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12. Hunting. Share your favorite hunting stories, or tell how you feel about hunting. Alternate: The Big Loss. Describe a moment in which your team lost and what happened. Deadline: FRIDAY.

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trap

Karsenw8's picture

Got Ya.

Submitted by Karsenw8 on September 21, 2008 - 19:22.

I felt so Alive.
Brought back from Death
Death by heart break
I took a shot
And I lost my breath
while I was with you.
I needed something new
I thought I'd found something true.
But the more time we'd spent
the more the real you
started to come through.
In the end
it hurt even more
For me to have learned
I Honestly Can't Trust Anymore

Dreamsprite's picture

Melting away

Submitted by Dreamsprite on May 6, 2008 - 15:37.

Folding away
Fragments of glass
Shimmering a column of
What's it called?
Light.
Blowing bubbles to the nonexistent surface.
I know I'm heading up.
I keep blowing them as much as much I can.
Flailing my legs.
Such lead...
Such lead...
Ivory panes greet my obscured cheek.
Not cold, not warm, but cool.
Heart keeps thumping

louder.Louder.LOUDER.

I need it. I need it.

Just one more...
This time, I don't see where it's going.
Pummeling the the glass I thought once were
my ticket to faraway Neverland
Now are my barrier.
Can't breathe...Can't breathe...
Can't breathe...Can't breathe...

Lifting up my left arm, I suddenly see,
The beige that's melting away.

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