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Vision On
Those pretty plastic blooms That I put in your room Are part of my new broom A trivial means to an inevitable end Though you won't know this much As...
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- 316 reads
Root
Root From the root grows a branch. Wisend and twisted not curled like the rest. Nightmares feed this branch. Too dark, too thick, I pluck at it to...
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- 366 reads
Betty Made a Blanket
Betty made a blanket stitched using the thickest wool it was reds and blacks her grandson's favourite colours she gave it to him to keep warm. Jimmy...
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- 1574 reads
Venredi, Mecredi, Samedi
When Bobby was a toddler his grandma used to look at him bouncing around the room. "Why are you always so happy Bobby?" she'd ask "Is it because the day ends in a y?"
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- 2338 reads
Rose Petals
Rose petals as beautiful and perfect as the first time we met, when you blinked your blue eyes, and smiled, because you knew, just as well as I did,...
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- 653 reads
You're not there
Envy, its a sin.
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- 228 reads
And my fabulous 'you'
This piece is about somebody close to me, somebody I can rely on and trust all my secrets to, they make me really happy and have given me the confidence to do anything!
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- 245 reads
Example
There might be some point where I snap - looking at myself in the mirror under the pull-down in the dark. I hope it will be soon that I am addressed...
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- 806 reads
Ultimately
The battery hen lays, silently into the night. The bars close in hour by hour by hour underneath a distant star-glow. Day yawns, eventually, and the...
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- 857 reads
Casual Encounter
Casual Encounter It's funny how we never know where the most unexpected of meetings might lead. You can pass someone in the street and give them a...
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- 986 reads
Optimism
And through her eyes is seen a newmudded slate; The spatterings of binder thought. If sheep were meant to follow, one after one, she hopes they could...
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- 867 reads
Q: 10 seconds of spring
A cage has been opened; Now the floor floods with sun and we twitter in anticipation: the grass was green last time. Over the ceiling, and unmade...
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- 860 reads
Harsh devotion
This was partly inspired by a quote I heard from Henry VIII. v.1: 'Now, by thy looks I guess thy message', and partly by reading way too much HP fanfic late at night. Make of it what you will.
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- 600 reads
DE. Dec. 2003
You'll have to look hard to find the rhyme structure in this one. Spoken, you won't hear it, but matching up the lines in writing it's possible to see it. I had fun practices rhymes on this poem, rather than going for the musical effect of a good rhyme scheme, hence the weirdness. Written on a German exchange.
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- 728 reads
Disruption
I am endlessly reminded Of your malleable youth; Your petulant thumb Caught in the pout Of your bruised lips. Your writing slopes away, Angry twist...
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- 623 reads
Rallying
Uh. Andrea. I wish I could talk How we two sit here every week with the oak beams black as black claret, black as scorpions. Bleak. And the plaster,...
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- 1093 reads
The Tale of the Magic River
His laugh was loud and hearty; it rippled around those lucky enough to be invited to sit around the circular oak table. Jessiah, the host, spread his...
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- 1499 reads
EVIL
Not Dr. Evil, not Evel Knievel, but EVIL.
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- 729 reads
Rampant Rabbit
Feeble pun masquerading as poetry
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- 2620 reads