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Writer from South Carolina. I'm using the site to upload new and older works. Signed first publishing contract recently and waiting for a release date for my first collection. I can be followed on Twitter @JoeStricklandAU

  May 2023     13 mins ago

Submitted Poems 394 total

Memory

I wish I could plant a forest
where every tree is a memory
that we share.
mostly good and not bad.
then you and I
can live there
off the grid,
just us,
living amongst ourselves
and every moment
that made us...

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Abyss

there's high
and there's high,
a distinction lost
on the merely
elevated who mistake
altitude
for transcendence.

and to get really high,
I mean so high
the air thins
to a scream
that shatters
the mirrored surface
of the lake,

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Me

I think my children
look more like Joe Strickland
than I do,
their eyes a stranger's eyes
staring back at me
from the mirror's
cruel gaze.
their laughter echoes
a familiar stranger's tone
a cadence that's not mine
yet somehow still my...

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Dirty Needle

your heart's concrete
veins,
hatred pulses
like a dirty needle
injecting poison
into the chambers,
a slow
drip of resentment
that hardens into stone.

what's the cost
of this endless rage,
this fire
that consumes
everything in...

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Be Free

the weight of it
settling like a mist,
as she stirs
the morning grits.
think of the fields where we once
ran wild and unbroken,
where the only sound
was the hum
of crickets and our own laughter.
spread your open hands
like...

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Fantastic

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I love everything you write. The line "I don't want anyone to see me the way I saw you" is a fantastic expression of the speaker's desire to avoid being seen as deeply and intimately as they saw this other person. For me, I interpreted it as a fear of being truly understood or exposed, or a desire to maintain a sense of control over how they're perceived. Well done, my friend. 

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Fantastic work

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Lovely

2 months ago

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"Two stars colliding, a crash course in destiny" is a fantastic line!

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Fantastic

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thank you so much

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thank you so much

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This is fantastic work

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I'm not familiar with it

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Very good work

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Beautifully written

9 months ago

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I really like this a lot, John

10 months ago

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I wanted the poem to be short and sweet. Essentially, so many conversations simply have no meaning. People talk and talk but they talk about nothing. Thank you for your comment and advice

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Fantastic

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