Updated December 2, 1999
I'm Thankful on Thanksgiving
By Craig
Landers
I'm thankful today for so many things, the most of which is you,
you make my life special each day, I hope you know this is true!
So on this Thanksgiving day, though we're so many miles apart,
as morning, noon and nighttime come, you're always in my heart!
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These Days
Robert Gallant
These days are crisp..
These November days are
very enchanting.
Snow paints the surrounding earth,
the air is cold and bare.
My breath takes shape.
My hands hibernate.
These days are all
I ever wanted.
Christmas is hiding around
the corner.
I can hear it, I can
feel it roaming up my body...
...chasing the bad energy out,
cleansing me for the new year.
These days hold a lot
of memories...
Many milestones celebrate
anniversaries during this
time of the year.
I can sit on the windowsill,
completely protected from the outside,
and let the magic of November
pollute my eyes and my heart.
Hot chocolate, Mittens,
Toques, Winter Jackets,
Boots, Snow Sleds, Honest Walks
and a chance to own everything....
...these days are what I live for.
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Raindrops
Wendee White
Raindrops falling against the wind,
like the tears on her soft pale skin.
Her lonely heart set afire,
Filled of her only hearts desire;
To be with him the one she loves.
Where once was high is now below.
Raindrops falling on shattered glass,
as she conceals what is left of her past.
Sometimes "it is over" is hard in taking,
hoping and praying it was love they were making.
Now it is over; no more pain, no more grief.
No more anger, sorrow, or disbelief.
For now the love that they once shared,
is in the raindrops in which she stared.
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Christmas eve
Lily McCutchan
Driving today
In the cold and bleak winter rain
I saw an old woman selling roses by the side of the road;
so frail and sad
that I hated the heat that blew
warm and bitter against my cheeks.
And I was sickened to the core of my being
by everything I'd taken for granted
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You are there for me through good and bad,
I kind of think of you like my dad.
You bring me fishing in the spring,
and try to teach me everything.
I try to do the things that you say,
but when I fail you say, "thats ok".
Hunting and fishing are the things you like to do,
you also enjoy playing horseshoes.
You and your truck have been everywhere,
you two make a good pair.
I know how to drive a stick shift thanks to you,
is there anything that you don't know how to do?
You helped me buy my new Grand Am,
and I always think it's funny when you say "damn".
We have had a lot of fun,
but it has only just begun.
bmr
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A Pale Gold Flower
You brought me into the light
taught me how to love the mad life
made me a slave of your spiritual, magic smile
ethereal creature to the writer's discerning eye.
You danced with the tragedy of my heart,
kissed my pain with crystal tears,
burned my body with your heavenly lips,
perfect beauty to the jealous eye of the moon.
You cried when my soul fought with the fire
and turned the flames in ocean's waves.
You laughed when my hands admired your face
and made me the God's own mad lover.
Pale, gold flower upon a slender stem.
Sidorela Risto
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TO JACKIE WITH LOVE
IF EVER YOU WALK
THRU THE HOT SUMMER SAND
ALONG THE BEAUTIFUL BEACHES
OF GOD'S WONDERFUL LAND
ENJOY THE SALT WATER
WITH YOUR FREEDOM AT HAND
AND FEEL THE WARM SUNLIGHT
AS IT TANS YOUR PALE SKIN
APPRECIATE THE SEA
AND LET IT'S SPIRIT IN
FOR THIS IS BUT A GIFT
A PRECIOUS LOAN
FROM GOD
TO MAN
BIRDIE LACOMBE
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THE BOY IN MY LIFE
Calia Scott
Your warm breath in my hair
As I cradle you in my arms
You are all my missing parts
You fill my void of loneliness
When I saw you, that day in May
It was love at first sight
I didn't plan on this love
But now it's here and
I'll never wish it away
You are so soft, warm
Fill my heart with joy and love
To think I almost gave you up
My sweet baby boy
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My Place
CATommyGL
I want to find my place
In this great human race.
I want to make myself a name
And never will I lay
blame.
I have dreams of the future
To which I must
nurture.
The world stands ahead
To which i need not be led.
I'll never look back
Even when my world turns
black.
For without you I'll go on
And I'll take with me my
education.
I'll be the best I can be
Without the fear of just
being me.
Don't you worry, I'll find my way
I'll take the path
less traveled today.
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Hypocricy
Brandy Seem
I hear my mo in my ear talkin' about, I need to be an
independent woman,
never worked a day in her life.
I hear my dad, sayin, "work hard, set goals, so you
ain't like me, sweat
on your brow for someone else's
crust.
I hear my sister sayin' "I need a role model.",
but if I were her, would I
look up to me? I don't think
that I would.
I hear my teacher's sayin I need an education, try to get
one, but the
people around me just won't shut up.
I hear my cousin sayin' "Prison's hard, you gotta
wake up." Eighteen months
maybe this time.
I hear Mr. Preacherman, talkin' out his neck, sayin' I
need religion.
Maybe he should practice what he
preaches.
I hear Jerry sayin' "You have to love other's before
you can love yourself."
Yeah, right, and his ratings
really come from people loving each other.
I hear them sayin' "Can't you hear me?" Hear,
yeah, I hear. Maybe I just
don't listen.
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IRISH HOPE .
IAN.S.HOWARTH
SHATTERED GLASS AND BUCKLED STEEL ,
BUSTED BRICK , A FORD ESCORT WHEEL .
THE ODD FLICKERING FLAME , DARTING AROUND ,
AND LOTS OF RUBBLE , UPON THE GROUND .
A PERFECT SILENCE , FALLS ON THE STREET ,
FOR THOSE WHO ARRIVE , WHAT A SIGHT TO MEET .
BROKEN BODIES , A TWISTED MASS ,
A FACELESS CHILD , IT'S A WEE YOUNG LASS .
A BLOOD SPLATTERED PRAM , IN THE ROAD ,
WARNINGS CAME TOO LATE , WITHOUT A CODE .
THEN IN THE DARKNESS , SOMEONE SCREAMS ,
THEY'LL SURVIVE , OR SO IT SEEMS .
AMBULANCES ARRIVE AND THE FIRE BRIGADE ,
THE STREET WILL TAKE MONTHS , TO BE REMADE .
IT'S THE DEAD AND MAIMED , WE HAVE TO THINK ABOUT ,
WE'LL REMEMBER THEM , WITHOUT A DOUBT .
THESE SENSELESS KILLINGS , WILL NOT BRING PEACE ,
THIS MEANINGLESS VIOLENCE , MUST NOW CEASE .
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Happy Irish Independence Day! Yesterday!
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Watching Mason Play
Brenda Vanderford, copyright
1998
From the kitchen window,
Between dusty curtains,
I watch you playing in the yard,
Pockets full of Boy Treasures,
Hair full of sunshine and sweat.
My heart beats double-
Once in love, once in envy.
Tell me what it is you see,
As you lie on your belly
And watch ants march over dandelions.
Help me to remember how it felt,
To see the world from three feet high,
Down there, where magic is legal tender,
And God wears work boots,
And carries a tin lunchbox.
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I'm going to try to do nothing at all
to quit trying to think
Of words of and of rhymes to please your heart
of things that upset me.
My garrulous chatter means nothing to you
and my love for you means less.
You think I'm incapable of anything at all...
But you tell your friends I'm blessed.
Teyie
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LISTEN
By: A.Cox
I don't understand,
why you do the things you do.
This has never happened before,
it's all completely new.
I wish you would just listen,
that's all I really ask.
Is that too much to do,
is it that hard of a task?
I swear that you don't hear,
a single word I say.
I wish that you would listen,
or please just go away.
You don't understand me,
you don't even try.
What is it I have to do,
for you to tell me why?
Could you just take a minute,
to try to understand?
Listen to a friend in need,
or lend a helping hand.
From this moment on you remember this,
and soon you will see.
What is really happening here,
and know it's not just me.
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You are Different from the Rest
By Missy
Groll
You stuck with me
when the going was tough
warded off my fears
and comforting my cries
You never left my side
when I was scared or alone
what makes you the way you are
why are you so good to me
Its all in your heart
everything you do
everything you think
and what makes you different
from all the rest
is all too easy to see
You took me under you wings
when everyone else turned away
your deep brown eyes
full of sympathy
sympathy that needs not be given
but yet you still do
You believe in me
and never let me fail
you tell me everything will be all right
for some reason you care
when no one else does
And for all the things you've done
all the words in the world
could never express
my gratitude and gratefulness
to have someone like you in my life
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They're Falling Apart
Jess Wilder
I miss them,
I need them,
I wanna see them
They're the best,
They're nothin less
Than what the best can be.
When times go bad,
And ne f us is sad,
We're there for each other alwayz.
But thingz are changing.
They're falling apart.
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A Young Mistress to Her Aged Lover
Danielle
Laliberte
Here we kneel
before the Alter
your hand in mine and
my hand in thine.
I am virgin grapes
still ripening
on the
vine,
You, my love,
are vintage
wine.
Come now, ye workers
of the vine
and harvest me
that I may become
wine
And we may
no longer toil
over sands of time.
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Untitled~
Brandi
I'm gonna love you forever
through good times and bad
through happy or sad
and my love for you will grow and grow,
that's something I want you to know.
But when my tears fall from anger and trust
I know I'll still love you
in fact I know I must.
I hope we'll be always be together now and forever,
get through the tears and through the strain,
because even loving you causes me pain.
You don't mean to hurt me,
or even make me cry,
But sometimes you always know I do,
and still later ask me why!
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~*Stolen*~
Ellie B
Maybe its your smile
Maybe its your laugh
But whatever it is
It makes my heart beat fast
Maybe its your mysterious eyes
Or maybe its your love for art
But for some reason
Its ripping me apart
Maybe it's the way you look
Across the room at me
Maybe it's the silence
That comes when we're apart
But now I know for sure
That whatever it is
Has stolen away my heart.
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Fishbowl
sfonline
There you are, I can see you clearly.
One thing that I love so dearly.
Do you know how you are taunting me?
On the outside looking at you.
Seeing what I need, but unable to grab you.
What I hate, I must push through.
Final piece to the puzzle, brings the rest into play.
All that I need, so close yet so far away.
Reaching into what I despise.
Taking away the thing which I need to stay alive.
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wind blows shut the door,
i rise and sulk over
to
close it once more.
injektilo
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life is a bunch of dragons
life is dragons
life is both
dragons are humans
humans are dragons.
chantelle tate
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park scene
sweet smell of pine trees
mayas on the benches
smooth sailing frozen breeze
on the soft green green grasses.
a beautiful collegiala
sipping a cheap cold soda...
too soon the fog will fall
witness only by mossy wall.
HARNIFER LUMANOG VALERIO
november 23,1999
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your luxury
-sherri laponsie
the wind swirls around the leaves
snow is coming so everyone believes
a text with a meaning no one knows
wipe it away and what shows?
see the sunset, such a beautiful sunset
the clouds pose as a slightest threat
i am you and you are me
so let it go and let it be
you are leaves, i am the wind
i want you so bad, oh lord have i sinned?
who is a luxury? i can be yours
when it rains it definitely pours
the sands of time run slowly
the sacred light i hold so holy
you are time, you make me whole
i paid the price, while you catch my soul
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HEAVEN
KATIE SAFFIOTI
Life is short, make it the best,
you let the days go, then notice the rest,
you look at your life, its down a hill,
you try n pull it up with all your will,
you try n try, until you just die,
you notice the world you left goodbye,
your now in a world where the sun always shines,
and everything seems to be just fine,
you never knew of a place so great,
without the pain and without the hate,
this is the place that you've wanted to see,
this is the place where you've always wanted to be.
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Wings Of An Ice Cube
By ashley evanik
This game you play and I know why
starts the hurt from inside
Under which i toss my head that shows I feel
and pain is real
You will say things that will be done
What if your life was nothing but a gun
Will you know what to say if you die
Would you say good bye or hi
or if you live to 101
Will you think your life is fun
I've never really found eternal peace
Just broken pieces at my feet
Will you help me when I die
Will you cry and wonder why
When this flesh touches flesh
Is it of perfect mesh
But when your heart has said its in woe
All reality begins to slow
Technical life and under the hood
On a down town love or in my wood
things come within this feeling of gay
which straps me down and rapes the day
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Storm
JOSHCID
As the midnight lord draws overhead in a cloud of darkness
I hear his booming laughter shaking the land
I see his long fingers raping the city
His omnipresence scares children and animals
But as quickly as he came this demon of the night
He leaves to terrorize another region
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Princess Misery
Sarah A. Haynes
My body is weak and left behind .....the shattered door of dreams
I carry with me, for eternity, an image of Hostility
I'm burned inside deep down inside because of mistaken trust
Soon though I will become alive again when my body turns whole to dust
I say I strive...I say I'm here... to conquer the world ahead
But I'm withered and weak
And again yet I speak...Of only the peaceful dead
My soul was lost years behind
Soon after I learned to speak
It was taken from me a thousand times...
By obedient misery
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---Dying Star---+
-Thomas Russell Giboney
Somewhere in the distance, out of sight, in the night
Moved with ease through the weeds and reached a tree which it held tight
Little squirrel scurried up, and up, till at last it was out of sight
How bright the field looked, on this full moon & starry night
My thoughts drifting towards a shooting star and it's rewards
Some wish I can wish to help rid me of my bore
Thinking still I glanced uphill and laid eyes on a wonderful surprise
A streak of light preceded by a bright ball lit up the surrounding skies
Quickly my thoughts changed to find a way to rearrange
My status of single on this last star's twinkle, for someone with love to exchange
I've been alone so long singing my sad, sad song, praying to god for a companion
Just want to experience love from around and above, filling my hearts deep canyon
Grant me this wish, someone to hug and kiss, someone to watch over me
Happiness can not be bought, and neither can love be caught don't you agree
Love is a gift for the caring and lately I've been failing to be the kind person inside
But the life I have reflects it bad, and so I must rise above and not cower and hide
Sweet star, you have blessed me with your presence and your sweet luminescence
And now I feel alive and free lost in the starry expanse I see feeling your lost essence
Be on your way now and I don't know how but I'll manage another day
Maybe my wish won't come tomorrow but I'm positive all my sorrow isn't here to stay
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THE DAYS YOU ARE GONE
WILLIAM SMITH
A soft kiss
A gentle touch
I will miss
Cause I love you so much
I'm speaking from my aching heart
The one you held
And promised to never break apart
I'll always remember the good times we had
Even though most of time it was bad
That just made me love you more and more
I'll try to sleep when you leave
But the heart break i'll receive
I'll shed tears and release my pain
I just hope I don't become insane
I'll cry because I miss you
I miss your soft kiss
Your gentle touch
God, I love you so much
I miss you
Come back to me baby
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When winter first begins to bite
He sits alone on his seat of stone
Losing all but heart and head
Not knowing what will happen next
There was a time
When the world was young
And the grass was green
And the leaves were long
But then the blood of man was mingled
With the blood of a wild beast
teeze
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Morning after Saturday Night
by Nicole
Kleppinger
Scattered loneliness I know all too well.
In this time, in this place, the world
is a bitter bale, and no
solace of a loving embrace will
be mine any time soon.
I have seen the fires, the raging twilight that
exists in everyone but me, and
I ache with the knowledge
that I am not able to love.
These modern courting rituals leave
me feeling lost, with gross
older men that gyrate against my body
with their hot flesh trying to press
inside of me. Physical, sexual, non-
committal shit is what I say.
No, I'm not angry.
No, I'm not scared.
I am alone, trying to find my way
to a world with sweet winds
or white puffy dandelion heads that I can
blow and separate into their own worlds.
We live as these weeds do, thrust together
for some reason, by chance, by fate, by accident
and something eventually blows us to our own
lives. Life, with true living,
awaits me.
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"Child"
Jenifer Lynn Maroney
The lucid strength I had melted...melted...melted...melted
The glass tears I cried fell to the earth and shattered
I ran for the rainbows end...never finding the gold
I found nothing...nothing but you
your strength
your love
my only desire
I broke your concrete world
I gained myself...the self you had showed me to be
happy
Happy- I was until you took my glass kingdom and burned it to the ground
You buried your past in my consoling arms...taking everything I had to offer
You packed up your clothes
You packed up your desire to love me...and disappeared
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LET LOVE FLOW
BY LW AKA PP
THOUGHTS OF YOU RUN THROUGH MY MIND
OH HOW I WISH I WERE KEEPER OF TIME
I WOULD BRING BACK YESTERDAY
AND KEEP YOU HERE SO WE COULD PLAY
I HAVE THESE MEMORIES OF YOU IN MY HEAD
MY DARLING WITHOUT YOU I AM DEAD
I FEEL YOUR WARMTH INSIDE OF ME
FOR MY LOVE I TRULY SEE
HOLD ME CLOSE DON'T LET ME GO
JUST LET YOUR LOVE SLOWLY FLOW
WITH YOU ALL IS SOOTHING
THERE IS NO MORE CHOOSING
LIKE A FLOWER I AM READY TO GROW
I JUST WANT TO LET MY LOVE FLOW
WITH YOU I WILL ALWAYS WIN
IT HAPPENED ALL ON OCTOBER 10.
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Prayer For My Daddy
Misha Larrison
My body is covered with scars
Yet you cannot see
Invisible to the eye
Yet they are a part of me- my life history
Stuggles come and go
But He will never leave my side
Though I cry out at night and feel out of control
I know it's His plan
His love will make me whole
Wondering at times how I'll ever make it through
I open my eyes to see Him ever new
Reaching His hand out to pull me up
Crying for my heart to be broken for Him
So I'm broken tonight and fall to my knees
Crying to out to You, rid me of this disease
How could I be so blind
I can't walk this path alone
It's only through You
That I can be brought home
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AESTHETICS
to Shakespeare, Poe, Blake Byron, and
Rubén Darío.
CARLOS GARAY del MORAL
I sing the aesthetic afternoons
a coloured light mint imagined by me,
Lo! a meridional sun, a spike of rays,
the sense of Life and Poetry
that landscape it is. No time and away.
Otherwise inner my mind Sees
Alas! wearied my spirit and soul
by some strange and Deepest Hearts
talking words unspoken and dark
under a pallid moon,
as a black living lake
of corruption and desire, all dammed,
in the shadow and dim of their thoughts
were neither God nor heaven
have ever been or a place taken,
and thereafter, a fight against pain,
like a sorrow chanted before
in a Rubén Darío's Poem.
Oh Lord!, remain ASTHENIA (*), remain!
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golden boy
by wendy k. sanders
moons bound by the force
we separated rejoined
love
is the healer.
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The Last Good Bye.
tj Grider
When our last good bye came.
I knew this was no more a game.
No more hopes to make things right.
This was going to be our last night.
I couldn't make things up to you.
There was nothing else I could do.
I could only cry.
And, wish that was not our last good bye.
There was not more gleam in your eyes.
As days passed you by.
I guess we grew apart.
But, you stole my heart.
Our love grew old.
At times it even seemed cold.
I only wanted us to last.
But, now I'm just apart of your past.
Our loved died.
When nether one of us even tried.
We let it slip away.
Little by little everyday.
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PAIN
jester
The pain I suffer everyday touches me inside
It digs and bites and keeps me down
I hold it back as long as I can
It fights harder than I can
I push and shove to make it stop
My only relief is sleep
No thinking just sleep
It damages my conscience
I try to work it out I try to remove it from me
The pain just comes and never stops
When I see her I can't control it I define my feelings and try to stop them
It doesn't work it just hits me harder
I can't let it go she means too much
I loss myself in it I waste away and crash to the surface
My barriers are gone it comes full force
I let it come I let some go
Some just stays and brings me down
Down Down Down
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I need to leave this place
if only in my mind
escape without a trace
allow me to unwind
a place where I can go
and sort out all my thoughts
a place where I can show
my plannings and my plots
no one else can see my finds
so hidden from the view
you see its all within my mind
behind my eyes of blue
so if you need to leave
a place to go unwind
just sit back and relax
and travel in your mind
ole obrian
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Liar you proclaim
then Liar you become.
Lies you can't contain
once the word 'liar' leaves your tongue.
grantonio
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Sun Glare
Corey Waller
Sun glare in my eyes
as I begin to cry
sing me a song
write the wrong
Sun glare in my eyes
as you say goodbye
a picture you can draw
catch me when I fall
Sun glare in my eyes
as you tell me lies
Tell me a story---so
I will no longer worry
Sun glare in my eyes
blonde hair blue cries
Remember the face---so
I can return to this place
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This nagging itch
stings like a doctor's stitch
fist clenched--
pulsating veins--
can't complain
keeps me sane
a place I go where no one
knows my name
I can dance
I can sing
pain and tears
slipping away
swimming, burning
twisting, turning
Half naked memories
chant through my mind--
without pulling a tear
from my eye....
illskin
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BELIEF
By Dawne M Evans
His tongue lashed out cries,-
those words hid-
behind open truth.
His kiss burned-
fire from his lips,
slowly,-
as paraffin drips.
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TEAR DROPS
By Nancy Applegate
I was sitting in the dark finding tear drops
falling down my face why oh why does love
have to be this way.
For this love between you and me has to be
set free.
These tear drops are for the warm arms around
me that are not there now.
These tear drops are for the sweet kiss
that are kissing someone else.
These tear drops are for the lonely nights
with out you.
These tear drops are for all the I love you's
that you say to your new love.
I felt myself crying in my sleep this is why
I wrote tear drops.
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Love is the greatest power,
greater than can be thought of.
Nothing can come between
2 people being in love.
They share the same feelings,
they share the same vows.
But when it comes to honesty,
It is something they can do without.
But yet the truth needs to be told,
honestly to their partner.
But after the lies has been unfold,
the lies they would prefer.
The honesty break their hearts,
The honesty break their hopes.
But mostly the memories that they share together,
Blows up in smokes.
eandres
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SET FREE
Katie Friedmann
Geek to freak is what I want to be
looking at you looking back at me
listening to my every word
making you understand all the pain inside
just letting it out letting the world see me inside out
the cheer of the crowd is what i need
hit the first riff and i'm set free
now your in my world were pain and suffering is god
how does it feel now that pain is your god?
feel the pain run throw your veins
the only thing that can set you free is the lose of reality
For these few minutes we can hide
and forget the pain from the outside
this is the only world where you can survive
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The days that seem to be so long, The night's that are just to short
you never thought it could be this way until the word love came in
and decided to abort
The confusing words of wisdom, that never seem to help
The never ending sorrow of no freedom and knowing that he never felt
All the times that I have cried, because he was never there, and never know if he loved you or if he took life just as it was dealt.
I hate you for never saying it the simple sentence called
You know!!! the one that means i love you
But most of all that I hate you for,
Is never being true
Mandy sue
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BROKEN HEART
M.Selby-Brown
Many hurtful words were spoken, can't turn back hearts have been broken.
Sadness takes over my soul. "Does your love come with a toll?"
What will I be but empty, blinded by this love I cannot see.
Feeling stranded without your touch, alone with the loss of so much.
Tears overcome my eyes and heart. All of my wishes have come apart.
Life consists of many ups and downs, with every turning point coming round.
I weaken in strength every day, my simple dream asks you only to stay.
You will never ever see me crying, but inside I am slowly dying.
I pretend I don't need you each time that I see you.
Only realizing my dream has ended, with a pain in my heart that can't be mended.
A ache deep inside the pain so real. "Do you hurt the same, how do you feel?"
Emotions ran wild, we set each other free. Holding each other is were I long to be.
Lonely, and broken my world seems to crumble. But love is blind so through life we all stumble.
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Roses
John Leibniz
Roses they cover me
The smell intoxicates me
But they all turn to orchids
As I slowly begin to wither and die
Lay me in the ground
A place for me to rest
As I feed off of the earth
And the earth she feeds off of me
Alone but not lonely
Mother Earth she caresses me
She strokes my hair gently
As if somehow to reassure me
Relax sweet child
Poor lost restless soul
For the spring is drawing near
The seeds of hope lay buried with you
Finally spring arrives
The ground begins to soften
Moisture trickles through the soil
It washes my sins away
Roses they cover me
The smell intoxicates me
No more orchids to steal their scent
I am home now mother I am home
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A Familiar Face
ajay
I'm standing in a place I know very well
yet I feel lost
I don't know where I'm going or where I've even been
I don't know who I can trust
I feel distant from all the people around
All the familiar faces are starting to disguise
I'm trying to clear all these events out of my mind
When I don't think I can take anymore
Out of the crowd comes a familiar face to see me through
What will happen when the familiar face doesn't come
What will happen to me
Will it be my end
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Sleep With Me
by Amy Vallis
I can't sleep tonight
I couldn't last night, either
or the night before that
when my eyes close
I hear the conversations
that never existed
except in my head
words I never said
and I blink my eyes
to rid the memory unmade
but even when I am awake
I am dreaming
I wish there were some voice
to drown out my dreams
to keep me from remembering
whatever wants me
to remember it
~~~
The floor is cold on my feet
and I can't sleep
I pull fast the dark blanket, warm
and close my eyes again
only to stir with the pressing
knowledge of a nightmare
or dream so vivid I might
touch it
and hear the emptiness of a message lost
in the darkness
wondering what I was trying to tell
myself
~~~
I still can't sleep
I remember tender touches
lonely mornings
lonely afternoons
dusty kisses
hot tears slipping
down a turnèd
untouched cheek
arguments that never existed
questions unanswered because
they were never asked
dialogue that never was meant to be
time forever always full
but emptier still in longer hours
~~~
I dream now when I am awake
finding tangibility in phantoms
knowing that this insomnia
is some manifestation that
mimics my regret, unfathomable
transparent
so what good is dreaming
of a reality unspoken
~
I can't sleep tonight
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Remember The Night
Stacy Zindle
Remember the night you held me beneath the twinkling stars,
We made a wish together, That time seems so far,
I asked of you your feelings, I asked for your heart,
It was too much to ask, I caused us to part.
Your eyes never told me what I needed to hear,
If you would have just held me near
And revealed a tiny bit of your soul
But I came close and you pushed away, I felt you letting go.
Still I held on and you took me to the edge,
Then cut me to the core and said, "Let's just be friends."
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On Your Wings
Joseph J.
It's charming to fly so high
And all the way beyond the red horizon!!
Over the wild blue fighting waves
Besides the wild springs and flowered forest;
Dancing and chatting to the plants beside
Above the calm, gentle river among the forest
With all its beauty and charm to enchant
I felt envious of the rich style of their life
Am excited to see the vast green paddy fields
Where the sweat and toil ripped
The patting wind passes as a soothing hand
The plants' joy comes as waves
Seeing the richness and elegance of the nature
I just can't save worshipping Lord ALMIGHTY!!
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"Memories"
Dannell Renae'
Dollahan
Oh why, oh why did you have to go, and leave our world so cold? God had planned and called you away to a better place to stay. It only seems like yesterday you were here to stay. Oh how much we miss you but we look up in the sky and see an angel so high. Someday we will be in sweet heaven with you, but until then we have great memories of you by our side.
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Mystery
Not knowing Enough
Afraid to ask More
The silent Voice
But familiar Face
And Mirror of my soul
The intercourse of Incompatibility
Plays 'neath the moon
Hides from the sun
A Conclusion concealed
Which compels me
To leap from Earth's edge
For want to sense the fall
Dan Brouk
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A PANORAMIC MOMENT IN TIME
by lori eskamo
I sit, leaning on the cold hard wall of the school
That cement that we call the walls of our prison...
Faces sit around me: eating, talking, laughing, singing; aging.
Yet, are we all the same?
"How are you?"
"I am fine."
"Good to hear."
Every time.
Summer ends and fall returns that makes the sky turn grey
And winter blooms and spring is here
Summer comes again.
And the cement remains
Rules rules rules
They are our chains.
"How are you?"
"I'm hurting now."
"Sorry to hear."
Deep somehow.
I sit, leaning on the cold hard wall of the school
The cement that confines all of our faces...
Shields that surround me: blocking, molding, falling, breaking; aging.
Yet, will we be the same?
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"Attics of Mind"
AvaAdore
Crawling through the attics of my mind.
'Til I found myself. And I was so sure.
Now I'm thrown into something deeper to find me.
I've lost myself again, it seems so endlessly the same.
I throw it all away just to find it again.
I put myself through hell, just to forget who I am.
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What love is like
Jessie andersen
Love is like a flower, warm and beautiful with each growing day.
But because nothing lasts forever, love will wilt and die away...
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FRIENDS
KELLY
WHAT ARE THEY?
THEY ARE AN ANNOYANCE
THAT'S WHAT THEY ARE
THEY ARE PEOPLE WHO TRY TO RUN YOUR LIFE
EVEN THOUGH THEY SAY THEY'RE HELPING
NOTHING GETS BETTER
ONLY WORSE
SO WHY ARE THEY HERE?
THEY ARE HERE BECAUSE THEY ARE LIKE A VIRUS
THEY ARE STUCK TO YOU WITH NO WAY TO GET RID OF THEM
THEY STICK TO YOU SO LONG
THEY PUSH YOU OVER THE EDGE
THEY PUSH YOU SO FAR
YOU CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE
YOU GET SICK OF THE WAY THEY PRETEND TO CARE
AND THE WAY TAT THEY'RE JUST THERE
BUT YOU CAN'T GET RID OF THEM
BECAUSE THEY'RE THE ONLY THINGS YOU HAVE IN THIS CRAZY WORLD
AND IT'S NOT FAIR
THE WAY YOU TRY SO HARD NOT TO HURT THEM
BUT AFTER A WHILE YOU JUST DON'T CARE
SO WHY ARE THEY HERE?
TO REASSURE US THAT THEY DO CARE?
BUT YOU JUST CAN'T BELIEVE THEM BECAUSE THEY KNOW YOU DON'T
FRIENDS ARE A CONSPIRACY
THEY COME AND GO SO QUICKLY
THAT YOU JUST CAN'T CARE ABOUT ANYTHING LIKE THAT
IT'S A WAIST OF TIME
YOU PUT ALL YOU HAVE INTO TRYING TO BE FRIENDS WITH THEM
AND IN THE END
THEY'RE GONE
JUST LIKE THAT
WITHOUT A CARE
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LOOK AT KELLEY
WITH A BELLY
FILLED WITH JELLY
AND HATES BEING CALLED NELLY
SHE OWNS GREEN EYES
AND LIKES EATING PIES!
SO SHE DOESN'T DIE!
cUTIE PA TOOTIE
NO SHE AINT A DOODI
I LUV HER SO
DON'T U NO?
VKRASNA
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WITH_OUT YOU
Michelle
As I lay here all alone
I think about you & I
I miss you oooh so much
I just breakdown and cry.
Why are we so far apart??
Tell me how this can be
We should be together
Me luvin You & you luvin me
Ooh how this hurts
The two of us apart
Baby I need your love
This is breaking my heart
As I cry myself to sleep
I hope and I pray
That maybe tomorrow
good news will come my way
I awake the next morning
The sun on my face so bright
I reach for you beside me hoping
You had come home to me last night
But no I'm still here alone
My heart breaking in two
Cause this will be another day
Another day with-out you .......
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my life in hell
-casey kirby (99)
there's not a day that goes by that i don't catch a glimpse into the eyes of their ignorance; those eyes that used to consume my own. I've done so much that speaks so low of my image, my marking, my place in this world... my soul cries. Those i've opened up to have only used against me the one thing that i've got, my mind. "just take a swig of this, a sniff of that, a puff on one of these..." and to anguish my pain, i followed. I seek help. who can i trust to understand the true spirituality of it all? Who isn't one of them? How much longer can i resist becoming one of you?
You've all touched me, raped my body, then tried to smother my soul with lust and toxins. Yesterday I might have joined the parade, today i resign. I'm not sure which choice is more painful: falling in or out. I feel like tearing apart all of your pictures and placing the pieces unnaccordingly- you'll all still look the same. you will all still be demons with masked faces and I will still fear your next attack. God, if you can hear me, please send me one true soul so i don't have to go about this all alone.
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Crush frantic sweet sweat.
Delicious man whispering please.
Beauty soar rose sleep skin.
Blue sky dream music.
Moon bed spring sea near fall,
always smooth after he. A true kiss
only sincerely weak lick rain
blow gorgeous head as shadow away.
comic_book_chick
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HAUNTING THE HEART
Schmo55
There is a sad eclipse
haunting the heart
A darkness edging close
snails pace
different time
different place
Hold onto the shadows
uncover when you can
smile wide and sigh
A cleansing outward breath
For now,
watch it pass
Crawling lower than low
a cadence not quite in step
Touching your life
O' how she crept
like snails pace
There is a sad eclipse
haunting the heart.
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JUST
THOUGHTS
Faizal Gender
I thought that she's the one, I thought she's my everything,
And yet sometimes I felt I hate her,
And I sense that she hated me too.
Maybe it's me or maybe it's the fact,
Maybe I am trying to avoid her,
Maybe I'm jealous,
Cause I can't get anyone who I desire.
She's pretty, she got everything,
and yet, I can't accept the fact
"I Love Her"
I don't know why nor do I know how I hate her.
It seems that it appear to my thoughts in a sudden,
A few second I saw her, I love her,
And the I hated her.
Can't tell nor think,
How this thought would appear!
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WAR
Fearful
Adults,
Screaming
babies,
Crying
solders,
Laughing
killers,
Flags are burning,
Children dying,
People burning,
God is crying.
MetalicaWoman
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Silver Faith
elmoswain
How could you ever love me?
I don't understand.
How can you love me?
I just do...
How did you fall in love with me?
It just
happened.
Why do you love me?
Uh, I don't know.
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He Who is.
By
Matthew Timmons
The word of the Lord is bright and ever flowing.
Like his salvation and Glory which brings us constant strength .
Seen through the eyes of "He who is and will always be" the world is viewed
in a different light.
Depiction of the end made apparent as time presses on.
Non- Believers raise questions as to the existence of eternal life.
But for those who have never questioned, there is no doubt.
We have all heard the voice inside of us...
BUt only a select few have chosen to listen.
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was
bob
was
was not
when
when was
fuc...
oh god
let me wonder
lo...
who
could you
why...
was
was.
shadows
shadows far
...and far between
was
not...was.
-was
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~ Idle Words Upon A Page ~
By: Paula Lahr
These are just idle words upon a page, No words of wisdom, no deep sought sage
Just feelings felt between dream and wake, Written for my own souls sake
Thoughts of passion, thoughts of pain, Thoughts from nights drawn well past sane
Thoughts of love and if it's true, Thoughts of dreams left to pursue
Feelings that wake me in the night, Words tapped out in shakes of fright
Some words brought on by utter joy, Or words not said when feeling coy
Boundless pages of my soul, From time and life taking their toll
Riddles that speak miles if left to be heard, From times that I left pass with out a word
Or from a moment when I showed strong, Though all that touched me just felt wrong
Some from moments you might know, Others from times when a smile show
These pages paint a picture of me, The side of which few ever see
My words come, from all I feel, Only honesty, what I see to be real
A poetic princess some might say, But we'll leave that for another day
Just some girl with a story to be told, Trying to write it before it grows old
Nothing special to be seen here, My feelings no different that should be clear
Though if you want to know what lay deep, From these pages knowledge you will reap
Of a girl both weak and strong, Hideous and pretty, both right and wrong
Sad and joyous, hurt and healed, Tempting fate and knowing it's sealed
So look on with an open mind, A piece of you, you'll surely find
For we all have idle words to write, I just open mine for public sight
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