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  A Monolouge in a Fever Ward

  

  By readerwriter85, St. Augustine, FL

  Spotlight up on a dark stage. A young girl of perhaps 13 or 14 is lying on a cot or hospital bed parallel to the downstage, looking sideways at the audience. She is dressed in white, a dirty nightgown that looks as if she has worn it for weeks. Emilia:(speaking with a little dreamy, thoughtful sa...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  The Poet's Dream

  

  By readerwriter85, St. Augustine, FL

  My dream is to cut like a knife to the center of the universe my lifeblood spilling and spinning to touch the bright core of your souls so you know that it's okay to shed your lithospheres shake off your magma burns and let the light of your own poetry supernova into the stars ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  The Color Wheel

  

  By readerwriter85, St. Augustine, FL

  My memories are videos, overclear stills No one directing the mercy of our wills Hours, years, tugging at an acre of fabric Blue sky, dry grass, smooth cold bamboo dirtied by small excited feet The world was elementary, primary colors From art class to the house, bright and distinct Separate...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Growing Up Butterfly

  

  By readerwriter85, St. Augustine, FL

  Do you remember Growing up, butterfly? A caterpillar The world breathing around you, A simple existence of sunshine and leaf, Rain on your back The hollows of the leaves to rock you to sleep Nobody demanded anything of you, Everything you had it was easy to keep Do you remember Growing...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Little Blue Marble

  

  By readerwriter85, St. Augustine, FL

  Think of it as a Little blue marble Blown into being in a master glassblower’s shop Quivering, warm breath still held inside it Painted by white swirls of storms Thumbprinted green, blue by God Footprinted brown, black by man Beautiful and scarred Hanging in a fortunate dip in the black v...