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Three-line poems that describe the conflicts between beauty, sadness, fear, and desire.
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I want wrists curved like butterfly wings; a jawline arched like the vein of a leaf; a ribcage like a harp. I will sway to music-box melodies beside the daisies: the dandelion ballerina…
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A collection of pieces that revolve around the nature and nurture creation of a human being, told from the perspectives of air, water, earth, and fire.
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She was trying desperately to break the boundaries of her being and bind her blemishes in bandages...

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Archive of posts published in the tag: discovery

Quixotry As it Dies

Discuss the idea(s) developed by the text creator in your chosen text about the significance of idealism and truth in an individual’s life. (Polished Critical) Aspiring to our ideals is instinctual. Idealism – the forming and pursuing of conceptually perfect desires – is…

Strike Me Down

She is happy. But sometimes, she has days when she is a disaster. There is a storm of chaos who takes the form of a human woman. Her heart beats with jolts of lightning, and her neck’s pulse is the cacophonous thunder that…

Rust and Stardust

By the hand of my phantom, I tried to fill the looming void of infinity. This monster was not a figment of my imagination. This monster was a being that lived in the same body as I did. I was guided by this…

When I Was Real

Dear Human,   My eyes, once bright like shiny new pennies, aglow with the promise of laughter and playtime, have dulled in the wake of dust and forgotten memories binding my wavering faith like manacles, pinning me- helpless- to your shelf.   Unable…

Nightmares

As if slowly pulled upright by the eerie beckons of marionette strings at the hands of a puppet master, I was dragged from dark, fitful sleep into the realm of consciousness. It was as if I had just walked through a sheet of…

Muse

  in·spi·ra·tion (ˌinspəˈrāSH(ə)n/)   The human process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something, especially to do something creative. An otherworldly influence directly and immediately exerted upon the human mind or soul. Divine effect upon an otherworldly being, who in turn…

When Love Grows Cold

“Into this lonely room so satin and cold Silent eyes are staring Voices calling me to be free…” – REO Speedwagon, Dead At Last   Brently Mallard’s fingertips were colder than his wife’s, even though hers had been bloodless for a week. The…

The Current of Time

A quiet forest of maple trees in the autumn stretched before me, an infinite expanse that held me with warmth and comfort. As far as the eye could see, trees stood as tall, proud monuments of my past lives, both grand and insignificant.…

Vellichor

I stepped inside, breathing in warm air smelling of and leather and pages, as vellichor itched at my heart. The bookshelves were a maze I knew as if they were the lines etched into my face beside weary eyes that read by lamplight at 3:00am.…

Temptations of Preservation

Prompt: Discuss the idea(s) created by the text creator in your chosen text about the role of self-preservation in the face of competing demands. (Cold Critical) Human beings are creatures who place enormous importance upon our individual self-preservation. We take every opportunity that…

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