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  Giving is Receiving

  By Olivia K., New York, NY

  An answer is no such thing without a question in pre-text An answer has no meaning if there is not something to respond to Answers are not synonymous to periods, Answers act as a semi-colon, a comma a gateway to yet another question If the beholder received one answer and only one answer i...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Desperation

  By Olivia K., New York, NY

  The air is crystal My mind is plastic I’m bathed in a loss of self-hope The lights are off The cobwebs cocoon my presence My reflection absent I’m looking into a hole Am I falling slowly? Or is the world receding beneath my feet Receding with broken hearts Separated by stormy rivers...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Journey of Life

  By Olivia K., New York, NY

  To travel is to experience To experience is to learn To learn is to understand To understand is to not understand To not understand is to ask questions To ask questions is to learn To learn is to experience Learning is a journey Travel to the moon or travel from one spot in the...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Space in Music

  By Olivia K., New York, NY

  Music is bound with the loose ambiguous bind of the galaxy; each star is a note shining then dying once it runs out of fuel Each cadence is a constellation fixed by human appeasement disappearing when the light runs out The ears and the eyes act as minds greatness overwhelms, the mind b...
• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  To Read or Not to Read

  By Olivia K., New York, NY

  Reading a novel is a very personal experience. You become entrenched in the characters lives and emotions, and feel as the characters feel, as if you are a character or a bystander watching the story play out. Reading a novel is having a second, temporarily infinite life that remains (and sometimes ...