Hi! Well, I wrote this poem and was wondering if you could give your honest...
Hello! I love the personification of “freckles.” Maybe you could come up with a better description for her hair, though. I feel as if comparing someone’s gold hair to the sun is a bit overused. The...
View Article"The way we fall from each other like halves of an orange, skin dark as...
“The way we fall from each other like halves of an orange, skin dark as pottery in lamplight. I know it, naked in the light of the fridge, cold plummy resins in our mouths, warm sticky resins of our...
View ArticleHi, I'm only 14 and maybe I'm just a little naive and I guess what I say...
Oh love, of course what you have to say matters to me. It makes me so happy to think of you reading my poems early in the morning, and I wish you didn’t have such a sad soul.So thank you, in return,...
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Twenty years from now you are going to look back at this and wonder how it was possible to be so lonely, so withdrawn into yourself like the shriveled husk a dead beetle leaves behind when its soul...
View Article"And things, as things do, changed."
“And things, as things do, changed.” - 6-Word Story #38
View Article"In other languages, you are beautiful- mort, muerto- I wish I spoke moon, I...
“In other languages, you are beautiful- mort, muerto- I wish I spoke moon, I wish the bottom of the ocean were sitting in that chair playing cards and noticing how famous you are on my cell phone-...
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Before he took me home the first time, he asked for permissionto steal my heart and I swore I wouldn’t press charges.Two years ago, on a plane trip to Russia, I fell asleep on a stranger’s shoulderand...
View ArticleSo I keep telling myself to write. to post a blog. to scribble thoughts down....
Sometimes when you lack inspiration or motivation to write, or when thoughts and ideas just aren’t coming to you as fluently as you would like, it’s actually best to take a break. If you force yourself...
View ArticleWhat is a good book to read when you are deep in depression?
The Deleted World by Tomas Transtromer is a very short book of poems. They’re all beautiful and dark, yet the reader is always able to glimpse a light flickering at the end of the poem.Ordinary People...
View ArticleWhat are your favourite published collections of poetry? By the way, I love...
Thank you! :)The Deleted World by Tomas TranstromerThe Dead and the Living by Sharon OldsCrush by Richard SikenWhat The Living Do by Marie HoweThe Bones Below by Sierra DeMulderPole Dancing to Gospel...
View Article"For breakfast, she ate her darkness."
“For breakfast, she ate her darkness.” - 6-Word Story #39
View ArticleHello, it's me--the girl who's been reading your writing to her boy that...
Hello!I feel that it would be hypocritical of me to tell him not to hurt himself. But I wouldn’t wish that hurt upon anyone.I remember that someone on this site once received the anonymous question,...
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I dreamt my father was sleepwalking again, going down to the kitchenand drinking orange juice because he thought it was wine.My old ex-boyfriend used to sleepwalk too, and I’d wake upin the middle of...
View ArticleThe Marie Curie Of All Love Affairs
If I could, I’d go back in time and change the lifespan of the dinosaursby fifty million years just to figure out how to handle your flesh better.I once saw a bee take one look at your bare shoulders...
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When the first manic episode came, we ate ice cream sandwichesand I held you against the sink, naked, as you filled my mouthwith chocolate syrup. Rome was burning and I was losing myselfin your skin,...
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what poem of yours has the line "but I loved you anyway"? I do apologize for...
Thank you so much! And it’s not an inconvenience at all.Is it one of...
View Article"Prizewinning scientist discovers cure for brokenheartedness."
“Prizewinning scientist discovers cure for brokenheartedness.” - 6-Word Story #40
View Article"I had a dream about you. We were in the gold room where everyone finally...
“I had a dream about you. We were in the gold room where everyone finally gets what they want. You said Tell me about your books, your visions made of flesh and light and I said This is the Moon. This...
View Articlefor an ex-lover becoming someone else's
According to Tacitus, a senator and historian of the Roman Empire,the Great Fire of Rome burned for six days straight.Three districts were completely destroyed. After you left, I burnedfor 234 weeks in...
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