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Purpscene became a registered member 9 years, 7 months ago
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RebeccahPilgrim wrote a new post, vicarious living 9 years, 7 months ago
You. Are. Killing. Me.
she yelled.
she threw the mail in my face
thick hard envelopes
flew into my face like
a quick gust of wind
quick and harsh.
she said i was doing myself in.
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RebeccahPilgrim became a registered member 9 years, 7 months ago
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Che wrote a new post, “Pets†International Call For Writers by ArtAscent – Deadline August 31, 2014 9 years, 7 months ago
Theme
This call theme is “Pets.†Animal companions, pampered sweethearts, cherished creatures. Share your interpretation.Eligible Submissions
Entries may include fiction, poetry, short stories and other […] -
AbigailGeorge wrote a new post, Sylvia Plath’s Lady Lazarus 9 years, 7 months ago
This image
Is just an image
Lines from a poem
That I haveCome to know
To love so well
In sickness
And in healthThere is no greater
Love than the flight
From madness
Of sacrificeA lament, […]
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Rayza wrote a new post, Unshuttered 9 years, 7 months ago
Unshuttered I’ll remain
I might be bruised because of the pain my body has endured
My broken bones are bound to heal
Yes the pain has pierced through my heart
Pain is part of life
A hole you have left in my […] -
Che wrote a new post, “Hidden†International Call For Writers by ArtAscent – Deadline June 30, 2014 9 years, 7 months ago
Theme
The call theme is “Hidden.†Unseen, unknown, mysterious, cryptic, masked, clouded, puzzling, esoteric. Show us what hidden means to you.Eligible Submissions
Entries may include fiction, poetry, short […] -
tumiteffo@ananzi.co.za wrote a new post, Intrepidus 9 years, 7 months ago
For the future that awaits me
Bright as sunlight and dark as the pit
I give homage to all of life’s experiences
For my craftingIn the face of melancholy and terror
I have not lost hope nor succumbed to […] -
Neofreud wrote a new post, Slaves 9 years, 7 months ago
Beneath these dark waters rested my past
Proteus calming the ocean’s barks at night,
Every animal screaming from Noah’s Ark;
Mate us how, when it’s only one kind of us?In these present times, cannot swim […]
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Rayza wrote a new post, A second chance 9 years, 7 months ago
It was a beautiful sunny morning when I passed through the streets that lead me to doom. The newspaper flew from nowhere and landed right on my pathway. It was Lebo’s picture that caught my attention, she […]
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M.Makunga wrote a new post, A Cemetery 9 years, 7 months ago
This is a site
of all the departed ones.
They sleep in relaxation,
surrounded by a towering fence,
making them one huge family.Oh! Oh! Oh!
What a relaxed family!
No working!
No schooling!
No being […] -
AbigailGeorge wrote a new post, The infertility-kit 9 years, 7 months ago
I’m not yours, birds sing
Your hairdresser, mummy says
Your Ophelia, your Julia
And this also means that I’m
Not your cosmic admirerAfter the glimpse
Of the grotesque
Laughing carcass
Turn away from […] -
AbigailGeorge wrote a new post, The laughing carcass 9 years, 7 months ago
I’m back –
I’ve made a full recovery
From being condemned
To inferiority
They’ve saidThe qualities
Of ghosts no longer
Frighten me senseless
Like needles and nurses
The taste of both that I feelIn […]
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AbigailGeorge wrote a new post, David Foster Wallace 9 years, 7 months ago
The cornfields
of Illinois are pretty
Where David Foster Wallace
grew upHis childhood
was made up of
bonfire anecdotes
Shark teethInfinite jest
He was the pale king
Sitting on an […] -
AbigailGeorge wrote a new post, Ann Quin 9 years, 7 months ago
Water has become
like my own alcohol
While I bask
In dreams of writing fictionHallucinatory illness
psychosis, threads
Always communicating
with each otherAs if I am not there
only […] -
AbigailGeorge wrote a new post, Lamb (five haiku) 9 years, 7 months ago
Once a boy was hatched.
Born with sonnet wings most heaven-sent –
Eased into planting.Appalled by the world’s stage.
Tooth – radar splitting the hunt
Courage is exposed.Brilliant inner sea –
His cry […] -
AbigailGeorge wrote a new post, Ted Hughes (eight haiku) 9 years, 7 months ago
Weave your poetry – shamanic-wisdom
And not by accident it will prosper long-after-you-are-dead.
For-all-the-raw cutting edge of-the-world-to-see.She slipped – she didn’t fall-like-a-body-or-wreck
Could […] -
AbigailGeorge wrote a new post, The hallucination of North American poet Sylvia Plath’s Lady Lazarus 9 years, 7 months ago
This image
Is just an image
Lines from a poem
That I haveCome to know,
To love so well
In sickness
And in healthThere is no greater
Love than the flight
From madness,
Of sacrificeA […]
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