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Poetry

Face or words

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Written by: Shell1321
Category: Poetry
Created: July 8, 2010, 1:26 pm
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Shall it be Shall it might
the last words I ever write.

What will you remember
the words to which you read
the message in between the lines
or the face behind of it all.

This face that belongs to me.

Fear to one shall not be

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Unintentionally, Bakersfield

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Written by: Eric Lawson
Category: Poetry
Created: July 7, 2010, 2:29 pm
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Unintentionally at first now so obvious

Desert highway off-shoot boomtown

Pit stop for the wandering and weary

An oasis between light bulbs of thought

And long stretches of darkness sublime

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Blissful Black Hair 2

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Written by: Spells
Category: Poetry
Created: July 7, 2010, 11:16 am
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Greetings of fresh air

We blend as Sinatra's voice

Glimpse eyes attract

Love has centered my voice

She takes me home

Upon the crystal moon

Touches of moist,

Shafting her womb

Miss Blissful Black hair,

Where did one get eyes like that

I tell myself,

She robbed a cat

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Blissful Black Hair

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Written by: Spells
Category: Poetry
Created: July 7, 2010, 11:08 am
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Short blissful black hair

From the window I stare

Just tell me where

Short blissful black hair

I've lost myself

Short blissful black hair

Only top shelf

Short blissful black hair

All is well and all is fair

Walk my way,

Miss Blissful I dare

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Feeling Your Presence

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Written by: Spells
Category: Poetry
Created: July 7, 2010, 10:56 am
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I'm feeling your presence

Like the air I breathe

We feel your presence

When we are down on our knees

I miss your presence

Like a mother who leaves

We've encountered our blessings

Sometime smiling through grief

We remember your stories

Of your childhood days

A warrior of God

Walking by faith

I'm feeling your presence

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Stone Poem I

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Written by: Shake_and_Jake
Category: Poetry
Created: July 7, 2010, 7:01 am
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Here upon this sorry stone
Doth I coolly claim—
A sward of grass on which to roam
And but one patch of shade.  

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The Best Idea

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Written by: bcpetrakos
Category: Poetry
Created: July 7, 2010, 6:47 am
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The best idea is laid to rest and considered daily

The best idea is hope filled and challenged it hesitates and wonders

The best idea has wings
the best idea is hiding in a shack in Bolivia
the best idea put a ring on the ankle and fell from a great height

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Ironic Epiphany

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Written by: Soulja4Alethia
Category: Poetry
Created: July 7, 2010, 4:19 am
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Well baby boi here I find myself

Less than 72 hours after my slow awakening began

An awakening catalyzed by an unlikely face

A handsome stranger

Coaxing me from my cryogenic incubator

My failing dream machine


…It’s amazing how people you may never meet in

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Stone Poem II

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Written by: Shake_and_Jake
Category: Poetry
Created: July 7, 2010, 3:14 am
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Alone here I’ve but one account
Which I need’eth to be proved:
Hath She Nature with Her Chance
Capacity for love?

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About This Wooded Path

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Written by: Shake_and_Jake
Category: Poetry
Created: July 7, 2010, 3:04 am
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About this wooded path I speak
Which roundabout makes its way
From bog to soggy riverbed
Upon which on this wooded path I sneak.

Though my shoes for trudging weren't made
Purple blossoms blushing welcome
Foreign men to native earth
Frolicking in the shifting shade. 

Low-hanging branches tempt me but I
Must

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Fingerprints

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Written by: burbuja688
Category: Poetry
Created: July 6, 2010, 5:27 pm
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We are our own fingerprints.

We're the evidence we leave behind on everything we touch

Books

Partially chewed pens and crumpled paper

Whole handprints on foreheads for those rough days.


We are everywhere even if we don't see it.

Have more affect on others than we'd like to think.

I think

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Indifferent Host

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Written by: Eric Lawson
Category: Poetry
Created: July 6, 2010, 2:05 pm
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He prances around the coffee shop
A former Adonis now disheveled
He scowls at the gathered patrons
A former celebrity now ignored
As a host he is pompously precious
if only to placate his wounded ego
The perched performers practice
covert hostility in order to gain
access to minuscule stage time
Necks twist and sore

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