DARK WATERS
By Phoebe Elms Red billows seep on the water’s surface, Cuts to my veins to symbolise the pain, My way of coping in this hell’s furnace....
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NOMAD
By Thomas Ryan Lloyd Stare, Colder than the winter pavement You sit Cup of coins half empty, Symptom of a contactless world. Overcast,...
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RE: SEPT 29
By Gemma Green a soft, prudent kill at the end of hardened limbs one pill, two pill excavating eternal bondage a churning of 200 small...
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A TEMPEST
By Sarah Quinn I miss you dreadfully already. We have both lived the ways this ends time and time again, but it’s the question of when...
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AN ADDICT IMPRISONED BY THE POSSIBILITY OF RELAPSE
By basq Lyon I found myself craving feeling again. Remembering when it flowed through me so effortlessly. When stimulation was my only...
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DECLINE
By Dorota Chioma Mental wellness, An apex of a mountain Climbing up is time consuming and burdened with effort. Falling down happens...
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SHE THOUGHT
By Tassia Dorsamy She thought he was the one Little did she know that it was all wrong His erratic behavior at first seems normal...
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AUNTIES RIVER
By Safiyyah Altaf Slipping on fertility, brought to my knees Reaching for water at the robin river Stirring and searching the amniotic...
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HALLOWEEN
By Lucy Pettigrew We nursed our sadness like a newborn, tended to depression like dying flowers, blade bracelets wrapped round magnolia...
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NARCISSUS
By Annie. J The beauty and the body, glorified And bold. Narcissus as he walks among us The sweetest of dew to sweetest of honey Drawing...
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DAFFODIL
By Steven Lee Hann will be the day we part ways. You always found my stories a bore, with no idea what this simple flower says. My sights...
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PLACE CALLED HOME
By P.T. Heart Long evening sunsets flowed Growing up, summers ago That evening light ever glow Shadows dark & long and light so warm...
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LOVER, LEECH
By Ruth Cowell Sharp words spit from your lips And litter the floor Pointed rusty nails That bury themselves in my feet That burrow their...
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REVERSE VAMPIRES
By R. Moores Another day passes into night, night to dawn, dawn to dusk In between there is another kind of hour, an hour known to so few...
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THE TEMPTATION OF SUICIDE
By Katie Fleming The violent river beckoned, there I stood, My tear-filled eyes gazing into the flood. It didn’t look far to fall, No,...
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A DYING FLAME
By Ishita Das He climbed the tree to see the world but fell too soon. Millions of followers close to his heart yet they were thousand...
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BURIAL
By Cait Price Like all types of grief, the death of a relationship demands a water burial. I call it drowning. We are watching its...
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PROPELLED INTO PARALLELED EXISTENCE
By Nonysmgrl Caravan of catastrophic events Misaligned lines We were meant to have intersect Yet, I’m still holding my breath Visions of...
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MURDERER
By Jade M. Wong The murderer’s eyes look just like mine— Inherited from our parents, A lifetime of small good deeds And large...
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DECEMBER 1999
By Joy Clyne As the hands of unwanted authority Took my tiny hands That fit into his single hand Being led to the slaughter Of fine décor...
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