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Premium Member Winter Violin
...Time seems to be picking up speed a freight train without engineer Hendrix electric guitar on amphetamines. Time is picking up speed children born yesterday wobbling off to college the next. ......

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Categories: shriveled, time,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Reptile by Birth
...Into the abyss I look in to see Peeking over, to discern Her looking up at me. Reptile cold and slithe, I slither through the dewy blades, And writhley race across the glade. A lumping cr......

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Categories: shriveled, animal, psychological,
Form: Free verse



Fulcrum of a Rose
...Underneath the earth, she starts A budding, not yet known A seed planted, unfinished, unloved Roses grow best with bright sun and regular water All of which she’s been denied The fulcrum of a ......

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Categories: shriveled, adventure,
Form: Free verse
Performing our Friendship
...What makes a person likeable? How they look, how they dress, or maybe who they’re friends with? I think it’s about how kind they are, their willingness to be your friend. “I guess w......

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Categories: shriveled, 10th grade, anger, best
Form: Free verse
The bad
...I let him touch me. I didn’t know him much It was the first time I had ever felt that kind of touch And it still haunts me now Though I never thought it would I don’t blame the wandering hands ......

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Categories: shriveled, abuse, body, deep,
Form: Free verse



endless leisure hours as distorted time stretch before me
...endless leisure hours as distorted time stretch before me... like the infinite vista upon the midwestern plain farther than the eyes of mine (an ascetic and copacetic shortsighted father of tw......

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Categories: shriveled, absence, adventure, allusion, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ersatz Docent in the I Am Museum
... Welcome. I'm the one they left behind. An alter ego of sorts— just the keeper, the inventory clerk, interim ghost. New items arrive every day— spat out from my boss's pockets, sometimes st......

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Categories: shriveled, metaphor, self,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Serenading Soul
... parched buds in shriveled sapling desolate bloom dreams in desiccated dunes as the aureate sun masks the mirage chased taking the sco......

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Categories: shriveled, analogy, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bring back the sun
... I used to think life was a luscious bowl of grapes but since in many weeks and months we haven't seen the sun I've fundamentally shriveled up my mind's become a raisin posted on March 26,......

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Categories: shriveled, psychological, silly, sunshine, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Dwell In The Silver-Lined Clouds
... In the seamless sky of my fervent yearning, I let the enraptured songbird of my heart soar high, glide in the spring-rippled amorous breeze that carried your jasmine fragrance to me. The da......

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Categories: shriveled, analogy, lost love, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Blue Cheese and Old Pickles
...Tasteless, puckered galoot, suited to the cold, he has gout. Shriveled up, with deep veins, covering up his shameful ways. She wears umbrella suits. He wears rubber boots. Puddles, of mold, p......

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Categories: shriveled, betrayal, imagery,
Form: Free verse
-I Will Always Be With You- 1
...“I fell in love with one whom I believe to be my only soulmate; she showed me the world-- she was my world. And my world was taken from me. Love stories have never appealed to me, yet I have never b......

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Categories: shriveled, abuse, adventure, angst, anxiety,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member watching a blown leaf
...A soft breeze blows a leaf It scuttles and scurries across the porch Brown and shriveled, looks a bit like an oak leaf Dead, yet still able to move in the wind I can hear another hearty gale from......

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Categories: shriveled, nature,
Form: Free verse
behind the viel
...Dust laden window grilles, Lime scales on the shower door. Detritus below the fragmented doors, Commiserating the saudade and furor. Blackened cushions besmirched with dirt, dusty sheath pee......

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Categories: shriveled, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Diagnosed with NON contagious, yet incurable case of logorrhea
...Diagnosed with NON contagious, yet incurable case of logorrhea..., yielded following resultant fiction, which arbitrarily selected thread first popped into my head considered one among many pos......

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Categories: shriveled, absence, america, confusion, humorous,
Form: Free verse

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