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Spring Tanka

by Ushiku Crisafulli

A winter bite that

mocks the spring, pincers its cocoon.

A life supported?

Cease one's internal decay,

Even ice melts. Love's fluidity.

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Thursday 11th April 2013 6:14 pm

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Lost

by Simon Austin

A face of steel is easy 
When hidden behind.
Lost in false hope,
Drowning under memories
That my shoulders cannot hold;
They buckle in sharp flaws.
Watch me break at dawn
And vanish into dust.
My soul entrenched
Under a cotton shroud,
Unable to rise.
I will never again stand 
So boldly.
Time, the only healer,
Has stopped,
...

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Friday 1st February 2013 9:31 am

poem   pain   lost   break up   hopeless   depression   sadness   loss   fear

We Chose Hooks

by Paul Sands

do you remember
those nights
we placed hooks in our eyes?

waiting in our sleep
to catch the darting lies
that swam inside our heads

do you remember
those nights?

we should have walked
the chrome stacked streets
that rolled like silver eels

where stub ends sailed on tarry keels
in that vanishing space between
the night clubs gaudy hush
and necessities capi...

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Sunday 13th January 2013 10:51 am

memory   regret   pain   missed opportunity   self   shared

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