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Poetry

This Is Pleasure

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Written by: Sean Maloney
Category: Poetry
Created: September 30, 2010, 5:27 am
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she has taken her mind
and broken it
into many 
different pieces
you see them all
there
going
coming
and leaving
and almost all at the same time
with no rhyme or reason
just cause that is what she does
others frown
look down as she comes
that crazy bitch
they mumble
under their breaths

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we are Achilles

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Written by: workingsushi
Category: Poetry
Created: September 29, 2010, 1:41 am
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I am just like Achilles

Only my heel is my body

And my patricolous is not dead

But dying in way warn gasps

between my sheets

 

Our mothers were temptresses.

Who sung snakes into hair

And let loose well water from

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We Needed Him (for Townes Van Zandt)

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Written by: Chris Edwards
Category: Poetry
Created: September 28, 2010, 4:43 pm
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The poet cast a long shadow

as he took the stage.

A wraith worn from bowing down a thousand times

strumming that old Gibson

cracked and blonde

he sang some lines:

"Livin's mostly wastin' time

and I waste my share

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these desperate times

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Written by: ugwerks
Category: Poetry
Created: September 28, 2010, 3:19 pm
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I sit

staring blankly at the woman

counting her cash

and think

what any of this can possibly

speak to these desperate times


It's cold here

but no colder than 

anywhere else

I have known before


I look at her

black skirt red halter

gristly but lovely too

She doesn't see me

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if god so loved the world

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Written by: ugwerks
Category: Poetry
Created: September 28, 2010, 1:25 pm
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if god so loved the world
why’d he let the bastards kill his son?
what kind of god would let that happen
reminds me of my father

If god so loved the world
why does he let the children suffer?
does it make him a bigger man?

why does he put up with

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The Fields of Detroit

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Written by: paul1221
Category: Poetry
Created: September 28, 2010, 8:54 am
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The fields of Detoit
blow a wind of poverty.
Only a soul to find pure
lost in the bells of abandon
churches of empty prayers.

Says the saint
this place needs some help.
Says the saint
stock the shelves of soup kitchens.
Says the saint
but the fields just whisper
of

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The Labradorescent Eye

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Written by: Christina LaRocca
Category: Poetry
Created: September 28, 2010, 6:39 am
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expanding the space and time that exists in my mind

a battlefield of thoughts

the pieces ravaged like an old familiar testament i no longer vow to appeal

why not sustain the tone of light until we are blinded by reality

a world of infinite water

drowning in air

can you feel the torrential compartments

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Possession

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Written by: Christina LaRocca
Category: Poetry
Created: September 28, 2010, 6:27 am
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Hi!


I am a singer/songwriter from NYC. Before I ever wrote a song I wrote poetry. Here is one of my more recent pieces. Enjoy!

Christina

www.christinalaroccamusic.com


possession

A touch so deep it goes straight to my core

Every fiber every muscle retracts and pulls

I am a vessel

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For the faded and the damned

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Written by: oli.rob.ver
Category: Poetry
Created: September 26, 2010, 5:30 pm
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For the faded and the damned…

There is a barbershop found through the tunnel that runs under Central Station where the lonely of the city converge to cut ties with the world

And some poor girl cries on the steps of an old porch where down and through her hands

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Suit of Armor

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Written by: JonSternburg
Category: Poetry
Created: September 26, 2010, 6:38 am
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There he slept

sunken and broken

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Synesthesia for Lovers

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Written by: Eric Lawson
Category: Poetry
Created: September 23, 2010, 7:22 am
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You mention the fresh mangoes
and my starving mouth waters
You say to pass the cherries
and I hear a Chopin symphony
I reach for my thesaurus
because this feeling of
awe has caught me here
unknowing
unseeing
unsung
I whisper passive pleasures
and your aching mind yearns
I say pass hold and hover

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Alone with the Night

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Written by: Eric Lawson
Category: Poetry
Created: September 23, 2010, 7:16 am
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The engine sputters and then dies
My worst motorist fear is realized
The lame rental car is out of gas
Angry homeward bound joyriders
honk and swerve to avoid my mess

WHY
is this happening to me?

HOW
did I let it get this far?

WHERE
the hell is a gas station?

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