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redbrick posted a new Poem titled wilderness kills 4 days ago
  "wilderness kills"     They speak again of cool gardens, of melons split wide, of leeks softening in a pot that never hurri...
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Teytonon posted a new Poem titled He’s not barin’ it all, he’s Barron 4 days ago
Happy birthday to Barron Trump, belated   On Friday with his family, quietly celebrated Something his Dad would never do He'd have the...
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Savvart posted a new Poem titled Trapped but Not Forgotten 4 days ago
The strongest version of you is not missing. It is buried.   Not by failure, not by fate, but by the small agreements you made with fea...
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orangejumpsuit posted a new Poem titled otiose 4 days ago
alone with yourself if that is even possible the internal narrator is somebody else no? as close as it comes to being me but somehow removed...
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pamschwetz posted a new Poem titled NUMBER TWENTY THREE 4 days ago
FINGERLING FINGERING LINGERING IN THE RIGHT SPOT CAN BE PRETTY HOT YOU TEASE BUT DON'T STOP LOOKING FOR TWENTY THREE BUT WHAT CAN THAT MEAN...
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pamschwetz posted a new Poem titled LOOSE THINGS 4 days ago
TIGHT THINGS CONSTRICT LOOSE THINGS MAY SLIP TOO TIGHT MAKES IT HARD TO BREATHE TOO LOOSE DON'T DO ANYTHING I LIKE TO HAVE BREATHING ROOM DO...
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Pungus posted a new Poem titled Tanka Time 4 days ago
Moments fade away, And the substance there contained; What we're left with, then Is the semblance of a ghost: Who knows what will grow from...
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SSmoothie posted a new Poem titled A Mother's burden 5 days ago
You won't write me a grand poem Or mention me in some great speech  Or draw us holding hands  Though my assistance is a given...
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jerryhyuuga posted a new Poem titled Firewater 5 days ago
I drink from a flame that won’t go out, A burning ache I can’t live without; It warms my bones, then cuts me through... A kind of fire that...
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jerryhyuuga posted a new Poem titled The Breath of the Oak 5 days ago
The calendar trembles on the wall, Its pages turning when I’m not ready at all; A broken clock keeps calling my name, But nothing it says ev...
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redbrick posted a new Poem titled unsigned horizon 5 days ago
  “unsigned horizon”     The horizon stays unsigned, a gray span that won’t take a mark. The raft holds by its own inward pul...
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jerryhyuuga posted a new Poem titled Borrowed Light 5 days ago
In laughter shared among the four, We wander through the orange sunset’s glow; The smell of gasoline drifts from the shore, Three voices ris...
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jerryhyuuga posted a new Poem titled Barely Breathing 5 days ago
I don’t even know how we got here: One minute we’re fine, the next we’re not; I keep replaying what I said, what I feared, Like there’s...
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1SP posted a new Poem titled Home of Harlem — Sonnet for Melba Wilson 5 days ago
In ’05’s golden glow, the doors swung wide,   A Harlem daughter crowned in graceful flame;   She laid the table, drawing...
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jerryhyuuga posted a new Poem titled Light Behind the Gray 5 days ago
On a frozen lake, I learned to stand, Afraid each step might break the land; But something in me still took part, Keeping time with my beati...
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