Posts
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Going, Going, Gone
Going, going, gone
That's where you're going to go
Far away from me.
You're graduating this year
And I'm stuck here for another
But I'd rather be where you are
Forever.
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Friendship
Friendship
Is magic to me.
The light in your eyes
The glow in your smile
The thoughtful pause
Before you speak.
Your laugh and your joy
Your heartache and pain
How sometimes
We even talk
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Why
Why is it so hard for you
To admit when you're wrong?
Why can't you say the two words that
Mean everything
To me?
"I'm sorry".
Would it really be that hard?
Couldn't you do it?
For me?
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Doubletime
And then there were two.
Two hearts, two stories.
Two lives intertwined.
Doubletime.
Two angry auras
Flushed with the blue of sadness
And the hue of love, at the edge
Out of the way
Out of reach.
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Sick Day
For me there is no greater frustration in the world
Than being sick.
It's a hindrance to your life.
It gets in the way.
Whether a cold, a fever
Strep throat or even COVID
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The tree that defines me
When I was little, we lived in Philly. Seven hours from where we live now, eight counting the time allotted for rest stops. And a little ways down the sidewalk from our house was this tree.
Loves
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squishy
There’s a squishy feeling, like your fingers
pressed into soft dough,
the way your body sinks
into the warm, endless bed of a blanket. -
School
School’s great. I *love* waking up early
to sit through hours of stuff I’ll forget.
Lunch? A gourmet mystery I’ll never solve.
Tests? Oh, the thrill of failing with style. -
River
We clash like stones along the shore,
Rough and stubborn, fighting more,
In every word, in every glance,
A storm ignites, a battle dance. -
Will You Bloom Again?
This is a piece I originally wrote for the Pulitzer Poetry Contest, originally titled “Flowers Do Not Heal”. Rereading this, I decided that flowers DO heal, and they bloom again.
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To Say Goodbye
If I had to say goodbye
I wouldn't know what to sayWould I embrace you
Like we used to
Or is the tension in the air pulling us away from that -
hey, cousin…
shoutout to QueenBee <3
hey cousin…
my wild, untamed cousin,
my double-brained cousin,
my stalker, spy-cam cousin.