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  Self-Worth

  

  By KylieKollmeier, Webb City, MO

  I grew up To be a pessimist In all its wondrous Glory Knowing I’ll never be that Diamond In that mountain Of all the other diamonds....
• Poetry > Free Verse
  I Say

  

  By KylieKollmeier, Webb City, MO

  What a stupid girl, I say. You envy where there are no prizes, You despise where there are no wrongs, You blame where there are no faults, And yet you blink with indifference. Like anybody could be that good, you say. It’s all impossible, Unattainable, Inaccessible, you say. And yet you s...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Who Cares

  

  By KylieKollmeier, Webb City, MO

  Tinier slits as Hours trudge on through Thick vines always Seeming Thicker than before Lids threatening for A curtain call But sacrificing slumber Is only one Penny out of my pocket Fingers heaving for Energy That cannot be Merely handed to me Through edible sustenance Bones creak and...
• Poetry > Song Lyrics
  Orphan Child

  

  By KylieKollmeier, Webb City, MO

  Lone little orphan child Simple, quiet, meek, and mild Ill-treated for mistaken reasons Ill-fated through countless seasons Train wheels moving beneath her feet Count the sounds of the steady beat Pray that she’ll find something more Thoughts resound inside her core Foreign people with...
• Poetry > Haiku
  Silence

  

  By KylieKollmeier, Webb City, MO

  The Silence speaks to Me with disrespect when it Doesn’t raise its hand...
• Poetry > Song Lyrics
  I Can Follow

  

  By KylieKollmeier, Webb City, MO

  Honeysuckle scents Little white-picket fence A perfect, plastered home For a girl I used to know Disgust and ugly stares A couple troubles here and there I would have been more glad If I knew what came after that Potential never reached Learned how to take defeat A few more puffy eyes ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Journey

  

  By KylieKollmeier, Webb City, MO

  The beginnings make us grow. The endings make us wilt. But what makes the story great, Is the journey that we've built....
• Poetry > All Poetry
  YOLO(:

  

  By KylieKollmeier, Webb City, MO

  YOU showed me how to love. ONLY you help me when it’s rough. We’ll LIVE together here and above. Cause ONCE will never be enough....
• Poetry > All Poetry
  Spaces

  

  By KylieKollmeier, Webb City, MO

  You fill the spaces with laughter. You fill the spaces with smiles. Next time I’m in a cheerless place, Will you come and stay awhile?...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Sunshine in a Cup

  

  By KylieKollmeier, Webb City, MO

  If I had sunshine in a cup, I'd pour you some. You'd shuffle our cards, and pass me some. I'd sip, you'd sip. We'd sip some. I'd play, you'd play. We'd play some. Your hand would hit my cup and spill some. My sunshine would leak some. I'd drown in some....
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Hester, My Dear

  

  By KylieKollmeier, Webb City, MO

  Hester, my dear, you smolder. Bright, Scarlet embers glow. But you comprise your posture, Stand up against all foe. “Shameful, Hester,” Guilt declares, “Why betray confidence? You have suffered and been scorned, Gone is all faithfulness.” Reconcile your morals, dear, From charit...
• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  An Unexpected Encounter

  

  By KylieKollmeier, Webb City, MO

  This past Saturday, my mother, brother, and I went to McDonald’s for lunch. We settled into a booth about two booths away from the corner of the restaurant. In front of our booth, there was an older lady. In some high chairs adjacent to us, there was a mother and her two young sons. It was al...
• Poetry > Haiku
  Tears

  

  By KylieKollmeier, Webb City, MO

  Salty ebbs flowing Trickling down a trail of fear I don't deserve this...
• Poetry > Haiku
  Bye Bye

  

  By KylieKollmeier, Webb City, MO

  Darkness, here I lie A bruised body that won't heal Tick, tock, tick, bye bye...
• Poetry > Haiku
  Fading

  

  By KylieKollmeier, Webb City, MO

  A sting of regret Falling through past memories I fade into dust...
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  Simplicity

  

  By KylieKollmeier, Webb City, MO