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June 12, 2008 03:05 PM EDT -- Why Not? When I came home late last night; she said, "Look, I can't live with you anymore." I replied, "Why not?" Shaking her head, she showed me the door. . . . more
April 17, 2007 12:21 AM EDT -- Today is four sixteen two thousand and seven Thirty two people ascended to Heaven V.A. mourns and our country has gasped To the wants of a man whose soul had lapsed   Why did  . . . more
Fake Friend (twc)
by Marilyn N.
views: 99 | rating: 10 | comments: 19
July 17, 2008 01:51 AM EDT -- Fake Friend! You were my best friend since our sixth year; we shared everything; hopes dreams and life's tears. I thought it would always be this way, except we'd grow closer someday. . . . more
Don't Deny My Disability
by norene t.
views: 6 | rating: 10 | comments: 5
November 29, 2006 10:00 AM EST -- Just because you see no plight I have no overt signs of fright doesn't mean I dont cry at night Don't deny my disability!   Sometimes you cannot see the faults The blood disorders and . . . more
MARY KENT
by norene t.
views: 6
September 14, 2007 03:38 AM EDT -- Mary Kent I am so proud to call you my Neice! Mary kent is the missing piece a puzzle so long and unsure in the making my heart is so happy it just might be shaking! sophisticated classy and full . . . more
September 19, 2007 11:42 PM EDT -- Today is four sixteen two thousand and seven Thirty two people ascended to Heaven V.A. mourns and our country has gasped To the wants of a man whose soul had lapsed Knowing full well he would never pay . . . more
pearl
by Susan Marie
views: 91 | rating: 9.5 | comments: 23
June 02, 2007 02:01 AM EDT -- I would like to kiss your ankles bring them to the seams of time, endless flowing pristine as a clear cerulean daydream steep and expansive take my palm edges smooth upon skin and skins and slap                . . . more
Can I Be Forgiven?
by David B.
views: 43 | rating: 9.1 | comments: 18
November 29, 2006 07:02 PM EST -- The Question was written December 26, 1996, the day my wife of 15 years arrived home from work to inform me she no longer wanted the honor of that title. As one can imagine, the devastation was complete. . . . more
Suicide Is Never Painless
by David B.
views: 698 | rating: 9.8 | comments: 123
February 22, 2007 11:39 PM EST -- Derek Anthony Beall April 24, 1989 - February 16, 2007    In the early morning hours of Friday, February 16, 2007 my 17-year-old son reached the agonizing conclusion that whatever problems . . . more
unavoidable casualty
by Susan Marie
views: 53 | rating: 9.9 | comments: 15
May 06, 2007 02:41 AM EDT -- i am often asked why i write or how and what compels this right hand to script erratic incomprehensible thoughts that consistently drown my cerebral cortex only to pay my heart a visit awakening . . . more
April 26, 2007 08:21 PM EDT -- This poem is dedicated to that perennial cockroach that seems to infest the gather landscape in ever increasing numbers. If this is about you, you know it. You wish you could write, but you can't, . . . more
A Ghost in My House
by Spiritguided Woman
views: 107 | rating: 10 | comments: 59
April 10, 2007 06:40 PM EDT -- I am a ghost In my own house   I flutter about Wafting in the stale air Moving from room to room   No one here Just my friend Loneliness and I   We have been companions For . . . more
February 27, 2007 06:15 PM EST -- The following poem was given to me by my seventeen-year-old son on my 46th birthday. Little did I know just a short three months ago, it would be the last writing I would be graced with from my son. Derek . . . more
January 05, 2008 10:46 PM EST -- We didn't know what we had started, Didn't know the baggage we both carted, Wherever the two of us would go.   It was all my fault baby, I saw it early on, But I didn't . . . more
December 23, 2008 05:41 AM EST -- I live at the end of a dead end street, No visitors, no one, not even trick or treat, Terminated in the middle of the wilderness, Unbothered in all ways, and I expect no less.   . . . more
Lost Young Love
by Preston Bullard
views: 16 | rating: 8.6 | comments: 8
January 04, 2007 04:28 PM EST -- This is what happens when we fall in love too fast... Young love, oh, so eager to grow, it went so fast, it did not last, and now I am lost, out in the cold world's frost. Preston Kendall Bullard . . . more
Haiku - Friends
by Marilyn N.
views: 34 | rating: 10 | comments: 17
January 22, 2007 07:52 AM EST -- Come along my friend, to the land of gathering. What will you find there? Those that are your friends, share your passions and your pain, friends for all your life! Read what you want to, you can write . . . more
Depressing Beauty
by James Gatlin
views: 45 | rating: 9.9 | comments: 14
March 01, 2007 09:05 PM EST --   The skies are a Caribbean blue, cottony clouds dot the backdrop- of nature's masterpiece; her work of artistic perfection, as the landscape reflects the fantastic brilliance of the sun's . . . more
December 10, 2008 12:13 PM EST -- I've always called you brother, But you've been so very much more, My teacher, My friend, My confidant, The source of the insights, I hadn't sought, But you loved me enough . . . more
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