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  This One Is For You

  

  By justkeepwriting, Los Angeles, CA

  this one is for the girl with the electric smile, lightning laughter, and candid charisma this one is for the girl who has been to more funerals than weddings, met more doctors than dancers, but has still managed to win more battles than lose them this one is for the girl who wil...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Deferred Desire: Dream Pyre

  

  By justkeepwriting, Los Angeles, CA

  i want to know what the grasshoppers tell you as you lay your head against the cool ground, losing your identity to the night i want to know what the stars say to you when your eyes plead with them, begging for a wish that still hasn’t come true i want to know what the clouds...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  sound garden

  

  By justkeepwriting, Los Angeles, CA

  memories do not make very good pillows they are always getting stuck inside my ears and i can still hear the sound of my mistakes long after they are only an echo words resonate like stories ready to detonate, bringing me back to days when our hearts were phoenixes - when our str...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  blocks of clay

  

  By justkeepwriting, Los Angeles, CA

  my soul is covered in dust from all the days i spent trying to mold ceramic dreams into reality, and coach clay into meeting expectations and fulfilling aspirations...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  macaroni and words

  

  By justkeepwriting, Los Angeles, CA

  she writes poetry the same way that her mother cooks dinner: relying on inspiration, taste, and chance and not a book of recipes...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  yellow

  

  By justkeepwriting, Los Angeles, CA

  reflected sunshines and personified brilliance - it is the crisp wave in his hair, the essence of life’s most valued ingredient it is the streak of power emitted from outlet wishes it is a sea of daisies upon dangers upon days of curiosity, intensity… it is the harmony of taxica...
• Opinion > Pop Culture / Trends
  Social Networking Killed the Diarists

  

  By justkeepwriting, Los Angeles, CA

  Dear Diary, in 2012, a majority of teenagers wore skinny jeans and listened to bands like One Direction or Mumford and Sons; the iPhone 4S was a thing of the past as the iPhone 5 took reign, and the average price of a gallon of gas was $3.76 — oh and also, I bought frozen yogurt on July 31st at ap...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Confession: I am a recovering perfectionist

  

  By justkeepwriting, Los Angeles, CA

  I am a fish that attempts to climb trees – and I won't rest until I can reach the top I am a bird with broken wings that believes she can still fly higher than all the rest. I am built for Forever but I will only ever have Temporary My mind is a web made of mirrors that reflect th...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Runaway

  

  By justkeepwriting, Los Angeles, CA

  if i could run away forever i would run until my arms became wings, my feet became fins, and my entire being became someone i would not be ashamed to look in the mirror and greet every morning...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  but still

  

  By justkeepwriting, Los Angeles, CA

  my knees are still scraped from the time i fell off my bike when i was just seven years old; my arms still bruised from when i slipped off the too-tall mountain my throat is still tight with tears i refuse to shed; my chest bursting with emotions i do not want to acknowledge my hair i...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Crayons and Catastrophe

  

  By justkeepwriting, Los Angeles, CA

  do you remember when you were young and someone asked you what you wanted to be when you grew up and you proudly responded that your fate was predetermined: you knew you were destined for greatness you believed that you could save the world, simply because you figured out that crayons ar...