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About me - Desdymona Black

I am twenty-six years old, and I've written poetry all of my life. I won the poetry.com contest two years ago, and they published my work in a coffee-table book. I am also a novelist, under a psuedonym. I am due to publish my first book in the beginning of

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Relationships & Family > Break-Ups & Exes The fate of broken hearts: 5 of 16

The wounds still bleed. I wake up every afternoon, unsure if I truly want to open my eyes. I look at my cell phone. No text messages. No calls. It hits me all over again. He's gone. He's really gone, and he's not coming back. Than I'm bombarded with the usual questions from my overly logical mind: "Do you really want him to ...
Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Remembering love: 73 of 189

Stumble I see the spider crawling across my wall Or do I? I am lost in that fog-filled world again Forever falling... Falling... Yet I am no longer afraid He scurries quickly to the corner, then up And still I stare at the spot he crossed before You were there... Come back... A faint tapping on my bedroom window A beetle, pe...
Creative Writing > Memoirs Memoirs: How I became a writer: 11 of 11

Honestly, I have been writing, in some form, all of my life. I can't remember a time that I wasn't jotting down random thoughts that would end up in one of my poems. My earlier works were just for fun, and definitely did not earn any recognition. It was a few years before I grasped the use of words, and I'm still playing wit...