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One Night Only
Just to escape the hassle of home.
Just to avoid the whisper-yelling into phones.
Just to burst free from the stifling bedroom she kept with such love.
She set out.
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Birds Of A Feather
Our country,
Now, more than ever,
Divided we stand,
Alone, we brave harsh weather.
In more ways than one,
We are birds of a feather,
Because when the time comes,
We are tethered together.
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Socrates on Skis (Sort Of)
How peaceful it is to glide around unannounced on flat pieces of plastic they call skis. Why plastic gives you a placid feeling inside is unknown.
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Color
The sun's light reflects off your face like a mirror. Staring up at it hurts your eyes, but you do it anyways.
You see bright light, but
Depending on how you look at it,
It could be any color.
Loves
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Well Loved
I find it difficult to get rid of shirts that I wore when I was thirteen.
Since I know how much I used to love them.
I sense she would feel betrayed if she saw it
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Woodland Grove
And your dark, knotted hair falls,
trailing along and settling
in the crevice of collarbone,
ravine of spine,
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Thoughts on a Sunset
It’s moments like these I wish would never end.
The sky would never fade into the dark.
The sea would never storm.
The news would never catastrophize,
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Now
1, 2, 3, 4, 5…
Every second counted,
Every minute ticked,
Every hour checked off,
Every year gone.
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The Difference
"Please explain a tree,"
I ask, and before
The natural silence of pondering,
The chirping of thought as woven melodies,
The rotation of gears churning into place,
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Roads & Rails
Sometimes,
they think the forests must have been constructed,
around the railroad.
That the tracks were built up from Earth long ago,