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Dawn Racer Je Woo Han	windshield; the car hisses, its empty ducts refusing to shed cleansing tears for troubles heard too many times...	Rate it (5.00 / 4 votes)
We Cry Together Frederick Joseph	Refusing to accept my wife’s body, As the site of such an inexplicable vanishing— A promise...	Rate it (5.00 / 4 votes)
For The Lady I Knew Who Battled Anorexia Joe Strickland	Now held tightly within its grasp, Refusing sustenance in a battle Against an unknown...	Rate it (5.00 / 3 votes)
Out of Control Ludy Bührs	Threatening and accusing Giving in or refusing It’s all just performing an act Playing the polls as...	Rate it (5.00 / 3 votes)
Shadows Within the Fluorescent Light Olivia Ritota	conformity, emotions course through my veins, refusing to be...	Rate it (5.00 / 2 votes)
A singular cup of tea Tanuja Thakur	bus stuttered and halted refusing to...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
AWAKEN mad hippie poet	awaken a sleeping dragon inside of his cave now refusing to behave and ready to spit his fire and wanting to burn the villages peoples asses he is not...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Burn Marsha Lewis	Open wounds refusing to crust over -- still so raw after days and days and days that move so...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Chasing Fiction Lawrence S. Pertillar	Accepted to suspect, Those who live refusing to be...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Crossroads of Conscience Oliver Chen	I don’t even give them the time of day, refusing them the dignity of a response As I stride firmly through the bathroom door, their whining...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Darkest of Nights Richard Groff	Eternally tormented for refusing the...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Deep Within Kurt Philip Behm	last beacon in the fight Refusing to let the darkness take —your vestige into...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Expiration date Nili Hunter	She closes her eyes when loyalty is close, Refusing to express her...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Fragile Glass Charmane Joy Belleza	The ones who hold our hearts, refusing to...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Give Me The Splendid, Silent Sun Walt Whitman	Where you hold me enchain'd a certain time, refusing to give me up; Yet giving to make me glutted, enrich'd of soul--you give me...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Glimpses Of Pleasure Before Fade Joe Strickland	Of echoes that linger, refusing to...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
If I should Cuss Lawrence S. Pertillar	While refusing to pay attention and listen, To those who also did the same thing...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Overcoming Our Struggles Lawrence S. Pertillar	Refusing to believe in the positive, Of a life they've been blessed to...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Pandemic of Pandemic! Karl Constantine FOLKES	Refusing to see the...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Sane Joe Strickland	But we keep holding on, Refusing to...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Sonnet 2: Whispers Of An Untold Love Christen Kuikoua	A flame that kindles, refusing to...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Sumplacant Inkerlings Allan Terry	He debated existence by refusing the Biblical remedy of causing fear and...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
The Epic of Gilgamesh: The Scorpion Beings Keith Lankford	Gilgamesh sat waiting where Enkidu laid still Refusing to give his friend to the land Until maggots fell from his face and his hands ...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
The foul universe Phil Roberts	The foul universe holds goodness in Refusing to let anyone escape, The clutches of the monstrous sky A universe that oozes...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
The Gladiator C. De Carvalho Fischer	Refusing the emptiness of our...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)

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