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it's easier than a month and a month — Markesh Dickinson	Looks like plastic bags. Is Windil coming back? Listen, the paper is thin Do you like karate at home? Are you buried Shouts 6 feet, but no one hears ...	22,978 views Rate it
The Bustards Egg — Longerfellow	Behind me. Frozen Military issued hands down my military issued trousers This is no military issue for me! Chew the fat (grit) of horror,...	9,222 views Rate it
I Saw Him on the Road Less Taken — Karl Constantine FOLKES	I saw him on the road less taken. The gentleman named Robert Frost. While I was frail and quite forsaken. He, most certainly, was not lost. While he...	1,676 views Rate it
The Man on Chapman Road — Maxwell Sebastian Burchett	The Man on Chapman Road by Max Burchett As I was driving the usual way, Out Chapman Road to start the day, I saw him standing there. I stopped and...	1,049 views Rate it
Behind the steel door. — A J C	Behind the steel door. As I walked into the deep forest, I could see a steel door. I was handed a skeleton key to open it. If you dare open it, you...	543 views Rate it
Unquenchable — Judah Rollins	I'm the heiress of the Alpha and Omega a omen of what's to come, I'm on set , I'm coming I'm on rush, I'm open handed , I'm the opener , I'm on...	524 views Rate it
Soldier — Steve Dupere	Thank you to the brave men and women who serve. Redemption comes and goes for the broken, A life we lived of wounds unspoken. We’ve spilled our...	507 views Rate it
Truth Falsified By Lies — Karl Constantine FOLKES	When war is waging And no one trusts each other, First casualty That aborts the hope of peace Is Truth — falsified by...	497 views Rate it
The Land of Mist — MJM Wagner	I once forsook the sun and moon, and sought the land of mist, Enchanted twice by Hermes’ boon, and by the naiads kissed. Across the opalescent sea, and...	353 views Rate it
Darkness is Not Emptiness — Adam Roy Carrigan	I like the darkness I do not need to see I am good Because I choose to be As darkness surrounds my being I know that I am not alone Forgive me for...	339 views Rate it
The Vigil — MJM Wagner	No wind stirred the skeletal branches that night, or the ground fog that lay in the hollow, And wither the leprous full moon spilled her light, did a...	333 views Rate it
A Dissonance — John M. Broadhead	I am full of love, my friend, I am so full of love. For I love my fellow people And I love the stars above And each soft and furry critter And the...	315 views Rate it
DRAWN FROM BREATH” — Christopher M.	“A SHORT TEXT: Poetry is a muscular principle — an Olympic athlete humming diligently last nights underground Jazz Blast. Stage floorboards quaking,...	307 views Rate it
Voice Of The Wind — John M. Broadhead	Young Timothy Dellman was cut at the neck As the pirates with cutlasses boarded the deck. The battle went poorly for HMS Fraught For her sails were...	265 views Rate it
To Whom It May Concern — Amanda K lessig (Sunshine)	I am writing you today for help Tried so many times to leave Only to get thrown into another shelf The physical I can tolerate Mom raised a soldier ...	263 views Rate it
War and Exile — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Exile is nice because you get boiled rice. Ackee and salt fish make a good dish. Breadfruit and banana which have iron make you fit to fight a lion....	218 views Rate it
As If Children Were Out of Fashion — Ruth Mahogany	As if children send us a message before they are conceived and born, With words so eloquently formed, Beseeching "I want to born, I want to be born" ...	211 views Rate it
IT WAS YOU — Mary Jane Trujillo	IT WAS YOU I just got tired Tired of the bruises Tired of all the makeup Makeup that didn't work To cover up This is my fault So I have to cover...	185 views Rate it
Perfect Father's Day By Astghick Moradkhanians — Astghick Moradkhanians	In the legacy of my father, I received instructions! It indicates not silver;. Take the hold of this instructions; Fear the Lord ;...	183 views Rate it
I Heard the Creep — Dante Unknown	There it is, the slightest shuffle, I know I've heard it albeit muffled. It must be the creep. I know he's here. He's never far, and now he's near. ...	169 views Rate it
The Silencer — JUDITH MEADE	Exhume my buried heart from the valley of despair. For the dust which I came from I have returned. Due to the madness of a demon, it buried me alive...	159 views Rate it
I hate cilantro — Kiley McIntyre	Dark herb cilantro Slithers through my burrito If only I...	158 views Rate it
Insomniac Slumber — JESUS BETANCOURT	I keep dreaming I'm awake Clock on the wall loudly ticking My image in a mirror makes me shake Sweat on my brow constantly trickling Propped up in a...	155 views Rate it
Willow Wind — RENOIR	Today I sat under the power line, a hum shrieked through my bones and it was… Entrancing. I could close my eyes, hear whispers, and know that I was...	142 views Rate it
No One Is Sleeping — Karl Constantine FOLKES	Myanmar at war. The junta shows no mercy. The nation...	142 views Rate it

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