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CHARLES BUKOWSKI God creates monsters. Women encourage them."
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JOYCE HABER
I went back to the clanging city, I went back where my old loves stayed,
But my heart wa...
SARA TEASDALE
Demons run when a good man goes to warNight will fall and drown the sun
When a good man g...
STEVEN MOFFAT Slowly the truth is loading
I'm weighted down with love
Snow lying deep and even
Stru...
DAVID GRAY
Demons run when a good man goes to war.Night will fall and drown the sun,
When a good man...
STEVEN MOFFAT I aspire to be
an old man
with an old wife
laughing at old jokes
from a wild...
ATTICUS POETRY
You smoke?” “Smoke? Do I look like a fucking idiot?
RICHARD K. MORGAN No one knows if I'm dying to laugh or to cry
So my verse has
this almost imperceptible thr...
MARIO QUINTANA Tell her this
And more,—
That the king of the seas
Weeps too, old, helpless man.
and as flickering flames ascend,
under the witness of sta...
JOHN MARK GREEN
HarlemWhat happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a ra...
LANGSTON HUGHES
I was dead, then alive.Weeping, then laughing.
The power of love came into me,
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Monsters, monsters, big and small,"They're gonna come and eat you all.
Corsai, Corsai, to...
VICTORIA SCHWAB
Wake up naked drinking coffeeMaking plans to change the world
While the world is changing...
DAVE MATTHEWS
Someday you shall meet someoneWho's gonna look at you in awe-
Flying high, wings all spre...
SANHITA BARUAH
You don’t look like a monster.” “I’ll tell you a secret, Hanna. The really bad monster...
LEIGH BARDUGO
FRUITS AND NUTSKeep jumping around them like monkeys.
The clones,
Commer...
SUZY KASSEM the lost women
I need to know their names
those women I would have walked with,
LUCILLE CLIFTON Hide the miles between us
Run to me
Like you run your
Fingers through my hair
De...
VERONIKA JENSEN
Women Are Not RosesWomen have no
beginning
only continual
flows.
a wild pixie,
that if let go,
would run and d...
ATTICUS
You're the only friend I needSharing beds like little kids
And laughing 'til our ribs g...
LORDE
I think about Old Nick carrying me into the truck, I'm dizzy like I'm going to fall down.
EMMA DONOGHUE
I break out laughing. I frown.I yell and scream. Sometimes,
if one jokes and giggles,
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
Life is like a sandwich!Birth as one slice,
and death as the other.
What you p...
ALLAN RUFUS
IN THE HANDS OF MANHe who creates a poison, also has the cure.
He who creates a vir...
SUZY KASSEM
The first time I heard you laugh, I only wanted to say funny things
so you would always ...
KAMAND KOJOURI Oh Child
Look within
Find your ForeMothers
Find them
Fi...
MALEBO SEPHODI Time machine to the past
Step back a few years
Old feelings, like Lazarus
Suddenly re...
JUSTIN WETCH Respect the verbs in your life.
Life is a verb. Live is a verb.
Live Life. Action verbs
Quit calling me Grey. It makes me sound like I’m a boy. Like Dorian Gray.”“Dorian ...
BECCA FITZPATRICK
End of the SummerIt was end of the summer
And my heart was broken
but i was sm...
ARZUM UZUN The ocean-blue bowl won’t
refuse to bruise, won’t hold it back
from the gaping earth...
BRYANA JOY
And then you leave the memories behind.When you look at the pictures
It seems like it wa...
ARZUM UZUN
The locust continuesto devour the world
Hunger persists
Love lurches on
listing...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI
The ChairI’m writing to you, who made the archaic wooden chair
look like a ...
JAROD KINTZ In the Desert
In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squ...
STEPHEN CRANE
EA: Is it the smoke that smells like vanilla?Audience: Yeah.
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EMILIE AUTUMN We wear our lives
Like costumes
Use bills and coins like props
In an over budget pro...
SHANE L. KOYCZAN In the desert
I saw a creature, naked, bestial,
Who, squatting upon the ground,
Held his...
STEPHEN CRANE
Black for hunting through the nightFor death and mourning the color's white
G...
CASSANDRA CLARE
Every time you tell your daughter
you yell at her
out of love
you teach her ...
RUPI KAUR Out of curiosity, when do I grow up and become a fullfledged
man with a penis?”
“When ...
DANI ALEXANDER Let us roam then, you and I,
When the evening is splayed out across the sky
[...]
Pat...
HENRY N. BEARD
The sand in the hourglass runs from one compartment to the other, marking the passage of moments wit... VERA NAZARIAN It happens all the time in heaven,
And some day
It will begin to happen
Again o...
شمس الدین محمد حافظ شیرازی
The truth is sealed. Life goes on.
Till one day, history changed...
Like thief in ...
TOBA BETA Free Shoes
The pairs of shoes stand in rows,
polished and jet, like coffins...
SHARON OLDS I like to find old things
and I picked up that arrowhead
in tears, that broken point
...
LI HE I wish I was Rapunzel
Letting down her hair
But at the bottom of my tower
There's no...
RAE EARL
CALL YOURSELFLook deep in the mirror
And say: 'I LOVE YOU'
And immediately
SUZY KASSEM May your love for me be
like
the scent of the evening sea
drifting in
thr...
SANOBER KHAN Heartland
Now that we’ve given our hearts away
With the bric-a-brac, we want them...
LISEL MUELLER
Many who have learnedfrom Hesiod the countless names
of gods and monsters
never unde...
HERACLITUS Mondays taste like split-pea soup,
Tuesdays taste like gobbledygook,
Wednesday...
CLAUDINE CARMEL The Cloudy Vase
Past time, I threw the flowers out,
washed out the cloudy vas...
JANE HIRSHFIELD
He stepped back and threw his arms out."I'm always crazy around you Rose. Here, I'm going to w...
RICHELLE MEAD Oh it is good to ride and run,
To roam the greenwood wild and free;
To hunt, to idle in the ...
ROBERT SERVICE and we laugh and laugh and
all I know is
at this moment I feel like
I can do anything...
KIRSTEN SMITH Here's to the kids who are different,
The kids who don't always get A's,
The k...
DIGBY WOLFE Her moral obligation
to keep our hearts entwined.
Her preeminent love,
smelling like ...
BRIAN D'AMBROSIO "The Lesson":
Yes, my fretting,
Frowning child,
I could cross
The room to y...
CAROL LYNN PEARSON
You don't look like an alien!' It seemed important to point that out. He arched a brow. ...
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT it is to be savored like a
seabreeze-whispered
dream...in the mysterious
blue ...
SANOBER KHAN if one day you feel like crying...
call me
I don't promise that
I will make you laug...
ROBERT J. LAVERY
Take bread away from me, if you wish,take air away, but
do not take from me your laughter...
PABLO NERUDA He wants a fifteen thousand pound settlement."
"Fifteen thousand!"
"He says you're a great...
DEEANNE GIST
When I look up at Heaven,I see the souls of those who died
Beaming down at me,
Wanti...
SUZY KASSEM I like dogs
Big dogs
Little dogs
Fat dogs
Doggy dogs
Old dogs
Puppy do...
MARGARET WISE BROWN O Indra, destroy all
those lustful people
behaving like birds....
angry ones
be...
VEDA
A Winter Dream"In winter we’ll travel in a little pink carriage
With cushions of ...
ARTHUR RIMBAUD
In town, there's a tiny beach that's never busy, not even in the summer.I used to like w...
INIO ASANO
When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego,and when we escape like squirrels turning in t...
D.H. LAWRENCE
Violet232 books | 49 friends
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CASSANDRA CLARE The foam cushions
on the old couch downstairs
disintegrate
daily
in a hush,
THALIA CHALTAS Lately I can't help wanting us
to be like other people.
For example, if I were a smoker,
When the hearthfire turns to blue,what to do? what to do?
run outside, run and hide
...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Lark’s Song
That child who from Diana’s thought is born
A huntress swift, who do...
D. ALEXANDER NEILL
A Brief for the DefenseSorrow everywhere. Slaughter everywhere. If babies
a...
JACK GILBERT
And here I thought they were called Peeping Toms." I didn't need to see him to know he wore a smile.... BECCA FITZPATRICK i’m not scared
of the monsters
hidden underneath
my bed.
i’m muc...
AMANDA LOVELACE
He who is in harmony with the Taois like a newborn child.
Its bones are soft, its muscles...
LAO TZU
Fell in love first,Fell in love quickly—Like I was pushed.
Fell in love next,
Fell...
KAMAND KOJOURI
There's a Polar BearIn our Frigidaire--
He likes it 'cause it's cold in there.
With ...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN
you've got to burnstraight up and down
and then maybe sidewise
for a while
and ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI who did I think we were.
who did I think
I could make you.
this is the oldest m...
MARTY MCCONNELL EMILY KAGAN TRENCHARD
[Poem: Slates of Grey]Sullen faces like slates of grey—
What I’d seen on a walk...
JESS C. SCOTT
And still, after all this time,The sun never says to the earth,
"You owe Me."
...
HAFEZ
Every morningbefore the birds start
trilling me their stories,
I give birth to a new...
MUNIA KHAN Silver hidden in the gold,
Young man hidden in the old,
Laughing lord with weeping eyes,
I look back
To the art
Once I craved
I wanna punch
Square in face<...
IRFA RAHAT
THE UNFORGIVENTell me if you've ever had to deal with these kinds of people:
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SUZY KASSEM Love falls in love with love;
comes like an echo sounding back,
searches its mirrored sh...
MOCCO WOLLERT
In the city fields Contemplating cherry-trees...
Strangers are like friends
KOBAYASHI ISSA
The MoonAnd, like a dying lady lean and pale,
Who totters forth, wrapp'd in ...
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY - Child is abused, perpetrator threatens to hurt mother. Child feels protective of mother.
- S...
CLAIRE FONTAINE
Life is a valuable and unique opportunityto discover who you are.
But it seems as soon as...
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH Blood that was warm has now run cold
bled every day have hearts become old
Telling I am th...
PRABHUKRISHNA M
I have beenhanging here
headless
for so long
that the body has forgotten
w...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
