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devoejack24 Jun 04, 2026

Bury a Giant

How do you bury a giant?

corral a myth—

wipe a slate clean.

How do you 

change belief,

worship in peace—

censure false prophets.

How do  you

impugn the diabolical,

Bear false witness

Betray a neighbour—

Attack. Abuse. Disown

Can you teach me?

Mother.

Father.

 

 

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wisecrone2011 Jun 04, 2026

Nobody's Hero

Nobody's Hero

It used to be easy to read peoples'

minds, travel roads, without sight,

 find my way through time,

Now, lately, 

out of nowhere, 

I am going blind.

And, since, I have not, 

for such a long time, 

used my eyes to see,

They have shriveled, 

in their sockets, 

rendering them 

useless to me.

I am crippled,

in ways, 

I never expected,

Before, I could 

view the world, 

and other, 

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Tigger Kaz Jun 04, 2026

No winners in this game

The TV's staying off
As I just want to shout.
Has the world gone crazy?
What's all this hate about?

Social media is no better, 
Toxic droning pushed around. 
See the persistent aggression, 
Like angry rabid hounds.

And I wonder at the point, 
Were they waiting in the wings? 
For such a proper moment, 
To hurl their words that sting.

Or perhaps like robots, 
Programmed to spout their hate. 
Either way it sucks, 
This antithesis of great.

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Ruby Lord Jun 04, 2026

The Trials of a Poet

The Trials of a Poet

The husband how he scoffs and sneers, 

on all my writing, inky tears. 

When I wax dark he rolls his eyes, 

mutters morbid, without disguise.

 

Our son you see, he takes my side,

praises my work, sings his mother’s pride.

But husband taunts and shakes his head.

Impatience speaks, my work misread.

 

I warn him time and time again, 

that one dank day, I’ll lift my pen. 

Immortalise his ways in rhyme. 

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RJ Bear Jun 04, 2026

Where Summer and Winter Meet

The golden sun descends on silver frost,
two bleeding seasons dance upon the line.
Where burning summer heat is paid and lost,
the icy breath of darkness makes them twine.

A trembling bloom of fire, pure and white,
descends to meet the landscape down below.
Her burning touch ignites the freezing night,
to kiss the pale domain of falling snow.

Though destiny decrees they must depart,
an endless love is burned into their mind,
and tears their fleeting, earthly lives apart,
they leave a living legacy behind.

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hippiemoon Jun 04, 2026

Bring me Eggs

Can you pick up some eggs on your way home?


 

I haven’t heard from you in a while, how have you been?


 

Sorry, that wasn’t for you.


 

That’s okay, I hope you’ve been good. Who’s coming home? Do you still live at your parents, or have you moved in with someone new?


 

I really don’t want to talk to you.


 

I understand, I know I messed up. I still think of you often. I miss you.


 

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flj011278 Jun 03, 2026

P.T.S.D/ The harbinger.

A sinking feeling Crushing cold A darkness envelops, you like an unseen hand that grips your throat and won't let you go.

Anxiety sets in my heart begins to pound. I grip my pistol and pray aloud as I wait for night to pass. 

An unseen presence, but a thing you can feel it haunts my days and authors my nightmares. and attacks me in my sleep.

Dripping sweat from my brow as I contemplate, turning the pistol on my self. I don't think I can take much more of this all-consuming, hell.

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patrickgadoury Jun 03, 2026

1st Communion

Dear God,

I know I haven’t been paying attention, but my 1st Communion is coming up, and I don’t know how this all works yet.

I wanted to try to make a bargain.

I don’t know if I believe in You enough for this to count, but I was wondering if You could make Maegan like me in class.

I think she’s Pentecostal. That’s what the other boys said. I don’t know what that means, but they said it like she came from somewhere else.

But I think it’s meant to be, because every time she looks at me, I feel like it’s recess, even if religion class just started.

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RJ Bear Jun 03, 2026

The Dead Mesa Requiem

A decade passed since weary lawmen died,
to guard the gold that locked itself inside.
A curse was laid upon the lonely hill,
To keep the hidden treasure dark and still.

The midnight sun is bleeding low and red,
across a silent valley of the dead.
He pulls his heavy brimmed hat to his eyes,
as black crows scream their warnings to the skies.

The map is cracked and rotted down with mold,
a scrap of flesh that speaks of Spanish gold.
The ink is dark, like dried and vanished veins,
of men who died in heavy iron chains.

JR
Jane A. Rug Jun 03, 2026

From: Matthew Scott to his youngest daughter

From: Matthew Scott to his youngest daughter

to where Redmond Proficiency Academy located.

who chanced to come upon this file 
after 724 Railroad Avenue you did flee
(understandable why and how eagerness
arose to go west after your big sister left prithee
to attend a Philadelphia ivy league University
nine years ago to the tee.

alias harris40tude at america online dot com
Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 12:57 AM
High School Sadness sans S_ A_ H_

Subtitled: A quiz sic hull 
emotionally test ting senior event