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  I Have Learned

  

  By MelanieLouise, Maple Grove, MN

  The mountain of laundry in a closet is endless. Trying to wash it Takes irreplaceable time for unfortunately replaceable Articles of stories and lonely socks. Strength in a bone is not represented by form, they say, but by the amount of breaks and fractures that are embedded into it. ...
• Poetry > Haiku
  Exhaust

  

  By MelanieLouise, Maple Grove, MN

  The black metal borns Congested white flesh that runs Out of breath with air...
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  Fakers

  

  By MelanieLouise, Maple Grove, MN

  Your dingy black hair nasty, blotchy tan overdone tin rings and shameful chicken-scratch drawings make me want to shake you until you fall out of that disposable body you sketch and gauge your ears to be unique to be different you are a shell willing to be filled with the next great thing...
• Poetry > Haiku
  High School

  

  By MelanieLouise, Maple Grove, MN

  Desperate, I once roamed This linoleum desert In search for water....
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  Can I Forget?

  

  By MelanieLouise, Maple Grove, MN

  the page is turned, but i cannot leave without you, forever dog-eared....
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  A Dead Cigarette

  

  By MelanieLouise, Maple Grove, MN

  your eyes sputter to a stop, i am not lying your hands search for mine, without knowing, i cringe from the undying love laced in your strong veins embers on your dead cigarette fall from our flame, they slowly fade....
• Poetry > Haiku
  A Stranger's Conversation

  

  By MelanieLouise, Maple Grove, MN

  why are your nails black? you ask, because it matches my wardrobe and coffee....
• Poetry > Free Verse
  What It's Doing to Me

  

  By MelanieLouise, Maple Grove, MN

  the pain the pain that is inside of me reminds me that my demons will never hear my plea the evidence the evidence that is outside of me reminds me that nobody can erase my memory the heart the heart that is never on my sleeve reminds me that no one can see what it's doing to me....
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  Unsaid

  

  By MelanieLouise, Maple Grove, MN

  behind this innocent smile of mine are words left unsaid words of forgiveness, love, anger, hatred, and longing, all repeated in my head understanding is all i need but you turn your back instead....
• Poetry > Haiku
  Dear Love,

  

  By MelanieLouise, Maple Grove, MN

  life without a scar is like love without the fall forever you jump...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  The Big Island Amusement Park

  

  By MelanieLouise, Maple Grove, MN

  i stand at the bottom of the steps cracked from all the years of disuse my eyes close, replacing the sounds of whispering leaves and distant laughter with the sounds of the past an amusement park a distant memory, but i am so close i imagine the smells the people the colors the music, i ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Scribbles of Color

  

  By MelanieLouise, Maple Grove, MN

  when i first learned to draw all i created were scribbles of color and incomplete ideas being so young and innocent, i never thought i was wrong as the years went by, you gave me the courage to not be afraid to color outside of the lines you influenced my passion and fascination for ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Betrayal is the Worst

  

  By MelanieLouise, Maple Grove, MN

  your words sink into my newly-tainted mind my hands start to shake how could i have been so blind? my thoughts have become warped and frayed my eyes start to sting our connection loosely fades you beg for forgiveness pathetically scraping your knees willing me to understand but what abou...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  If I Could Get Away With It

  

  By MelanieLouise, Maple Grove, MN

  if i could get away with it, i would push you in a cart down San Francisco's steepest hill with a squeaky wheel i would flip your canoe in the middle of the Mississippi River with the current of a bull race i would duct tape you to a tree in the heart of a storm with the presenc...
• Poetry > Haiku
  Oh, To Be Young Again

  

  By MelanieLouise, Maple Grove, MN

  The second-hand is moving too fast but i still have hope for today....
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  The Art Gallery

  

  By MelanieLouise, Maple Grove, MN

  Galleries combine and condense images from my sub-conscious dreams....
• Poetry > Free Verse
  An After Thought

  

  By MelanieLouise, Maple Grove, MN

  I do not believe in love. For it does not believe in me Its been ripped from my raw grip Too many times I am frozen in time, unable to move my Brittle hands Silky ribbons fall and pool around my weak ankles Love spelled out right in front of me And I cannot move my lips to Caress this unf...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Nothing Lasts Forever, Especially Love

  

  By MelanieLouise, Maple Grove, MN

  Nothing lasts forever. Storms, dreams, life, happiness, and especially Love. The sun breaks up the clouds of a storm and the rain disappears. Dreams are stopped by the flutter of your eyelashes. Life is ended by the snap of His fingers. Happiness is broken by sorrow. And Love is crus...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Nothing But Black Streaks

  

  By MelanieLouise, Maple Grove, MN

  one day one day can change a childhood bike rides in the humid Minnesota air baking in the beating sun doing each others hair together for heartbreak and the fall together for loss and gain you were there for it all but now the slate is clean no memories nothing but black streaks no t...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Moving On's Warning Lable

  

  By MelanieLouise, Maple Grove, MN

  living each day and being forced into thinking can cause discomfort thinking of my future looking beyond yesterday can cause alarm having to replay my imagery from end to beginning can cause memories remembering to breathe in and out to stay alive can cause restlessness picking u...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Darkness is Cold

  

  By MelanieLouise, Maple Grove, MN

  darkness is cold it has no weakness it has no empathy darkness is always there it sulks around and wraps around your mind it brings with it uncanny thoughts it drags in bitterness and pain it comes quietly with a brisk chill you don't notice it at first, but it's there you tr...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Guess Who is The Game

  

  By MelanieLouise, Maple Grove, MN

  strong, soft hands cover my eyes your breath hot on my neck a smile hints at the corner of my slicked lips guess who is the game but i know its always you time slows down and you are all i can see even through my closed pink lids strumming on guitar strings and heart strings trying to nam...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  The Blue-Eyed Monster Has Come Out to Play

  

  By MelanieLouise, Maple Grove, MN

  the ice queen struts down the hall with the power of a force field bodies slam against lockers and walls perfect body, perfect hair and you can hear them crawl make-up as thick as shellac and bleached locks loosely fall they cover up the monster hiding underneath it all when she enters a ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Without Fear

  

  By MelanieLouise, Maple Grove, MN

  Flower grows Without fear of Weed Weed lives Without fear of Rain Rain falls Without fear of Umbrella Umbrella opens Without fear of Lightening Lightening strikes Without fear of Tree Tree stands Without fear of Chainsaw Chainsaw eats Without fear of Man Man exists Without fear of F...
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  Mirror, Mirror

  

  By MelanieLouise, Maple Grove, MN

  mirror, mirror on the wall why do you show a lie? i look so fake, emotionless living in the shadow of who i am supposed to be my smile is so forced, broken my eyes are and abyss of guilt my skin is pale and cold my arm are puckered with sadness mirror, mirror oh broken mirror i sm...