Posts
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Farewell
Music turn-in day
Is tomorrow.
While really it's just
Placing the papers in piles
According to instrument and part
Trying to organize everything
And hoping nothing's wrinkled
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Winding down
As the school year winds down,
So do I -
And yet
The homework
Does not.
We are saying goodbye
To beloved interns -
Beloved teachers -
If only for the summer -
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Tradition
Tradition is
Runner beans
Shells being cracked open
Until fingers are sore -
Sitting around a table with
A game of Dutch Blitz going and
Graham crackers with peanut butter
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Duet
Scared
Nervous
Terrified.
We step
One
At
A
Time
Onto
The stage.
Chairs.
Stands.
Folders.
Music.
Piano music,
Starting.
And we enter.
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Adjustments
I always wanted to be a better player but
I didn't really understand
How.
Two years of
Sort of almost having to
Lead
Being the only one who
Really cared enough
To do my best.
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That smile
I play for a lot of things.
That smile is one of them.
When we're doing something right
And you take fast four into two
And you're smiling and grinning and in full control
And we're not falling apart
Loves
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Jester
I will be the court jester
But when you remind me of my past
My lungs refuse to laugh
Now I fall quiet
A sad smile dances on my lips
As I glance at you with pain in my eyes
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bittersweet end
Our end is bittersweet,
some look down in defeat,
while others raise their fists in victory.
Some of us may cry when we wave goodbye,
some may smile with a twinkle in their eye.
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behind slammed doors and silent screams
I cried in silence again.
The tears streamed down
And made puddles on my carpet floor
I'm lying on again.
I watched the minutes change again.
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Revival
One day,
you will feel pain so excruciating it becomes abstruse. You will feel numb, detached from the world, lost in a void of darkness.
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T
Tired.
worn out.
Stuck in daydreams,
so checked out.
It's been like this for months.
and getting worse in bumps and grunts.
the summer heat, it floods my mind
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what’s next
she walks into the room like a sentence that forgot to whisper
light brown hair pulled back in a way that says she didn’t try
but still somehow gets it right
clear glasses catching the light