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Curl, Heave, and I’ves Plum Puddin’ Disaster

Sung to ‘Have a Holly Jolly Christmas’ by Burle Ives

Have a hardly jolly Christmas
It's the wurst time of the year
When you’re old and...

RickthePoetWarrior

added by RickthePoetWarrior
7 days ago
A love filled with words

Your words spoken like a breath of fresh air

Did not know then that your love for me came because you’d believed I follow you to nowhere...

Reilly B.

added by IgobyReilly
7 days ago
Facing The Sadness...Step 4...Lesson Twenty Three...

Most of us falter at the prospect of making an honest personal inventory. Rationalizations and excuses for avoiding this step abound. The...

Robert Catron

added by rcatron1963
7 days ago
My only wish

I just want to write
the destiny of the one
who wrote my...

Archana Agarwal

added by archana_a
7 days ago
A Spider’s Web

A Spider’s Web

I looked—and lo! a spider’s web,
Whose fragile silver cords were strung
Between the wall and wooden lamp,
And from it,...

John W. May

added by Vixility
7 days ago
my thoughts

Majestic is the sky’s unsearchable is the deep sea’ comfortable is the land I live on ”I am happy as can be’ thinking about the wind and...

Russell Johnson Jr

added by Rick64
7 days ago
I Am Your Candle

I am your candle,
Light me when you’re afraid.
In the morning, noon or night,
I’ll protect you with my blaze.

Providing light,
So...

Elizabeth Weeks

added by ikorainbow92
7 days ago
In The Light I Show

I hear them speak, their voices hollow,
“No more holidays. I just can’t follow.”
They say it hurts too much to pretend,
So they let the...

Melody Martinez

added by Melody.martinez86
7 days ago
May December Romance

I don’t want to make love I want to make a friend

I want to be close to you
Warm up to you
Smell your scent

Does it make sense?
...

Latin X

added by LatinX
8 days ago
I know how you feel

I know how you feel,
I've been there too,
But I'm writing this,
As reassurance to you.

I know how you feel,
I've been through it...

Ailsa wright

added by ailsa.15313
8 days ago
Sarcasm

Sarcasm is not something to joke about
It can make a huge affect on others happiness
Even if they look happy
Maybe they aren't and that ...

Skylar Smith

added by smithskylar320
8 days ago
My Dearest

To me,
You are the whole world.
When you leave
I have nothing.

I see you like the ocean.
You move me.
If I can't have a piece of...

Anzmills

added by Anzmills
8 days ago
GO

Where does this all lead to this road paved in gold that leads to nowhere? Who is doing the writing on the wall? Are we the ones meant to...

mad hippie poet

added by Oakley
8 days ago
Trouble in my mind

Can’t I bring life to this still beating heart?
So much promise I had at the start.
At odds with tearing myself apart.
I’m in pieces,...

Daryl Dedrick

added by Daryl3D14
9 days ago
Footprints in the snow.

Footprints in the Snow




In the white snow, footprints lay, A path to follow, showing the way. Each step we take leaves a mark,...

Dianjean57

added by Dianejean57
9 days ago
ADULTOID

I’m in that mode I wanna get twisted
Feel like I wanna twist heads
I circumvent and twits stirs
Like trapped in hurricanes twisters
I...

Hubbs

added by Hubbsify
9 days ago
It and I

The lifestyle of an addict is pure madness, I have many stories to tell, you wouldn't believe.
The situations and lifestyle in general is...

Christina Brown

added by chrissy_b
9 days ago

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