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BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF (one of the many goodfellas named) MATTHEW SCOTT HARRIS: livingsocial within the webbed wide world, where the madding
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Why did I?
Explain yourself
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kuiper

flawed--

I wish to erase

Every sordid mistake,

Every slight flaw,

That sparked contempt;

In the eyes of those

I might have loved.

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Ethereality in Poetry & Free Verse

The Dark

In the dark we see

All the things

That roam

In the darkest corners

Of our dim-lit minds.

We see the fears

We feel the hairs

On the back

Of our neck

Stand on end.

We hear

The voices

Not in our head

But a hair’s breadth

From our eyelids.

Challenge
with a dash of salt~
write a poem with ONLY TWO SENTENCES~ Good Luck my little hellhhounds~
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Ethereality in Poetry & Free Verse

Lost in the Woods

I think I may have lost my way

I’m in the woods, come out to play

The little people all they say

Is I'll be dinner for the fae.

The way is dark so follow me

I know a doorway in that tree

The woodland creatures all they say

Is I’ll be dinner for the fae.

Challenge
Without the Quiet
Give me a drabble about a silence being interrupted. It could be from a conversation between characters, or a disturbance in the vacuum of space. You get to choose!
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Meadow

A quiet bus serene and filled

with slow sounds of rain and slight chatter

music playing in your headphones

and the path of trees flying by

the bus is quite smooth today

we pass the next stop with a group of six girls,

the serene peaceful still and faint sounds

Burst into a loud corruption

Of chatter and gossip

The max volume of your headphones

cannot silent the girls

Your stuck like this until you arrive to your destination.

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Mamba

Get lost

You speak of being offended by toxic positivity as you sit there in your Carhartt beanie choking down a chai latte.

As if you knew the impact of a “you should smile more.” Or “it can’t be that bad, cheer up!”

when you’ve just had your lip split open by a baseball bat. You never had blood gushing from your brow on the wet pavement or the world reject you. You have never known the courage it takes to stand up and start again with nothing but your integrity.

The worst thing that has ever happened to you was not getting exactly what you wanted from a phone call to mommy.

So yeah, fuck you and your entire facade. Trying to coin sympathy from a phrase that you could never possibly understand.

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Wordlover

Be Mindful

Mindpath Health

has received false

information hacked

Challenge
Imitating Art
Write a poem inspired by a work of art. Include the name of the artwork in your title.
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Kazimir Malevich, 1918, by 7v7
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7v7

White on White: Kazimir Malevich, 1918

We pick up

the pieces

and put them back

together washed

and squared

and its

never

what it

was

but

who's

to say

that what

was

was

worth

keeping

anyway?

and the what

that remains ajar

the paste, polishes and paints

a more accurate picture

in the frames

of Yesterday...

The canvas's never blank

but is always man made

and she stands before Michaelangelo

where neither can speak

because the point of reference

divides

the two and the three

a spectrum of light

beamed

in excavation

between fossil and bone

the mind and the body

parting like foam

in the mouth

where life is

escaping

the blast...

white on white

05.16.2023

Suprematist Composition: White on White

Kazimir Malevich 1918

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/80385

Imitating Art challenge @TheWolfeDen

Challenge
Give Me Fire
I've just crossed a line with you. Tell me off. Don't go easy on me, just let it rip. Let all your frustration out. I want to feel the heat of your blood boiling. Any format, any length.
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Mavia in Poetry & Free Verse

. . . you had my sincere interest

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(And now. . . my frostbitten Indifference.)

Challenge
Pick a Present
If you could give yourself a gift, material or otherwise, what would it be?
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Mavia

For the Present

. . . i ask only

for more ours

in the day . . .

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