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shadows punching

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Written by: kiwesley
Category: Published & Contest Winning Poems
Created: March 3, 2010, 2:00 pm
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originally published 2010

 

There are very few pictures of me

This is because I avoid making friends

Avoid making friends with cameras

In that order

I march toward April

Aware that she is staring

Picturing someone else

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Exit 25

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Written by: Mishca
Category: Published & Contest Winning Poems
Created: March 3, 2010, 8:38 am
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originally published 2010

 

The man was a truck driver -
like he thought
the wheels could keep him
from rumbling through -
the rock that rolled from
family to frightened family
the dark rimmed glasses
that never shook when he smacked
our cheeks
already turned.

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Magic Emptiness

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Written by: anonymous contributors
Category: Published & Contest Winning Poems
Created: February 26, 2010, 8:49 am
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User Rating: 5 / 5

originally published 2010

 

A magical moment they say.

Not fully aware

Our minds elsewhere.

An interesting kiss

Somewhat forbidden

Not thinking clear

Stop. Stop. Stop.

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Uncertain

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Written by: LarSond
Category: Published & Contest Winning Poems
Created: February 19, 2010, 6:24 am
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User Rating: 5 / 5

originally published 2010

 

I wasn't really sure except for that.

The man was tall with short dark hair
I can't recall exactly how dark or how short
but he clasped the woman to him

She had longer hair and it was lighter than his
(Blond?  Red?  No I'm fairly sure I'd have remembered red.)
And I don't think

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Stain

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Written by: grunfruaorshell
Category: Published & Contest Winning Poems
Created: October 26, 2009, 12:44 pm
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User Rating: 5 / 5

originally published 2010

 

You yes you stain me

Deeply

Like tomato sauce on the good china plates

Like red Georgia clay under fingernails from summer sun work

You yes you stain me

Deeply

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13 comments
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plethora

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Written by: men.in.whitecoats1
Category: Published & Contest Winning Poems
Created: October 24, 2009, 12:36 pm
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Though thoughts of death continuously plague me

I cannot fathom a reality without them.

As large as a boundless sea of cliches

I've cried

The desire yet no will.

Here denial does not exist.

The escapes of myriads.

At the edge of a daunting

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