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• Poetry > Free Verse
  and back to life brings pain

  

  By TheSkyOwesMeRain, Irvine, CA

  you promised me the sun and stars, and i could believe it when we spent all our time chasing fantasies but now i’m lost [feeling like drowning] screaming for all you have denied me [and for the rest of my life, i will face this sea and jump ship alone]...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  love me, leave me

  

  By TheSkyOwesMeRain, Irvine, CA

  then: I would make pancakes for breakfast, and watch as you stumbled from the bedroom with your hair tousled and eyes half-closed. I would laugh as you lumbered towards me, and I would feel the warmth of your hand on my neck, and the taste of your sweet lips on mine. now: The stove is cold. Sitti...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  nobody told me

  

  By TheSkyOwesMeRain, Irvine, CA

  the more i think about it, the more i realize that stars are everywhere: wishing upon a star star student, first in the class shoot for the moon, fall amongst the stars i was told that friends were like stars as well – sometimes hidden, but always there. nobody told me that stars were m...
• Poetry > Haiku
  i miss the hell you gave to me

  

  By TheSkyOwesMeRain, Irvine, CA

  Your kiss frozen on my lips; can stars cry when they burn with hateful fire?...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Dust Motes

  

  By TheSkyOwesMeRain, Irvine, CA

  I can see a fly hovering around my desk lamp – I blow hard at the small insect (watching with satisfaction as it stumbles in the cold breeze of my breath) and return to my work. But when I look back all I see are dust motes slowly drifting in the light....
• Poetry > Haiku
  The Giver and Taker of Life

  

  By TheSkyOwesMeRain, Irvine, CA

  The earth we all love: it gives life, and takes the dead as the years sneak by....
• Hot Topics > Bullying
  tearstains on my pillow

  

  By TheSkyOwesMeRain, Irvine, CA

  Hi, Mom, Dad. Wow, I didn’t think I’d ever be saying this while surrounded by a bunch of dead people. I thought that children were supposed to outlive their parents. Guess I was wrong…but then again, it was my fault, wasn’t it? I guess I’d better start from the very beginning. This...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  crystals of salt and rain

  

  By TheSkyOwesMeRain, Irvine, CA

  rain leaves cold wet flicker green yellow red street shoe breath let jacket dark sigh dead greet glance metal raise stride smile wave naïve fading drop still gaze lone sadness hidden sieve leaving strut smirk say “safe shallow not guard” puddle crossing drench away hole deep hurt...
• Fiction > Sci-fi/Fantasy
  The Shell

  

  By TheSkyOwesMeRain, Irvine, CA

  It stands out among the smoothly undulating waves of sand, stormy gray and creamy white against the endless hills of tan. The first thing she notices as she picks it up is that it is a conch shell, mostly gray but with a few white and brown stripes, and spikes that have weathered down to a blunt tip...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Regretful Past

  

  By TheSkyOwesMeRain, Irvine, CA

  My sister’s hands are smaller than mine and one of them has a bite mark on it. My sister pulls at her hair. She plants a seed that has never known sunshine. Do you feel sorry for anything you’ve done before, Katie? Would you?...
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  Closer to Tomorrow

  

  By TheSkyOwesMeRain, Irvine, CA