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Premium Member Taming of the Raw
...Most everyone falls in love with raw and beautiful whether it be a woman or a forest. We fall because they're untamed and different. Bathed in shades of Pablo blue and Vincent green. The sable ......

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Categories: tighter, nature, women,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member my rapist's follow request on facebook
...ping! like pavlov's dog, i glance quick at my phone new facebook follow request. i click the account click! my rapist. it's been nearly 14 years since the first the time he laid his hands......

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Categories: tighter, recovery from, strength, suicide,
Form: Spoken Word



Unbroken Wrench
...My friend comes through and talks to me, With their stuck nails being all I can see. Instead of listening further, I get my wrench and try to loosen the nails, Trying to make them no longer be a ......

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Categories: tighter, 10th grade, analogy, extended
Form: Free verse
Creations and revelation
...You were not real. But I gave you every real part of me. Stitched you from sighs I didn’t release and silences that lingered too long. I traced your face in fogged mirrors, named you in the ac......

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Categories: tighter, allusion, longing, love, youth,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bedside Thoughts
...I watch as she sleeps, the gentle rise and fall of her chest making sure her breathing is rhythmic Thoughts take me back years ago when we were playmates ~sisters separated by little more than......

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Categories: tighter, sorrow,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member My memories bend
...I stopped for a moment to cherish the piercing and vivid It was a split-second; behind cloud-like eyelids There's a softness, being caught in their scope Causing sorrows to quickly turn, into genu......

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Categories: tighter, feelings, for her, romance,
Form: Rhyme
Heart break
...Heart break. It’s not just a feeling, it mentally messes you up. Heartbreak is so strong, it’s like a pain in your chest that won’t go away, it’s like you can physically feel your heart splitting in......

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Categories: tighter, break up, feelings, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
Lords of the Lattice
...Beneath the hum of unseen wires, A shadow grows, its reach aspires. No fields of earth, no rivers free, Yet lords of code claim sovereignty. Their towers rise, not stone but light, A lattice s......

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Categories: tighter, power, society, technology,
Form: Free verse
For Every Sheep in the Flock
...Grant me sunrise, cruel warden Would you deny me that which makes us human? What violent hatred grips your heart To demean and dehumanize so freely and purely How is it that you dream, violent ......

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Categories: tighter, anti bullying, jesus, love,
Form: Free verse
I Saw A Man Today
...I saw a Man today as he walked the hill Tears and drops of blood did equal spill From brutally torn flesh and eyes of pain I saw a Man today my inadequate refrain I saw a Man today unjustly con......

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Categories: tighter, christian, forgiveness, grave, jesus,
Form: Rhyme
what i mean is,
...I want, more than anything to be let into your world the one which you've walked alone whose buildings were built by those who will never see their work I don't care what it looks lik......

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Categories: tighter, boyfriend,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Vampire Bite - POTD
...Come closer ears Come closer hearts I'll whisper as the lie departs My lips Will pout My eyes will scan The room surveyed as truthless Scam Devours with teeth Pointed and sharper Than g......

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Categories: tighter, betrayal, conflict, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Makerere Student, Her Snake, Her Piper, and a Doctor
...This poem is featured in Dr. Ivan Edwards' upcoming anthology, Resonance of the Soul: Flowers and Harmonics, published by IEME LLC. The book will be available in e-book, softcover, and hardcover form......

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Categories: tighter, anxiety, depression, family, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Shoes I Lace Myself Into
...I found them tucked beneath a cracked mirror, black leather dull with the dust of old grief, heels worn down from turning away— a shape molded by silence, not comfort. I wear them when the air ......

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Categories: tighter, absence, abuse, anxiety, character,
Form: Free verse
Aching Winds
...I touched the sky, left the land Dwindling in the galaxy, I felt your hand. The Perseus sparkling through my eyes The twilight fading between my cries. Your hand helped me climb to my throne Orn......

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Categories: tighter, 12th grade, character, deep,
Form: Free verse

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