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Wisp On A Moon Beam

Sandra HenryMarch 28, 2020

Wisp On A Moon Beam written by: Sandra Henry Perhaps a dream is waiting within Winter's lonely chill. Perhaps a song is playing while memories ...

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Broken Poet

Edwin Olu BestmanMarch 27, 2020

Broken Poet written by: Edwin Olu Bestman Silence is golden Mind is traveling and rolling Heart secures with pains and trouble While society wraps ...

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You Don’t Know

NilavroNill ShoovroMarch 26, 2020

You Don't Know written by: Nilavro Nill With those two eyes Breathing new horizons You don’t know Need not have to know As if just like the wings ...

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Quicksand

Julia R. DeStefanoMarch 24, 2020

Quicksand written by: Julia R. DeStefano @J_DeStefano From breakfast to lunch through nightmare, I trudge along - here I sleep, here I cry in a barr...

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Loneliness

L.M.GiannoneMarch 24, 2020

Loneliness written by: L.M. Giannone @LISAGNO Counting hours of loneliness sitting in the dark melancholy days meander away aches my slow healing...

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Regrets

Carl ParsonsMarch 12, 2020

Regrets written by: Carl Parsons He’d been away a long time. Now he was home again—in the same town where he’d been born decades ago. But why had he...

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Wood and Wire

Xavier PimentelMarch 9, 2020

Wood and Wire written by: Xavier Pimentel The smell of paint and turpentine Fills my brain with sun and shine Like a brandy or a rum Making me feel...

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When The Angels Cry

Laura HughesMarch 4, 2020

When The Angels Cry written by: Laura Hughes @Ri_Ri1977 You may never believe that angels do exist, but they will never leave you alone in the mis...

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Silence!

Adriana MorganFebruary 29, 2020

Silence! written by: Adriana Morgan @Adriana39863076 Silence! I said. But she kept talking about her problems, her hopes... I couldn't care less f...

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Life Passed Him By

Paddy MullenFebruary 25, 2020

Life passed him by written by: Paddy Mullen He sits, staring into the dusky haze of the dying day. Coldness creeps in the room as the monotonous tic...

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The Veil of Happiness

Ximena EscobarFebruary 22, 2020

The Veil of Happiness written by: Ximena Escobar @laximenin the water veiling her gaze was home, not sadness, a Sea of Transparency, a throne, a ...

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Hopper’s Dream Book

Gosha KulisiewiczFebruary 12, 2020

Hopper's Dream Book written by: Małgorzata Kulisiewicz translated by: Anna Luberda-Kowal Streaks of light and dark cut like a lawn outside the w...

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Time For Cake

Tess M ShepherdJanuary 11, 2020

Time For Cake written by: Tess M Shepherd The key jammed in the frozen lock. Again. A daily struggle in mittens, with the outside light, still unfixed...

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Mini Utopia

Giovanni FruncilloJanuary 4, 2020

Mini Utopia written by: Giovanni Fruncillo Sex is a miniature utopia we create amidst the loneliness of the world. Pulling hair, scratching, suckin...

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“Lock down, lock down. We are now on lock down.” The receptionist’s voice came over the school intercom over the incessant buzzing of the alarm bells located in every hall of every phase of the building. I thanked my lucky stars I wasn’t in my regular classroom with my fourth period of thirty-one freshmen. I was teaching my last class of the day in the computer lab of phase five, one of the more isolated wings of the large oddly-shaped school where I’d been teaching for years. There were only seven students in class that day, it being a Friday afternoon ...