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A Broken Life
by Kate Wallace

It doesn't take much to be a broken person,
consumed by suffering and pain.
For being broken becomes a person's identity
in a way that is impossible to explain.

Sometimes, but not always, a broke  person
is given the power to heal.
Their given strength and guidance
and the ability to truly feel


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Panorama
by Georgia H

I'm trying to find a new perspective of me;
To learn to accept my mountains, valleys, and plains.
To learn to find beauty in my own landscape.
To develop a whole new panorama of the world.

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The Search For My Serenity
by Jeffrey Pipes Guice

My struggles really started...
When I was just a kid...
Running the streets and getting in trouble...
For everything I did...

I wanted people to like me...
To have friends and be really cool...
But I always felt like a outsider...
Alone, every day after school...


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arrogation abomination
by Sarah A

blinding power trips
assumptions and conquests
i never said i was available
but you presume i’ll come
i never gave you permission
but entitlement doesn’t need approval
i didn’t say anything at all
but you pushed me through the wall
maybe it was my fault
frozen or fluid

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Hidden
by gabriella Blake

No one really knows me the way you did. I don’t really let people see that side of me. I’m not sure I know that part of me anymore. I wonder if you remember. I wonder if you knew that part was sacred. I wonder if you care.

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Recent Recovery Poems
Brainstorm
by Callie Hayes

I despise the ocean
but this girl in my head does not
She is not afraid to love
and she is not afraid to rot

And if it can't be perfect
then it shan't be done at all
Tip back in your chair
Slam your head against the wall


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arrogation abomination
by Sarah A

blinding power trips
assumptions and conquests
i never said i was available
but you presume i’ll come
i never gave you permission
but entitlement doesn’t need approval
i didn’t say anything at all
but you pushed me through the wall
maybe it was my fault
frozen or fluid

......

Continue reading
A Broken Life
by Kate Wallace

It doesn't take much to be a broken person,
consumed by suffering and pain.
For being broken becomes a person's identity
in a way that is impossible to explain.

Sometimes, but not always, a broke  person
is given the power to heal.
Their given strength and guidance
and the ability to truly feel


......

Continue reading
The Search For My Serenity
by Jeffrey Pipes Guice

My struggles really started...
When I was just a kid...
Running the streets and getting in trouble...
For everything I did...

I wanted people to like me...
To have friends and be really cool...
But I always felt like a outsider...
Alone, every day after school...


......

Continue reading
Hidden
by gabriella Blake

No one really knows me the way you did. I don’t really let people see that side of me. I’m not sure I know that part of me anymore. I wonder if you remember. I wonder if you knew that part was sacred. I wonder if you care.

Continue reading
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