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Prosper Anyanwu
The most beautiful flower will wither away!
But you my beloved, even in death your smile still lingers in my heart.
And your dazzling eyes still daunt me in my sleep!.
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Amisha priya
Part
Of
Family
Is
Joyful
Apart
From
Family
Is
Joyless
              -­ Amisha priya
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touka
You found it meandering


                                                    ­            I walked it alone.


You said the Phoenix rises


                                                         ­        I am stuck in the stone.



    A common bird —
      With two wings,
     now



                   Tinged



                       That same old color

of the rock burnt out

                   of absence

                                                      of­ nothing —




of silence.
for a critic
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Nobody
i'm afraid that i'm going to turn into you
i don't want to hurt people like that
i know everyone is afraid to become their parents but i really don't want to ruin someones life
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Taru Marcellus
a swarm of physicists
sits in a room debunking
“the present”

                           logical deduction:
                             there is no now
                            (it doesn't exist)

                                           light years away
                                           on a podcast with nature
                                           a bug flys into my eye

I adjust course
                           a fork offers 3 options
the brain is an open mouth
                                          I sit instead
   an insatiable appetite consumes utensils too
This poem is literally based off a podcast clip. Inspiration Video: https://youtube.com/shorts/bdK540KUdWI?si=Ctf-KdP2D7tSRlyu
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Geof Spavins
It doesn’t grow; it lingers.
Clings to ice older than regret, green with memory no world was there to gather.

The silence hums like a forgotten vow, not broken, just orbiting its chance to be said.

Moss dreams in spores and spores of maybe.
Each tendril reaching for a gravity that will not claim it.

This is not nature.
It’s ritual.
A fuzzed hymn to the act of staying where leaving has already begun.

So the comet loops, wearing time’s soft refusal.
And we, the flinch, the breath halfway drawn, call that orbit "now."
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Khoisan
My(my)
kind
your(jou)
kind
their - (hulle)
kind
our - (ons)
kind
be - (wees)
kind
an
imperfect design
folks
please
take your time
Th!nK and Pray
with the joyous experiences
of your
inner child
.
Kind - (child) - in Afrikaans)
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Shambhavi
Three blind men touched an elephant one day,
Each judged the animal in their own way.
One felt the leg and boldly cried,
“A rough, strong tree trunk, broad and wide!”

Another touched the tusk and cried,
“So smooth and sharp from every side!”
The third held the tail and gave a sigh,
“It’s thin and hairy, like rope swinging by.”

All three were right, yet all were blind,
None saw the whole with an open mind.
They argued loud, in anger and might...
Each defending only their slice of sight.

Isn’t it just like the world today?
Where people fight over what they pray?
Different names, but lessons the same,
Still we battle, Come on it's 2025!!
What a shame!!
I saw this story on a YouTube channel and I thought  of creating a poem on it however I know this story before, my grandma told this in my childhood when I saw this on YouTube I was like hey it's my childhood story and I thought of creating a poem on this I don't remember the channel name if any one knows plz tell me its actually been a month since I saw that video. Well we all know there's a single form of energy who made us all , who all we love there might be different forms beliefs different methods to pray but I know faith and love are same💖
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Piyush
Patience,
A little more patience.
Wait through the days,
With no expectations.

Dedication,
Followed by frustration.
I live in imagination,
Devoid of reciprocation.

Communication,
To sort the relation.
Before you fade,
Into silent celebration.

Desperation,
Still the hesitation.
Locked in forever,
In this realization.
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Salmabanu Hatim
Comes after great sacrifices,
And patience
23/6/2025
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Eli
Love?
Hope?
Faith?
All the same..
Do they exist?
A question that everyone thinks about at some point.
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Crooked Gal
Sane or insane
No difference in between
As sane defines perfect
All to perfect is insane
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Ivan
is so strong,
why do I feel like
hate is winning?
guilt and shame
eating to blame
lack of control
lack of tame
the food comes in
the fat puffs out
if only cold turkey
didn’t sound so good right now
how to quit that of which you need to live
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Nolan Bucsis
Words
Don't coalesce
Like they used to.
They dissolve into my
Petulant apathy-
Feelings of forgetfulness.
Ineloquent.
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Julie Butler
I begged
something to find you
hi

hi-five mountains around
goodbyes

goodbye

Friday’s coming and I’ve not
yet arrived
spilled all of my
waiting on
better yet & applied
anything that I had left
blame my thighs
blame the rest of my legs and
my eyes
put it in my left hand and
surprise
apple of
both of my eyes
I’m alive, better yet
every grand gesture
pry open
a thing
I do not have the words to
describe
& prescribe me
all of your damp leg, better yet
set to the side

& Insinuate love like it
comes
at a price
My father had his own bedroom, mother hers. That should had told me something, which it did, but I was too young to understand. As I grew up, father remained emotionally distant from me. Through grade school, I made straight A's, but he never acknowledged it.  Only once did he play catch with me in the front yard. In junior high, I continued to make straight A's, was co-captain of both the football and basketball teams, and was president of the student council, but he never said a word. As a sophomore in high school. I was elected president of our class by over 800 classmates, but father remained silent. As a junior, I was admitted to Andover, the oldest and arguably the most prominent prep school in America, but all father could say to me was 'be of good cheer." I chose to attend Columbia instead of Yale and had a great four years, but father forgot to put film in the camera when he took photographs at graduation. When I dropped out of law school the first day of finals my first semester, my father was enraged, but again in silence. When I began to write poetry, he said, "Go buy a rental property." My father never congratulated me, never gave me a hug, never told me that he loved me. At times he would say mean, hurtful things to me, which still hurt today. I wrote a poem years ago in which I alluded to one of Shelley's most famous poems. My phrase was "farther away than Ozymandias." That was my father.

TOD HOWARD HAWKS
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Vaampyrae
picture me, in your car
your hands on my thigh
my hands to the nape of your neck
picture you, in my room
your head on my lap
my lips to your wrist
picture us, in your bed
your heartbeat to my ear
my feet tangled with yours
the games we'd have played
the different places we’d have been to together
the little fights we'd have fought
now picture lust swallowing us whole
picture everything and nothing at the same time
picture.
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Maria Etre
Have you ever thought
that a poet's pen
performs
"open heart "surgery
every time
it writes?
Quel temps de chien ! - il pleut, il neige ;
Les cochers, transis sur leur siège,
Ont le nez bleu.
Par ce vilain soir de décembre,
Qu'il ferait bon garder la chambre,
Devant son feu !

A l'angle de la cheminée
La chauffeuse capitonnée
Vous tend les bras
Et semble avec une caresse
Vous dire comme une maîtresse,
" Tu resteras ! "

Un papier rose à découpures,
Comme un sein blanc sous des guipures.
Voile à demi
Le globe laiteux de la lampe
Dont le reflet au plafond rampe,
Tout endormi.

On n'entend rien dans le silence
Que le pendule qui balance
Son disque d'or,
Et que le vent qui pleure et rôde,
Parcourant, pour entrer en fraude,
Le corridor.

C'est bal à l'ambassade anglaise ;
Mon habit noir est sur la chaise,
Les bras ballants ;
Mon gilet bâille et ma chemise
Semble dresser, pour être mise,
Ses poignets blancs.

Les brodequins à pointe étroite
Montrent leur vernis qui miroite,
Au feu placés ;
A côté des minces cravates
S'allongent comme des mains plates
Les gants glacés.

Il faut sortir ! - quelle corvée !
Prendre la file à l'arrivée  
Et suivre au pas
Les coupés des beautés altières
Portant blasons sur leurs portières
Et leurs appas.

Rester debout contre une porte
A voir se ruer la cohorte
Des invités ;
Les vieux museaux, les frais visages,
Les fracs en coeur et les corsages
Décolletés ;

Les dos où fleurit la pustule,
Couvrant leur peau rouge d'un tulle
Aérien ;
Les dandys et les diplomates,
Sur leurs faces à teintes mates,
Ne montrant rien.

Et ne pouvoir franchir la haie
Des douairières aux yeux d'orfraie
Ou de vautour,
Pour aller dire à son oreille
Petite, nacrée et vermeille,
Un mot d'amour !

Je n'irai pas ! - et ferai mettre
Dans son bouquet un bout de lettre
A l'Opéra.
Par les violettes de Parme,
La mauvaise humeur se désarme :
Elle viendra !

J'ai là l'Intermezzo de Heine,
Le Thomas Grain-d'Orge de Taine,
Les deux Goncourt ;
Le temps, jusqu'à l'heure où s'achève
Sur l'oreiller l'idée en rêve,
Me sera court.
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Boma
My mom chose someone's mom's burial over her own daughter's graduation

Hits hard
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meyamisa
I light a candle
with your name in it.

All the quiet sorrow
sits beside me,
where no voice lives.

I remember the whispering birds—
the hush before words.

Let the rain bear witness
to what hearts have sworn.
poems about love
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DarkSkyesRising
There's something in the air
That makes me feel like I've been here before
The birds chirping
The sun disappearing and reappearing behind fluffy white clouds
The soft breeze
The heat
I've lived this summer before
Maybe in a different universe,
Another life time,
Or a dream...

Maybe I'm still asleep
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Lynn Stillman
I've known rejection
It bore deep into my heart
Left a nasty scar.
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The last Poet
We've loved
We've lost
But at what cost

They come
They go
But we have to pay

They never do stay
The cost of losing them
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Karen
The star lit night blurs
I say sweet dreams on a breath
Past the edge of fear
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Maria Etre
I
c//r//a\ck\ed
my
ribcage open
((because the love))
(((((my heart carries)))))
(((((((((((((((((grew it)))))))))))))))))))))
and now it
doesn't fit
any
more
The love my heart carries keeps growing and growing me and at some point if I don't share it, I'll become love itself.
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Malcolm
A leaf moves
we call it thought.

Silence gathers shape
then slips the name.

Truth is only still
until we touch it.

Even the sun
casts doubt
when it breaks.

The question walks,
but never arrives.
03 August 2025
Stillness wears a Tongue
Copyright Malcolm Gladwin
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Ian
The box said
‘1,000 pieces’
Yet the picture is complete.

I watch from the lid—
unfitted.

There was never room
for 1,001.
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Ron seibert
Every days a happy day
don’t feel good ‘til I lie
Never feel good, I might do cry
Weeping acid until I die

Why do I feel this way
Never good in any way
Never enough for myself
Put my feelings on the shelf

writing this with a smile
But sad inside all-the-while
You’re standing
Protector over me
I’m staying
Smiling happily

I try to stay strong
Try to be brave
But I can’t be strong
I just feel so fake

I fear myself
I fear my mind
I fear everything you’ll find

No I don’t hurt myself
At least not anymore
When in the mirror
I don’t see myself
I’m not me anymore

I don’t like worrying people
That you know and see
So I don’t open up to people
They don’t know the real me

They see a mask
A mastered charade
I feel like a actor
This is my trade

theres no chorus
no melody
Is this what the world had planned for me?
  
This isn’t the end of me.
My very first poem
My nests you lay,
Learning to create before you are even created.
Protected by my daughters,
Medusa & Pythia.
Likewise, neither shall you truly sink before you swim.
The womb. Eggs.
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nivek
used to have yellowed fingers
stinking of nicotine

that drug had me hooked at age fifteen
-all the way to fifty three.
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Lukas Buijs
tell me, when it's here:
will they pray at church's rear,
or flee to what feels safe—
the things that consume us gracefully?

i'm sure he's been waiting patiently.
for what has a God to lose,
when his creations, full of *****,
create and copy easily?

yet he won't strike with fire,
nor challenge rising blasphemy.

let all roam with desire,
since God has nothing to lose.
i'm growing up in a religious household, and i'm intrigued by my parents' perspective on Artificial intelligence, and all the wars going on. They assume it's all part of a huge holy war. even though i doubt God's existence heavily, i like to think of him as someone who is tired of all our *******. Especially in times like this.
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Srishti
Giving my worst in my most important phase of life.
how is it possible to be so careless.
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Millee
The winds of change swirl in my life, leaving new breath in my lungs. Is this me? Am I truly free from all your negativity?
My chest burns with something new, love?
Not for you, but for me.
I'm finally free.
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