Pretty When I Cry
Why do I feel prettier when I cry? Maybe because emotion and feeling it deeply is beautiful. The rosy complexion and messy mascara,...
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peachro
- Apr 20
- 2 min
Being in your twenties is...
Being in your twenties is sitting in your first adult apartment with shitty wall décor and $5 wine. It’s either panic or great change and...
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peachro
- Aug 3, 2023
- 2 min
"Fine Line" Lyrics
I always get too much of what I want And I'm too cool to call the people I love Cause I want too badly to be depend on no one I always...
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peachro
- Mar 21, 2023
- 3 min
mind at 18
*I wrote this nonfiction piece almost 4 years ago at the beginning of college, and it's interesting to look back and reflect on as I near...
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peachro
- Mar 21, 2023
- 1 min
thrift store t-shirt
After our bodies became one, skin and bone meshed together, gnashing like our words comparing favorite fictional characters and musical...
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peachro
- Mar 21, 2023
- 1 min
poem for j
He tells me he sees a future with me. I hold the world in my arms and the stars at my feet; he’s hungry for more, waiting for another...
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peachro
- Feb 13, 2023
- 1 min
I grew up watching The Bachelor
I grew up watching The Bachelor with my mom, with many other American housewives. We’d curl up on deflated couches and she’d stand in...
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peachro
- Jan 18, 2023
- 11 min
Flip Off, iPhone
This past week, I attempted undergoing some serious changes in my social life. I (mostly) gave up social media, and (somewhat) traded in...
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peachro
- Nov 2, 2022
- 1 min
choice - poem
“it’s MY body.” i want to scream, but my mouth— rife with political trauma and defeated cries— is shut, voice muffled, heart heavy. do...
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peachro
- Nov 2, 2022
- 4 min
I'm Breaking Up With You
By the end of college, most 21-year-olds have dating experience that leads to the heartbreaking catastrophe in which they break up with...
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peachro
- Nov 2, 2022
- 1 min
Strawberry Sprinkled Donut - Poem
There was a certain calmness within the water. The shadowy pool was helping him mask his secret, water engulfing the energy lurking...
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peachro
- Sep 18, 2022
- 1 min
"Take Me To a Place (Just Like You)" Lyrics
Take me to a place Where the sky is like your eyes And the clouds hold me like you Take me to a place Where the sea is like your lips And...
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peachro
- Sep 18, 2022
- 1 min
"apartment party" Lyrics
Danced with you at an apartment party You wanted her to be jealous of me Later in the night you're talking To the girl I thought I could...
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peachro
- Sep 18, 2022
- 4 min
Starbucks Is a Chain of Things Unnoticed
There are 30,833 Starbucks stores in 80 countries around the world, many of which exchange tired pedestrians, teachers, and students...
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peachro
- Apr 11, 2022
- 8 min
#BAMARUSH
July 2019 “How do I even shop for this? What do they wear in the south?” I pondered, pausing. “And when did you buy dresses for this...
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peachro
- Jan 30, 2022
- 1 min
in my friend's eyes (rondeau)
In my friend's eyes I can see stars of pain masked by going to bars. She used to write music and sing songs to crushes that owed her...
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peachro
- Dec 19, 2021
- 2 min
New Mouth (sestina)
I found myself falling in love with the way words fell out of your mouth. The way you slipped your feet into boots, focusing on the floor...
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peachro
- Oct 11, 2021
- 2 min
sharing soap
Here's a collaborative sestina my creative writing class wrote with me. I started and finished it with a few lines and edited their work...
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peachro
- Sep 27, 2021
- 1 min
The Art of Leaving (villanelle poem)
How you choose to leave always says more; like goodbye waves and words pack up a past, saying goodbye can open or close a door. A hug...
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peachro
- Apr 21, 2021
- 3 min
Missing Blue (fiction)
I often picture that my mind is on a string tied to yours and the connecting knot has grown too complex to ever completely separate them....
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