Poetry
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- Written by: grunfruaorshell
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As Da Vinci staring at a pure slab of marble with chisel in hand
Or Picasso before an empty easel during his Blue Period
So would my grandmother stand preparing her bread.
The tools of her craft would be laid out before her on the table:
The jar
Read more: My Grandmother's Bread
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- Written by: quidquid
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There once was a time when if asked
To smile for the camera you gladly did
Tobacco considered relatively harmless
And gasoline was ludicrously cheap
Good music not yet
worn out by
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- Written by: The_Unwanted
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I don't know if anyone else will understand this piece. It is for someone in particular (they are not here) and written in metaphor. However I also thought I would share it here too.
Into the Deep.
Darkness has fallen within my eyesInsecurity has infected my mind
The knot has tighten
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- Written by: Vangoman/ Dan Van Fleet
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A simple arm drifting in the wind across the back of your sorrow
Pushing umbrellas of light above your head stopping the rain’s falling
Smiling as he pulls you into his shine closer and
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- Written by: Darrell Lindsey
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Meditation On An Artist
He painted men with long beards and missing teeth
bent women with canes
lonely children walking through meadows
on their way back home.
At night he would study each shade
each shadow of their lives
in the ramshackle cabin
he inherited from his father.
Sometimes he said
Read more: Meditation On An Artist
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- Written by: michaelmiller.ic
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Could one be more discontent with disconnect?
Each tether more severed in frustration.
Read more: Writers' Block No. 1
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- Written by: Timekeeper
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I’m dreaming of ghosts in the rain.
Of thoughts that stray sane and a girl without a name.
In the corner quietly contemplating the memories
Of yesterday and before tomorrow and the world outside
The world is waiting calling crying out
In
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- Written by: KevinRichard
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The worst mistake you can make
is to assume the way things are is
Read more: Freedom and Anxiety
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- Written by: writeeveryday
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"what's wrong with the world?"
but we don't want to hear the answer.
we see sticks and mud as trash
yet birds use them to
build a home for their families
as our ancestors did
now it's all fluffy pink insulation that looks like cotton
Read more: Because the Earth Does
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- Written by: soi-disant
- Category: Poetry
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desirable me
is not to be left wanting
please will you love me
fame fortune love pain men women will come and go but the piercing glare of your beautiful and flowing eyes raging through my skin and intertwining with my soul in such a provocative motion will remain retrievabley in my memory until the
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- Written by: AndrewPDillon
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How do you term the phenomenon that means
I am feeling it and you are doing it?
For example when I think of a song you
sing it. I am willing to believe it’s more
than coincidence but cannot
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- Written by: soi-disant
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