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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     18 mins ago

Submitted Poems 388 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...

– by Joe Strickland

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I'm My Own Epitaph

me,
a cemetery of dreams,
each one a headstone
weathered by
the acid rain
of reality.
i've tried to forget,
to let the dirt
of time cover them,
but the itch persists –
a nagging sense
that I must exhume
the remnants,
...

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Marissa Mae

the bathroom,
she held the evidence
of their failure,
a crimson-stained
wad of toilet paper,
like a tiny,
defeated flag.
the sound of the faucet,
a cold,
unforgiving drizzle,
echoed through her skull.
she thought of all the...

– by Joe Strickland

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The City Of Resonate Flesh


you are looking for
is already in you,
a city of echoes,
where every street
leads to the same
doorstep of skin.
you already are
everything
you are seeking,
a constellation
of scars and longing
mapping the terrain
of your own...

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Inner Peace

is my conviction
that there is no way
to arrive at the shore
without surrendering
to the undertow.
peace is the way
the waves crash
in my chest,
a relentless
pounding.
i've tried to chart
a course through
the turbulent
waters of my...

– by Joe Strickland

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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

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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

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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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