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Everytime21
I literally love three things in the world (aside from family and friends): tea, books and yoga
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Under a Dark and Angry Sky

I watch my anger before me

bare and beating

despising it,

embarrassed by it,

wishing it were less a part of me

than a part of my mother

but I grasp its shivering mass

and wrestle it into my inner left coat pocket,

I am scared of my attachments.

I went to the store yesterday for figs and hated the woman in front of me for her old age, as if I could tell she lived her life without the same intentions and rage driving mine.

I drove into work three nights ago and hated my coworkers for hating our hateful job as much as I do.

I saw myself in the rear view mirror today and witnessed the same anger forming dark circles under my eyes and ripping away any light left in my eyes and hated it.

I

I will

wrestle this mass and try to control it

I will be a happier person and I will convince my angry self to

forgive the woman her age

my coworkers their hatred

and myself my own anger.

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Forgive Them
What would you say if asked to try to forgive someone right now?
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Everytime21
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Tar On My Tongue

Why do I have to be the bigger person if what you have done changed our lives completely? Why is it okay for me to be broken by you, without apology or acknowledgement of your actions, and sit here just to let it all go? I live life with the hopes that my presence might change someone’s life for the better. However, I will not settle for a jagged relationship with someone who does not deserve those intentions. Forgiveness is earned and not freely given brother; humans are fickle creatures, sure, but we have strength in our resilience and mine is a tar pit for your lies.

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Haiku Challeng #6 Rain
The theme is rain, in all its wonderful forms. Write a series of Haikus, perferably more than 3. Haiku are generally written in three lines with a syllable pattern of 5-7-5. Have fun.
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Everytime21 in Haiku
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Groundwater

I can’t stand the sight

of rain spattering outside.

I think about you.

The drops are your eyes

and the thunder is your voice.

Do you hear me too?

My voice gets drowned out,

as I yell to you, “Please! Stop!”

You smell like flowers.

The flowers I found

with you, next to the river.

They are wilted now.

Maybe you can help.

Water them with your farces.

So they too can flow,

Down to the table

where earth meets rain and I meet

you - I don’t want you.

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Challenge of the Week
Alright, you brilliant beasts. To kick off the first $25 Weekly Challenge, we're keeping it easy and exact. Suuuure..... Most of us have been in this spot, asked the question, so we'll frame a setting. Here goes. You're on a first date with a person you met online. There's attraction there, but you're still trying to figure out if the chemistry is physical AND mental. The person across the table asks you what kind of writing you do, and when you give them a genre, they say, in one way or another, "Describe your writing to me." This week's challenge is to answer that question here. The winner will be decided by likes on this one.
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Cheesecake

Okay, okay, I may have said I write sad poems, but I’ll be honest. I write words, that’s it. I sometimes will get an ache right in the middle of my chest, and for no particular reason I feel like I should grab a pen. Then, I don’t know, I kind of just jumble out a cacophony of words that are sort of like a stream of consciousnes - I don’t know if you’ve read Hemingway - anyways, that’s sort of the best way to describe it in layman’s terms.

What do you mean really? That’s how I write! Okay, okay I guess it does seem hard to understand. But, what I write isn’t about the kind of writing it is, it’s like I’m literally ripping a piece of my soul out and pressing it to paper. I write what I feel, and I feel every second of what I write.

What’s that look for? You’re the one who asked me!

Okay, just drink your wine, I want desert. How do you feel about cheesecake?

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Everytime21
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“Never Not” -Lauv

For as long as I live

And as long as I love

I will never not think about you

You

I will never not think about you

From the moment I left

I knew you were the one

And no matter whatever I do

I will never not think about you

#song #quotes

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Book Recomendations
Give me your best book recomendations. Make sure to include title, author, and genre!
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Everytime21 in Reviews
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Shogun

By James Clavell

Genre: Historical Fiction

Seriously my favorite book. It is super long (over 1000 pages) but it does not feel like it when you are reading it. Clavell is a master author.

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Winner gets 20$ worth of Juice on their entry. Pick an emotion and convey it. Whether it be sadness, anger, happiness, or anything else; write to make your reader feel and feel deeply. Side Note: Each and every entry will get a personal comment from me, as well as a like and repost.
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Unspoken
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Hopelessness

Sycamore tree

Bleeding yellow bee

Trunk rotting brown

As I fall in the sound

Of your voice

Like a faucet

Dripping black

Instead of the white

I once saw

Skinned knee

Dead birch tree

Trunk rotting grey

As I die, in the way

Of your right

Like a river

Running backward

Instead of forward

Just wrong

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Challenge of the Week CXXXIV
Something Lost, Something Found. Write about something that once was lost. Fiction or non-fiction, poetry or Prose.
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Unspoken
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Drip

As water splits an ancient rock

Your voice split me

A soul centuries old

Cracked

Leaving inky black doubt dripping

Through my skin

The rock forever changed

And me

For I am the rock and the split was you

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The hottest, sexiest, steamiest scene you can come up with in only 125 words total.
125 words total. Any hashtags included are part of that 125 words.
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Everytime21 in Romance & Erotica
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Baby

The air crackled with intensity, and my limbs tensed as if sensing what was to come. The ropes, taut around my body, pulled my knees to my chin and my arms rigid behind my back. I remember my mind wandering away from my body, my only thoughts pertaining to him. His ripped jeans, his rock-hard member, and his demands, dripping with authority able to gods to their knees. And then, I remember the door opening, his heavy footsteps falling in line with my breathing, or was it the other way around?

"Baby girl?" He questioned.

"Y-yes sir?" I had to clear my throat. I hadn't spoken for twenty minutes.

"Do you remember your safe words?" His voice carried heavy promises I eagerly anticipated.

"Yes master."

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Is there something that's in the corner of your soul and really want to burst out?
Imagine this challenge as someone listening to you and open up ur soul and mind.
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uuuuuGHHHH

I am in pain most of the time. My pain is physical, yes, but an emotional layer lay dusty, deep beneath the surface. I laugh around other people and I make jokes, say I'm over things, but I can tell you right now, it's all bull.

No, I am not depressed. I am insecure and mad at myself almost constantly. I feel stupid and I feel pathetic and I feel angry for feeling the way I do and I wish that I could change it all and just feel anything other than those three things for one effing minute of my day. So I do yoga and attempt to meditate sometimes, and it works, for a while, but then as I rub my buddhist necklace above the comforter in a room I filled with expensive furniture as if it was a message to my soul, the emotions drip right back in like a dirty, broken, and forgotten faucet.

Why you ask? I literally broke up with a guy I was in love with five years ago, and cannot forget him or let go of him. I am being serious. I was 13 years old and I broke my 17 year old boyfriend's heart for literally no reason at all. I was happy, in love with him, and he gave me constant butterflies. I can't even recall why I got scared and called it off. He did try at one point to touch me, which I told him no and he apologized and that was that, but I wasn't scared about that, more afraid he would think I was ugly or something.

I know what you're thinking. He wanted me for sex, I didn't even know what love was, in fact, we were plain too young to be in love, but I am telling you right now, when my chest physically hurts when I think about him five years later? I had to be in love with him.

He came into my life like a beautiful tsunami and left like the aftermath. On a side note, maybe that is why I am afraid of drowning. Anyways pretty much I just feel stupid because I still think about him a lot and constantly look at his Insta going back to the picture he posted the day after I broke up with him and thinking jesus what is actually wrong with me? I ruined my chance at really what could have been my forever. I actually brought up the courage to talk to him a year or so later, apologizing, thinking it would give me some sort of closure, but he told me he thought he was pressuring me into a serious relationship I wasn't ready for. All I wanted to tell him was that I wanted it back and I was ready, but I closed up and said yea.

I am so sad at myself, I have ruined every other relationship I have had since. All for the same reason: I CAN'T STOP LOVING HIM.

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