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Premium Member The Person I Used To Be
... She lived in shadows, where light felt too bright And joy was something spoken of, But seldom felt or experienced, something That most of the time, meant reaching for another, Another’s......

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Categories: rub off, celebration, conflict, courage, faith,
Form: Free verse
Forgotten Nights Lead To Forgotten Promises
...I'm promised to your finger tips The ones that run through my hair and run across my skin When there's space between that skin and the cloth that hangs off me My shirts aren't tucked into my pants......

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Categories: rub off, boy, desire, drink, drug,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Window Pain
...Three states in five hours. Maybe we’ll stop somewhere nice like a KOA campground. A kid can hope. It’s hot and it would be great to go for a swim. Instead we stop at the liquor store, dad buys ......

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Categories: rub off, addiction, anger, anxiety, child
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Auntie Whee
...Auntie Whee the absurd arrived, on her hat, a red bird. Her jacket is ever so loud! I knew it meant she is proud. She is not like the others, not the sisters or mothers. Living in New York, and no......

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Categories: rub off, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry
Hitler Day
...the long day and Hitler It is Christmas Eve the TV has nothing to offer but sentimental crap, where the rich rescue a Christmas for the poor and everyone in the park and sing while bells chime......

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Categories: rub off, absence, blessing, corruption, gothic,
Form: Blank verse



Premium Member Sand In a Bottle Art
...into a tiny clear glass bottle, about the width of a thumb, through its narrow top, through a long tapered neck, he pours fine coloured sand, from small glass tubes, quickly shifting from one ......

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Categories: rub off, arabic, art, beautiful,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Lifes Mysteries
...Life gives us no clue about our purpose In its midst, it gives us no answers Forcing us all to tune our vibe to its focus, Easily lying to ourselves, as if we were bluf......

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Categories: rub off, life, mystery,
Form: Acrostic
Fingers and Toes
...the numbers of age have no meaning when love is using an abacus she is minus and i am plus but meaning nothing in abstract geometry to her concave i'm convex in an equation that perh......

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Categories: rub off, muse,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Bernita the Bolivian Cougar
...LAUGH IT OFF BERNITA THE BOLIVIAN COUGER BERNITA SHUFFLES OVER TO THE MAKEUP COUNTER, WITH GLASSES SLIDING OFF HER NOSE AND EYES PINNED TO THE SALES GIRL LIKE A TAIL ON A DONKEY. " I'D LIKE TO ......

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Categories: rub off, humorous,
Form: Narrative
All Day Tomorrow
.... for public domain All Day Tomorrow ( a cast of characters in song ) Homeless Jo and Jane: We've got all day tomorrow, to wait by the New Jersey shore, to beg for a nickel 'cause we'r......

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Categories: rub off, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Being Brown
...BEING BROWN my color does not rub off on any one, said the brown to the white, nor does it pale on being exposed to you we could share the same spa, the water will not change color don’......

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Categories: rub off, beauty, destiny, discrimination, freedom,
Form: Blank verse
Love Still, Or Let Go
...Somehow you managed to climb Right into my brain In my thoughts, in my head Making me go insane Your scent won't rub off, Ive tried the soap We've since split up, and I'm holding the rope To ......

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Categories: rub off, emotions, fate, hurt, i
Form: Rhyme
Perspective In Everything
...No angle comes without a perspective, Every opinion given, Has a perspective behind it, Every shadow at the mercy of how the Sun perceives it, And every act of kindness, Showcases the perceptio......

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Categories: rub off, analogy, appreciation, art, beauty,
Form: Imagism
The Naked Truth
...Behind the mighty structures of brick and stone, Are the naked hands of people who stand alone, Fighting against all odds through the sun & rain, Until the last drop of their energy drains. ......

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Categories: rub off, dedication, meaningful, people, social,
Form: Rhyme
Dark Girls
...Beautiful obsidian figures Artfully sculpted from the smoothest and hardest of stone You have a luster like no other As if God were your makeup artist And she sat you down one day, Took a beau......

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Categories: rub off, beauty, black african american,
Form: Prose

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