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JDRodgers
Freelance Writer, content writer, poet. I articulate better in writing than I do in speaking.
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To Express A Feeling
One of the most apparent intentions of art is to express an emotion or experience that is to great to be summed up into one word. Within art, it a labeled emotion that holds a complex ocean of secrets and feelings. One may summarize how they feel by saying that they're happy or sad, but this may be but an understatement to a profound freedom and joy that can only be compared to a bird set free. Or perhaps, it is an understatement of a darkness that holds a beauty that consumes any beholder until they are forced to confront the undying loneliness that can only be compared to an abyss of cold solidarity? Regardless of the emotion, art is what expresses and defines an emotion that cannot be summarized into one word. That being said, pick an emotion to describe. It can be any emotion, and it can be described in any way!
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AlisonAudrey in Stream of Consciousness
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The Night Cafe

there's a painting

by Vincent van Gogh

of a bar all in reds and yellows

a master work

before 90's hip hop could be blasted

into the eardrums of clientele

they say he painted his best work

in a psychiatric hospital

in two years

where he was self-admitted

just like in a dive bar

it's important to know

when you've had enough

and you need to decompress

inside what will be

infamous

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Courtship (150 words or less)
Anything goes; poetry or prose, fiction or non-fiction, dirty or innocent. If you've never been on a prospective mate-getting venture don't fret, just imagine! ... Or start writing about a sailing magistrate instead...
emilyaine
• 35 reads

First Impressions Count

“Howdy?”, “Hey?”, “Hello?”

Jesus, no, no, no!

Too youthful, too casual, too slow.

Is my hair alright?

Is my top too tight?

Check my teeth. Do my eyes mask fright?

Is the bus running late?

Do you think she’ll hate

My daft laugh and my clumsy gait?

“You I’m here to see?”

Christ, she’s talking to me.

Throat dries up, shuffle nervously.

“Will we take this booth?”

“Are you getting food?”

Am I chatting about what I should?

Am I chewing enough?

Or is this too much?

Should my eyes be on hers, further up?

I collapse in bed,

Breathe, pulse in my head.

Lie awake hating everything I said.

“So, how was last night?

Was your date alright?”

My friends crowd around, eyes bright.

Then I strangely find,

That to her I'd been blind.

Did I like her? Who knows? Never mind.

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Lament Or Celebrate The Inherent Insatiability Of Existence (30 Words Or Less)
Yep, that's what I said: 30 words or less. Exciting, right? Isn't it simply better to be restricted? To have rules to follow or even to break. After all, to accomplish something by limited means is a far more agreeable feat than to face the queasy expanse of a blank slate, is it not?
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Iamagoofball in Philosophy
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But That’s Life

You say to Lament or celebrate, but it's not one or the other. Existence is a cycle of Lamentations and celebrations.

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gemnahmaleybray
• 34 reads

it’s good for 2 hours

here’s a token

of appreciation

it’s good for 2

hours of radiation ablation.

your soul is poison

and your blood is cancer

you’re no hell of a ball

and the ugliest of dancers

I’m harsh and I’m sorry that

this is really the best you deserve

at least you got to meet me

that’s the most you’ll ever earn

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What’s something you’re holding onto but you know you should let go of?
Write about something you're still holding onto. It can be a memory, person, thing, etc.
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AlisonAudrey in Journal
• 15 reads

Anger

anger

ignites

with

fire

what

the

flame

itself

would

rather

have

extinguished

-15 words needed

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Casted out
the way you interpret it! any format, any style
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AlisonAudrey
• 14 reads

Outcast

it's funny

the stigma

around some

diseases

some inspire

sympathy

some will stay

family secrets

are you one

of those

people

who leaves

when it's

convenient

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AlisonAudrey
• 8 reads

I’m

I’m a gingerbread woman

that is still raw

in the center

I’m the plants that

turn brown

even as they’re watered

I’m that plane that crashed

into a house

in San Diego county

and when I read this poem

at an open mic

I’m here

I’m trying

I’m more than

metaphors and analogies

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AlisonAudrey
• 12 reads

Kitchen Utensils

what have you lost?

she asks

a typical

therapist question

let’s start with my self-respect

a blender and kitchen utensils

my ability to purchase firearms

a reliance on panic medication

and people I called friends

but that was just in my head

I don’t admit much

to paid professionals

because believe or not

there are wrong answers

to that question

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AlisonAudrey
• 13 reads

Over Colorado

she said

I feel like

you just let

life happen

to you

so I

got on

a plane

and somewhere

over Colorado

I started talking

to someone

and realized

I could be anyone

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1912writer
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Sun Rise

The start of a new day

When the moon goes down

And the Sun goes up

Shining bright everywhere.

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