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  I Think I'm the Man, Who Jumps Off the Roof

  

  By Quinntessa, Burlington, MA

  Even though it's over, I still cry at night. Sometimes it's so bad I cry myself to sleep, Yet through the passing, I feel as if I'm alive More alive than I could have ever imagined. Sometimes things like this just happen to people. Sometimes there is no controlling their own fa...
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  Broken Faces

  

  By Quinntessa, la LA land, United States

  Her single majesty of white Plants destruction in the soil In which Seeds are spread to Every dark cavern Set in the great depression of earth A cheerless tree In a desolate land of graves Dying from infestation Of insects' hairy legs Who cry Cry at the whisper of death Hanging ...
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  From Shadows to Stripes

  

  By Quinntessa, la LA land, United States

  A nimble paw, charcoaled, touches a scorched leaf It's frown tight and black from putrid fury No glistening nor shimmers of dew drop's grief The claws slash back with scrutinized worry Her shadow hangs across the branded dirt Tail whips among tree's deranged demands An ear fol...
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  Kill the Night

  

  By Quinntessa, la LA land, United States

  The knots twist down my bleached hair Making a cascade of tattered waves Whispering wind in the cool, damp air Persuades me to escape to the caves A storm is brewing in the darkened sky Clouds black with madness and fury Tears leak with the night's great cry The sun's pushed by th...
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  La Balena

  

  By Quinntessa, la LA land, United States

  The breeze is fresh across the water Crisp and cool, yet mysteriously warm The tip of a tail of ocean's daughter Her fin skimming the eye of the storm A hint of blue touches upon her With silver mist in her eyes A body suited of dazzling armor She lifts herself in simple sigh An ang...
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  Easter Givings

  

  By Quinntessa, la LA land, United States

  Soon let it be Easter and it shall be morrow Where all of the sadness and pain and sorrow Will disappear to let a merry day Easily make its good heart show the way Eggs and candy shall be cracked open and popped And chicks will run while bunnies be hopped Petty children and dirtied young han...
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  What Wish Takes Her?

  

  By Quinntessa, la LA land, United States

  Her life drips down the petals And dead leaves Like blood Streaming, a river, out of the  Swollen wounds of a soldier Color has withdrawn from her Fragile, candid stem Draining its soul from internal Limbs break free and fly With the wind Making wishes to children As they go, giving dr...
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  Beauty Breaks Through the Thorns

  

  By Quinntessa, la LA land, United States

  A rose among the wicked thorns Clutching her own against the scorns Influencing, the bayonets can be Yet still, she stands on young and free Her radiance is stronger than true poison Blossoms reach out toward the  horizon The humble bloom shines through the cloud Her stake of beauty shan&#...
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  Beaten Down by the Enmity of Life

  

  By Quinntessa, la LA land, United States

  A fatigued bark sounded from the pen. What could that mongrel want now? Sulking over the drunken hound, I begged his dilemma I should know; The pedigree of a different kind, Allows none less than mutts astray. What much the pessimistic residual? How does the simple distinction posses? For it...
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  A Weep for Thy Swan

  

  By Quinntessa, la LA land, United States

  "Drown your sorrows."  It was the last thing my mother said to me. I never understood why she said this to me, but it was her worldly advice toward everything. Drown your sorrows... Drown your sorrows... It echoed in my head like a ragged metronome. Click. Click. Click. It wouldn't...
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  Goodbye Girl

  

  By Quinntessa, la LA land, United States

  Some say they've seen her Others don't For she daunts a certain glow Hard to seek out But those ones who have seen her Tell her message And pass it on to the world It starts with The goodbye girl Seasons of song tell her tale Her spirit in the mountains, Love in the flower bud...
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  Her Sleep Through the Night

  

  By Quinntessa, la LA land, United States

  Eyes gently closed, a tongue hanging down Not a hint of a smile, not even a frown No expression set on her beautiful face Though somehow she seems peaceful in her place No longer was there a glazed look in her eye As her spirit went up to the heavens in the sky Not a twitch went through her,...
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  Blessed Reminisce

  

  By Quinntessa, la LA land, United States

  Anguish not, hither I am Cryptic in a threadless crease Of your wasted, conquered heart Love influences, thus I abide  Lit with a humor of amity...
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  The Wasted Minds Amongst the Ordinary

  

  By Quinntessa, la LA land, United States

  A sea of cowards stands among me Wishing of utterly useless things Wanting selfish curiosity From the voice of a bird that rarely sings Greedy minds make tell-tale lies Slipping through our imaginations Making us believe in the charmed black skies Expanding our own fascinations Fingers, ...
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  Another Step Taken Across the Floor

  

  By Quinntessa, la LA land, United States

  The figure, so elegantly curved Points out on a toe Bending in painfully exquisite ways Easily able to snap and shatter Yet strong enough to live Supple lithe gives them their shape To prance around the bland, oak floor Influencing fabric is soft as silk  Effortless to the sight, serene ...
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  Stars of Dreams

  

  By Quinntessa, la LA land, United States

  Wish upon a shooting star Make a dream for you and our Hope for things beyond this world Don't make your only life knurled...
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  Masked by the Shadowed

  

  By Quinntessa, la LA land, United States

  Behind a sea of harshly charred stripes Hidden gold eyes take a strike Looking beyond the land in which it lives Looking for a lending hand that gives  Thin from famine, weakly bounded Limbs and bones hang, needing founded Teeth worn down to nearly nothing No longer show their true full be...
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  Forgotten

  

  By Quinntessa, la LA land, United States

  Your soft lips brush against mine too persuasive your penetrating eyes burn into mine locking my gaze your warm hand holds my face making me forget the lies you've told to me Your arm locks against my waist keeping me prisoner to you your fingers knot in my hair pulling my f...
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  Given Rose

  

  By Quinntessa, la LA land, United States

  The Stem of a Rose, white petals surround it They curve into a perfect formation Where they are, they flawlessly sit They bloom fully after their long winters vacation The smell of sweet, lovely scents fill my nose I take a deep breath and let the scents in A beautiful sight, the flower, the R...
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  Careful Hands

  

  By Quinntessa, la LA land, United States

  The cracks within tell the many stories of my ancestors how they came to be crafted so carefully to make the smooth curves and perfect shape passed down from generation to generation by rough hands tanned from work in the field picking cotton The pale colors are the bland lines of my fami...
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  Only Lies

  

  By Quinntessa, la LA land, United States

  A whisper escapes your lips into my ear A little white lie is what I hear Only good is told to me But you're oblivious to the fact I can see That what you tell is not the truth The words from your mouth are the proof You lied to me and everyone I shut you out, you are done That stupid l...
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  Dreams

  

  By Quinntessa, la LA land, United States

  What dreams I may, What dreams I might, Have on a warm summer’s night. They swirl through my mind, Bring my wonderful thoughts, As I sleep soundly on my own little cot. I dream of a prairie , So beautiful in sight, And I’m standing there playing with a colorful kite. The sun is out, Th...
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  Escape

  

  By Quinntessa, la LA land, United States

  In a body of vibrant scales, sits a creature in vibes of wails. It goes around in search of its desire, digging into it, a burning fire. Swimming around, wanting escape, is a colorful figure, full of hate. Its only wish, to be free, is one thing that cannot be. In a bowl is where it will sta...
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  The swan

  

  By Quinntessa, la LA land, United States

  A black crown surrounds its head. Its body lays in a feathery bed. It sits in a sweet sea of blue. Light mist arises and surrounds you. You feel drops of perspiration roll down your face. As the sun, a golden eye, shines down heating the space. The feathered figure raises its wings, And lifts...
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  Hopeful

  

  By Quinntessa, la LA land, United States

  It stands in the darkness of a dank, demonic wood. It does not move, though it knows it should. Vines grip up its aging sides. It has gouges and scratches in which animals do hide. Its sickly twisted arms reach out, Yelling out in silence for help. And through the dense atmosphere above, Stre...