Mirror Chat
by Onyx Perth
Key for symbols used to mark who is speaking
~Other People~ Me {1} (2) [3]
~Why don’t you get some help? There are so many options out
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Please stop it
by Rick Wood
Don't tell me what to do man
Okay? Please? Don't
Because I'm an adult, ya know?
I got it, really
You don't have to lecture me
On how to do
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Does Anyone Care
by Carol Ali
Little boy sitting in the park, no coat, no shoes, it's 20 degrees today
Old man with a sign, hungry, nothing to eat today
Little girl home
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A - Anarchy
by North Calantoni
Amber autumn aflame
An aroma of ash appeases the artful arsonist; the adamant anarchist
An audacious attempt at attacking back at our arbitrary accommodations
The
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Stubborn
by Gillyan Gilchrist
Is a stick broke Inna har ears or piece a wood. This likkle gyal nuh listen innu, me tell har stop walk round wid
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I Give A Little I take a Little
by Waveney Lander-Walters
I am the daughter of a sharecropper
I am the real granddaughter of Netta
I am the element of surprises
Sadness and gladness is a part
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Do You?
by Emmanuel Adedayo Ojelade
Do you see us when we cry?
When we try to hide our faces in the sand?
have you ever thought it through,
That these
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Crawling Mother
by Maryam Dalhatu
I feel sad when i see you the same,
For decades you remain lame,
It is indeed a pity or late blame,
But i just
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Let Not Occupy Kinship Bias
by Waveney Lander-Walters
I cast a backward look—how the times changed
To the beautiful face in the stroller
She Smile, I smiled, the guardian frown
A child is not
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the inner force 2
by mohamad safan
2 the cat
Once, when she found him playing with the cat
She lifted her up
She warned him at loud
She threw it in
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Saying Goodbye To Summer
by Waveney Lander-Walters
Saying goodbye to September
All New York is a cold. And everywhere
Show signs of winter, when the winds blow,
It made one’s shiver to the bone: clogged
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fool me once
by Tosanmi Gbenebitse-daniel
FOOL ME ONCE
I was obsessed, with friendship
I laid the foundation of my life, around it
Joy was continually aboard with me, even in township
I was
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I Was In Love With The Poem
by Waveney Lander-Walters
I was in love with a Poem:
The poet lured her victims into her wild kingdom of
Word, words, words, that
became the forest
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Sisalindile!
by Zakhele Mncwango
Iphi le ngane eyazalwayo?
Iphi yonke lento esayethenjiswa?
Ithemba lenjabulo salifumbathiswa.
Namanje sisalubambile lolo donga.
Miningi kakhulu manje le minyaka
Kwabulaw' ubandlululo kuleli
Ukuz' engacindezel' unkululeko
Le ngane eyayizozalwa.
Nanamuhla kusefana nakuqala.
Iph' inkululeko?
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The Sting Of Death
by Tosanmi Gbenebitse-daniel
THE STING OF DEATH
Death why provoke us to tears?
There are lot of unfinished works
But still you pierce
What are these you have wrought?
Your unannounced visits can’t
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Dogmatic
by Waveney Lander-Walters
Dogmatic
We must never kill the spiders
While, they wove their words into the likeness of thunder
You only watch the news to find out<>
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When Our Love Has Gone And Left Us
by Waveney Lander-Walters
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Plans are made to be broken
by Micah Harris
i'll try to make it up to you
I don't mean to cancel
it's just that I'm a important man
This world needs me and I need them
I
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Solitude By The Reverie
by Line Monique Gauthier
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i write
by stephanie warrillow
broken minds and bleeding wounds words that can't change anything. Saying sorry dosent make it better.
stuck in the pain that just won't ever die at
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Mother Please
by Deryl McCauley
Tell me Mother please tell me why
I was not enough
I should have been sun and moon-stars in the sky
Please Mother tell me why?
Away at work
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