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  • he couldn't gossip without painting words in artificial pigments on crumbling walls. yesterday was torn down before the future could make i
    2 lines, 3 comments, on Oct 17 2:31 PM. In Contest
  • 15 lines, 1 comment, on Oct 17 2:15 PM
  • I'd never loved another body more than that of your prideful stature with the singsong voice grating from behind your windblown lips. Abuse
    9 lines, 10 comments, on Oct 17 12:55 AM. In Contest, Love
  • purple skies turn a shade darker than plum as the Mad Hatter makes his way through wayward woods. innocence sits on hardened rocks amongst
    13 lines, 2 comments, on Oct 14 2:33 PM. In Contest, Dark
  • gold frames surround a single silver pool, both melded from cracked concrete molds in an old artist's basement. his experiment has been lef
    1 lines, 6 comments, on Oct 11 12:19 PM. In Contest
  • i strained, reaching towards azure skies with crimson painted fingernails. the contrast spoke volumes as you grasped me waist in an earnest
    2 lines, 2 comments, on Oct 10 10:32 PM. In Contest
  • 3 lines, 1 comment, on Oct 10 5:59 PM. In Contest
  • 7 lines, 4 comments, on Oct 10 5:44 PM. In Contest
  • 18 lines, 4 comments, on Oct 10 5:33 PM. In Contest
  • beauty goes beneath the skin and festers until full growth is reached under pale moon's silent weeping. leaves fall with each tear shed acr
    3 lines, 5 comments, on Oct 7 8:13 PM. In Contest
  • letting go of inhibitions without severing the leather-like threads which hold us down from floating away on weightless dreams will never w
    2 lines, 1 comment, on Oct 7 1:59 PM. In Contest
  • as zephyr pasted thin layers of dust across fine china chipped under sun's exuberant rays time slipped by & cucumber sandwiches turned to m
    4 lines, 2 comments, on Oct 6 3:16 PM. In Contest
  • drunk from cherub's hearty mixture of golden powder and silver lacings on edge of greek gods' wine trough; swine choking on pearls when swallowed whole in a race to the richest of heavens. pure insanity trimmed the edge of fa
    7 lines, 2 comments, on Oct 5 9:10 PM. In Contest
  • she swallowed the sun whole like the yoke of an egg extracted from tainted whites. while she couldn't measure the distance between what was
    14 lines, 2 comments, on Oct 4 8:35 PM. In Contest
  • her metacarpals strained under the pressure of the crushing weight on her sternum; the water began to rise as the life-raft he once built d
    13 lines, 10 comments, on Oct 4 10:54 AM. In Contest
  • she hid bubbles of the past in glass bulbs, placed precariously on the shelf above her dreams. splinters of light glittered across the wall
    7 lines, 5 comments, on Oct 3 4:54 PM. In Contest
  • 25 lines, 5 comments, on Oct 2 12:18 AM. In Contest, Sensual, Other
  • he took up my skin and with pitted teeth began to the drag it away, raw from
    hollowed ivory bone. had i strung my resolve just a little t
    16 lines, 6 comments, on Sep 30 4:20 PM. In Contest, Love, Pain, Other
  • stark fields crippled under sun's over-bearing heat; but workers continued
    to pick the flowers of their past.
    12 lines, 2 comments, on Sep 30 12:25 AM. In Contest
  • slowly...
    the rose petals dipped into morning's dew at the touch
    20 lines, 4 comments, on Sep 29 5:59 PM
  • she bore beauty on the edge of silk skirts;
    China always had the finest feel
    26 lines, 9 comments, on Sep 29 1:57 PM. In Contest
  • i took rusty pliars & tried to pull your blackened roots from my gums;
    you played every word like a script-game off my tongue as my eyes
    20 lines, 6 comments, on Sep 29 1:40 PM. In Contest
  • cheap hosiery broke apart at a single tear from her lover's fingertips;
    she was a delicatessen in many ways, but only whispered sweet word
    27 lines, 6 comments, on Sep 29 11:13 AM. In Contest
  • honeyed lids swooned like a fainting lover at the touch of her gentleman's
    downy-soft hands across the bare advantage of her neck;
    12 lines, 3 comments, on Sep 28 10:19 PM. In Contest
  • fortified in diamond encrusted rocks and solidified in his mult-layered/textured
    potion of beauty; lust; & performance
    22 lines, 8 comments, on Sep 28 9:48 PM. In Contest
  • he was my September ~ both heat and fall leaves blowing by on a whistling breeze
    16 lines, 7 comments, on Sep 28 9:34 PM
  • 19 lines, 8 comments, on Sep 28 4:56 PM. In Contest
  • florescent under new moon's glaze,
    we hid in darkened passageways to paint the walls with the essence of life
    29 lines, 2 comments, on Sep 28 12:59 PM. In Contest
  • you painted thick hues of life across my alabaster flesh
    as rose vines crept down my arms, to my sensitive fi
    18 lines, 1 comment, on Sep 28 12:53 PM. In Contest
  • 27 lines, 4 comments, on Sep 28 9:35 AM. In Contest
  • questions form blindly in the corners of my mind as i sift through last week's laundry. slight perferations in my resolve bend at the rando
    10 lines, 12 comments, on Sep 27 11:39 AM. In Contest
  • 10 lines, 4 comments, on Sep 26 1:09 PM. In Contest
  • 6 lines, 1 comment, on Sep 25 9:58 AM. In Contest, Love, Pain, Other
  • migraine Mondays painted the clouds in hues of newspaper clippings while the edges were lined in coffee stains instead of silver linings. when his packs of cigarettes ran out he banged away his angst on the old keyboard his j
    2 lines, 4 comments, on Sep 21 10:08 PM. In Contest
  • dedicated to tyler...a lovely baby who is missed on this earth...
    9 lines, 8 comments, on Sep 21 1:08 AM. In Contest, Pain, Personal, Other, Love, Thoughts, Spiritual
  • i love how the sun bursts open wide in the heat of a summer day; and my shoe laces would untie themselves so ever other skip along concrete
    12 lines, 3 comments, on Sep 20 12:54 PM. In Contest
  • she'd hidden the maltese falcon in her closet, away from his cigar smoke tainted breath
    and brandy addiction. now she looks upon him from
    10 lines, 3 comments, on Sep 20 10:19 AM. In Contest
  • she blew bubbles with her strawberry gum, popping them with each new brush stroke of her nail polish. cherry-bomb seemed to be the new in-c
    8 lines, 3 comments, on Sep 20 10:09 AM. In Contest
  • she ladled hot soup into his esophagus, burning away thick mucous formed from putrid lies. she tried to tell her son not to fill his lungs with crippling disease and riddle his bones rotten from the poisons he digests on a re
    6 lines, 4 comments, on Sep 19 12:27 AM. In Contest
  • emotions escape my heart to drown in torrential chaos which houses itself in every corner of my mind. the delicate flowers i grow with whis
    6 lines, 6 comments, on Sep 17 2:56 PM. In Contest, Personal
  • 8 lines, 5 comments, on Sep 13 10:26 PM. In Contest
  • 18 lines, 4 comments, on Sep 13 9:54 PM. In Contest
  • the moon milked her core into the hollows of my bones and gave me a life i had never known until this moment;
    when day light never came, toxic rays once a poison I bathed my skin in everyday,
    18 lines, 2 comments, on Sep 12 5:26 PM
  • he glued my tongue to the surface of his lips
    as his arms wrapped me in his cigarette smoke and whiskey flavored world;
    9 lines, 10 comments, on Sep 10 10:44 PM. In Contest, Personal
  • The sun bore her beauty in it’s womb as the moon blessed her silent resolve to bring light into darkened places. Her delicate fingers becam
    11 lines, 8 comments, on Aug 28 3:11 PM. In Contest
  • those three words lay heavily like a thick paste on the end of your crimson tongue. the lies you sung to me every twilight from silver strings wound too tight on your guitar started to sound false even to my heart. i'd hidden
    12 lines, 2 comments, on Oct 17 6:12 PM. In Contest
  • porcelain chipped at the touch of your teeth; i could hear its screams as the shards clashed with linoleum floors. the smell of antiseptic
    1 lines, 2 comments, on Oct 17 10:46 PM. In Contest
  • heaven cried in your sweet abyss
    6 lines, 18 comments, on Oct 19 12:23 AM. In Contest, Life, Other
  • break me.
    - please.
    4 lines, 6 comments, on Oct 19 12:35 AM. In Contest, Love, Nature, Other
  • standing in fields of marigold wheat, your eyes glaze over with broken dreams only your blind heart could see. you stretch out weak arms to
    1 lines, 2 comments, on Oct 19 9:37 AM. In Contest
  • wrapped in cotton sheets and steamy cups of tea permanently placed to my lips, these days never seem to go by easily. the sun seems to have
    12 lines, 3 comments, on Oct 19 9:38 AM. In Contest, Thoughts, Personal
  • we grew up with fear riddled in our bones. bows fell freely from little girls' hair while boys skinned their knees playing with plastic car
    2 lines, 1 comment, on Oct 19 1:28 PM. In Contest
  • daisies grow fresh in gardens of purest green foliage, and the sky continue its shifts in hues. the stars would blink relentlessly like a d
    11 lines, 3 comments, on Oct 19 2:12 PM. In Contest
  • it is many dreams spent on little girls of ivory silk adorning a single path to prince charming's tender arm. daisies rest easily in flowin
    1 lines, 6 comments, on Oct 19 3:14 PM
  • i sigh, looking out of moving pictures. these windows are too thick to crack with my soft fingertips; but i scratch at this distorted lens
    2 lines, 5 comments, on Oct 19 4:25 PM. In Contest, Personal
  • tears froze in time, squandering the image of my face through a thick lens. i'd fled from everything i knew just to feel free again. withou
    1 lines, 5 comments, on Oct 19 4:39 PM. In Contest, Love, Sad, Other
  • corey, your voice has been my everything.
    5 lines, 3 comments, on Oct 20 10:21 PM. In Contest, Personal, Thoughts, Other
  • 3 lines, 4 comments, on Oct 21 8:57 PM. In Contest
  • cotton flowers dissipated in the breeze and kissed my cheek with the softness of a butterfly's lips. fields of rich green expand across my
    18 lines, 4 comments, on Oct 25 10:10 PM. In Contest
  • 20 lines, 4 comments, on Oct 25 10:23 PM. In Contest
  • 22 lines, 2 comments, on Oct 31 9:27 PM. In Contest
  • i often wonder if i am a beautiful flower on the eve of new bloom. hardened petals slowly melting under sun drenched kisses; butterflies wo
    6 lines, 5 comments, on Nov 10 3:43 PM. In Life, Personal
  • 13 lines, 7 comments, on Nov 16 7:31 PM
  • 18 lines, 6 comments, on Nov 18 9:24 AM
  • winter crystallized on the end of her frostbitten eyelids as once crimson lips exhaled sweet breath. her grave marked the end of a journey long worn down through trodded earth; the smell of which still painted her skin. the n
    19 lines, 4 comments, on Nov 19 12:52 AM
  • my hands tremble as the stars blink goodbye under comet strewn skies;
    butterfly's kiss whispers in the breeze, tenderly fighting the essen
    16 lines, 6 comments, on Nov 24 7:48 PM. In Contest
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