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• Poetry > Haiku
  Again

  

  By papermargins, Bridgewater, NJ

  I saw you today Eyes caress across the room like strangers, again...
• Poetry > Haiku
  Sunless

  

  By papermargins, Bridgewater, NJ

  How heartless the sun to shine with such joy, as if my world were still whole...
• Poetry > Haiku
  The Morning After

  

  By papermargins, Bridgewater, NJ

  For I am afraid When the day comes, new and frail To wake alone here...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Only Mortal

  

  By papermargins, Bridgewater, NJ

  Time is that cruel grinding gear Mercilessly cranking onward Toilessly watching us toil For rewards soon lost In the quiet hum of an incubator A life Too brief to matter, too long not to care Too sweet to give up, too painful to stay The lingering taste of that brief existence As the cloud...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  saturday mornings

  

  By papermargins, Bridgewater, NJ

  watching the television, paused on that show again the sappy cartoon sings and canned-laughs like an old friend and i once again am fresh woken on a saturday morning for that weekly sacrament an hour on the sofa,not quite as worn as it is now wrapped in the warmth of a familiar blanket smelling...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Train

  

  By papermargins, Bridgewater, NJ

  Waiting for a train means tasting a life to come Not swallowing, but simmering it on the tongue To watch the ambitions of the metal rails (to dare to roar) Unbroken in their trek to the horizon I sit here waiting, watching the rain shatter(or is it me?) On my clenched pale fists Like so man...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Fountain of Youth

  

  By papermargins, Bridgewater, NJ

  She watches herself watching herself grow old And the mirror grows dusky Ashamed to meet her own eyes As life runs down her lips and is entangled in her hair And dreams grow rheumatic and forgotten moments flee to dusty corners A worn out blanket draped across trembling porcelain knees She sit...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Dancing with You

  

  By papermargins, Bridgewater, NJ

  you walk and drive and take the train you wear shades in the sun, umbrellas in the rain but have you ever danced? you hurry to the office and then hurry back you fret about the time and the skills that you lack but have you ever danced? you fear to fear, but you fear to love you fear all ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Childhood

  

  By papermargins, Bridgewater, NJ

  childhood is flying on the swings, feet kicking at the sky propelled by gently pushing hands behind you childhood is a handmade christmas card garbed in clumps of dried glue and glitter beautiful beyond its season childhood jumping into a puddle as deep as the sky and splattering mud all over m...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Untitled 1

  

  By papermargins, Bridgewater, NJ

  I am gleefully ensnared by the sky dreaming of the clouds they would be so soft under my sun charred toes perhaps i would sink in I am tentatively reaching for the sky imagining the stars how warm they would smell like roasting chestnuts I am swallowed willingly by the sky smiling at the wo...
• Nonfiction > Memoir
  Summer Storm

  

  By papermargins, Bridgewater, NJ

  The sky had opened up and unleashed its fury upon us. The dark clouds blanketed the sky, smothering any trace of light. The world was drowning; the cracked pavement ran with tears. The trees and shrubs were bent over in battered submission. At least that’s how it seemed that muggy May afternoon,...