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- Poetry > Free Verse
Ramen noodles And you take the peas out One by one And the light sneaks in Through the fractured windows And your nostrils are hit with the stench Of Fossil fuels and week-old beer Your mint chip Frappuccino Reminds you of how much you miss her And her coffee-swirled hair And her dimple... - Poetry > Free VerseTorn from myself Chalk stains chiseled upon steel backboards River of blood, sweat, and broken dreams Accumulate in a puddle of regret Drown away my absent tears Guitar strings pried away from the neck Mangled mess of bohemia Her hair coffee swirled Salt and pepper nails Lips that dodge...
- Poetry > Free VerseOlive thickets the shade of intuition My heart fastened in a vice Sprinting away from my own life Everyone's doors are closed My faith never dies And that amazes me I have always known That vines rip though the mulch And rain drops of sanguine Stream down like coffee on a sunday mornin...
- Fiction > Sci-fi/FantasyDepthless rationale asservates that perfect remedies cure broken streets; we now know this is not the case. Childhood dreams decay as the molten sidewalks are treated with the medicine of crime and death. Modest criminals lurk the night alleys of Civic City with no remorse, and certainly no fear ...
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Guide > College EssaysI am not sure if it’s the picturesque field, the mysterious forest, or the way the light hits the patio in the late afternoon, but my backyard resonates with all my internal curiosities. I sit on my patio, the cool breeze swirling, and write about my iconoclastic nature. I get a waft of the ch... - Poetry > Free VerseShriveled by the conquest of my undying love Your were my home Until I was evicted My frozen dreams digested tears And burned the retinas of my watery eyes Fastened by bobby pins was my beating soul I always pondered the idea Of attaching my spirit to a white dove Let it sail away and look d...
- College
Guide > College EssaysI am a weird kid. Not weird in the colloquial “hipster” sense, just genetically weird. I have red-green colorblindness, congenital insensitivity to pain, an extremely irrational fear of bees, and a 148 IQ that makes me come across as egocentric when others would be perceived as sincere. Cons... - Poetry > Free VerseWake up with nobody to blame. Not a cloud in sight. Graffiti on the walls; radiated from the spirit. Went to many parties; lost my shoes. Gave in to dares; lost humility. Stopped caring if lies were white. Jumped into the sky; didn’t question anything. Being anyone but myself; o...
- College
Guide > College EssaysIt’s a shame that I do not have any grandiose stories to tell. What I do have is a scenic backyard. The funny thing is that this backyard harbors all my creative. Writing has always been my passion – my backyard is the place where I write the best. I am not sure if it’s the scenic field, t... - College
Guide > College EssaysEnough with looking up how to write the perfect college essay. Enough with grandiose exertions regarding how people learn about poverty on a $9,000 trip to Africa. How can I show that I am different from the thousands of other applicants who appear identical to me in the computer – using writing...
