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- persephone at allpoetry
. - tuesday at allpoetry
. - fear at allpoetry
They told me everyone is looking for something. Searching, seeking, whatever. They said I should start looking, too, because I never know what's out there, what’s watching, what’s waiting. They told me writing would - dear stranger- at allpoetry
. - anthony at allpoetry
He is trudging down 41st street, shoulders hunched against the biting breeze; insipid algorithms haunting his thoughts like shadow puppets. Twilight looms around achromatic buildings, surrounding him like some ever-i - supernova heart at allpoetry
{ i’ve learnt to breathe deep - beLIEve at allpoetry
epiphanies don’t exist; it’s just a slow realisation - we’ve all got wood and nails at allpoetry
today, i found us boxed under dust, - flounder. at allpoetry
but my poem smells like gutted fish - milkweed at allpoetry
oh how i wish to be one of those poets, i declare, - fillies and sunrise at allpoetry
. - wednesday, at allpoetry
. - Quickie Cult - Round 2 - Part B at allpoetry
Only for the Quickie Cult poets:: AliceinPoetryLand - Quickie Cult - Round 2 - Part A at allpoetry
Only for the following poets: blah - grapefruit at allpoetry
it happens every Summer. it’s etched into bark of evergreens && it surges like lifeblood in Earth’s arteries as the hot haze hums it. it’s more addicti - fifth. at allpoetry
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. - Quickie Cult Rounds Contest (Info Page) at allpoetry
Quickie Cult. Because I love quickies and I know you do too. Everyone is given the chance to compete this first round, and there’ll be as many rounds as I need to - hometown at allpoetry
tuesday shade is a hungry alley-cat - snippets, scraps, bits & pieces at allpoetry
x--- an orhanage for ideas that will find a good home one day x--- that place in the garden where anything's allowed grow - exam at allpoetry
i. swallowed thick - reservation. at allpoetry
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. - cobalt at allpoetry
your whispers withered; darkness evolved and spewed us into his stomach, where we blinked and touched because we were both human, - harvest at allpoetry
10 lines. - bitter at allpoetry
10 lines. - she was like muse that spun the poets’ world at allpoetry
She spun the world, unconfined to something as puerile as this page. - swell at allpoetry
Can’t change colours of - reservation. at allpoetry
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. - love: what bends, breaks and binds at allpoetry
I. i am stone, - reservation. at allpoetry
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Will write this poem later tonight.
The moon's acting very pretty out my window. - white light: 9pm at allpoetry
1. in sterile silence - negative numbers at allpoetry
my arms turn perpendicular - reservation. at allpoetry
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. - tulip’s untimely death at allpoetry
surrendered leaves hang limp - counting bricks at allpoetry
earth is a room - paper in the sky at allpoetry
Yesterday was a story of - reservation. at allpoetry
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. - eight, eleven, sixteen and never again at allpoetry
eight is naivety at her neck; a knife like moonlight’s slither - temptation: snow white, bite my apple at allpoetry
beyond auto-open doors there are packets of fluorescent seeds - catlady at allpoetry
her eyes are written in orange latin -- a whisper of bible pages - egyptian at allpoetry
copper-skinned beetles carve poetry in pottery; - reservation. at allpoetry
. - noir & technicolour at allpoetry
birthdays hang like diamonds in winter-spring loops - reservation. at allpoetry
. - one. at allpoetry
she walks from the door -- it hangs empty on it’s hinge, - because it feels alive at allpoetry
neon lamps flash $2 heaven across mascara streets where bright-nailed fingers clutch purses of smoke - seasonal journey- treetops to suicide at allpoetry
wilting, / innocence slumps on the limbs; / heads hang low, / remembering yesterdays of summer colour / we faintly ache for teenage thrills. / streaks of honey weave our hair / like lethargic - solitude: waves who whisper fiercely at allpoetry
haze hovers / over / ocean’s lazy soliloquies; / salt water soup / flits with fish. / sand skulks / between wave’s white teeth, / like fish scale / fossils & gritted glass. / - reservation. at allpoetry
. - fish eye kaleidoscopes- at allpoetry
I. / irises are fat fish eggs / squirming in ponds of soul / where oily bubbles form a mirage / to sing hope’s oasis - / a slippery tremor above the - reservation. at allpoetry
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. - the keeping of a secret at allpoetry
she doesn’t / like people. she wears four / pairs of underpants & - Refrigerator; a world of numb breathing at allpoetry
Locked lid of white coffin / yawns open, / inside, / ice crystals flicker like light / where I’m a carton / of acidophilus, / hunched beside / chocolate-iced slices crouching / on chip - break away -- grass would be greener anywhere else at allpoetry
chalazae / talk twisted / languages; / clueless, / because / gravity is / imprisonment. / metaphors / are smog, / taunting - liquefaction) (desiccation at allpoetry
. / . / . / maelstrom smiles / once danced like foot- / prints on ocean floor, / before we swept the water / from our arms in a flood / of forget-me-forever-s, / then half-moon promi - Searching For A Suicide / hunting for a dog / at allpoetry
Hand tossed door, / as though it were paper / yawning in the / dusk-coloured skylines. / Foot threatened threshold / in strong defiance, / wishing for it to be / any other day. / - reservation. at allpoetry
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. - abuse+demise; the battle of hatehatehate at allpoetry
tripping over hysterical tears / she rips her heart for the answer. / she begs the past is just a dream, / but nightmares fester like cancer. / a diary of childhood secrets / writes itself over her eyes; - reservation. at allpoetry
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. - falling away; I have still tasted love at allpoetry
light leaks from my eyes; / swallowed by oceans of fate. / i am watching the world / through a turquoise dream; / fantasy is shielding truth / water’s blurred edge is a blanket / & i am folded flat - road trip: life’s driving force at allpoetry
winter sun tangled itself / through the windscreen, / knifing at my senses, / daring me / to squint & scream - / with relief / i realised / i was young enough / to squeeze my eyes shut- / & keep br - reservation. at allpoetry
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. - reservation: I hope to spark my muse. at allpoetry
. - stars & feathers & nothing inside at allpoetry
skin: / the folds about my face / droop like the shaded edge of a black black hole. / the music is crammed like chicken in sandwiches / & folded flat to the roof of my mouth. / my eyes gape wide to sing li - water; dissolve and drown at allpoetry
his words will rape me with love, / the way a good poem would swim like / water over sand. / he’ll play with caution to the wind, / with threads and string stretched / up at the sky;; / citing conve - the city is far from here at allpoetry
when she threw her poetry out the beach-house window / &nb - sickly sweet;; at allpoetry
they huddled close in the city, watching lights flick away from windows; / the wind silent as an unspoken dawn, / thinking with the same throbbing heartbeat / limbs and whims danced the birth of night. / - lips full of sand at allpoetry
/ / each thought is a monologue; / a monochrome wave where / oversized insomnia writes crosses / across my existence. / / i burrow through caves & kelp, / my arms to sky; a seagull’s plea / for mercy. - i look in the mirror, your eyes are blinking black;; at allpoetry
/ / each mirror owns a million eyes; / with needles & bones through the skin, / silence like a lacquered disguise, / where fury’s a flame kept within. / / ‘cause honey, i think i hate you -- / you - feather friends at allpoetry
/ / Spotted feather in the wind; / a whispering sea-spray dream. / Our love is free and flying / over tidal pools’ sweetest gleam. / / Spotted feather in your hands; / a destiny mottled weak. / Our love i - Fish Out Of Water at allpoetry
/ / You threw your hand into my soul, / hook, line & sinker -- / / I don’t know what you were expecting, / or if you knew all along there was nothing inside. / - echo --the waves keep coming at allpoetry
/ / her hair a strawberry field, / wet with the hoop-shaped waves / of unforgettable ghosts, / / she smells like a mermaid, / floating seafood is scales on skin -- / the undiluted - Lemons at allpoetry
When life gives you lemons, eat ‘em;
it’s probably high time you pulled a few funny faces - suspension at allpoetry
stuck between the bulletproof
layers of lasagne sheets and city streets, - && just like that, you were gone -- at allpoetry
with dust in the lights of your eyes,
you left one waxy photograph; - It's Only Love If The Lights Are Off at allpoetry
there's a hole in her heart--
drops falling faster - adrenaline at allpoetry
. - cliff, with water below at allpoetry
Have you
ever - regret, and one wish for another wish at allpoetry
i wanted so much
to not care at all, - composing a way to tell you truth at allpoetry
i was hoping i could
tell you this with two feet - In progress at allpoetry
just holding a spot for the contest - chocolate at allpoetry
you’re the chocolate on
my ice cream cone, sweeter than - half a heart at allpoetry
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today, I am bones - treasure at allpoetry
the shore is footstep-
ridden, - beach at midnight at allpoetry
Have you
ever - decay at allpoetry
red linens drop to the gravel --
wildflowers stand unhinged, - katie: inevitable and overwhelmed at allpoetry
she wore memories, grey as hair
wrinkling with footsteps along the beach-- - just in case at allpoetry
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cement is splitti - giving up the search -- snowblind at allpoetry
. - free as angels at allpoetry
. - distortion; at allpoetry
[ spin me faster. spin me closer ]
centrifuge the soul -- - putrid at allpoetry
. - congeal; at allpoetry
. - flurries at allpoetry
. - red violets at allpoetry
“i’m emo, you know just give me a razor and i’d cut my arms”
it - material at allpoetry
. - red at allpoetry
if earth
was a - 10 ways to say i love you; at allpoetry
. - cumulonimbus at allpoetry
. - trembling like a monday at allpoetry
. - ((something I see in eyes)) at allpoetry
. - last candles at allpoetry
with heartbeats
on fast forward - d r o w n i n g disco glitter -- at allpoetry
. - Silence at allpoetry
Dangling
spread-eagled - ash in the street at allpoetry
covered in
smoke-screen - friendship like fireworks at allpoetry
with friendship
like fireworks - radioactive at allpoetry
we
polished - apple tree at allpoetry
forget-me-nots tied
with cherry stalks - starvation of stars at allpoetry
. - unsung hero at allpoetry
. - if life could be shut in a box at allpoetry
trapped -
in cubes of - phantasmagoria at allpoetry
. - large as lonely at allpoetry
. - today is tinted at allpoetry
. - white stones at allpoetry
. - walk on water at allpoetry
. - hide-and-seek at allpoetry
. - Trust at allpoetry
. - I Wish at allpoetry
. - full of all the emptiness at allpoetry
. - take me home at allpoetry
. - forget-her-not at allpoetry
. - Lonely Dancers at allpoetry
. - Sunset at allpoetry
. - chequered paths at allpoetry
. - before the sun at allpoetry
. - window shopping at allpoetry
her pawn-broken heart -
sold and re-sold
to hungry passers by, - Numb As Cardboard at allpoetry
My skin as numb as cardboard, - A Sacrifice For Sky at allpoetry
We stopped to ask the question “why?”
gambled time to search for answers,
