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Poetry

Poignancies of August

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Written by: wdoreski
Category: Poetry
Created: October 13, 2010, 2:29 am
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Sometimes I worry that the sea
isn’t turning its pages
quickly enough to compensate
for the turning of the earth.
Sometimes I worry that the hills
won’t erode enough to expose
the entire truth of bedrock.

You never fret about birdsong
dropping a sour note or two
or about oaks losing count

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SACRED TREASURE

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Written by: nicepoethere
Category: Poetry
Created: October 12, 2010, 9:05 pm
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When I was a child I watched the world hurrying about
And sometimes wondered what was all the worrying about?
What for all the hustle and bustle and desperate need
That kept everyone running everywhere at mindless speed?
What was the gem that made everyone dying to find it
Which

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Your Ocean

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Written by: niko719
Category: Poetry
Created: October 12, 2010, 4:51 pm
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I cried you an ocean

Long ago
But I’ll share with you
Whatever’s left
Of my ocean 

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Race Me

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Written by: niko719
Category: Poetry
Created: October 12, 2010, 4:48 pm
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He's running at my open door

faster than he's run before

and as I see a tear stream by

torn by wind from his left eye

I slam the door on his embrace

I cut the prize out of his race

but with my hand still hesitating

I watch his just keep right on racing

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A secret love

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Written by: dpbalding
Category: Poetry
Created: October 12, 2010, 12:26 am
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Her name is unimportant to me 

But for all her beauty she is Aphrodite 

The goddess of love the goddess of my heart 

And I hate it whenever she and I are apart 

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Dark image....

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Written by: Delilahventura
Category: Poetry
Created: October 9, 2010, 9:53 am
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Take a moment hear the sounds
Take a moment smell the air
Hear children play
Hear laughter and screams


Smell the moist in the ground
Smell the wetness on your feet
Hear the basketball and football
Smell the sweat in the wind
Hear the crumbs in the sand
Smell the liquid in the

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I found your shirt

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Written by: Brandon_Hennen
Category: Poetry
Created: October 7, 2010, 4:43 pm
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I found your shirt in a box
on my closet floor. The brown
one with the lace around the
sleeves.

I was surprised to recall
The many times you wore it.
the feel of it when we embraced
and the way it smelled like you. It now
only smells of a box on my

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I cannot sleep

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Written by: lepetitepois78
Category: Poetry
Created: October 6, 2010, 3:33 pm
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twisted and turning. I am a contortionist.  sweating and shivering. confusing and drowning. drowning in sheets. my head throbs with mathematical triangular problems. but my brain refuses.  keeps going. mechanical thoughts. turning

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Defiant

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Written by: annabeth
Category: Poetry
Created: October 6, 2010, 7:01 am
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Floating high
but sinking low
with the happinesss
strapped to the back
of my head.

All I can see
in front of me
is the dark.
I stick my feet
in the cool black mud

and it feels good
but it shouldn't.

Do we have to want
only clean shiny
bright windows?

I love mud

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Rememory of October

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Written by: clairer
Category: Poetry
Created: October 5, 2010, 4:41 am
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Today when you kissed me

I knew it was fall again

I felt the year come around

I felt your flannel shirt on my skin.

And your arms around me

Felt different and the same.

Later I sniffed you

Carrots and soap

Like last

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The Careening Careless

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Written by: fluoddity
Category: Poetry
Created: October 4, 2010, 2:58 pm
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Roll Roll

Down thundering canyon

Grass dust

Billow behind in rotund clouds

Swarming in tempestuous society

Gathering for a brief moment

only to sigh a heaving separation

and radiate towards unknown destinations

 in undulating waves of careless.

The unblinking eye steadies the path

Boldly facing the course with effort

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I Am The Dead

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Written by: The_Unwanted
Category: Poetry
Created: October 4, 2010, 7:41 am
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With these four walls around me
A ceiling above and floor below me
I am the dead and forgotten.

With no memories left to entertain me
No dreams left to comfort me
I am the dead and forgotten.

With no sign of life coursing my veins
No

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