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Backstreet Affair
Soft tendrils of your hair
draped across my arm--
A scent so subtle
it lightly teases,
while I breathe deeply 
blazed starlit dances.
Against the curtains,
there-- velvet pillows fold
until gyrating shadows wheel about;
uninterrupted murmurs bursting
ignoring the subdued daylight
until we give in to an ever private dalliance--
Two lovers happily surrender
on the...

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Categories: backstreet, desire, romance,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Horrified By Backstreet of My Mind
coughed up with cigarette dust
spit out of a roaring mouth
truths that pierce me
regurgitated in slimy green vomit

backstreet of my mind
pretending relief
forefront horrified by his pretense
trying to sugarcoat regurgitated slime with pink cotton candy thoughts

Feeling lighter, more genuine,
A smidget of almost but not quite happy
Mucus membrane...

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Categories: backstreet, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Colour - ::Published::
The joy I find in colour
This extraordinary thing
Tiny backstreets shout with vigour
Freeing prison walls to sing 

When the streetlight slowly flickers
On our lifeless habitat 
The creative human passion
Has to put a stop to that 

Sweeping through the streets of dullness
All the litter and the dust
Bringing...

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Categories: backstreet, color, for teens, freedom,
Form: Rhyme

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