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Burrfoot
Burrfoot

Flower

My beautiful flower. Fragile, discovering power. I've watched you grow. Cared as best I know. Nurtured and watered and fed. But it's time to plant outside instead.

24 1 69 words
Platypus
Platypus

Sky Girl

#youngwritershousehold. The clouds are my pillow,. I sleep in the sky,. I drift on the wind,. I swoop, I fly,. The thunder's my anger,. My hate, rage and fire,. The rainbows, my dreams,.

34 7 87 words
insidewantsout97
insidewantsout97

Love

A child was once concieved,. It started off extremely small. The child was full of hope and faith. And the power to conquer all. The child was simple to the eye,. But beautiful all the same.

2 0 383 words
Diddle
Diddle

Innocent

Innocence is a thing of beauty,. Gorgeous and divine,. Not sneaky or snoopy,. But somehow still can shine,. It's pure as a rose,. Clear as day,. But it's you who chose,. What game to play,.

22 0 51 words
candyland_massacre
candyland_massacre

Imagination Is Key

Dusk over dawn. The horizon beneath the sun. Waves cascading over the smooth sand. A cave hidden away on an island. Locked away. Hung by handcuffs against the cold stone walls. Welcome to my home.

12 0 181 words
Platypus
Platypus

A Sea Of Words

#household @timmsyy A race of literature, And I'm winning, A sea of words, And I'm swimming. A house of paper, Fragile and thin, Don't open the door, The wind will blow in.

26 3 74 words
sjw
sjw

The Still Of Night.

The darkness of night gives our thoughts flight. Whilst others dream, things aren't what they seem.

36 3 78 words
Clairabethy
Clairabethy

Inglenook

I don't keep it in the attic, it's not inside a drawer, it's more precious than that to me, for it means so much more.

38 8 74 words
damoambrose
damoambrose

Beauty

beauty is the beast. upon our souls and hearts it feasts. it makes us blind to itself. behind innocent smiles it hides in stealth. yet in every place where beauty lies.

30 4 159 words
damoambrose
damoambrose

Glass Of Wine

Romance sometimes .....A fragile thing... Perhaps...tenacious ...The spirit cling For in the texture ....Lies the strength Profound the structure ...The more intense What logic of...

16 3 45 words
jacooo
jacooo

The Sun Will Appear

A melancholy mauve settles upon dreams, Descending quickly, but without haste, Encompassing and shrouding, smothering and clouding, So happiness dives, encapsulated, into the deep, Fearing, not...

12 2 177 words
Clairabethy
Clairabethy

Pegging

This is really late for #household peg day- appologies @nom. She pegged it on the kitty cat, she pegged it on the moon, she pegged it on her state of mind, she pegged it on a tune.

16 4 61 words
TaintedTulip
TaintedTulip

Weave A Web

Weave a web of wishes Look to all the trees What web would you choose For your thoughts to be free.

12 3 173 words
misslittleDHP
misslittleDHP

I Am Water

I am a powerful force, this, no one can deny I can be the difference whether you live or if you die I can be a trickle or a magnificent waterfall I can be an oceans worth, or a puddle so very small I...

74 53 171 words
naaviie
naaviie

A Million Ways

Dropping like a piece of crystal,. Or shot, straight through with a hot pistol,. A stone thrown into a still pond,. Shattering reflections far beyond,. A spell broke on a single, simple word,.

82 9 106 words
erzamarie
erzamarie

A Deck Of Cards

Isn't it sad to be a pair in a deck of cards.

16 4 142 words
Platypus
Platypus

#myworld

If my world was a rainbow, I would definitely be green, Green is a fresh colour, The freshest ever seen, If my world was a hardback book, It would be very well loved, and old, It would be red, with...

14 0 74 words
LeahLovesEC
LeahLovesEC

The Perfect Tea For Me!

Here is how you make the perfect tea for me, it is quite easy...

30 15 61 words
misslittleDHP
misslittleDHP

Heart

A heart is a fragile thing. More delicate than a butterfly wing. It can be light and float like a feather. Or heavy and under the weather. It rhythmically beats like tribal drums.

56 24 89 words
ashhkat
ashhkat

Parts of Me

A steady anchor. Never swept in by the tide. Lace your composition. When really you're drowning in lies. Surfacing for air only sometimes. Those moments only in those. Precious breathes do I find.

48 12 78 words
iPuss
iPuss

Dreams

If dreams were a food... Mine would be a buffett. If dreams were a mood... Mine would be a toughy. If dreams were a dance... Mine would be bump & grind. If dreams were a chance...

34 9 102 words
TigerLover
TigerLover

However Small The Light

#Household @naaviie In the crack of dawn, a small town sleeps, it's peace and calm and love. The windows closed, no light shows, not a sound, not a stir, not a dove.

16 2 111 words
Nom
Nom

Little Filament

I have sometimes wondered Just what it would be like To be that little filament Holding a spark of light Enclosed in a glass bubble My view outside is curved But up until my dying day From my duty,...

48 12 93 words
Delilah
Delilah

Stuffy

Cotton wool head full of fluff, Cotton wool head that's enough.

22 5 46 words
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