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  • Fifteen words.
    One day we will be but sun
    bleached bones buried beneath
    by Aowena 2 lines, 3 comments, on Jul 3 10:55 PM
  • for the girl who called me crying when her stuffed owl was brutally murdered by the washing machine
    i want your gold eyelashes,
    velvet pinned like
    by Aowena 47 lines, 8 comments, on Jun 28 5:34 PM
  • Goodnight.
    We had picked out names and made plans
    but bought only one tiny sleeper.
    by Aowena 9 lines, 8 comments, on Apr 22 11:37 PM
  • The sun has arthritis
    Tonight my island froze for the first time in a hundred years.
    by Aowena 56 lines, 6 comments, on Dec 24 2:41 PM 2008
  • Thin is in.
    In fashion this season are
    by Aowena 79 lines, 7 comments, on Sep 5 3:47 PM 2008
  • Untitled. (Spoken Word)
    Baby girl *this* is a letter of apology.
    This is to say I'm sorry.
    by Aowena 30 lines, 3 comments, on May 21 1:37 PM 2008. In Spoken word, slam, hope
  • Why?
    Why am I a foster mom?
    by Aowena 12 lines, 22 comments, on Dec 23 3:56 AM 2007
  • Wash me-Spoken Word
    Spoken Word! The (...)s are pauses so try reading it out loud to get a feel for what it will be like in performance.
    by Aowena 5 lines, 7 comments, on Nov 27 5:48 PM 2007
  • [People You Know ]
    The clock reads 12:34. You blink and it's 12:35.
    Kristel loves Breakfast at Tiffany`s and flare in her photos. Chasing the sun around
    by Aowena 23 lines, 5 comments, on Oct 30 5:39 PM 2007
  • Bus stops and bookstores.
    I have fifteen minutes till the number 8 bus comes
    better make it ten just to be safe.
    by Aowena 23 lines, 2 comments, on Oct 21 4:59 PM 2007
  • Urban Playground
    Mirrors stretch in infinite towers above the tiny children playing tic tac toe. Industrial and minimalist blur into yellow and blue and red
    by Aowena 2 lines, on Sep 28 4:05 PM 2007
  • At the top of my lungs.
    At one in the morning the clock stopped ticking but my heart kept b
    eating. I stopped worrying about being understood and melted into ima
    by Aowena 13 lines, 12 comments, on Aug 28 3:53 AM 2007
  • Suicide Girl
    A porcelain doll in your buttercup dress, even the homeless drunk knows you would shatter from the mere pressure of a soft embrace. He’ll tell you riddles till you laugh but he sees his own despair in your thin smile.&n
    by Aowena 5 lines, 5 comments, on Aug 28 2:35 AM 2007. In Sad, Prose
  • Gorge Road Hospital
    After dark I hurry up and down shadowy hallways in an old graveyard they call a hospital. The people who lie within these walls are slowly
    by Aowena 4 lines, 21 comments, on Aug 28 1:09 AM 2007. In Sad, Death, Dying, Age, Hospital
  • Cherry
    Cherry had been born boring and bored. Imagine her mother in the throws of labour thinking about which floral wallpaper would go best with
    by Aowena 7 lines, 5 comments, on Aug 11 11:47 AM 2007. In Prose, fiction, story, sad
  • Blue like heartbreak.
    Her eyes are blue blue blue like heartbreak. Let's go out on the town and drink till we forget. We're too young and too beautiful to be thi
    by Aowena 4 lines, 4 comments, on Aug 2 5:21 PM 2007
  • A day long shift
    In the beginning. / On the second hour of a day long shift my eyes washed away and my hair burst into flames. I whitened my teeth and decid
    by Aowena 13 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 26 7:57 PM 2007
  • I made this for you.
    Stolen lanterns, / silver flask flashes in the rain. / This poetry comes with a parental warning: / it doesn’t have to be this awkward. /
    by Aowena 18 lines, 12 comments, on Jul 22 2:35 AM 2007. In Random, weird, Contemporary, Life
  • The people you know.
    The clock reads 12:34. You blink and it's 12:35. / You think of her in the hospital. Cancer eating her up. Turning her insides into soot
    by Aowena 20 lines, 4 comments, on Jul 16 2:56 PM 2007. In Prose, Weird, quirky, people
  • Kiss the Boys
    You tell her that you're only nine years old as your Pomegranate dress falls to the floor. / You told him to meet you in the bedroom. / You ran away. / In the fourth grade your favourite game was catch th
    by Aowena 20 lines, 9 comments, on Jul 4 9:19 PM 2007
  • Sunday Morning
    Sunday morning comes too soon. / I wake to puffs of cloud that are cigarette smoke lazily leaking from beyond raspberry lips. / Sunrise has come and gone / Tangerine and Grapefuit sky has faded / to plain old gray
    by Aowena 25 lines, 1 comment, on Jun 24 2:40 PM 2007
  • Pain
    You know you're right.
    by Aowena 18 lines, 50 comments, on Apr 13 3:57 PM 2007. In angst, sad, fairy-tale, lyrics, nirvana
  • Pearls Before Swine
    “Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.” -Charle
    by Aowena 15 lines, 11 comments, on Mar 22 2:35 PM 2007
  • Vestige
    Musings on photography and our preference to adapt memories to our liking.
    by Aowena 3 lines, 15 comments, on Mar 3 7:38 PM 2007. In Prose, photography
  • Victim
    Prose poem about an abusive relationship
    by Aowena 4 lines, 21 comments, on Mar 3 7:06 PM 2007. In Prose, sad, abuse
  • Bukowski
    I think he was brilliant.
    by Aowena 16 lines, 4 comments, on Feb 10 11:39 PM 2007
  • f(alling)
    by Aowena 26 lines, 5 comments, on Feb 10 11:24 PM 2007
  • Senyru
    by Aowena 9 lines, 10 comments, on Feb 10 2:40 PM 2007
  • Haiku for an old oak tree
    Pretty Self Explanatory
    by Aowena 2 lines, 3 comments, on Feb 10 2:12 PM 2007. In nature, trees, haiku
  • Forest Tanka
    A little Asian experimentation never hurt anyone.
    by Aowena 4 lines, 2 comments, on Feb 9 5:34 PM 2007. In Tanka, Asian, Nature
  • Emerald love
    An Italian Sonnet in colour
    by Aowena 15 lines, 8 comments, on Jan 27 7:45 PM 2007
  • I dream in circles
    together, we sowed the stars
    and harvested the fruit of forever
    by Aowena 18 lines, 7 comments, on Jan 24 10:10 PM 2007. In pantoum
  • James Dean
    by Aowena 19 lines, 4 comments, on Jan 20 4:58 PM 2007
  • A haiku for haikus
    A little piece of zen
    by Aowena 2 lines, on Jan 20 1:12 PM 2007
  • Audrey Hepburn
    by Aowena 29 lines, 2 comments, on Jan 20 1:01 PM 2007
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