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Psychedelic 😵‍💫 World by Rikki La Rouge
Psychedelic World is my first poetry book before Scenery of Society which would come years later. With this book I tried to get it published I sent it to all of the major publishers out there for example penguin publishing. There are two versions one is in English and the other one is written in Spanish. I did the illustrations for the work myself and it is true to the book being that it is a psychedelic drawing. I can’t explain the meaning of the drawing other than that it’s just cool and a snapshot of the machinations of my mind.
By Revista XCI by Rikki La Rouge 11 months ago in Poets
The Echo Beneath My Skin
There’s a quiet war inside of me, That no one stops to see. A thousand screams beneath a smile, A storm disguised as peace and style.
By The 9x Fawdi11 months ago in Poets
Poems
I don’t write poems I am possessed by the them I speak for those that are otherwise silent I speak for the nonviolent I write as witness to those hemmed in on all sides
By Atomic Historian11 months ago in Poets
Normal
I want to feel normal again Not to go back where we began But the ephemeral euphoric place between The then and now The only question is
By Atomic Historian11 months ago in Poets
The Resume You Can't Submit
It doesn't show up on the page, Not in the skills or the degree. It's in the fog that clouds your mind, The man you promised you would be.
By The 9x Fawdi11 months ago in Poets
Waxfall
Molten motive sear to steer a stream of liquid heat cascading clandestine waxfall trickling down stops in its tracks
By Colleen Walters11 months ago in Poets
The Number Zoo. AI-Generated.
Welcome to the zoo, step right in! Let our happy counting begin! 1 hairy bear, waving its paw, 2 tall giraffes, that we saw!
By The 9x Fawdi12 months ago in Poets
The Hollow It Fills
It is not enough just to close the tab but to understand the hollow it tries to fill inside you. You do not have to understand the science
By The 9x Fawdi12 months ago in Poets
It is not enough
just to carry a life but to comprehend the gravity of the universe growing inside. You do not have to understand the mystery
By The 9x Fawdi12 months ago in Poets
The Geology of Us
When time has compressed me to stone, and my skeleton’s part of the cliff, the wind will begin its slow work, composing its elegy if.
By The 9x Fawdi12 months ago in Poets
A Practical Guide to Reclaiming Your Focus from Porn. Content Warning. AI-Generated.
You clicked for a thrill, a escape from the stress, A moment of pleasure, a way to decompress. But the minutes turned hours, the buzz didn't last,
By The 9x Fawdi12 months ago in Poets
2 Different
We don’t live in the same America. There’s the one they built on paper, and the one we built out of survival. Theirs has inheritance,
By Cadma12 months ago in Poets