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  • janeen_g_image
    Self-Help & RelationshipsNonfictionHealth & Wellness
    By janeenmg25
    August 10, 2020
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    Scar

    I have a scar. For the past six years, I have been staring at these wounds each day as I go through my day to day life. It is a deep scar that will forever be with me for the rest of my life. It represents the various times I wanted to quit from this ...
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  • Fog, Dead Tree
    CreativityParenting & FamilyFictionHome & GardenEnvironmentEntertainment
    By Donna Trovato
    August 3, 2020
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    The Vanishing – Part 3

    Part 1     Part 2 Pyper rode in silence with Abigor on the shiny black horse. The massive animal trotted with grace through the ash-filled streets of the in-between—the after death realm. Sadness filled her heart. Why did I have to die? An aneurism? How is that possible? My family needs me! She averted her eyes ...
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  • CreativitySelf-Help & RelationshipsPoetryLifestyleCultureDesign, Fashion & Style
    By Calpernia Charles
    July 20, 2020
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    Concealed Traveler

    My heart completely shattered watching you long for her   Tears sting my eyes as you cleverly avoid them fearing I may see your truth   Sadness oozes from your pores letting my broken heart know   Your thoughts are consumed with the loss of her as mine are filled with the loss of you ...
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  • scars, pain
    CreativitySelf-Help & RelationshipsPoetryEnvironmentMemoir & AutobiographiesHealth & Wellness
    By Xander S. Lee
    July 13, 2020
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    Our Gods, Our Husks – Free-Verse Poem

    the cold eyes of envy placed upon thee to shiver in the veins and arrest thy heart, thy steps in thine place strips of the pale moonlight outline shadows on thine face edges of your beauty cut like mountains great and looming to scrape that endless sky our gods, our husks, these things we hold ...
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  • stars, night, evening
    CreativityParenting & FamilySelf-Help & RelationshipsPoetry
    By Xander S. Lee
    June 29, 2020
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    Part II – Free-Verse Poem

    a twist in your gut marks this violent path a heartbeat taken a breath driven out his smile shadows your memories and the blood that soiled his face when he died father’s ghost taunts you in the night where peace can find no purchase in your dreams thirstful vengeance marks your violent path bodies in ...
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  • grass, clouds, walking
    CreativityEnvironmentSelf-Help & RelationshipsHealth & WellnessPoetryMemoir & AutobiographiesHome & Garden
    By Xander S. Lee
    June 15, 2020
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    Survivor’s Pledge – A Free-Verse Poem

    darlings, remember, the dark shapes hiding in the night friendly enemies fornicating your good nature they peek out from under your bed, creep beneath your pillow, stalk the lonely roads of your dreams and breathe new life as figures that haunt your waking world his breath may linger hot on your skin burnt like a ...
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  • Heart
    FictionPoetryLifestyleDesign, Fashion & StyleCreativity
    By Shannon Meyers
    June 15, 2020
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    Heart

    To experience true growth Feels like your body Is too small for your soul It has nowhere to go So it must adapt But it hurts to do so   What do you do When you want to Make a lasting change Forming new habits Is no easy task It doesn’t happen in a day ...
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  • CreativityParenting & FamilySelf-Help & RelationshipsPoetryMemoir & AutobiographiesCultureDesign, Fashion & StyleEntertainmentLifestyle
    By Calpernia Charles
    June 15, 2020
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    Today We Breathe

    Mourn, Grieve, Exhaustion BREATHE Protest, Stand Up, Speak Out BREATHE Silenced, Beaten, Killed We Will Breathe Weep, Yell, Curse BREATHE Over-taxed, Over-looked, Over-worked JUST BREATHE Underestimated, Unseen, Unwanted BREATHE Challenged, Choke, Confined TODAY WE BREATHE!!!
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  • CultureDesign, Fashion & StyleCreativityPoetryEntertainmentLifestyle
    By Calpernia Charles
    June 8, 2020
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    Indebted

    To you we owe Our freedom Gratitude And praise   Small steps Defiant stance Made so we Could belong   To you we owe Our opportunities Our voices Our legacy   Persecuted for petty crimes Inaudible cries Noosed up Whooped, sold off   You held on Carried strong So we could be born And we can ...
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  • EnvironmentEntertainmentHealth & WellnessLifestyleNonfictionCreativityPoetry
    By Riley Irwin
    June 1, 2020
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    When It Rains, It Pours, But You Need To Keep Walking

    When it rains, it pours. It’s kind of funny– I mean this May, Phoenix had a whopping total of zero inches of rain, yet I still found myself drenched the entire month. It was quite disheartening because I was never prepared. I never seemed to have brought my raincoat and I never invested in a ...
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