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PUBLISHED POEMS


TESTIFY
By Audrey Waterhouse I've been ghost hunting your French exit. And I don't swear on bibles anymore But I talk about you like my memory’s...
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UNWOUND
By Savannah Smyth The thought of being unwound, Scares me less, Than being forever bound. Stuck together like a parasitic twin- Our...
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TRIGGERED
By Mark McDonnell a twitch as she and I ease together her involuntary twist to avoid another man rising from a grave unmarked...
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LOST SOUL
By Lou Harris Blank expression Where do you go? That place so dark Not with reality A demon deep inside Tunnelled vision Haunted eyes...
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UGLY
By Bellatrix Facades, filters Covers for our ugly Monstrous keepers of putrid lies Fake gestures Horrid and hollow compliments that break...
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THE BURDEN
By Richard Dean No pain in the act, like that old song used to say Not like this pain – the kind that comes from remembering Remembering...
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MENSTRUAL
By Tina Andrews Moody, nasty mind, angry viper tongue Sweating pores, beads of wet run Heady, Bleeding, dark red clots Streaming...
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COHERENCE
By Ellen Thea exquisite individual shimmering slices vibrating light dust glimmer dance the newness the nowness each moment...
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GHOSTS
By Brain Wolf We are just ghosts - haunting each other’s houses Moving misery around like ancient furniture #darkpoetsclub
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TOMBSTONING
By Clare Marsh teenagers leap off the harbour wall to loud music and shouted dares on a rising tide sea swells temperature plummets...
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OUTGROWN
By Dr G Familiar vastness, paths well known as trees have grown. Mapless navigating landscape, existence. Compressed reminiscences...
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A YEAR IN YESTERDAY
By Mark O'Neill Yesterday I was 16, Today I'm 26, Tomorrow I'll be twice as old, And the day after that I'll call quits, The should...
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TRUNCATED
By Seamus Kelly The first bombs were launched through the “aye” lobby And unaware, the soon to be victims, continued their brief...
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HAWK-EYED FOR A ROBIN
By Kezza G He’s alone. She’s gone. To the ever after Slipped under the crumbs thrown on the coffin, thrown to the birds, The robin,...
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MISTLETOE PRAYER
By Anthony Watts Rootless cruiser among the anchored giants, Balloonful of gladelight, borne on the breath of birds, Lodge in the...
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THE DAWN AGAIN
By Jay Goldin do you know how this ends i know how it ends with the line and the curve the unreachable sky and the light that no one...
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BUNNY
By Kat Savage At night, Tendrils. I crawl through tiny cracks of thought, Itch your dreams, pull tight at hairs, Stuff out your throat...
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COMPOSITIONAL INSOMNIA
By Darren Powell Verbal regurgitation, mind’s resuscitation, Ink spewed nonsense on a mental slate – Pitter patter, pitter patter, Rain...
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HEROS BECOME VILLAINS
By Gillian Lenore Expectations are subsequential disappointments- No one is coming, you are alone; Sadly, Betrayal never comes from...
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T.O.D
By Susan A Justice Time of death was called, But for more than one person. Time of death ended a physical existence, And sent another on...
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