The Last Five Senses '1
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By~Krish
I opened my eyes
and the air was a still lake
that would no longer ripple for me.
My breath was a whisper,
a moth beating tired wings
against the glass of existence.
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Categories:
pooling, death, destiny, emotions, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
rain
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Rain
falling
while sun shines.
Garden . . . glistens
with fragile raindrops pooling and dripping....
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Categories:
pooling, garden,
Form: Tetractys
The Rapture of Rot
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Written: August 02, 2025, for contest Sponsored by: Crystol Woods
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In the slipshod cradle beneath the apple tree,
a bruised fruit folds ajar—
molten...
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Categories:
pooling, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Wet Stars
...Rain whispered its breath into the streets,
lamplight pooling in shallow gold.
From far off—the quick, sharp beat of her heels,
a rhythm like promises breaking.
Or maybe like promises keeping.
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Categories:
pooling, cute love,
Form: Free verse
Feeder Lake
...Feeder Lake
There Is A Lake
Reserved For Silence.
And Nothing Left
To Lose...
Where A Sky Blue
Framing Border
Re-Flects
Every Shiver
Stippled On
A Softened Shore...
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Categories:
pooling, life,
Form: Free verse
Nameless Blood
...Blood drips on the ground beneath my feet
But not from my eyes you gouged out
Or from the tongue you cut off
Nor my eyes you left to listen
And not my insides where it crawls.
Unkown makes ...
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Categories:
pooling, absence, abuse, angst, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
In Stars Above
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A dress, tangerine fading into sunflower.
We stand together,
rooftop of a white concrete building.
Higher than clouds, further than moon—
she looks down, my eyes follow.
Our gazes collide when...
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Categories:
pooling, art, death, fire, loss,
Form: Free verse
Red Sky
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Clouds flaunt the day’s sunrise and sunset
flooding the sky with a vast sea of flaming passion
As a dramatic array of sun’s long vibrant dress
billows out, pooling at horizon’s wide floor
Bi...
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Categories:
pooling, nature,
Form: Free verse
To a future Lover
...I am watching 3 inches off of the floor,
The man outside waits at my door
I know the screams from within the box
Howl and call upon your order upon the rocks
But I know you can hold your tongue ...
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Categories:
pooling, desire, solitude, youth,
Form: Sestina
Of Loves, Once Borne
...She was weaving a silken tapestry with long silver threads
and golden memories from her life that hadn't yet faded
Drizzles of sorrow fell with every loving stitch taken
until the sto...
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Categories:
pooling, age, poetess, sorrow,
Form: Narrative
Midnight Gloss
...The city exhales steam like a tired beast,
its breath pooling in alleyways
where no one walks anymore.
Cold, wet cobblestones gleam
like the backs of forgotten coins,
each one holding a secret...
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Categories:
pooling, america, city, gothic, international,
Form: Free verse
Light Box
...Cold, warm, horrifying, inviting
Grinding away at the last pink and grey pustules
pooling at the bottom of my
Skull
Gods own light pushes and claws helplessly
against thin nylon ...
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Categories:
pooling, allusion,
Form: Free verse
I Met You
...I
don't
remember
the first time
You
met
me
I wonder to what degree that upsets you
I can't recall
The first time you called,
Though I've been told you phone in often.
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Categories:
pooling, depression, faith, god, jesus,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Within Without
...Day and night
Over my years
I watch
This full owl body carved from the light
Of wood
With its slimly painted feathers and howling eyes
Held in swooping flight
At an angle
On a string
From...
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Categories:
pooling, appreciation, beauty, children, creation,
Form: Free verse
The Milling of Mind
...Unrealities and realities
grind together in mortar’s mouth,
spilling, pulverizing, volatile perfumes—
succumbing scents of citrus, crushed copper,
musks of bruised lightning,
threshing thunderou...
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Categories:
pooling, change, conflict, creation, feelings,
Form: Free verse
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