Posts
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The Little Light
The spark started small
In a 17 year old student,
who made friends with the artist.
She let it grow in her heart,
and then passed it on
by showing kindness to the outsider
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Stars
A girl stood alone
on the edge of the world,
scared to fall,
but somehow she could not leave
Her heart pounding,
Her chest screaming,
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Cookies to Constellations
I miss when everything used to be simple
when everyone got a cookie
and we didn't have to worry
about if there was one less
But I did,
because what if another guest came to the tea party?
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How I came to be
The God
who created the stars
and the sun
and the mountains
and the planes
gazed over it all,
then added me
Cause He looked at a field of ornate roses and lilies,
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I Want to be a Princess
Is it wrong
to want to be a princess?
Is it naive or childish?
Because I want to be in a world where at 16
I find my prince charming,
where every year onwards is happily ever after
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Alive
I don't know why
but something in me loves
to dance just out of death's reach
to swerve between its fingers,
there, but impossible to grasp
letting an inch decide my next breath
it makes me feel
Loves
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Portrait of a Man Looking Back
He can see kids glowing in the kitchen,
Hands sticky with sweet gossip,Bright, beautiful little selves smudged by the window that he,
A cracked old statue has broken his hands and fingers by banging on, -
Twirling Gowns and Embroidered Jerkins
How I wish I was a fairytale;
How I wish I wore gowns perfect
for twirling, and
how I wish I wore perfectly crisp
button-down shirts and
immaculately embroidered jerkins;
How I wish my eyeshadow really was
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Thread
Do you feel your head unspooling into the universe?
The strings are fraying at the edges,
irreparably stained with the stardust at the ends
Of the many worlds you stretch across.
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An Insignificant Poem on Significance
I just want to do something significant. I
want to write something that matters, something
that makes a change for the good, but
I also want to just be me: I want to dream
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On the Improbability of Wisdom
This is inspired by and dedicated to Ilia Malinin, who found the possible in impossible, carrying himself with his dreams
True wisdom comes from knowing we
know
nothing.
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Our Remarkable Hearts
We are such remarkable beings;
In the hearts we have learned to draw
beat our brilliance through persistence
and the way how even when we feel
as if our lungs have been shattered,
what was left of our love blown