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Our free platform lets you share and publish poems, lyrics, short stories, spoken word and performance poetry. Meet other poets, writers and spoken word artists. Get critique and improve your writing. Take part in poetry competitions and host your own.

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The_Darkness_Insid

Im just a guy with a lot of voices in his head. Writing helps to get some of them to quiet down because they feel like they have been heard.

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Bryan Gray

Poetry is my therapy.

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Observational Poems
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Inspirational Poems
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Erotic Poems
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Dark Poems
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Love Poems
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Self Poems
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Drugs Poems
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Story Poems
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Anger Poems
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Spiritual Poems
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Miscellaneous Poems
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Song Lyrics
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Fictional Prose
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Non-Fiction Prose
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