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Even Nature Grieves Your Passing

Arlene AntoinetteFebruary 7, 2020

Even Nature Grieves Your Passing written by: Arlene Antoinette It's raining, as we silently march through sodden grounds, to the plot where we will la...

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Look Up

Ariane ZandiJanuary 16, 2020

Look Up written by: Ariane Zandi @poetrycorner3 Whenever Charlie and Grandad went to London, Grandad would always tell Charlie to look up. One time...

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The Gift of Sinatra

Catherine Gigante-BrownDecember 17, 2019

The Gift of Sinatra written by: Catherine Gigante-Brown @BklynCatwoman A few days after Christmas, I sat in a hospital room as my father lay dying....

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Life

JayMNovember 21, 2019

Life written by: JayM @thejaytheme A rain falls, In rapt fascination Of your stillness. The vivid evocation, Dancing up a storm......

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Lonely Nights

Slice LucasMarch 12, 2019

Lonely Nights written by: Slice Lucas @SliceLucas During My Loneliest Nights It's You That I Miss Your Voice, Your Skin Your Hair, Your Kiss So C...

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Hurricane

Tori StambaughMarch 9, 2019

hurricane written by: Tori Stambaugh at first you were quiet, lingering like dew in the morning with your eyes green and glistening l...

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Always My Hero

Sharil MillerDecember 11, 2018

Always My Hero written by: Sharil Miller I was your hero... it's what you always said But truth be told you were always my hero instead As much ...

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Only Me

Nayana NairDecember 6, 2018

Only Me written by: Nayana Nair @slingtheink Stay here with me. Everyone else has forgotten you dear. Stay here with me. Everyone else has forgot...

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Dreams

Papia RayNovember 28, 2018

Dreams written by: Papia Ray When alone in a crowd I think of you It is not your person I think about It is your eye that holds all feelings true...

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Missing Someone

Helen McmullenNovember 26, 2018

Missing Someone written by: Helen Mcmullen There are no words to describe what it feels like to miss someone, no sentences that you could string tog...

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Remember

Luiz SyphreNovember 1, 2018

Remember written by: Luiz Syphre @luizsyphre Remember me beloved for when you do that dead star in the heavens will glow for us write your verse...

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No Poder Regresar

ayamlearsiOctober 18, 2018

No Poder Regresar written by: ayamlearsi @ayamlearsi Las gotas de lluvia comenzaron a caer acompasadas, grandes, pesadas; su impacto recalcaba el ...

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Cloud And Sand

Arpan ChristyAugust 11, 2018

Cloud and Sand written by: Arpan Christy @ArpanChristy Above the sand, thirsty for years, sometimes stops a cloud, and sand starts weaving a drea...

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From Heaven To Kentucky

Ron KemptonAugust 1, 2018

From Heaven To Kentucky written by: Ron Kempton Morning hung on the wet city, Nashville’s electric streets hummed as we passed North to Kentucky. Wear...

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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 ...