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  Speak

  

  By CK310, monsey, NY

  This is me grasping one last desperate attempt at making myself heard. This is me finding a friend to confide in, when all of my words come out wrong. This is me trying to put a puzzle back together, but it’s impossible when the complete picture isn’t there- and I have no idea where I...
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  Beauty and Cruelty

  

  By CK310, monsey, NY

  Coiling, choking, black smoke fills the air. Machinery grinding, metal against metal. Gunshots echo in the night with a bang. Crying children Dying people. Knives, swords, rifles, and bombs. Hanging, strangling, starving, drowning, burning. Hatred- the fire roars within us. Jealousy- ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Pierced

  

  By CK310, monsey, NY

  It stood, magnificent adorning the brick wall the vast mosaic the glow it possessed a natural blue beauty. At dawn; pink rays of mist filtering through the glass to bathe the room in softness the pale light waking her as it danced across her sleeping face. At noon; the sun high and p...
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  Caged Bird

  

  By CK310, monsey, NY

  Awaken from the misty dreams of earlier life, and the brutal harsh slap of reality; here to confront you now at this very moment. You can go your whole existence thinking you’ve got it all in your pocket but when it’s snatched brusquely away, one small trauma, you find how much room yo...