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Premium Member Mewling Fear: A Question
...Darkness engulfed me I struggled to adjust to the shadows blinked when my vision brought to light— an empty room, rumpled sheets of an unmade bed a tear-stained pillow where I'd laid my head T......

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Categories: smoothed, dark, fear,
Form: Narrative
The Museum Of becoming
...I loved you with both hands broken, offered you oceans cupped in cracked palms, watched it leak, leak, leak, through fingers too battered to hold a tide. I made myself a museum of becoming, st......

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Categories: smoothed, anger, anxiety, betrayal, break
Form: Free verse



Premium Member This Old Brush
...This old brush would once brush cleanly This old brush once smoothed my hair This old brush once snagged a single strand When I was kempt and fair This old brush began to clog up With the hair t......

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Categories: smoothed, hair, parody, song,
Form: Rhyme
Nothing Here Belongs To Me
...I wake, I breathe, I move, I fade, A specter stitched from a torn-out page. A thing that walks but leaves no trace, A mouth that speaks, but not a face. I press my hands to solid skin, Feel th......

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Categories: smoothed, anger, anti bullying, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member NEW YEARS BAKE OFF
... My Greek grandmother and godmother, cousins, My grandma baked and cooked homely, My Nona, my godmother exotically, Each one perfect, one couldn’t fault either, Their husbands, playing backgam......

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Categories: smoothed, grandmother,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Acid Test
...A little spark. A work of art. She lit the dark and filled my heart. Around I turned to feel the burn. There she lies. I’ll never learn. She huffed and puffed and blew me down. I was amazed at ......

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Categories: smoothed, drug,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Backspace
...I already understand that children grow inside two blinks, as quickly as the novel Mayfly comes to the surface to die. I'm pining for those first days again, of edentate smiles, milestones......

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Categories: smoothed, absence, children, leaving, loss,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Belief
... In your eyes, reflected to me are memories of beautiful, trembling pieces of laughing hope still colors of grace and belief feelings pouring from the shadows never just make believe a......

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Categories: smoothed, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Free verse
The Journey
...The Journey The journey had been long, the path had been narrow, the afternoon was shortening and my destination crept closer. I walked on. The path still strolled ahead of me and no matt......

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Categories: smoothed, family, imagery, journey, nature,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Not Today
...Your fingers have bled for this, skin smoothed from the jagged climb. Every load you carried, every silent shout— they brought you here, to be sure? You occasionally think about the fall, its ......

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Categories: smoothed, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Path into the Blue - Paul Klee
...unknown like undress into a once was state tangle ~ to become ~ risk unbecoming... lightning bolt struck skull constricted round to oval then forgotten - of course......

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Categories: smoothed, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Sitting Side By Side
...You are beside me. I am beside you. None else is seen around, besides us two. Cessation, by ceaselessness, is erased. Unknowingly, are our hearts now replaced? These streams of fresh water that......

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Categories: smoothed, life, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bone and Bread
...Version One: A table shared, wood smoothed by stories, hands marked by the land, holding not to let go, but to hold dear— crumb and crust, life flourishing between us. Not to quiet hunger,......

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Categories: smoothed, giving,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Swans
...Silently they glide past, submerged feet not breaking surface of serene stream. Strident honk by life-mate— state protected King’s game. Some black swan events are* smoothed over by hindsight. ......

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Categories: smoothed, bird,
Form: Pleiades
Rock and Water
...Interview With a Rock I was conceived in the warm haven of a mother’s womb. Developing, growing, morphing through the epochs of time. Then, on no day in particular, I emerged into the sunlight.......

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Categories: smoothed, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

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