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blackfaerie73
blackfaerie73

Deflated Love

Sinking slowly, the balloon makes an effort to fly again. But the weight is too much. Oxygen not enough. So it hovers there delicately, sliding downwards with each day that passes.

4 0 120 words
AprilMayJune
AprilMayJune

Fly Away

A blank sheet of paper stares at me. It bores holes into my poor soul. I pick up an ink pen and kill it, Scribbling furiously, out of control.

24 5 156 words
SofltySpoken
SofltySpoken

Magical mystery

Its been a while my long lost companions - I guess thats what exams do to you. Stress, halls filled with students flipping pages looking confused, stunned or just overly confident.

0 0 173 words
ZenMercury
ZenMercury

54.Whirr

Hello again, and today is Thursday, November 8, 2012. Do you ever get that feeling that a million ideas are just flying around in your head. Ideas flying around like bees near a flower.

6 0 187 words
leelee101
leelee101

shhhh...

Quiet.

46 8 35 words
efflorecence
efflorecence

A Petal For Your Thoughts

Happily together our song is sung, In the form of beautiful words upon paper To treasure and keep for years to come Never to be opened until much later.

30 4 203 words
Odd
Odd

My Anchor

I've tried contacting you, But you ignore me like you do. Like a anchor you pull me down. Unable able to move on, I'm still around. I just need to here why from you. Was it something I said.

10 0 91 words
lucimaeprudence
lucimaeprudence

Green Ink On A Feather

When I write poems about you. I write with ink because. Pencils actually erase themselves if you ignore them for too long. And ballpoint pens sometimes run out.

8 0 275 words
aleishagayle20
aleishagayle20

The (S)word

I live by the (S)word I'll stab your heart with the word I'll use them to take over the world You can live by the knife The words will always infect your life Believe you have a different...

28 12 149 words
crowncottage
crowncottage

Seasons

The seasons on Earth are reflections of the seasons of life for each soul. Childhood: Spring When a child is brought into the world, fresh, full of enthusiasm and growing fast.

118 50 179 words
ykid
ykid

The surgery

Tomorrow I'll be attending my first patient, A case i've been preparing for months now from scratch, I shall be in the operating theatre, At half past two for a case that is due to finish in 5 hours.

2 2 212 words
jansea
jansea

Fame

Objects sparkle and shine. They shimmer like my grandmother's sweater that she only wears on half good days.

10 3 192 words
FredNote
FredNote

Fuel Your Life

When it comes to strength and motivation, I like to speak in metaphors because they are a good way to get a wholesome look of the situation.

2 0 584 words
DQ-231
DQ-231

My Life & Dust Covered Fake Diamonds

Extract: "So right now, still sitting on my floor, while random tunes play through my Angry Birds iPod dock, from Khailash Kher to The Game, through to Mohammed Rafi and Mariah Carey, one of the two...

6 0 101 words
Beckarrrrh
Beckarrrrh

What If

What if the world was a cube. What if that cube of life and beautiful things had eight points that held a mountain in each.

2 0 323 words