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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     3 hours ago

Submitted Poems 376 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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Pressure

i even know
how to be without
the weight of the world
crushing my chest?
has it been so long
since i felt a moment's peace
that i've forgotten
what it's like to...

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Church

hooded men,
their faces
shrouded
in the very darkness
they sought to
impose.
hours before,
voices were singing
and hands were beating
out a rhythm
on the worn wooden
pews
of a church
that dared to dream
of freedom,
of...

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Your Hands And Eyes

hands,
like worn maps
folding into mine,
a profile of scars
where our stories cross.

in the creases of your palms
i find the shape of my own,
a followed landscape
of all the ways i've been
broken and remade.

your eyes,
like two...

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Cold Dead Place

gods,
no masters,
no mystics,
no myths,
just the stench
of last night's liquor
on my breath
as I stumble
through my jobs
concrete insanity.

no angels,
no demons,
no spirits,
no saints,
just the hollow echo
of my footsteps
...

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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

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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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Fantastic imagery. Well done.

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great point

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