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Pacifist... Poet

  March 2024     6 hours ago

Submitted Poems 10 total

Narcissus

Narcissus

You are the boy who swallowed a mirror and now
light pours from your mouth when you speak. I want
to cup my hands around your face, catch the fragments
of your kaleidoscope eyes. You say look at me and I do,
I do, until my retinas...

by Jon Saviours

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God in a Dive Bar

I've been painting
over the same canvas for years.
Red streaks,
           indigo nights,
the occasional burst of gold —
like a Jackson Pollock of the soul, if Pollock had been afraid
of his own hands.

You ask me what I do. I say, "I work."...

by Jon Saviours

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In the Republic of Silence

In our town, when the sirens bleed into dawn,
we gather fallen feathers to stuff our pillows.
Sleep, they say, is a luxury for the dead.

We are not dead. Not yet.
Our hands remember how to pray,
even when our tongues forget the taste of...

by Jon Saviours

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added 8 months ago
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Drive My Car

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by Jon Saviours

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added 4 months ago
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The Insomniac's Gospel

You say, Let's get baptized tonight.
So we do.
Outside, it's August, cicadas are humming their war songs,
You tell me, We're just stars with skin on.
I believe you because it's midnight,
September looms like a tidal wave on the horizon.
We...

by Jon Saviours

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added 5 months ago
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yeah

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not really, but the first time I won, I was notified everytime I received a vote. So I knew how many I received. I figured that's how it worked with everybody.

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go to any winning poem count the comments before someone, starts commenting congratulations. That's how you know how many votes they got. It's not a secret or rocket science

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you can count the vote once the results has been announced through the comments on the poems. Cos the votes comes as comments, it's easy.

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I didn't. I sent it in response to the message you sent me

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I sent you a message since you think I'm the culprit.

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okay

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twice in a row. although I did win three times in a row, first place, third place and then second place. Congrats again, the writing was astounding

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Congratulations, this is a beautiful piece

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Will there be a poem of the year 2024, if so when?
Just curious.

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Wonderful work. Congratulations

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Wonderful, the end is really beautiful.

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I can't stop laughing. Thank you.

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Thank you Steven, this is beautiful.
I don't know if I deserve a poem.

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glad to have been of service.

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