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Poetry

Toothday

By Intro. Creative Writing | December 21, 2022 by Intro. Creative Writing

She fell asleep crying, the night before
This late October Tuesday.
Sitting in the waiting room, a classy woman

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Poetry

The Life After

By Intro. Creative Writing | December 21, 2022 by Intro. Creative Writing

I wonder what she was thinking
when she said I was the one and
she would never leave me, when
we both knew her condition, the fact that

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Poetry

Autumn

By Intro. Creative Writing | December 21, 2022 by Intro. Creative Writing

The sound this rain makes
recalls the flow of your tears
on your face, certainly not on mine,
whose source of such seems to have become shy

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Poetry

Welcome Home

By Intro. Creative Writing | December 21, 2022 by Intro. Creative Writing

A little girl standing on a brownish wooden porch,
A “Welcome home” doormat on it, lying still, homely, 
mockingly. She just got back from school, a fading smile
on her face, her curly hair in a bun, pink shoes, wool white gloves on each hand.

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Poetry

Bitter Betrayal

By Intro. Creative Writing | December 22, 2021December 22, 2021 by Intro. Creative Writing

So this is how it ends. With hundred eyes watching.
Traitors, cowards and innocents. All meant to be one,
Indeed you are. There is no salvation today.

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Poetry

As Feminist As You Can Be

By Intro. Creative Writing | December 22, 2021December 22, 2021 by Intro. Creative Writing

Like the damned Adam and Eve,
I am bound to deceive
By the snake whispering
So, see he’s still stupid.

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Poetry

Metamorphosis II

By Intro. Creative Writing | December 22, 2021December 22, 2021 by Intro. Creative Writing

At first the trespassing goes unnoticed:
the shape shifts seamlessly
to the opposite side of its possibility:
what has been is no more
(was it ever?)

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Poetry

Mirror

By Intro. Creative Writing | December 22, 2021December 22, 2021 by Intro. Creative Writing

I remember those days,
When you sat at the window,
Your eyes lost in the endlessness.
I remember those days,
When you drove your car in the night, 

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Poetry

Don’t Overdo It

By Intro. Creative Writing | December 22, 2021December 22, 2021 by Intro. Creative Writing

You, the one that lies alone in bed 
You, the one that feels everything 
You, who thinks
Stop

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Poetry

Bloody Tie

By Intro. Creative Writing | December 22, 2021December 22, 2021 by Intro. Creative Writing

Cries and bawls won’t save you. I’m immune to seeing 
Pain after all my wife went through. You held her 
Captive for months, then tortured her until  
She bled her organs and soul out. Now you dare  
Lie in front of me, and believe you’re unreachable,  

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