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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     13 hours ago

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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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Trigger

knows the gentle
caress of luxury
familiar with the soft
whispers of desire.
her eyes a map
of worn streets
where only the brave
or the foolish roam.

he wears chromatic colors
on his boots,
A duplicitous look,
accompanied by...

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Hippies

i'm drunk,
but i can see a haze
of what's left.
we're still searching
for the threads
of a coat of many colors
once woven
with drifts of love
and expansion.

now the fabric's frayed,
tattered remnants
of a dream
that promised to
...

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Time

seems impossible to me
that time had a beginning,
like a mouth that's never known
the wetness of another's tongue.
how could time begin
without there already being
time to begin with,
like a hand that's never grasped
the curve of a...

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Unseen Imagination

generally
prefer art that has no
blatant meaning.
i want to be
allowed
to interpret things
for myself.

that's the poet in...

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humans often times hear what they want to hear and disregard the rest like it has no meaning

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Unique....I like it

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thank you so much

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thank you so much. I wasn't sure about using Neptune as an antagonist because of the ocean metaphors but I'm glad you like it

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leaps and bounds? No....you can teach me....

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Fantastic

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I love everything you write. The line "I don't want anyone to see me the way I saw you" is a fantastic expression of the speaker's desire to avoid being seen as deeply and intimately as they saw this other person. For me, I interpreted it as a fear of being truly understood or exposed, or a desire to maintain a sense of control over how they're perceived. Well done, my friend. 

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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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