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Their eyes met from the moment she walked in. She “came for the party with a simplicity of heart that ...

I wonder what the last straw was. Maybe it was her mom threatening to cut her throat Or kicking her ...

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To the ultimate super woman Thats is not recognized in a Marvel comic book Who works like a mad man ...

You know I already have to take it from one group How I'm not really Latina enough. I go to ...

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Winter’s shadow always obstructs February. This month is a beautiful wonderland of hope, But even butterflies can be dreary, Elegance ...

Young and free they grab another paper They hold their crayons like hammers And draw themselves as fireman or police ...

All the world's a forest And all the men and women merely trees They blossom and fall And one man ...

I assure you, I will run this great nation with only the best intent As a man who has a ...

They say we’re safe now. New schools, cool shoes, new rules, This is the right thing to do. They’ve cut ...

A mid-summer’s day to a mid-summer’s night The dim day breathes last As the sun ebbs towards fair slumber. Out ...

After one week, he made my name the lyric for every song on the radio. After one month, he gently ...

Through times like these you must begin to see The alacrity of spreading your grown wings. Though clinging tightly to ...

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No good. Not smart. Not pretty. kept all in avoided the pity. locked away in doors that Never kept closed ...

The photo albums That I would wriggle out from the old oak chest And unfold on your desk To look ...

Her life is filled with toxic people Toxic people think toxic thoughts and speak toxic words Toxic people drink toxic ...

One day in May I'll go and leave this town, And head into the country for a drive. To where ...

All the world’s a battlefield And all the soldiers merely pawns on the field, They have their injuries and promotions, ...

fall completely, intensely in love with yourself walk as if the earth was created for you to have a floor ...

Her beautiful exterior fills my heart, Her glowing interior awes my soul, Oh how she truly is a work of ...

Yesterday it rained, and the pattering of neon on rippling sewer bound mirrors made me wonder The Color of December ...

I want to start out by telling you that you will walk again. I know you're afraid, and I want ...

Life has been a to do list. And I complete every task, Yet living life itself remains to be undone, ...

As the sky begins to cry, the droplets hit the ground with an incredible speed. The sound becomes a white ...

Can we not simply accept our failure as a people, as a generation of Plastic Toys? We have been so ...

Do you hear that? It can't be just me, From left to right, up to down, That noise is everywhere! ...

The wave breaks over me, My board snaps in half. The front piece moves closer towards my head, and everything ...

Boxing- the art of fighting The application of creative skill in a violent struggle The hope of something greater Something ...

When the sun sets And the darkness rises What do you wear? Do you wear the moon to hide the ...

Tell me you had to sell drugs to get something in your stomach. Tell me you had to dodge bullets ...

A girl upon the shore, glassy eyes towards the sea Blank as a canvas, thinks of her beloved four They ...

Once the day was almost done and there was nothing in the sky, The sun was no longer visible in ...

a boy i once knew could describe in great detail how difficult it is to be in love with the ...

The laundry was never done The dinner was always burnt Everyone was on the run Lessons always learnt The house ...

All the world's a school, And all the men and women merely students, They have their orientations and graduations, And ...

Oh! How strongly I love thee! Your beauty greatly entices me. With your long hair To the clothes you wear ...

There was a little Boy Who lived in a little house, He loved his little life, Being little as a ...

Quiet – doesn’t say a word, There he goes walking, hidden by stacks of books, And coal black, uneven rice ...

The things we hear so long ago Can affect us more than we know But we brush it off, we ...

Light will shine even in the darkest night, Darkness consumes, hungry for any glow, Like a single candle that flickers ...

11:59: goodnight friends, goodnight moon, goodnight to the world I'll see very soon. 12:06: funny, I thought sleep worked faster ...

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Sometimes I want to take the wrong train Leave the pace I’m told to maintain Go a way I’ve never ...

This compelling enigma, it twists and turns Oh how the aborted solution burns. Possibilities, possibilities galore All the combinations make ...

My feet sink into the cool sand as the milky waves barrel onto shore; The crash and swish intensifies with ...

I trudge through the whitewash with my eight-foot surfboard. Green and brown slippery seaweed squirm past my toes and leash ...

You wake up to darkness completely surrounding you. You look over as the brightness of your clock says 5:23 am ...

The meaning of life? No one knows yet these humans go around searching for this feeling of happiness, trying to ...

In the salty breeze of August Like the crunch of lonely leaves underfoot You startled me with your familiarity Shattered ...

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The long open trail comes to a cool end, Your overworked body feels the first shaded bend. Your body is ...

At the concrete loop they called him Madman Madmen can still be sadmen With the engine roar I feel the ...

A buzzing isolation embraces a vainly hopeful town, built of hasty strokes of wood, and a callused one-way street. Beggars ...

Stage 1: They tie off the knot and she’s as free as can be Without experience or knowledge is she ...

Like a sunset, he seeped into my realm Honey golds, calm roses painted onto the canvas of blue His secrets ...

All the day’s a stage It begins at dawn, dark in the world The seven phases of the day, first ...

A quest of nine, two young lovers, seven stages of life trapped between two covers: Our hero begins his journey ...

We strive twice a day to uphold our name, and only when foe exposes our flaws, with vigor, anger and ...

Dear children of the ground, What's the sound you're making now? First the rattle. Then the rumbling. Now an explosion ...

I cannot find love in the air. I may have seen it before. It blossoms in the center with a ...

If you’re going to leave Allow me to tell you all the things I’ve wanted to share- I see the ...

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In times of struggle, throughout decades of strife, Those yearning for equity have often cried, “What harm does our desire ...

Dad said I shouldn’t join the army, Shouldn’t serve my country. He asked me why? I told him it was ...

Come close my child Listen, Listen to the language of the Almighty. Come close my child See, See the strength ...

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We each have our own language of thought Each have our own dance of morality Each have our own story ...

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that man is a menace he would so quickly throw away the heart of the holiest of angels as one ...

I can hear America singing. I hear the repetitious clicking of the computer as a tired worker types into the ...

I stand for the weak, Those society left alone, I have no fear of the whip, No insult will hit ...

I haven’t touched the harrowed pages of this book Since you stopped feeling the words and Stories and letters that ...

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In one ear persistent pounding of the radio In the other grating music of the subway Full of its satisfied ...

Blanc, bianco, blanco, white Is the only color I see every school day of my life Sitting in class, realizing, ...

Surely as the day goes on As the mockingbird sings it song As the rivers flow, seas toss and turn ...

We work ceaselessly Searching for perfection endlessly Stress piles up like the papers around us Nerves fray like the straps ...

Once upon a summertime, In a life where everything was a lie, There lived a girl who loved to climb ...

They told us not to go out late, They said don't wear a short skirt, Stay with the group, and ...

The pretty girl down the street talks to me in Fragmented snapshots, Fifth-hand rumors and shattered bones that heal with ...

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They claim that They want to meet me Connect with something long lost So They visit Patting themselves on the ...

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O let me be like the larks Who sing melodiously for the sake of it Whose songs and harmonies pierce ...

It’s day one—the beginning, I eagerly wait and see, Whose skill will dance upon my floor, And prove themselves worthy, ...

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The warm breeze flits upon his face His smile deepens the lines age did trace Essence of ripening fruit wafts ...

As I lay down at night to sleep And think about life in general. I cannot help but think to ...

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Half a lifetime here I go Fast or slow don’t know where I’ll go Die too young and age too ...

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Knees locked, pressed together, shoulders hunched as I count the breaths I take. While you, man, sit down, elbows flying, ...

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Corellian Captain Solo, the smuggling scoundrel, runs from his debts for another day. Han Solo shoots first, killing the Rodian ...

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The attic of the house is painted in shadows With blood colored paint cracking and chipping along the walls A ...

I wonder what the last straw was. Maybe it was her mom threatening to cut her throat Or kicking her ...

We soak in an addiction. To know how to do things without ever being taught, To know how to succeed ...

He's a young man With a gun And a plan He had not a prayer But the gang was there ...

It’s not your fault, even though I say it is. Even though I connect the way you measured my meals ...

As we sit in this class today, In a magnificent school that we have to pay, Everyone around us had ...

He wants to live right now! The high school student sits sighing at the screen delirious from deprivation of sleep ...

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On the edge of town was new paradise. Used cars fly at sunset. Would you like to get in to ...

The sweet smell of the old streets Haunts me as I stand in the ignorant world of freedom, For there ...

The truth. Like cool rain in the desert— the little person I have buried in the earth of my soul ...

As black as the night Fluffy frizzy fur like clouds Preparing for a rainstorm Sweet like sugar With breath that ...

Before I put on the helmet, people sum me up using simple terms: red hair, white, wealthy, privileged But I ...

All different backgrounds they say we're the same, A community united under one name Guided by our ethics and striving ...

They came in closed cars. Silent. For they hated what they had to do. Caught in something longer than themselves ...

Listen my readers and you shall hear Of my travels far away from here On the Tenth of April, in ...

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A warm summer breeze flowing through the wind A dropping sun melts into the ocean So gorgeous that anyone could ...

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Pound pound my heart takes a hop as I think how all things could go wrong I pause and wait ...

You are spring while I fall. Preparing for summer while I winter. Our differences caught in fiery maple leaves, crackling, ...

You have strange abilities to destroy And innate and strong powers to divide. Many people have seen their lives lost ...

Oh look up high, the dark sky so bright. The empty abyss, filled with knowledge and wonder. A dark brownie ...

Those moments that stay with you all through your life The ones that keep you up well into the night ...