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  • INSOMNIA #wattys2016
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    "There is always a reason why a pen meets paper in the world of poetry. My reason is the title." Achievements: #1 in What's Hot (Poetry) #7 in Poetry(10-03-2016) When you wake up in the morning, you complain that the night was too short. Have you tried staying up all night doing NOTHING? It can feel as long as a life...

  • New Voice
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    Poetry & very short stories. Some are real, some are fantasies. // #11 in Poetry (February 24th 2016) Cover by the amazing @sighstiles

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  • Hiraeth: A Collection of Poems
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    Here are the words I could never say aloud. Please proceed with caution. My soul is at your fingertips. xx hiraeth [hɨraɪ̯θ] (n). a homesickness for a home you cannot return to, or that never was

  • Rainbows in the Nighttime
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    A Wattpad Featured Book Poems from the deepest stretches of my mind on life, emotions and, of course, the obscure... Cover made using Wattpad covers. I do not own the cover. Cover art made by DeadOceans at DeviantArt.com

  • oceanswing
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    i know who i am. and i know who i do not want to be. i am easy in my own skin even while i struggle. i am anything but perfect, but that is okay. and i love the ocean. many of these have something to do with that. i also love people who live there. the rest of these have something to do with them. some have nothing to...

  • Spilled Ink
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    A piece of soul in ink, and unto the paper it spilled. A collection of thoughts that rhyme from a wandering mind.

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  • 𝐖𝐇𝐀𝐓 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐒𝐎 𝐒𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐄𝐃 𝐎𝐅? | ✅
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    You are the reason I have ink stains on my fingertips. art by yuschav arly

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  • Journey Home
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    Journey Home c.2013, Olan L. Smith Journey Home is a collection of poems that is a personal search for my spiritual home. I go about this search with the tools of poetry using the English language as my map. Love, peace and freedom, Olan L. Smith

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  • There will be time
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    WARNING: 'There will be time to murder and create, And time for all the works and days of hands That lift and drop a question on your plate; Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea.'

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  • Words a Mother Never Heard (Wattys2016)
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    A young woman who was always the life of the party, quick to tell a joke, always smiling and happy, tragically dies at age 23. What her mother found after her death reflected a much different young woman, her poetry. Her words showed a young woman crying out to feel loved, wanted, beautiful and worthy. Struggling to a...

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  • An Assortment Of Words
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    Observe these syllables I have arranged in no particular order and pretend to feel some sort of way. Featured story, highest rank #2 in poetry All rights reserved © #Wattys2016

  • BURN (Wattys2015?)
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    "Poetry...is thoughts that breathe and words that burn."--Thomas Gray "Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash." --Leonard Cohen Poems on the tough stuff in life. Poems on the crazy good stuff in life. Poems to make you smile, and poems to make you cry. Long poems, sh...

  • When I Can't Do Anything Else
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    When I can't do anything else, I write poems. [Became #1 in Poetry a long time ago]

  • Unspoken Words
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    It is easy to lose yourself around the bright lights if you have got dark soul. Words are masterpieces carved from the blue of our souls and sprinkled with midnight regrets. ...

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  • Maybe I'm Insane
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    Maybe I'm insane, but aren't we all a bit. Here's a look inside my crazy mind. My hopes, my fears, my problems all out there for you to see. It's not all pretty and it's not all nice, but it's the truth. I won't blame society for these things, because in reality... we are society. I've come to realize that just maybe...

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  • ACHES [Wattys Winner 2015]
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    Ain't we drowning but still floating in our complexities of love and hatred, happiness and sorrow & life and the journey. Short stories and poetry about true living i.e living through an ache and coming out of it. Want to meet my words in versatile meanings, Come on in! #5 Rank 17th & 25th Aug 2015- Best Coexistence...

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  • The Butterflies Have Gone | ✔️
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    I am an artist and this is my garden of words. Copyright @2015, All Rights Reserved

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  • she's not like the others.
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    quiet isn't always violent. #1 in poetry 11/2

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  • is it still a joke now?
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    The utter most inner thoughts and feelings of one who has but no other way to express them and therefore without a pen a paper she very much may spontaneously combust in an explosion of secrets bottled up for far far too long. : )

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  • Drops of Moonlit Sadness
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    Cover credit: @feministee ****Collection of original poems by me where the topics range from love to life to madness and everything in between**** Only tormented souls can put into words the thoughts that others dare not even think. Poetry is such an act of bravery where soul, language and emotions mate to give birth...

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  • seams and stitching ♡ published
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    "this is your kind of story. no one is the good guy-- no one is the bad guy-- the blame shifts from monster to monster and in this place everyone bares their teeth." [featured. highest ranking: #6 in poetry.]

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  • ramblings
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    to be free with your thoughts to take comfort in your mind to be as changing as the shifting sands to open your mind to light to ramble on about things unsaid to look back over the tides to understand the ramblings of your mind that is to truly write Highest Ranking: 11th in Poetry on 9/28/15

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  • shades of blue
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    Charlie doesn't speak, so he paints.

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