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• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  Flip the Switch, Please.

  

  By GreenActress, Greenwood Village, CO

  No one likes standardized tests. Anyone that says otherwise is just kidding themselves. You bubble in question after question, until you get to the essay. We’re all expecting it coming into the test, but nevertheless, we hope. We hope that this year the prompt won’t completely and totally suck. ...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  Can You Hear Me Now?

  

  By GreenActress, Greenwood Village, CO

  I never fully understood the way people’s minds worked. When I was eight and tried to say something completely serious, everyone around me laughed and congratulated my mom on having such a cute little girl. When I was fourteen, my mom would just roll her eyes and tell me that I shouldn’t be suc...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  She's Beautiful

  

  By GreenActress, Greenwood Village, CO

  She's beautiful, this I always knew I'm just too stubborn to admit that's true. He obviously sees it too I was hit like I never knew. I wonder why he stands up and walks away But then I see her over there. I open my mouth but have nothing to say I feel my heart has a tare. I ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  To Be Blunt

  

  By GreenActress, Greenwood Village, CO

  The leaves are yellow Red even. The sky is gray Purple even. But the light is missing And the day is gone To be blunt It has all gone wrong....
• Poetry > Free Verse
  I'm Loving It

  

  By GreenActress, Greenwood Village, CO

  You laugh and say that you love me I know it's fake But won't you please Look past my jokes And rolling eyes Can't you see I'm hypnotized? The way you joke The way you tease The way you speak My shaking knees Your sparkling eyes I get chills from your voice Can'...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  It's Not Worth It

  

  By GreenActress, Centennial, CO

  Passing notes in secret. I gave you my heart and you chose to keep it. Forever. Ends now? Forgetting. I wish. The freshly mowed grass and your shiny white teeth. I wish I could forget How I feel when you look at me. Amazing and true And yet a liar call. I guess all love has it'...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Do You Know Everything?

  

  By GreenActress, Centennial, CO

  Hold my hand please I feel as if I might fall. My feet have no balance Nor does my heart. I wish I could ask for your help Because you know everything. Don't you? You said you did, years ago. Did you lie Teach me wrong? Do you know everything?...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  I Dream Like A Dreamer

  

  By GreenActress, Centennial, CO

  I dream like a dreamer And forget like a sickness I apologize to her Like it’s not my business Erase and Rewind What I see in my dreams Where kind means kind Yet nothing is what it seems Where love conquers all And friendship survives wars These plans I draw Potential to soar Slowly un...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  I'll Shoot You With A Shooting Star, And....Nothing

  

  By GreenActress, Centennial, CO

  If a star shot out of the sky And hit you on the head Would you notice it? Would you not? How could you not? How can you not? I shoot the star Aiming at you How could you How can you not? I dance through the ice wind Pictures bluring As never begins But how could you not How could you ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Never Good Enough

  

  By GreenActress, Centennial, CO

  The Social Society Lies It deseves It throws people under. It tells me to starve myself because I'm not skinny enough. It tells me to dye my hair a different color because my natural color isn't pretty enough. It tells me to spend 100 more dollars than I need to on clothes because m...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  You're affraid of Me

  

  By GreenActress, Centennial, CO

  I'm affraid of the future whatever it may hold I'm affraid of competition For I've never held the gold I'm affriad of talking to you What if you don't talk back I'm affraid of pain I've never liked that I'm affraid of failure What will others think I...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Little Black Dress

  

  By GreenActress, Centennial, CO

  The devil's not red It's black. Like a shiny credit card A pointy broken shard Of a shallow pool mirror. You think if seen They'll want her If only one would tell her How stupid How wrong How controled One are. I blame that little black dress. I spend five too many T...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Who I Might Be

  

  By GreenActress, Centennial, CO

  No I will not stay No I will not go I cannot hear what you say I've never felt so alone. Is Sunday past the dawn Is grass to high to reach Am I still who I am Turned 49 and teach I realize the blackness It pushes down on me I'm mummbling in your ear You won't dare to speak ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  I don't care

  

  By GreenActress, Centennial, CO

  How far away are you? You seem to be drifting. Don't tell me I'm crazy, because I won't listen. I'm not stubborn, I'm smart, I'm not clingy, I care, You're not true, You betray, I thought I loved you, Now, I just don't care....