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    Sometimes  
    Rated: E · Pets · #2236698
    a short poem about your pet?
    Don't Want To Know  
    Rated: E · Experience · #2236198
    sometimes the most familiar is the most fearful
    Inside Out  
    Rated: E · Relationship · #2236189
    a poem begging to be seen and moving on
    Many Goodbyes  
    Rated: E · Family · #2234758
    a short poem trying to be hopeful about the future while acknowledging the past...
    Selfish  
    Rated: E · Relationship · #2230782
    selfish or not so selfish?
    The Bullets Come In  
    Rated: 18+ · Dark · #2230781
    a poem about mayhem
    Scurry, Scurry  
    Rated: E · Nonsense · #2230780
    a brief poem about life...
    All Wrapped  
    Rated: E · Dark · #2230779
    a brief poem for the pessimistic
    Saying it Louder  
    Rated: 13+ · Dark · #2227023
    a brief poem about a relationship that should end
    Adrift  
    Rated: E · Relationship · #2227022
    ending a relationship
    Black as the Highway  
    Rated: E · Dark · #2227021
    a brief poem about returning home...
    Lost  
    Rated: E · Relationship · #2224375
    a brief poem about a dependent relationship and I haven't decided if it's bad.
    Ceiling is Sky  
    Rated: E · Dark · #2224288
    Liberation is not often as freeing as we would like to believe.
    My Knee  
    Rated: E · Experience · #2221135
    A short story about my experience with an injured knee.
    Blase  
    Rated: E · Political · #2221134
    a short poem about responsibility
    We Fought  
    Rated: E · Dark · #2218902
    there's more than one kind of soldier and more than one type of battle
    Steven  
    Rated: E · Emotional · #2218900
    a brief poem about leaving your cage...
    Whose Mother?  
    Rated: E · Dark · #2218898
    A poem describing how little control we really have...
    Reflection  
    Rated: E · Relationship · #2212525
    looking inward
    Cold Water Runs Deep  
    Rated: E · Personal · #2210764
    A poem about reaching a certain point in your life and looking backward and forward.
    On My Hands  
    Rated: 18+ · Dark · #2210641
    a short poem about someone giving up...
    "Joice and Wallow  
    Rated: E · Emotional · #2207945
    a short poem about ambivalence...
    No Words  
    Rated: E · Emotional · #2207944
    a simple poem about honesty..
    At Attention  
    Rated: E · War · #2202330
    a short poem about the personal costs of war
    This is a Truth  
    Rated: E · Emotional · #2202277
    a short poem about loss and recovery
    Rejected by the Silence  
    Rated: E · Spiritual · #2195441
    many can relate to being silenced
    Dense  
    Rated: 13+ · Dark · #2195439
    Trying to make sense of what can't be understood...
    Shiny  
    Rated: 18+ · Cultural · #2189468
    a short poem about adolescent growing up...
    Carol  
    Rated: 13+ · Cultural · #2189467
    a short poem about growing and leaving the old neighborhood.
    I'm Alive  
    Rated: 13+ · Emotional · #2187069
    a short poem about feeling overwhelmed,
    Dead Enemy  
    Rated: E · Cultural · #2186214
    a short poem about the power of music
    Tribute to Maya  
    Rated: E · Emotional · #2186213
    a short poem about survival
    Fixated  
    Rated: E · Emotional · #2186212
    a poem about infatuation
    I Gave Voice  
    Rated: 13+ · Dark · #2171683
    a short poem about a tragic life, or was it?
    Dark Days  
    Rated: E · Political · #2171682
    a brief glimpse outside
    Dismissed  
    Rated: E · Emotional · #2159449
    another poem about a breakup
    Learn to Fly  
    Rated: E · Cultural · #2159448
    a short poem about growing up
    War Zone  
    Rated: E · Cultural · #2159447
    basically a poem about free association
    I Don't Mind  
    Rated: E · Relationship · #2151174
    a short poem about unloading life
    Lovingly Less  
    Rated: 13+ · Dark · #2151173
    a brief poem about a doomed couple
    The Broken House  
    Rated: E · Cultural · #2151172
    a short poem about any house anywhere that makes you angry.
    Slow Dancing  
    Rated: E · Emotional · #2137891
    a short poem about coming to the end of your dance...
    Wrong  
    Rated: E · Emotional · #2137890
    a short poem about how we feel
    We All  
    Rated: E · Dark · #2128336
    a dark look at relationships
    Mirrors  
    Rated: E · War · #2127139
    an imagined generational discussion of war
    Like Living  
    Rated: 13+ · Cultural · #2127136
    all-encompassing dangerous living for the fatalistic
    Priceless  
    Rated: E · Relationship · #2126923
    a poem about heartbreak and resilience
    Freedom Monster  
    Rated: E · Relationship · #2126880
    a poem about staying together no matter what.
    Dave and Mel  
    Rated: E · Dark · #2074748
    a short poem about two souls and the tragic lives they lead
    The Curiosities of Angels  
    Rated: E · Children's · #2053496
    a short poem about children
    We Only Struggle When We're Together  
    Rated: E · Arts · #2053495
    a short poem about...
    Sometimes  
    Rated: E · Friendship · #2053493
    a poem about disappointment in friends
    Closed  
    Rated: E · Religious · #2053492
    a short poem reflecting ambivalence in the pulpit
    It is We  
    Rated: E · Personal · #2053491
    a short poem about a lost relationship
    Telling the Story  
    Rated: 13+ · War · #2042834
    A short story of the lives of a couple of veterans after the war.
    Petty Begrudged  
    Rated: E · Experience · #2021107
    a short poem on conflict
    The Corner  
    Rated: 18+ · Dark · #1991038
    a poem about the life of an adolescent girl on the streets...
    Warriors  
    Rated: E · Cultural · #1991034
    a short poem about war
    The Hunted  
    Rated: E · Nature · #1991032
    a poem about the hunted
    Monsters  
    Rated: E · Satire · #1991029
    a simple poem of self-reflection
    Depraved Indifference  
    Rated: 18+ · Dark · #1975073
    a dark poem about neglect and it's repercussions
    Past Midnight  
    Rated: E · Relationship · #1975047
    a short poem about betrayal
    Life  
    Rated: E · Experience · #1960260
    a simple selfish philosophy
    Enough  
    Rated: E · Experience · #1956598
    reviewing one's place in the whole scheme of things
    Scars  
    Rated: E · Personal · #1956597
    a poem about relationships
    Liars  
    Rated: E · Experience · #1939819
    liars from the liar's perspective
    Slaves  
    Rated: E · Experience · #1935120
    a short poem reflecting the rage of the enslaved.
    After Ours  
    Rated: 13+ · Relationship · #1935119
    Regret over a brief illicit relationship
    Wisdom  
    Rated: E · Experience · #1931938
    wisdom or not
    Spare  
    Rated: E · Experience · #1931936
    the haves and the have-nots
    Good Seeds  
    Rated: E · Experience · #1931935
    letting go of the reins
    Love Letters  
    Rated: E · Experience · #1923221
    love letters
    Realized  
    Rated: E · Fantasy · #1905380
    the goal of family accomplished
    May as Well  
    Rated: E · Experience · #1905375
    a poem about getting on with it...
    The Happiest Disease  
    Rated: 18+ · Dark · #1905374
    a poem about drug use.
    Heretics  
    Rated: E · Experience · #1902977
    life viewed by the minority
    Deep Was Sleep  
    Rated: E · Emotional · #1902969
    asleep and dreaming of a different future
    The Mirror  
    Rated: E · Personal · #1902966
    reflecting on the past
    Where Do?  
    Rated: 18+ · Dark · #1902880
    where do all the monsters go?
    Protesters  
    Rated: E · Experience · #1902876
    silenced protesters
    Safer With Thieves  
    Rated: E · Relationship · #1902846
    A poem about moving on.
    Specimen Number 35-757-51 Part 5  
    Rated: 18+ · Sci-fi · #1896156
    a not too distant future where people are expendible
    Specimen Number 35-757-51 Part 4  
    Rated: 18+ · Sci-fi · #1896155
    a not too distant future where people are expendible.
    Specimen Number 35-757-51 Part 3  
    Rated: 18+ · Sci-fi · #1896154
    a not to distant future where people are expendible.
    Specimen Number 35-757-51 Part 2  
    Rated: 18+ · Sci-fi · #1896153
    A not-to-distant future where people are expendible continues...
    Specimen number 35-757-51 Part 1  
    Rated: 18+ · Sci-fi · #1896152
    A not-to-distant future where people are expendible.
    Failure  
    Rated: 18+ · Experience · #1882737
    a little self-pity
    Broken  
    Rated: E · Emotional · #1882511
    trying to understand
    The Dirt  
    Rated: E · Experience · #1882478
    A short poem about useless toil.
    Time  
    Rated: E · Experience · #1882472
    A short poem about time's effect on a relationship.
    Blood Lust  
    Rated: 18+ · Fantasy · #1870368
    A short story about a teenager a little different from the usual.
    The Eternal  
    Rated: 13+ · Fantasy · #1855816
    A short story about a young woman pursued by evil.
    Caught in the Middle  
    Rated: E · History · #1849111
    A short poem about a voyage we all can recognize.
    Loneliness  
    Rated: E · Emotional · #1842386
    Loneliness and bitterness at the end of life.
    My Life  
    Rated: E · Emotional · #1842377
    Sometimes taking chances is being alive and not to be taken too seriously..
    Preface of a Life  
    Rated: E · Mystery · #1811444
    A short story about a not so simple life
    Yesterday  
    Rated: E · Experience · #1809356
    an old man looks on his past and his future with no clarity, only confusion
    As it Ends  
    Rated: E · Other · #1795784
    a short poem about optimism
    Bliss  
    Rated: E · Other · #1795779
    a bleak poem about the insane end of a relationship
    Simply  
    Rated: E · Friendship · #1795777
    Question and no answers...
    No Ordinary Times  
    Rated: E · Mystery · #1768343
    A short story about a reporter's experience in a war zone.
    Plastique  
    Rated: 13+ · Relationship · #1750866
    a short poem about a relationship based on looks.
    Pop's Boy II  
    Rated: 18+ · Family · #1750862
    Second part of a short story of an adolescent boy and his dad.
    Pop's Boy  
    Rated: 18+ · Family · #1750860
    A short story about an adolescent boy and his dad.
    The Warring Monk  
    Rated: E · Action/Adventure · #1750842
    A story of a young man coming to grips with the treachery of his older brother.
    Day Laborer III and IV  
    Rated: 13+ · Action/Adventure · #1750237
    Rico is back and caught up in another dilemma.
    Sing by the light of the Moon  
    Rated: E · Experience · #1746646
    A short poem about the uncertainties amongst the certainties of life.
    Celebrity  
    Rated: E · Entertainment · #1746612
    a short poem about the trappings of celebrity...
    This Boat  
    Rated: E · Emotional · #1745330
    a short poem about the ending of a relationship
    Never  
    Rated: E · Emotional · #1740781
    a poem about a glimpse of the end
    An Insane Shell of My former Self  
    Rated: E · Emotional · #1740722
    optimism and pessimism all wrapped in giddy joy at the creation of a new life
    I Am  
    Rated: E · Dark · #1739652
    a dark poem
    You're not really here  
    Rated: E · Other · #1735662
    a short poem about the one-sided love affair
    Mother's Day  
    Rated: E · Family · #1733485
    Coming home for Mother's Day may have surprises, even for the jaded.
    BQE Man  
    Rated: E · Inspirational · #1733480
    A short story about fractured faith...
    A Declaration of Independence  
    Rated: 13+ · Inspirational · #1731368
    a short poem about declaring one's independence
    Bernie  
    Rated: 18+ · Friendship · #1721809
    A short story about loyalty, racism, and friendship.
    Champ  
    Rated: 13+ · Friendship · #1721760
    a short story about young boys growing up in a gang.
    Hope  
    Rated: E · Emotional · #1721562
    a short poem about life and relationship changes after divorce
    Pieces of Rain and Snow  
    Rated: E · Dark · #1721309
    a dark poem on the border between castastrophic and optimistic
    Medusa  
    Rated: E · Emotional · #1721300
    a short poem about someone not really understood, but created nonetheless
    Contradistinction  
    Rated: E · Emotional · #1718115
    a short poem about being in a snit...
    Last March  
    Rated: E · Emotional · #1718114
    a short poem about the inability to move on and what it might sound like
    HuMan  
    Rated: E · Personal · #1718111
    a poem about realizing one's limitations
    Hearts So Big  
    Rated: E · Emotional · #1718110
    a poem about the wisdom of the very young
    Survival  
    Rated: 13+ · Fantasy · #1718106
    a poem about the simple day to day
    Turn the page  
    Rated: E · Experience · #1695348
    a short poem about moving on
    Desperately  
    Rated: E · Emotional · #1695341
    a short poem about desperate living
    My Father  
    Rated: E · Family · #1693167
    a common song to fathers
    Homecoming  
    Rated: E · Family · #1693164
    A young man returns home for a necessary visit.
    John and Jane  
    Rated: 13+ · Family · #1693161
    A short poem about two kids growing up in the ghetto
    Our Wonder  
    Rated: E · Emotional · #1687864
    the end of a love affair with sun and surf
    Chameleon  
    Rated: E · Other · #1687690
    a poem about deceit
    Heaven  
    Rated: E · Other · #1687686
    A love story.
    Stupid  
    Rated: E · Other · #1687684
    youthful indiscretion
    Walk Alone  
    Rated: E · Relationship · #1687680
    A poem of reflection.
    Warned  
    Rated: E · Fantasy · #1687678
    A poem about reality sinking in.
    Going through the motions  
    Rated: E · Personal · #1687674
    A poem about survival.
    When I heal  
    Rated: E · Personal · #1687672
    An optomistic look at the future.
    Were Once  
    Rated: E · Personal · #1673873
    a short poem about moving on.
    Just Family  
    Rated: 18+ · Family · #1673787
    a story about some of the travails of an inner-city family
    Victims  
    Rated: 18+ · Horror/Scary · #1622496
    a dark unsympathetic poem about victims
    Land Lover  
    Rated: E · Fantasy · #1622492
    a poem about trying to fit in