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Exempt

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Written by: Sophiraness
Category: Poetry
Created: July 6, 2010, 8:37 am
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Pretty young woman
I’d like to know:
What are you doing-
You’ve watched the show
And decided you’re losing
So used to hearing negatives and no
You’ve spent your whole life proving
Earning more value than you’ve been told
Then settling for less being tired of moving

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Control

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Written by: Sophiraness
Category: Poetry
Created: July 6, 2010, 8:35 am
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Here’s Me
Shaking with the need
To let go of this anxiety

Promise the reigns of control
All for me to soothe with ease

What bitterness is this-
What awareness is this-
What need is this –

To control the little world within my view
To

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Rancid

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Written by: Sophiraness
Category: Poetry
Created: July 6, 2010, 8:34 am
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Im mad at myself for feeling this feel that I feel
And mad that these feelings translate into
Something other than real

Its really not a big deal I tell myself
While watching my haphazard descent
Into madness wipe away any joy or gladness

And then I envy tunes

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Mother

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Written by: ugwerks
Category: Poetry
Created: July 6, 2010, 2:58 am
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The verbal scowls

And incessant harping

Didn’t trouble him

Nearly so much

As the sound of

Her fingernail voice

Marring the lacquer

Of his well-rubbed

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Dali's Tears (Ekphrastic Poem)

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Written by: grunfruaorshell
Category: Poetry
Created: July 5, 2010, 1:07 pm
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Does it not drip for her as tears turn to blood?

Red would be the better hue

Don't you think Sal...then this dreamy blue?

Being quite literal with your grief's flood.

Perhaps I am too much of a cynic to believe

That your love is now a wave

Crashing upon the shore of her grave

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Dirty Water and Other Mental Obstacles

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Written by: Eric Lawson
Category: Poetry
Created: July 5, 2010, 12:45 pm
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We fill our canteens to their brims
We all take long refreshing gulps
One by one
We all spit the dirty water out
There isn't another village for miles
Miles away
Miles Davis plays in my mind
Mindful of the scorching sun
I sit and simmer in the shade
Where am I now?
India? Kashmir?

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Living with Ghosts

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Written by: Eric Lawson
Category: Poetry
Created: July 5, 2010, 12:42 pm
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This house is older than anyone alive
though we try to keep it up well
It tells me secrets in the night
The wind rustles the shutters
The floorboards sometimes creak
The soft earth shifts beneath it
while I lay still but am moved
There are ghosts in the corners
There are stories in every

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Gun to the Sky

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Written by: Eric Lawson
Category: Poetry
Created: July 5, 2010, 12:40 pm
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Fed up with this frustration
Living on a dead end street
I can't abide this rat race life
Brake into my neighbor's
basement shelter at night
Steal his old machine gun
I go deep into the woods
I lift the gun to the sky
I fire round after round
Scream for answers
From President
From

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Calm.

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Written by: Regbi23
Category: Poetry
Created: July 4, 2010, 1:53 pm
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I hold my hands over my eyes and think

What to do how to act

And answers lye hidden on the narrow path.

I see bright lights

They illuminate an ocean of fear dread

All piled up within

Nowhere to hide.

As if I cannot breath

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Meditation

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Written by: Regbi23
Category: Poetry
Created: July 2, 2010, 1:58 pm
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A strange dreamless night passed

I felt engulfed in a sea of memories

That day I opened my eyes to seek out something

I saw glass mountains and meadows great meadows of stampeding brightly colored elephants

Wild excitement scribbled upon a child’s face.

At night listening

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The Vision

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Written by: Regbi23
Category: Poetry
Created: July 2, 2010, 9:41 am
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It appeared to me in a dream

What was it who knows?

Behind its hideous mask the soul of the creature arose

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The Dream

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Written by: Regbi23
Category: Poetry
Created: July 2, 2010, 9:32 am
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And the land wept in grief.

For he who loved it most was no more

The land did not flourish nor did it swell like she who would give birth

He was not

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