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Why I fear to sleep — Hayley Kristine Miller	I wonder why I don't go to bed and wander off to sleep. But something clicks in my mind that it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how...	13 views Rate it
Someone Like You — GetMeOrForgetMe	I prayed I'd find Someone Like You Strong and true But you I never knew Would be the one Who would undo What was done Unbreak what...	13 views Rate it
Black Walnut Folk Group. Kitchener — Wayne Blair	Been bound by COVID Three years now Nasty bastardly FEAR. Now back on track Coffee at the back. Run by some animated souls Bettering the goals. ...	13 views Rate it
Convincingly (like baseball) — Wayne Blair	Not my job to Turn you around Show you the Light Tonight. Holy Spirit must show up Or there is no game No fateful pitch No high fly. No others...	13 views Rate it
Oh, Where The River Flows — Adam Long	Oh, Where The River Flows Does it flow, near or far It flows through land and trees of bark Though it's not deep And really not all that steep It's...	13 views Rate it
The beach — Rose	Next to a yellow beach, there's the sea. On the sea, the sun sets, and the clouds are all red. I love the sea the same as you. That is why i am here...	13 views Rate it
Whispers — MeaCulpa	Trembling in cold, the forest kept immersing me As the wind flew through my hair, I heard the noises in the air. They were singing to the rain, ...	13 views Rate it
The Curtains of Solomon — Jamal Upshaw	for the glory of our blackness to fulfill our destiny as beautiful as the curtains of Solomon expressed in our skin color as free as the wind look...	13 views Rate it
If I Marry A Poetess — Abas Obot	If I marry a poetess, I would be so glad, To turn my heart into a parchment, And make my blood her ink, I would give her some roses to beautify her lines,...	13 views Rate it
Reality? — Kelsey Malley	Mountains in the distance, make me contemplate my...	13 views Rate it
THE CALLING — Angela Highberg	THE CALLING So Alone, Beneath the Darkness, What is this Feeling For, My Ghost Gain on me, A Plague of Memories, Dying for Your Touch, To Only...	12 views Rate it
To the silent Night! — Ravi Panamanna	Thee, a sleeping beauty – across the blues and over the endless dales, Mountains and on the lap of gentle winds! Night! Thee, a soulful song – of...	12 views Rate it
Love hurts — Amanda Lee Hancock	Love hurts it really fucking does. Love burns it really fucken hurts. I will only marry someone if I die in a black hearse. Life became too...	12 views Rate it
The Princess And The Pirate — Mark Spencer	Dear grandson let me read a tale! Of love lost 'neath a pirate's sail! Or so young Buttercup believed, Based on the message she received! But time...	12 views Rate it
A time — John Livingstone	I remember a time when we couldn’t keep our hands off each other. I remember a time when we couldn’t sleep without one another. I remember a time when...	12 views Rate it
danger intolerance — Verey Ayat	the times i sneakily hide in places-that i have built for myself long ago. and while my body is still here my soul will quickly disappear ...	12 views Rate it
NUMB — Arushi Mishra	I don't feel it anymore And it scares me. Loneliness, once a familiar companion, Now absent, and it worries me. I don't seek this absence of...	12 views Rate it
A note from our heart — Ravi Panamanna	Upon these dales We were one feather, On a long flight being together, In search of grains of life. Upon these branches We were one long chirp, ...	12 views Rate it
AUTUMN LEAVES — JOE M. HIX	There Is No Wonder Like A Book To Take Us Far Away -- Except The Fall of Autumn Leaves And All Their Mystery They Filter Down & Fall Around And Blow...	12 views Rate it
SIKLAB (FIRE WITHIN), A poem for Susan Li — GunsLaput9305	SIKLAB (FIRE WITHIN) A Poem for Susan Li Like a ferocious but majestic thundering, my heart beats; Like The Abyss, There is no searching Like the...	12 views Rate it
A narration — Seema Tabassum Ali	Pitter,Patter everywhere Kittens everywhere They succumb to fear Tantrums and infedility sneers I wakeup and I am 19 Tumultuously I gather pace I...	12 views Rate it
Without Limit. But not into hyper-faith. Beckoning God as delivery boy. — Wayne Blair	Without Limit You came in time yes just in time and ransomed my poor being I knew that blood as cleansing flood had offered hopeful seeing. a...	12 views Rate it
An enlightenment's array — Clifford Faulk	Closed eyes are not blind for they see within, Blind eyes are bright for they are the light, Good habits are true for they let life, Whilst hold...	12 views Rate it
Those days — YukthaNayana Nyapathi	thought who you were? this you was not the you there. for sure i can say siting at the shiny bay, those days all were so well- tinkling with the...	12 views Rate it
Growing Up — Akash	From the pencils to the pen And no more that adventurous den All I have is a question that it happens when. A question ponders at my head Is this...	12 views Rate it

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