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Cover image for post Brick Walls, by TannerG
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Brick Walls

He sat against the brick wall in front of the bookstore on wire road. Silver light bounced off of the windows and gleamed on the sidewalk beneath him.

He went inside.

She was giving prices to some books and drinking coffee. Her red hair fell like a crimson river over a rocky cliff.

He wondered to the back of the store, out of sight. He found a small book of collected poems. Hastily walking back to the front, checking for other customers, he glanced up. She was gone.

He stood at the counter.

A small hello shook him from his panic. She did not know of course, but he still feared the chance. He watched her as he purchased the book. She was pleasant but she seemed tired. It was very close to close.

He left.

He stood in the lot behind the store, hidden by her blue car. He readied himslef.

He waited.

She busted through the back door, second loudest sound he ever heard. She made her way to the trunk to store books. He leapt from the shadows and grabbed her, placing his hand over her mouth.

She screamed.

Her terror was barely audible, he forced her into the trunk and drove her car to the national park he was hiding in. He let her go and hunted her down in the dark.

She died.

Before dusk the gunshot echoed, the bullet passing through her heart.

He buried her, and read a poem from the book he purchased that night.

Cover image for post Spilled Ink, by TannerG
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TannerG in Poetry & Free Verse

Spilled Ink

We hold a nuke in our chests.

It leaks toxic power,

and so we write.

We hold pain in our bones.

It brings darkness,

And so we write.

To the void, to a few we write.

Restless are our nights.

Manifesting into words we pour onto pages.

We are the ink.

We cope with the universe's infinites.

It shoots arrows through us,

And so we write.

What is gone, we hold to.

Those that die, we miss.

And so we write.

Cover image for post Mirrors, by TannerG
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TannerG in Poetry & Free Verse

Mirrors

Mirrors, mirrors reflecting light

Bring me the moon, big and bright.

Follow it to the very edge,

I see the moon peeking o'er my hedge.

Bigger and bigger it seems to me,

Whispering words to keep the sea.

Let me see those craters deep,

Scars of fights where it was beat.

Bring me, bring me to the moon.

Pull me from this darkened room.

Miles and miles I will zoom,

Miles and miles I will zoom.

Cover image for post Ode to a Fearless Koi, by TannerG
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TannerG in Poetry & Free Verse

Ode to a Fearless Koi

Love that waits, that is never seen,

Is like the koi that hide beneath the green.

Bright they are and strong they grow,

But through water's edge they never show.

Only a sliver of white skin will gleam

Through the green undying leaves.

They long to break the surface though,

Like mountain laurels through the snow.

And on that day, Alas! Alas!

Green had died and cloud had passed.

The light gleamed through the shimmered mirror,

And the koi shined through, ever clearer.

Challenge
You or your life in 20 words
Cover image for post Sewn in my Brain, by TannerG
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TannerG in Stream of Consciousness

Sewn in my Brain

Doubter and doubted.

Wonder and heartbreak along a frayed bleeding edge.

Distrust and demons swimming inside.

Dim light in sight.

Cover image for post Warm Decay, by TannerG
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TannerG in Poetry & Free Verse

Warm Decay

Swirling beneath my feet,

They leap

Reaching towards a chilling sky.

And soon they rot

Long forgot,

Feeding the earth as they die.

A kalidescope of warm colors on cold walls lie.

Rusted wells and cold mush paths.

Only short a time it lasts.

Cover image for post Bound, by TannerG
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TannerG in Romance & Erotica

Bound

Flesh bound in leather

Painful pleasure

From this we had our lives

Eyes hidden in lace

Hands tied in place

From this we feel alive

Cover image for post Untitled, by TannerG
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TannerG in Poetry & Free Verse

Glitter the trees.

Douse the porch in gold.

Wrap lights around the halls.

Uncover the mirrors in every room.

Surround yourself in shimmering light when you are feeling dark.

Cover image for post Tell me, by TannerG
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Tell me

Tell me why I'm still here. We are nothing. All of us are food for the worms and those worms are food for the worms until there are no worms. The planet will come to dust and not a whisper of what we claimed to be will be left. So tell me. Tell me why I got out of bed today. Tell me why I haven't built the courage to drink bleach yet. Why am I giving an ounce of effort to this day when all I will ever be is nothing. All anyone will ever be is nothing. Why.

Cover image for post A Fearing, by TannerG
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TannerG in Poetry & Free Verse

A Fearing

All that is not intended.

Those who are willing.

Dreams are made of wood,

Something once alive.

Now dead but still in mass.

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