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PAPER THIN PROMISES
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Mia Pratt
| Free verse |
paper thin, age, wisdom,
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Shallow
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mermaid girl
| Free verse |
paper thin, humanity,
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IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY : XIX and XX
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T Wignesan
| Dramatic Monologue |
paper thin, abuse, environment, nature, peace,
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butterfly dream
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RD McManes
| Free verse |
paper thin, butterfly, dream, flying, imagination,
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Growing Up
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Robert Allison
| Couplet |
paper thin, bullying, childhood, death, encouraging,
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A Change That Will Never Come
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Broken Survivor
| Free verse |
paper thin, heartbreak, sad,
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Mental
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Catelyn Meeker
| Free verse |
paper thin, abuse, anxiety, conflict, crazy,
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Odder Than Odd Itself
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J.W. Earnings
| Free verse |
paper thin, angst, anxiety, beauty, crazy,
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a deadeye wrangler
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mark junor
| Free verse |
paper thin, 8th grade, 9th grade,
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The Chaste Chicken
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Mike Gentile
| Personification |
paper thin, farm, fun, humor,
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Tech-No-Logic
by colin mitchell williams
Tech-No-Logic
Of keyboard and swipe
a screens deliberation circuit electronic
in metal skin and paper thin
push button hums the chord of plastic
tech-no-logical inventum
such marvels to grind the wheel
impartial...
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paper thin, nature, technology,
Graven News
by Valerie Staton
Graven News
By Valerie D. Staton
January 23, 2018
Doctor scrolled through the chart then shook his head
He approached, he spoke, he thumbed through the stack
Jittery feet pounded...
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Sonnet |
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Categories:
paper thin, god, prayer, sick,
Your Body Speaks
by SEAN SOLOMON
Listen when I tell you
its way too much
must I bleed for you to see the hurt in me
Pierced, burnt and scarred by needles
stained in...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
paper thin, abuse, body, pain,
PAYBACK
by Kim Rodrigues
PAYBACK
blood oranges oscillate
within plundered peels
squeezed out surreptitiously
bleeding on her heels
clicking brutish jaws
on paper thin walls
the pied piper grins
with greenback gall
HOWEVER...heaven insists,
maligned orange restitution
purification of every...
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Political Verse |
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Categories:
paper thin, allegory, lust,
wounds
by Ariel Davis
My life is hanging on a thread
At a point where people make me feel more like a puppet then person
I feel more dead than...
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I do not know? |
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Categories:
paper thin, cry, dark, deep, depression,
The Dragon's Lair
by Judith S
The Dragon's lair awaits her
She knows not which way to turn
This thing has made her soul stir
It’s for this she’s always yearned
The peacefulness her heart...
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Quatrain |
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Categories:
paper thin, fate, passion,
ode to my books
by Jaycee Graffius
quiet joy
The silent pleasure
Freeing peace
You saved me
From the world
You saved me
When I was alone you were there
When I was lost you were my map
When...
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Ode |
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Categories:
paper thin, appreciation, books, uplifting, voice,
ETCHED WITH MY TEAR
by Vickie Thayer
There Are Times,
That I Feel My Soul,
Has No More Value,
Than Faded Ink,
On Wrinkled Paper.
The Stories Of My Life,
All Erased,
Smeared,
Or Torn Away.
My Tears...
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Prose |
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Categories:
paper thin, bullying, deep, depression, hope,
the rape
by jan oskar hansen
The Rape
Through paper thin walls we heard the mother
say, no stop, stop don`t do this
but he did the eighteen-year-old son
raped his mother and we sat...
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Categories:
paper thin, abuse,
quiet benediction
by PATRICIA CRESSWELL
spring blesses with scent a mind
encased in February’s mummy-swathe.
I drop my rags of winter
stretch out on the warmed porch
thought steps lightly on to...
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Categories:
paper thin, beauty,
Killing Me - Miss Ava
by Genie Maxine
As the years passed by, father trusted my upbringing to a nurse while he nursed his wounds with drops of liquor. In the first six...
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Prose |
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paper thin, care,
Staying Above the Water Part 1
by Madison Demetros
What's it called when your drowning from the inside?
when you can't see the water level’s rising in alarm..
I am so light I float, but I've...
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Categories:
paper thin, blue, boy, how i
New Beginning Page 33b
by Owen Yeates
The Walls
Feel the walls there closing in
Harsh brick walls not paper thin
Overcoming the very being
From this oppression there is no fleeing
When they finally close you...
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Categories:
paper thin, celebration,
power outage 1988 walkman memory
by Marty King
percussion hailstorm
my ears no longer bored
daydreaming about oceans
mixing memories
during power outage thoughts
an escapade my uber sunshine
nodding my head with eyes closed
to some rare 90s hip...
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paper thin, memory, remember,
An Excerpt From a Book I'll Never Write 2
by s. grace
I knew that while happiness is warm and filling and makes me feel whole for once in my life, it is ultimately fleeting and fragile,...
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Narrative |
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Categories:
paper thin, absence, anxiety, betrayal, break
Innocent Still
by Samantha Withee
Innocent me for never taken
Not swaddle towards your charm
Thus not some girl but then became
On your paper thin ways
Your swagger is like a dagger
In...
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paper thin, character, relationship,
Disappear
by Ashley Beach
I am watching you disappear in front of me,
Your arms disintegrating into paper-thin limbs.
I am watching you disappear in front of me,
Your eyes turning from...
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Categories:
paper thin, best friend, death of
In my grooves
by Richard Lamoureux
Find me here
Within graphite words
breathe me deeply
until the lines are blurred
let my smoke fill your lungs
I desperately want to be felt and heard
Ash rises...
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Rhyme |
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Categories:
paper thin, introspection,
Plagarize Holy Happiness
by Madeleine Loggia
Poke holes in clouds
Hammer the happiness
Rip my curtains
Flood out the angriness
Curse my name
Couple my drunken state
Struggle with luggage claim
Just sit and wait
Manage my mind
Structure...
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Couplet |
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Categories:
paper thin, allusion, desire, imagination, lust,
beauty
by quantum kitten
I find
the green of your veins that peeks through your paper thin skin, beautiful
how your dark velvet skin makes me melt, beautiful
Your...
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I do not know? |
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Categories:
paper thin, beauty, confidence, love, self,