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[poeticLicense]

I can't live without this thread. It used to be my life support. So I'm going to do the honor of re-creating it. (Hey, cyn, do me a favor and lock the old one, will ya? my moderator powers went buh-bye )

I like to know the people I'm talking to. And not the "hi my name is Bob" kinda stuff, either. So I will go first! (And thank you Arolfawe, for starting this so many moons ago. even those who don't know you miss your presence here--they just don't know it)


I have the greatest job in the world...

even poopy diapers can't change that.

I recently realized that love is hard, but the absence of love is much harder.

I also realized that I write more when David is involved in my life...

once upon a time it was love poetry.

I am unstable. I'm going to fix this, though.

I need hugs. Every day.

there is someone out there who is wishing I was with him right now.

my daughter is a beautiful dreamer.

my bed is a mess. I need to clean it.

my heart is a mess. I need to clean it, too.

I want to be kissed--fully, passionately, patiently, lovingly, longingly kissed.

I have some very cool friends.

I have decided that I am an incredible person...

anyone who thinks differently is too stupid to matter.

I refuse to give up and check out. my baby needs her momma.
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pL

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. --Plato

[sweetspontaneous]

im sitting in my room with the fat feeling i only get after i eat mcdonalds.

a levels are looming horribly (ohnohnohnohnohnohno) and my accumulated homework probably weighs as much as my bed.

i love to paint when it's raining, but sometimes it conflicts with my equally strong love of sleeping when it's raining.

(i dont really know if im doing this right but it's fun to try.)

(doing this also gives me an excuse not to clean my desk.)

i give everything i love a name, and so my guitar is called mikey, my piano isabella and the tree downstairs is sasha.

capital letters are too loud for me - "i am nobody, i have nothing to do with explosions"

i am still waiting for my unknown constant to come and take me off on a great adventure.
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My soul wandered, happy, sad, unending.

Thinking, burying lamps in the deep solitude.

Who are you, who are you?

[barren_wastes]

I am barren wastes

No child bears my name.
No lover awaits me at home.
No bright future beckons.
No day passes without struggle.
No night brings solace.
No hour without pain.

I am full of chaos.
I do not want to die.
I have high hopes.
I see the lighter side.
I laugh at the wrong time.
I am amused by my own foibles.

I may just be the son of satan, but momma is an angel.
I am barren wastes, filled with both destruction and creation.
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Jesus had long hair.

I thought it was about time for a change in my life, so I changed my shirt.

[kemal]

I am a father.
I am pretty good at accepting a lot of things.
I've got a lot of love for the world, but i'm very selfish with my time.
Time is precious.
I will have at least one cat for the rest of my life, guaranteed.
Generally, I take music over TV.
Life is difficult often.
I think just about everybody misses somebody.
The first watercolor I ever made, I wrote "faith, sympathy, and humor" at the top. I still value those things.
I believe utopia is coming.
We can't let the pandas become extinct.
I hope I didn't screw up your takes one to know one thread.
I feel like I don't know what I'm doing.
I feel that way fairly often.
I don't let it stop me.
I don't give up.
Ever.
kf

[poeticLicense]

Y'all are doing beautifully. keep it up.

I can pretend to be okay all day...

But when I'm alone at night, I fall apart.

I think my parents need to lock the medicine cabinet.

Losing our relationship is the closest I've ever come to death...

I don't know how to grieve.

I am often afraid that no one will love me again.

I've got to get this together.
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pL

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. --Plato

[Imagine]

I am searching for answers in dark places...

I wish i could run back home and give my mom a big hug, open her eyes to more than money, but i cant...

I wish i could find the people who are "mad to live"... where are you?!

I want someone to listen to me long enough to see my radical views are based in the here/now and in reality...

I have a problem with authority though conform enough to not get in trouble...why? why? why?

I'm still afraid of lurking shadows and dark places...

[Sher]

thank you pL.

my head is foggy, and sad.

my heart sometimes, feels too overjoyed at the possibility of love again, no matter how many times i tell it to stop.

i want a baby.

i wish i could lend pL a bit of my strength. or lend her a shoulder to lean on =) same to Cyn.

i find BW very interesting.

im so tired. soo soo tired.
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The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

[Barrens_mom]

I am fortunate to have the one love come my way.

Barren_wastes father is not the devil, close but no way.

It is good to be at this time in my life, I wouldn't want to go back.

I have a fear of being left alone in this world.

I was a single mom for 4 years when my boys were little and hated it.

My faith in God keeps me going from day to day.

I love being a grandmother.

Children are our countries best natural resources.



B_mom

[poeticLicense]

I am so afraid to feel right now...

Not that I can stop myself.

I have the distinct feeling that someone is keeping something from me...

I hope he'll tell me what it is before I have to ask.

I could end up seeing a lot of my friends this summer--

And that's exactly what I need.

It feels good to be at my old school again; kind of like coming home.

Single motherhood is by far my greatest challenge--

And my greatest reward.

I wish that when I crawled into bed at night there was someone there to hold me...

Someone who I couldn't pry out of bed to help me with the 5:30 a.m. feeding...

Someone to look at the thermometer with me and tell me to relax, she'll be okay...

I am still dying for a hug.
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pL

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history. --Plato

[Barrens_mom]

I am so very very very tired.I started a second job monday.

I hope it is worth all this physical and emotional strife.

I miss my husband, we get kisses in passing.

The sun is finally shining and I'm stuck indoors.

My deoderant left me about 11am.

I too need a hug.


B_mom

[Sher]

then i welcome you two into my arms.

im sick of being degraded by my parents.

every single day.

i miss the simple things.

like love.

or someone handing me a small wildflower picked off the side of the street

scent lingering on pillows.

i want too much.

i currently have a thing for strawberry icecream and pickles.

and chicken with A1 steak sauce.

no, not pregnant, though one could hope =)
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The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

[blackcradle]

i've been feeling queer the whole week
i get paranoid very easily
i know that's not healthy because to be understood (love) by one
you first have to understand (love) yourself

i am currently feeling the weight of the air all around me
the kind of feeling that is only possible when Nature can't decide whether to stormshineblowordry

i am late for dinner
and my nightly sappy show

i love colours
and light
and soppy things
and music (but nothing hard)
and chicken
and potatoes
and exclamation marks
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

heh (:

[lorin_23]

Tighty whities chafe my balls
I don't like to listen to anyone, ever
I'm an F-student who has the potential to be the valedictorian of my class
I bowl roughly 36 games a week, if I'm feeling down. If I'm feeling up, jump that to about 39.
My English teacher wouldn't know a good poem if it crawled up her ass and layed eggs, thereby making her shit out good poems.
I think it's possible to be head over heels in love with two people at the same time. I think I just might be.
Yup, I'm gay. And as of yesterday, I've been with my boyfriend for 9 months. I think I've fallen in love with another guy, who's straight.
My boyfriend isn't affectionate enough.
Hate coffee, hate tea.
There I'm done

--James Spears

[Circusqueen]

- I really love being a mother.
- Sometimes, though, I just need a break.
- I hate this town I live in full of rednecks and assholes.
- I love Natalie Merchant.
- I also love lilies.
- I never get enough sleep.
- I have Crohn's Disease and it makes me crazy that no one seems to know what it is, and when I explain it, all I hear is toilet humor. It's just not funny.
- I am a cat person.
- But I love big, loveable dogs, as well.
- I despise poodles with a passion.
- I want to go back to college. I want my Master's!
- I want to teach American Lit. at some small community college.
- I despise George W. Bush.
- I can't get my husband to do artwork anymore.
- All my friends live in other towns and I'm lonely here.
- My best friend is married to an alcoholic who talks to her like she's nothing.
- I secretly hate him while she keeps giving second, third, fourth chances.
- I have thick hair I can do nothing with.
- I have big brown eyes that I consider my best feature.
- I love the smell of honeysuckle.
- I've been craving Doritos lately.
- I want to write less poetry and more prose, but I've been blocked.
- I think I need to move soon before I go crazy.
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Nobody wants advice, only corroboration.

~*~ John Steinbeck ~*~

[original_jen]

A few things about me:

- I am a first-year English Lit. and Creative Writing student at The University of Wales, Aberystwyth. The English is just an excuse for the Creative Writing, because my parents and teachers wanted me to get a ‘proper degree’.
- One of my favourite things to do is walk along the beach and listen to the sounds of the waves and the pebbles crunching underfoot.
- The only person who made me feel safe left me last week because he was bored. I haven’t worked out how I feel about that yet.
- I got 4 A’s for my A-levels, plus an A at AS. But one of the four is General Studies, which you don’t really have to work for, so it doesn’t really count. The others were Latin, Psychology and English Language, and Environmental Science AS.
- My parents divorced three years ago, and when I’m at home I still spend all my time trying to keep everyone happy.
- My mother is getting married again this summer, and I’m going to be a bridesmaid, but I don’t actually want to go to the wedding.
- I only won half a Classics prize at school, because I had to share it with another girl.
- I want to inspire someone to love words as much as I do.
- The unknown makes me panic. If I’m panicking, organising things, particularly into geometric shapes, sometimes helps me calm down.
- There is a lot to be said for curling up with a good book and escaping the world for a few hours.
- My hot chocolate is famous among my friends. It apparently doesn’t taste the same when they make it.
- Everyone should have someone who is prepared to pick up the pieces without question. And everyone should have someone for whom they would do the same.
- I was moved up a year at primary school, so I’ve always been the youngest of my friends.
- I will give everyone the benefit of the doubt and believe them fundamentally good until they give me reason not to. And I will always defend people who are not there to speak for themselves, whatever my feelings about them.
- I am left-handed, but I knit and use scissors right-handed because that was the way I was taught.
- I’ve learnt from experience that you should never read a book just because it has the place you live in the title and the author has the same name as your best friend.
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Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness