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Poetry

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  • An unmade brown and pink bed.
    PoetryRhyming Poems

    Fall asleep in my messy bedroom mind

    By Olivia Fleming
    October 20, 2025
    Fall asleep in my messy bedroom mind   It‘s a bit warped and a bit buckled. Painted – yellow and blue.   You might ...
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  • Black and white photo of a dilapidated house
    Poetry

    Brick by Brick

    By Rockebah C. Stewart
    October 20, 2025
    I built this house for us. Layered it brick by brick glued it together with mortar reinforced it with steel. But with a single ...
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  • Image of optical illusion staircases with the title "Wanderland by Lexi Graham" depicted
    Poetry

    Wanderland

    By Lexi
    October 20, 2025
    I walk through a room that leads to another. The loop continues room by room until I am lost. The rooms stretch endlessly, each ...
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  • a decrepit hallway with debris in the floor
    Poetry

    Hallowed Halls

    By Erynn Crittenden
    October 20, 2025
    Red brick and weathered stoneCreate the halls of my prison.The shadows speak in riddlesAnd sunlight is a dim memoryWithin these hallowed halls. Inmates pass ...
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  • The image is of three kayakers paddling along a river
    Poetry

    Paddling In Time

    By Ivor Steven
    October 20, 2025
    paddling in time, tracing tranquility’s lines.  rowing upstream,  or flowing downstream– no matter.  time floats in no direction. time hears no commands. time flies in the sky. time is ...
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  • Cliff overlooking body of water
    Poetry

    Take the Leap

    By Kristina Snyder
    October 13, 2025
    What will be the meaning of life, If you never jump, If you never take the leap? Will you leave all your dreams Dying ...
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  • a mortar and pestle with spices inside
    Poetry

    Love’s Meal

    By Chidinma Nwonye
    October 13, 2025
    The thumping sounds of mama’s mortar Echo around the kitchen’s concrete walls. The fragrance of spices mixed with love Disperse through the cool night ...
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  • Image of newspaper clipping letters depicting the words "At War" with crumpled paper background
    Poetry

    At War

    By Lexi
    October 6, 2025
    I am trapped in this mind. I am at war. Pushing against every thought- my only weapon my pen.   I am at war, ...
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  • The image is of a long white glacier on top of the Rocky Mountains, high above the alpine trees.
    Poetry

    Before, Between, and Beyond

    By Ivor Steven
    October 6, 2025
      Before I could feel my fever rising.My head was screaming,and I was freezing-despite global warming. Sharp sheets of rainswept through my fuzzy brain,with ...
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  • a mother and child sitting at a bench
    Poetry

    Love’s Blindfold

    By Chidinma Nwonye
    September 29, 2025
    How far is night from day? Not far! It’s a golden flash right before my eyes.   Seems like seconds ago, you were a ...
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