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PUBLISHED POEMS


THE FAG END OF YOU
By Mike O'Brien Remember When even an evening, Certainly two, Seemed too long To be away from you? Sunrise bounced excitedly Like...
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EUCHAWRIST
By Paige Francis Take. Take. Take this tear of mine into your cup, Now drink it, for it is my blood. Ensure you drink, fill yourself...
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DEATH SAID TO THE CHILD
By Marie Bernadette Did you know, dear, that on my silent loom I weave whispers when the willows weep? I thread their strings with pearls...
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JELLIED GUILLOTINE
By Mike Hynde I am wheeled out of my play pen A stern face on my shiny steel blade The crowds flock around like crows Bursting and eager...
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SOUL'S EXIT
By Llulah O.N. Dedicated to The brightest You Before our eyes forever close Before time wears us to shadows and ghosts Engrave the...
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THE GARDEN
By River M Blues My dreams of you are a garden. I walk its grounds with my soul laid bare, with my eyes obscured by a shroud. My heart is...
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YAGA
By Pia Banton Once a pretty ideal, I prefer the company of wild things now - roaming dark woods of your mind, howling naked at the moon....
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TOGETHER FOREVER
By Smilla Together Forever. You were born first, I took last place coming in second. Identical they said, but I could never see it....
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ARROWS
By KLMurphy ACT 1 In my whole life, from the beginning, I have been judged harshly against what is properly fair. Between the humdrum...
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PANAMA
By Terese White The staring woman said “hello” And I promptly but violently Laid my stomach across her Gnarled brown shoes. In a mixture...
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AUTONOMOUS BEING
By The Girl Who Cannot Breathe Amble forwards, Relenting soul, Unto hell, heaven or further, Speak with me, My silent subconscious -...
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STATIONS
By Tim Armstrong The trains are cancelled to your destination. You won’t be sped through geographic space, just the Past. See bright...
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DAYDREAMS
By Billy Lythgoe Sometimes, you say, when you dream in the daytime you’re watching the world from a hot-air balloon. Streams hurry down...
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PRETTY THING / BOWIE'S LAMENT
By Scout Clancy Batreau Let me trace your scars from the inside of your humming legs across the circuits of your skin, and rest beside...
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WITHIN THE HOLLOW
By Ripley Ford There is a place inside me where light dares not touch, a space where edges fracture, and shadows stretch in every...
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AND OTHER HOMELY HAUNTOLOGIES
By Salamis Aysegul Sentug-Tugyan all of a sudden, I remember I forgot to take something: something I should carry with me all the time to...
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LOVE SPELL #12 OBSESSION
By Paul Van Sickle The ivy’s creeping into my veins again A thread you know better than to pull Glass splinters from stroking the wine...
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UNTITLED
By Neaky Sahafi The last thing I needed, Was for you to press a kiss upon my neck, How dare you caress my heart? Go on, place the noose,...
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WE
By Ramsha Ashraf we were the daughters of the witches who could set fire to skeletons of the ones who wanted to crush the petals of our...
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A KNIFE WITH NO HANDLE
By Lucien Wolf A knife with no handle. Pretty to hold But not easy to wield; to cut the rope Around your neck you must first lose a...
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