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Guilt

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Written by: scorpius
Category: Poetry
Created: June 26, 2012, 4:32 am
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Guilt

 

"Guilt"

A morbid device-

Invented by those

Who forbid "vice"

Intended to close

Ones own eyes

To what is real

Behind full-blown disguise

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An Argument of Faith

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Written by: Nasser
Category: Poetry
Created: June 26, 2012, 2:54 am
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The Calm

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Written by: Zena
Category: Poetry
Created: June 25, 2012, 7:26 pm
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Returning to Dating after a long marriage, I wrote this about how I felt about the "game"

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Identity Dilemma

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Written by: Nasser
Category: Poetry
Created: June 25, 2012, 4:39 pm
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Where did I go?

The child that I was

At 8 or 10 years old

Indeed I did grow

More vivid are my thoughts

My mind is a world

In which my identity is lost

Where is that boy

Spontaneous and filled with joy

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Red

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Written by: michaelmiller.ic
Category: Poetry
Created: June 25, 2012, 6:35 am
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All powerful, devouring

A slack jawed

Half cocked

Goon.

Ash no longer lingering,

He keeps on fingering

A dull cigarette.

All he can see is

Red.

Hot necked,

The sweat

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Goldfinches

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Written by: ClevelandWall
Category: Poetry
Created: June 23, 2012, 7:39 pm
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All summer I have watched the goldfinches feasting,
first upon sunflowers, perched
at the edge of a dial, tucking in
their sleek bright heads to pluck
the oily seeds.

Then upon the cosmos.
What is there? Nectar perhaps? Plump aphids?
The cosmos sway their blowsy purple heads
under the heft of these hollow birds.

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shrieking about being alive

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Written by: BEtling
Category: Poetry
Created: June 23, 2012, 2:47 am
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a shrieking, sweat-soaked panic the morning he recalled the horrifying details of the night in which his body confirmed, through tossing and turning for 45 minutes until about 2:30 am, that perhaps he could have had something.

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Better Than The Hell

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Written by: arnav_kk
Category: Poetry
Created: June 22, 2012, 8:26 am
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its thrown from the perspective of the prisoner who wonders how the world appears without him.

 

i wonder how my world now looks!

do they still enjoy that graceful sunshine?

do the waves break at the rocky shores?

the way they strike my desolate mind.

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NOCTURNA

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Written by: timepoet77
Category: Poetry
Created: June 22, 2012, 1:01 am
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By the light of the full moon, your lovely form I glance.

To you I come very soon; in the night we now dance

Sweet kisses now drugging me; soft touch sets me ablaze.

Voice singing to me gently; into your soul I gaze.

Many a time has gone by, yet still you stay the same.

Into your night-wings I'll fly. My love, tell me your name.

Woman of night, hear me thus these words you inspire.

The stars are now meant for us, and you're my heart's fire.

Now you go to the night-skies, as my tears tell me true;

Thus my sad, forlorn heart sighs, "Nocturna, I love you..."

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Aqueous Umbilicus

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Written by: Vangoman/ Dan Van Fleet
Category: Poetry
Created: June 21, 2012, 8:48 pm
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Such true love

And so it was

The heart was cut

The blood let

And knew this thing

That never was

Of fresh milk skin

And Innocents

 

Quaver ascent

Euphoric rise

Beyond the under sky

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Earth (double Etheree)

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Written by: johnh94
Category: Poetry
Created: June 20, 2012, 11:49 am
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User Rating: 5 / 5

Earth
spins on,
constantly
counting the time
hoping we humans
will not murder ourselves
or her, our mother, as well
Earth’s environment is dying
communities are failing to boot.
Could this be some heavenly punishment
some retribution for killing God’s son
amazing, the things we justify
seeking murderous salvation
wipe ‘em out, push ‘em aside
allow gluttonous rule
while masses suffer
thinning the herd
on this poor
spinning
Earth

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Can't They?

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Written by: johnh94
Category: Poetry
Created: June 20, 2012, 11:37 am
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fearful

fretting

in apprehensive silence

waiting for the next shoe/bomb to drop

hearing both sides blaming

each pointing accusatory fingers

claiming the other guy started it

choosing up sides

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