Category: poetry
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Dolls in the glass
I sit and wait for the answer. Suddenly in comes the cold shoulder of last year’s winter. The puzzle pieces scattered across the concrete. Something’s missing. Nothing fits. As I sit against the wall, the darkness consumes me. There are no more tears left to shed. Novocaine flutters in like…
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Until Dawn
Gazing out the window, watching as the world slowly disappears. It’s never easy letting go. The memories of yesterday will never be the same. Her face pressed against the glass, fingers stretched in search of a sign that will save them. No one exists, the animals have stopped running.
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Never say never
Sometimes no matter how hard you try, watering the lawn won’t bring back the grass. A swift bang against the surface won’t bring back common sense. We try to do right in this world, but what does that even mean? We are at a cross-road Eyes gazing forward as the…
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Extra-credit
It was a tug-of-war in a sense of complacent emotions. Wanting the approval of the world only to fall to the silence of a war already brewing. Nothing she did was good enough. Her peers constantly in her ear filling her thoughts with doubts. Accomplishments weren’t acknowledged as the whispering…
Nicole Johnson 