they are, in the wood cabin, we call the town museum. Inside the shack, there are old tintypes, sepia photographs and t......

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... Your eyes a dark archipelago Mysterious then exotic drifting across my shore; I perceive their warmth inviting While those lips blow a tangy flavour- Irresistible, poised to reach for a k......

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...“My name is Jonathan Mellis, I'm solitary confined In a D.C Jail, where they destroy your mind They call solitary confinement “the hole”. They drop you in and let time erode your soul. It’s ha......

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