AUNTIES RIVER
By Safiyyah Altaf Slipping on fertility, brought to my knees Reaching for water at the robin river Stirring and searching the amniotic...
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HALLOWEEN
By Lucy Pettigrew We nursed our sadness like a newborn, tended to depression like dying flowers, blade bracelets wrapped round magnolia...
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NARCISSUS
By Annie. J The beauty and the body, glorified And bold. Narcissus as he walks among us The sweetest of dew to sweetest of honey Drawing...
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DAFFODIL
By Steven Lee Hann will be the day we part ways. You always found my stories a bore, with no idea what this simple flower says. My sights...
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PLACE CALLED HOME
By P.T. Heart Long evening sunsets flowed Growing up, summers ago That evening light ever glow Shadows dark & long and light so warm...
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LOVER, LEECH
By Ruth Cowell Sharp words spit from your lips And litter the floor Pointed rusty nails That bury themselves in my feet That burrow their...
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REVERSE VAMPIRES
By R. Moores Another day passes into night, night to dawn, dawn to dusk In between there is another kind of hour, an hour known to so few...
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THE TEMPTATION OF SUICIDE
By Katie Fleming The violent river beckoned, there I stood, My tear-filled eyes gazing into the flood. It didn’t look far to fall, No,...
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A DYING FLAME
By Ishita Das He climbed the tree to see the world but fell too soon. Millions of followers close to his heart yet they were thousand...
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BURIAL
By Cait Price Like all types of grief, the death of a relationship demands a water burial. I call it drowning. We are watching its...
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PROPELLED INTO PARALLELED EXISTENCE
By Nonysmgrl Caravan of catastrophic events Misaligned lines We were meant to have intersect Yet, I’m still holding my breath Visions of...
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MURDERER
By Jade M. Wong The murderer’s eyes look just like mine— Inherited from our parents, A lifetime of small good deeds And large...
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DECEMBER 1999
By Joy Clyne As the hands of unwanted authority Took my tiny hands That fit into his single hand Being led to the slaughter Of fine décor...
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CODEINE + COCAINE
By Christopher Sedgwick Codeine for opiate dreams Cocaine for days mundane Some who indulge are considered insane Others know it helps...
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WORLDLY WEIGHT
By Ella Penn You do not breathe air, nor eat the fruits of the earth. You are not ruled by the setting of the sun. You are in eternity,...
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SONG OF WOMEN
By Teagan Nguyen “I am Lady Macbeth, trade milk for gall Lilith and Eve, genesis of downfall Wicked Witch of the West, stuff of...
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HEY LITTLE ONE
By Shiva Hey Little One... If you ever read my words, I’ve got something to tell you. You’ve still got so much to learn About life and...
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PIECES
By Allan J. Manson You have my love, but the littlest piece of it. The piece that dreams of what could have been, or should have, or, if...
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THE PUPPETEER
By Amder Saqladi Body of plastic, but porcelain heart- You like your marionettes to be kept in the dark. Just make sure her strings are...
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RECONCILIATION
By David Valentine To Ophelia, Down the beams of moonlight racing, South the river’s waters tracing, Slowly by a starless sky, the poet...
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