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The Complaint Of Ceres

by Friedrich Schiller

Does pleasant spring return once more?
Does earth her happy youth regain?
Sweet suns green hills are shining o'er;
Soft brooklets burst their icy chain:
Upon the blue translucent river
Laughs down an all-unclouded day,
The winged west winds gently quiver,
The buds are bursting from the spray;
While birds are blithe on every tree;
The Oread from the mountain-shore

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The Portrait

by Robert William Service

The portrait there above my bed
They tell me is a work of art;
My Wife,--since twenty years she's dead:
Her going nearly broke my heart.
Alas! No little ones we had
To light our hearth with joy and glee;
Yet as I linger lone and sad
I know she's waiting me.

The picture? Sargent painted it,

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Love Will Wane

by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

When your love begins to wane,
Spare me from the cruel pain
Of all speech that tells me so -
Spare me words, for I shall know,

By the half-averted eyes,
By the breast that no more sighs
By the rapture I shall miss
From your strangely-altered kiss;

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An angel in disguise

by Reem Khalaf

She took my hands I was 9
Giving me her other bud
And telling me just listen and enjoy the ride
Close your eyes and let me take you to the moon
She a woman of her words
Putting my feet above the clouds
And pushing me from the moon
Back to earth on my hands and knees
Waving and smiling from the moon back at me
looking up at her with my split temple

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The Crunch

by Charles Bukowski

too much too little

too fat
too thin
or nobody.

laughter or
tears

haters

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Recent Sad Poems

When Forever Changed...

by Raina Hutchins

Forever was the way you smiled
Whenever you looked at me
The way your hand fit into mine
Like we were always meant to be

Forever was the quiet nights
The dreams and plans we made
The little moments no one saw
That were never meant to fade

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"Happy Teen"

by Za'Kiah Blakely

You know…
being a teen
can make you mean.
Mean to yourself.
Mean to your mind.
Mean in the quiet moments
when nobody’s watching
but somehow…
everybody’s judging.
Because being a teen

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The Caged Songbird

by Emily Riddle

I used to be a songbird,
singing every time I could.
I had spread my word,
heard by everyone in the wood.

I used to be a free bird,
free to sing and fly whenever.
But then the worst occurred;
I got captured to be compliant forever.

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Story in stones

by BIT REKO

Imma curve the story in stones
All this pain, all this anger
U wake n fight, the devil laughing in the corner
God, the only that keeps the ride going

Playing the game, Rolling the dice
screaming, throwing bullets
the sheets, knowing all of it
Do you even get some sleep?

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Fog brain

by Trenton Jasper

Whoever is directing this shit show needs to be exposed,
How the fuck can we all be here but at the same time alone,
Fertilizer for the ground we mark it off with a stone,
Put a wood box in the ground and let it creak a splinter tone,
Groaning for the moment static from the phone,
Elastic and adaptive evolution without a soul,
Peek from behind the curtain and frozen by the cold,
Honesty can be adjusted to fit into what you've been told,
Let's all get together but you better buy into what's been sold,
Blatant lies from the sky watch the chaos unfold below,

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