Tagged: reflection

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Richardson

Poem   As the wallpaper curled we lost everything every gift we gave every word we ever said from the basement explosion that seeped into carpet fibers and looked out over the car port...

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More Than One Year Later

Poem   I held your face as a precious gem Studied its facets, admired its cut Searched for imperfections Finding none Whispering, “You’re perfect” into The night   more by KRISTEN GREEN photograph by Lizzie Guilbert...

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What Used to Be

Poem   I used to write. So many words about love, lust, hurt, desire, life. Some still exist in places on the internet I don’t go to anymore, some I threw away because I...

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Dust

Poem   I went back; Picking my way carefully through the underbrush, I realized: I’d never noticed all this poison ivy… Perhaps that’s why the itch persists. I went back; Scratching as I climbed...

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Unknown Reflection

Poem I see a face so like mine Staring at my every move Asking me why it is That I do the things I do In those sullen stares I hear Disappointment for all...

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Every Day

Everyday Poems   The everyday struggle to fend for oneself. The everyday struggle to breathe. The everyday struggle to clear out heads. The everyday struggle to speak. The everyday struggle to see the world...

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My Horizon

Free Verse Poem   It is key to understanding this entrapment- this sentence within the fleshy jail of mortality- to realize that we cannot change the bars or the walls, or the height from...

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Cups with Coriander: Sugar

Serial Story   My eyes opened slowly, and I languidly turned my head to the bedside clock. 10:00 am??? I sprang up in my bed, panicked, when I remembered that I hadn’t set an...

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The Ferry

Ridding the ferry makes me ponder… Thinking of things far, wide and in between. There’s quietness, while muttered voices are far lower than the wrestling of cool steel, as splashing of gentle waves gather,...