Author: matthewtoffolo

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Genre: Family Cigarette Butts My father made me. Sculpted me out of the cigarette butts he & my mother left outside the bar where they met. Each butt falling, landing & forming their foundation. Accumulating, into child after child after child. Children to sit at his feet. Tugging at his heart…

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Genre: Relationship  More than an Emotion by AR slim It wasn’t in the way she said she loved me. It was the sparkle in her eyes, that half grin smirk on her lips. The glow in her face. The touch of her hand against mine. Catching her looking at me…

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Genre: Examination of our Society, Youth Culture, Dark, Reality, The Playground by Phillip Rivers old buildings, empty fields, and those vacant haunted lots we used to play games now they’re moving different rocks oxy pills, heroin, get the molly from ‘Pops’ never met the biological just old dude from the block broken…

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Genre: Rhyme, Thriller Aylan lies face down by Angelina Llongueras Aylan lies on the ground face down, the sea has delicately poised him on the beach, right where the sand and the water meet, only a bucket missing at his feet for him to build a castle in the delicate…

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Genre: Family Will’s House by Martha C. Wallace Pla-ploop, pop, pop, bloop, bloop… the coffee percolator sings. Sssst, pop, pop, ssst the bacon sizzles a hot reply. Hot sticky cheese bubbles over the sides of the toast. Buttery grits pop and boil. Country music singers wailin’ and bemoanin’ love, life,…

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Genre: Rhyme, Life, Society Tomorrow by Kim Wheeler What happens when tomorrow never comes Do we cry for loss of purpose? Or do our tears tell the truth That without another tomorrow We shall be alone, once more Without love, hope or salvation And our path towards the light Fades…

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Genre: Nature, Beauty, Life, Uncertainties, Hope. Full moon by Adams Duniya This bald asterisk Over cottoned sky-high: Wide-height, with silver hue Has thou cast. In slow-line crawl By soft retractile attendance – Resolute for celestial harmony, Has heavens splendour, thou calmed. Let thy pseudo feet – Ever soiled in resoled…

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Genre: Pain, Female It wake up by Stuti Mishra I told the world I wouldn’t compromise, My smile is capable making you mesmerise. My rights ain’t your wrongs when I’m in the middle, I’ll make the obstacles move like they wiggle. Posters you been pasting like you want me to…

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Genre: Life, Society  WHEN THE MOON SLEPT by Akinkunmi Adewumi The moon slept, But we were awaken to Hunger, We groan and groan, We wrestle and wrestle, Our left hands on our aching stomachs Writhing in agony inflicted by Hunger. At the first cock crow, That Sleep already stole our…