I didn’t know where to start, so I tried writing this poem like an essay- organized, structured ... [+]
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I didn’t know where to start, so I tried writing this poem like an essay- organized, structured ... [+]
There are no cars, you’re only imagining, her husband scolds. Just go a little slower, Reina wants to say, but she knows it is not a woman’s place to say such bold things. He knows what he’s doing ... [+]
I am standing over a newly dug open grave.
Under the beautiful blue sky, in Nigeria,
The sun
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I hear there’s a spring
filled with mountain blood.
And when you drink from it
you
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Branches swing against my windowpane
A repetitive movement that slows in the summer
And
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Loneliness.
You didn’t expect it to come at all.
You liked it at first—you were finally alone! You could finally catch up on your hundred hours of missed sleep. You no longer needed to stress
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Unfortunately, time has stopped.
This may surprise you, because time is seemingly omnipresent and has governed our lives for so long, but the thing about time is that it’s completely arbitrary
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Rick hadn’t figured out what he was going to do on this date. He had been building up the courage to ask her out for weeks and weeks, and he had always thought that the details of the night would fall ... [+]
I touch my hand to the grass and it comes away wet so
I am unable to sit down.
How my hand
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A man wearing a short, black hat sits on the same bench as me. I sit on one end, and he sits on the other. The bench lines the long, tall widows that face the small parking lot attached to the ... [+]
I am leaving for college tomorrow and
I am afraid that when I return home next
my bedroom
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Life rings of eternity
So stuck in fall I didn’t see if before,
rebirth after rebirth
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The giant machine was almost empty, and had been that way for the last three centuries. When the man had found it, slowly sinking into the lazy sand of the trackless wastes of the Gobi, it had already ... [+]
I’ve got forty lines for a poem,
Maybe three hundred words if I’m clever,
But I have no clue
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It all started on the first day of school, Gunther was a new student at Windcastle High. He wasn’t your typical teenage boy; he perceived the world “differently.” He first saw her when he accidentally ... [+]