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Humming to Our Hearts
The piano
Twirling through the air,
The lyrics I hummed to
With my grandma, my aunt,
My mom,
The characters I can feel creeping
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The Boundless Book of Humanity
Sitting at the kitchen table,
The Beauty and the Beast soundtrack
Humming through an earbud,
My mom streaking the stars
Across my fingernails,
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Honeyed Rose
Her hands are cupped around
A rose,
Perfectly red petals
Curling to the center,
Where she has stored her heart;
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Hasty Assumptions Thoroughly Exaggerated
Hate
Is ignorance:
It’s when eyes
Skim past the story of scars,
Focusing rather on the fact
They’re there;
They let the jagged curves
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Flood My Heart
Let me float
In a sea of poetry,
Words weaving my hair,
Verses like seawater
Trickling into my heart
And lapping against the shores
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The Rain of Ruddy Gold
Rain was sparkling, shimmering all around Grayson. He’d left his earbuds, his phone, resting atop the worn cushions of his favorite writing loveseat, where he’d always curl up his legs and hug his leather-bound notebook to his ches
Loves
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The Love Anomaly
she doesn’t exist but as
a small dream sinking through me
that the night is quiet endlessness;
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as you lie
every night i lie in Bed
and wonder what you Think about -
am i the Dream that’s in your head
or are you fast asleep?
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Of, By, For, To
Part One: “Of the People”
Let a symphony of voices form a cacophony so loud
God themselves won’t be able to ignore our
grief, our
sorrow; the shattered fragments of our hearts
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This I Believe (Names)
The ancient Greeks believed that names held power. I happen to agree.
I don’t remember when I first discovered this truth. It is something I feel like I have always known, since the moment I received my first name.