Cherrypicked stories
Illusions
Is losing your job the end of everything normal in your world&;#063;
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- 931 reads
C: The Final Frontier
The Last Frontier Mother turned around and drug her foot like a bad imitation of the mummy in old scary movies. My three brothers and I howled. And...
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- 992 reads
B: Long Night Gone
Even a child can kill.
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- 942 reads
My Little Lobster
MY LITTLE LOBSTER Little lobster, With your tough exterior, And your succulent bits Lurking within, You've clawed your way Into my heart. The...
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- 789 reads
Ironing the Irony
IRONING THE IRONY I'm as out of luck as I am of it, Sinking fast but I drink well. My jeans match my mood, Bone against flesh, ice against flow. My...
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- 787 reads
So, Mississippi Revision:
Azure eyes just one color of the rainbow mounted above a wrinkled nose, brown and worn-out as a raisin in the sun. With two cheekbones big enough to...
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- 856 reads
The Grip
a poem for the men and women behind the scenes
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- 817 reads
Nets
v2 The nets... I lost a leg when I was only three weeks old. Mum said it would grow back when I got older. I'm older now and there is still a big...
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- 1045 reads
On Cloud Nine
When in heaven, do as angels do.
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- 1565 reads
Kindertrain
Kindertrain In obedience I left not panic or fear of war, though fear there was in plenty. I was pushed leaving shadowy memories of tears and shapes...
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- 5500 reads
Going without natural light
You can survive without being happy only if you've never known it, to miss: one who'd lived all their lives senseless in side a cage would not feel...
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- 1103 reads
Cracks in the pavement
A stranger e-mailed me with a challenge to write a poem with this title...
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- 1210 reads
Key moments
Never give out your password or credit card number in an instant message conversation. funk_soul_brother says: ugh I couldn't finish the story man I...
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- 1298 reads
Flower power
the problem of having elderly hippie parents
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- 1282 reads
X
Thgis box to which I have no key gets in the way I cover it with pretty cloth, sit on it, but otherwise it has no use I can see. I read of the...
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- 1151 reads
X
This box for which I have no key gets in the way: I cover it wit pretty cloth, sit on it, but otherwise it has no use I can see. I read of the...
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- 1204 reads
Tradesmen come good
poem: sexual experiment on tradesmen
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- 944 reads
Sibyl
Someone who walked through lives briefly
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- 902 reads
Funeral in Fiji
A Funeral in Fiji It is a stifling day. We swelter in packed pews in the echoing church, until a cold rain hammers on the iron roof, and a draft...
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- 1324 reads
Artists
Artists The tools of their art are spread on the ground: the ochres, the reeds chewed to a brushpoint, the grinding stones - only the glue they use...
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- 1043 reads
D: Wallaby and Dogs
Wallaby And Dogs I was moving water-smooth stones to shape a dam when the despairing wallaby crashed by our noses into the water, the half-Alsatian...
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- 1050 reads
Wild Dogs
Wild Dogs Because I have heard the wild dogs in the night, up there on the Daly in the empty North, these days I itch with a vague dissatisfaction:...
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- 943 reads
Children's Python
Children's Python She is no friend of mine, but we have reached a modus vivendi: : she will not startle me again at night when I am outside in the...
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- 1016 reads
JACK - PRETTY JACK
ANOTHER OLD FAIRY-TALE UPDATED
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- 1188 reads
Service
I have come to this place to be changed To break up the pieces and be rearranged I have come to this place to be healed To remove the fa?ade and be...
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- 765 reads
School days
Uniformed collective pile from teethed gates Swirls of cigarette smoke entwine Above illegal heads Kisses are exchanged for handholding And promise...
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- 928 reads
Moon
For Fish...for giving me this inspiration
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- 1169 reads
A: WELCOME TO PACIFIC AND MAPLE
Introduction
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- 1914 reads
Trapped
I don't want to be a Consumer I don't want to be named for my greed But I've listened to marketing liars and now fashion's the one thing I need But I...
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- 859 reads
Domesticated Silkworm
Mulberry dreams, I spend my days Grazing brightly leaf green haze. Ghost mist darkness, falling moon, Beats retreat. In silk cocoon
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- 1999 reads
Countdown to Halloween
A Ghost Story
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- 887 reads
Wordblind
All is leaves at my walking feet. The brightest, I gather - yellow, ochre, corrugated or veined emerald on lemon, take them home, make pictures of...
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- 1007 reads
The Drifter
Night-time is upon us and the children are a'bed It's time for all the wiser men to gently rest their heads Upon their feathered pillows and to...
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- 1119 reads
Dark and Lovely an autobiographicla excerpt
my autobiography
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- 1128 reads
You're Winsome; You're Loathsome
Prose poem about confusion and Walt Whitman
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- 1212 reads
The Rabbit Hunt
Easy on the brain
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- 1241 reads
DJ Chad
A DJ didn't save my life last night, but he gave me the kick in the butt I needed
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- 1131 reads
Summer adventure
A game of war turns out to be something quite sinister
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- 1084 reads
Looking
Looking for the one isn't that bad
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- 1305 reads
The Bridge
A part of Ireland forever burnt
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- 1235 reads
Coffee cups and checklists
Of one man's struggle to show himself worthy
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- 1694 reads
Here Where I hide in the evenings
Here, where I hide in the evenings, there is a long polished bar who has held so many men's pipes and pints in tankards, shining glory wins to the...
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- 2246 reads
Gods Chum
The pigeons have ears - human ears.
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- 1262 reads
If you could change your life
If you could turn back time, would you&;#063;
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- 1197 reads
Revenge in Drag
A man plots revenge on a former aquaintance but matters don't turn out as planned.
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- 1936 reads
Taken by the Cleaner
A student teacher stays with his aunt but he's not what he seems, or is he&;#063;
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- 1372 reads
Dry Blackthorn day
I wake up from intensely disturbing nightmares about serial killers hunting down me and my friends. Horrible twisted psychotic people who sneak into...
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- 1386 reads
Just Puppy...
Burying my face in his soft fur I cried and cried after Ben left.
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- 1598 reads
Tattoo
At sixteen, her navel quivered Beneath inky needle Latex gloved hands Carved expertly into soft Stretch mark free skin Surrounded by the very essence...
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- 1205 reads
Version
"What do you think?" you ask about the first verse of your latest poem. Um, what can I say? It is like you are holding a lump of clay, in your hand:...
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- 1311 reads
Lucy's Small Problem
Lucy is a little girl who desperately wants to grow. Will she succeed with the help of her friend&;#0
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- 1319 reads
A) Brittle Star
about a starfish, but a friend too
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- 1116 reads
Sweet smell of Ker-ching !
Why nobody bought anything the Saturday before Christmas...
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- 1464 reads