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Forget the World Amanda K lessig	Instead we keep playing the game Waiting for another...	Rate it (5.01 / 3 votes)
Waiting to Go Home Barbara Peabody Pouliot	And there I will find my heart...	Rate it (5.01 / 3 votes)
Behind the Steel Door Steven Dupere	small and unseen like two-headed monstrosities waiting for death and castration to claim what life had vomited upon the heads of judges, juries...	Rate it (5.00 / 6 votes)
Heaven's Mystique Steven Dupere	It is here I have wept, sitting in silence, waiting, watching, wondering, to find nothing but myself lost to further inquiry as a broken...	Rate it (5.00 / 5 votes)
The Lighthouse Nathaniel Hackey	I'll be waiting Look for the lights in the dark Through...	Rate it (5.00 / 5 votes)
But What Happens to the Merry? Gisela Vigil	But the cards must do the waiting, so must friends afar and...	Rate it (5.00 / 4 votes)
Dear Mom Laurel M. Lee	Life’s direction changed again- New love worth waiting...	Rate it (5.00 / 4 votes)
Dejection Rabana Akhtar	I am waiting and waiting but there is none This melancholy inflicts a severe heartburn The room is...	Rate it (5.00 / 4 votes)
My Shadow, My Friend Ammie-Marie Littke	Beyond the edges of my tomb Ever watching, waiting like a stone My shadow, my friend You know better than most In the end, it's you who...	Rate it (5.00 / 4 votes)
Patience Francelle Ortega	I was waiting for my turn to place my order Dreaming I can stay in this moment forever I just can't...	Rate it (5.00 / 4 votes)
- Cornered - Tears Of A Woman Enock Makasi	times it felt like being inside a fragile glass waiting to...	Rate it (5.00 / 3 votes)
Death Track Aniqa Muzaffar	With four daughters and one tot Waiting for the...	Rate it (5.00 / 3 votes)
Dialogue Under A Tree Je Woo Han	Dancing on beckoning branches, waiting their turn to ride the western...	Rate it (5.00 / 3 votes)
Forgive and Forget? Nathaniel Hackey	Waiting for my fall To catch me Before I can't feel at all Or will I be standing on my own...	Rate it (5.00 / 3 votes)
Identity crisis Sara Tolliday	I remain still before the storm Reluctantly waiting for the darkness Wondering how long I’ll be at peace If you’re the wind, Then I’m the...	Rate it (5.00 / 3 votes)
My Best Friend Randy West	he'll be standing there, tail wagging, waiting at that Pearly...	Rate it (5.00 / 3 votes)
One Life. Diane Hull	Your future is waiting; Build on what's...	Rate it (5.00 / 3 votes)
Referential Vadim Kagan	With Lucy’s in the skies As we were waiting for the bus Times have a-changed a-changing us Good bye and thanks for all the fuss ...	Rate it (5.00 / 3 votes)
The Fisherman Donna Simons	the woman he knows is now waiting and...	Rate it (5.00 / 3 votes)
The Oaks of Midland's Valley Gregory Baranoff	Wondering what it would be like, waiting our turn to get older Perhaps our time would come when the girl’s boarding school invited...	Rate it (5.00 / 3 votes)
Touched by an Angel Anne Marie Peacock	Like a butterfly Sipping the essence of each waiting flower Then off to discover her next...	Rate it (5.00 / 3 votes)
Walking the Razor's Edge Cameron Hardenburg	Others move so much whilst I stay still, Waiting to see those clock arms...	Rate it (5.00 / 3 votes)
10 QUESTIONS, Celina Kaminsky	tight, Do you feel like me lost in the dark just waiting to see...	Rate it (5.00 / 2 votes)
A girl in the rain Deep Bhattacharjee	fog and all those bloods that drain, waiting for you to see coming from the rain - feels in the skies, chocked in my dines, i can't...	Rate it (5.00 / 2 votes)
An Ode to the Family SUV David Lechner	while parents stayed up waiting, brought them safely...	Rate it (5.00 / 2 votes)

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