The memory’s of my childhood haunt me,
The step mam who was there to taunt me.
Silenced to grieve about my Mother,
The hate she caused between my Dad and Brother.
The bond between my Dads now broken,
I hate them kids the bitch had spoken.
But i am now older and i have moved on,
Just left with this feeling my [...]

I try to hold back on all the tears.
The pain and misery through all the years.
I cant stand to see the smile on your face.
Ive been living in fear sice you’ve been here.
Now you sit there and laugh in my face.
All the anger building up. “what a disgrace”.
This poem was written/submitted by Tatyannah [...]

Here is a girl named Missy
Appears confused and messy
Mr. Policeman, Sir can you guess ?
She wrote that she is in this place
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So she said, Where am I ?
So Mr. Policeman cannot guess
Can you guess ?
This poem was written/submitted by Ency Bearis.

I won a goldfish at the fair,
Was told it lived in water not in air
Took him home and put him in a bowl
All by himself, that poor lonely soul
I loved him so much, and named him Jaws
He was perfect, had no flaws
Bright orange colored was his skin
Shining radiantly from mouth to tail fin
I fed him [...]

Things don’t die or remain damaged
but return: stumps grow back hands,
a head reconnects to a neck,
a whole corpse rises blushing and newly elastic.
Later this vision is not True:
the grandmother remains dead
not hibernating in a wolf’s belly.
Or the blue parakeet does not return
from the little grave in the fern garden
though one may wake in the morning
thinking [...]

Outside the house an ash-tree hung its terrible whips,
And at night when the wind arose, the lash of the tree
Shrieked and slashed the wind, as a ship’s
Weird rigging in a storm shrieks hideously.
Within the house two voices arose in anger, a slender lash
Whistling delirious rage, and the dreadful sound
Of a thick lash booming and bruising, [...]

When I was small the Lord appeared
Unto my mental eye
A gentle giant with a beard
Who homed up in the sky.
But soon that vasty vision blurred,
And faded in the end,
Till God is just another word
I cannot comprehend.
I envy those of simple faith
Who bend the votive knee;
Who do not doubt divinely death
Will set their spirits free.
Oh could [...]

Ice-cold fear has slowly decreased
As my bones have grown, my height increased.
Though I shiver in snow of dreams, I shall never
Freeze again in a noonday terror.
I shall never break, my sinews crumble
As God-the-headmaster’s fingers fumble
At the other side of unopening doors
Which I watch for a hundred thousand years.
I shall never feel my thin blood leak
While [...]

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The bitterness. the misery, the wretchedness of childhood
Put me out of love with God.
I can’t believe in God’s goodness;
I can believe
In many avenging gods.
Most of all I believe
In gods of bitter dullness,
Cruel local gods
Who scared my childhood.
II
I’ve seen people put
A chrysalis in a match-box,
“To see,” they told me, “what sort of moth would come.”
But when [...]