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Shadows Within the Fluorescent Light Olivia Ritota	, something that eludes the mundane grasp of this stifling...	Rate it (5.00 / 2 votes)
Impermanence Abhijit Chatterjee	In that stifling embrace of the majestic demiurge As it strangled Gaia of her life, the stubborn ice thawed,...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
My Heart is Hollow Eden J	my kitchen floor in the last hours of evening, stifling my sobs Knife in hand, ready to blame myself for all I starve in an attempt to die slowly...	Rate it (5.00 / 1 vote)
Smoke John M. Broadhead	That stifling smell informed by visc’ral visions my mind’s eye: The bodies burning here were those of souls...	Rate it (4.83 / 6 votes)
At His Feet tanyas.74554	Darkness, torment, chains and stifling heat, Her baby gone, oh how she did...	Rate it (3.50 / 2 votes)
12-9-2022 Jordan Goodwin	Stifling myself until emotion clears, For I would bottle up the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Leave-Taking Algernon Charles Swinburne	Deep down the stifling lips and drowning hair, She would not...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Voice From The Factories Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton	A double curse of stifling withering heat; For them no flowers spring up, no wild bird sings, No moss-grown walks...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
A Wasted Illness Thomas Hardy	And hammerings, And quakes, and shoots, and stifling hotness, blent With webby waxing things and waning things As on I...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
After the Interval Boris Pasternak	Like snow-drifts hindering and stifling And half the winter had gone by, Against all hopes, in petty...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Airing Out Arthur Weil	To let the cool, clean air in Or the stifling, stale air out Sometimes the brisk draft is uncomfortable Depending on which way the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Alton Locke's Song Charles Kingsley	wasted moor and fen, Feverous alley, stifling den, Swells the wail of Saxon men-...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Among the Hills John Greenleaf Whittier	best room Stifling with cellar damp, shut from the air In hot midsummer, bookless, pictureless, Save the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Babel: The Gate Of The God Gordon Bottomley	Within the dark and stifling walls, dissent From every sound, and shoulder empty hods: 'The god's great altar should stand...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Black and White Samuel Roberts	This stifling muck until it stalls, restless and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
chasing Elysium Parvani Balaraja	tendrils of society stifling a child’s fantasies ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Cito Pede Preterit Aetas Adam Lindsay Gordon	What anodyne drawn from the stifling town Can be reckon'd a fair exchange For the stalker's stride, on the mountain side In the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Control Will Take a Soul Omajean Lewis	Once delicate and sweet, No more stifling of my life, Chrushed beneath one's...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Cox's River Andy Pike	That summer brings the stifling heat with a punch packed to deliver, As the trout they lay and the willows sway, along that...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Culturally Arrogant Haiku Pearcemelville	amidst a mist of extraneous syllables stifling sense of meaning it wanders into an oblivion of obvious and overstated ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Dawn Arthur Henry Adams	And down into the fœtid, stifling vault of Night The naked corpse of Dawn is lowered, grey and...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Dead Men Tell No Tales Haniel Long	Except old tales that burn away The stifling tapestries of...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Despair Mathilde Blind	And hem me round with stifling solitude, With chasms of vacuous bloom which are thy...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Dusk Reiko Marrs	Stifling the skylight above...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Enniskillen Alice Guerin Crist	But the air was stifling close and strange With a scent of smoke from the burning range, And I prayed for Danny,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)