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“I suffer from unrequited self love. I love myself, but I don’t love myself back.”

— Andrea Gibson, from Lord of the Butterflies

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“The hard part, probably, is admitting that I really can’t handle it anymore.”

— Neil Hilborn, The Future

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“A lot of the time I don’t want to die, I’m just embarrassed and that makes me long for death. Not death, just not being here.”

— Neil Hilborn, The Future

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Bianca Phipps, “Stay With Me”. Watch Bianca’s brilliant full poem!        

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That’s Not In My Dictionary

This language that has no words  for the things I wish to say, only beautiful blown glass ornaments useless in their breathtaking light

This language that has no words I have spoken it all my life saying nothing nothing but what I am expected to say

This language that has no words becomes hard and heavy like an irreparably broken and ancient machine as I try to move it with my bare hands to speak with a voice it was not made to carry

G.K. 11 November, 2017

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Well now, here I am, the prodigal son returns, rearing his ugly colors again.

FROM THE VAULT! RJ Walker - “Said the Confederate Flag to the American Flag”

Performing at the 2016 Great Plains Poetry Pile-Up in Lincoln, NE. Want captions on all videos? Multilingual subtitles? A nationwide Button tour? Check us out on Patreon!

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Love will tell you are beautiful, and mean it, over and over again.

Sarah Kay & Phil Kaye, “When Love Arrives”

Congratulations to Sarah & Phil on topping 1 MILLION views on this wonderful poem.

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Glass Animals

Two glass animals on the ledge of a shelf

Among clutter took a dive when the window flailed.

They landed in a pile of clothes, managing

To only break roughly in half somehow,

And somehow I glued the unicorn’s head

With super glue onto the donkey’s body.

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Abandoned farmhouse with supermoon [1356x2048]

Source: https://openpics.aerobatic.io/

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The stuttering is the most honest part of me. It is the only thing that never lies.

FROM THE VAULT! Erin Schick - “Honest Speech” (NPS 2014)

Erin Schick, performing during the 2014 National Poetry Slam. HELP SUPPORT BUTTON POETRY.

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My armpit hair is uneven and I feel like something is wrong with my nipples but I don’t know what.

Ed Carlyon - “It’s OK”

One of the submissions from our first-ever video contest. Keep an eye out for our next submission period, open soon! HELP SUPPORT BUTTON POETRY.

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dont worry, love youre home now. and all the things you left behind  have stayed there. they will wait for you to come back. but now you are home let peace enter before you and forget what is right for your nation.

you can rest here and you can rest here and you can rest here and you can rest here

G.K. 20 July, 2017

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Watch the video for, “Notes on Staying”, by Hieu Minh Nguyen.     

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The study of bodies in your mind, and what it means that you were born under Pluto’s light, or any of his servants’.

Between joy set and joy rise,  these dark ills can be seen more clearly in the night sky They haunt, with persistent light, the sealed eyes of the sleep-deprived until the conscious door’s bound shut to keep them out.

As joy sets and joy rises,  this new study of psychoastronology finds an unpredictable solstice, an imbalanced equinox As each passes, one day is a shorter longer louder quieter repetition of the last.

Joy sets, and joy rises, and in the twilight of happiness lies the fear of darkness, where the devil lies, and all those terrible minds come to hunt  in your very own bed where only dreams can hide you.

G.K. 7 July, 2017