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"I DON'T WANT TO END UP SIMPLY HAVING VISITED THIS WORLD"
"I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world" - "When Death Comes", Mary Oliver
My soul is still an empty basket in which I
still need to fill with the experiences in life I don’t -
Poetry in my everyday
My life is not nearly as poetic
as the nature of humanity.
However, if you weave the right words together,
anything can become poetry.
The life cycle represents how life is round
just as Keats once said. -
What the Fae's Do in Their Spare Time
Gather around rock circles in an unruly display.
Tussle with the cattails until the sky explodes with snowflakes.
Poke at the cryptic critters living beneath the sand of the lakes.
Guide the fish away from casted lines, just to mess -
Dying Women / Taxidermy Butterflies
We are like taxidermy butterflies
placed forcibly, neatly, in an oak display case
so we may be admired for our unique anatomy
rather than living free in fields of milkweed and daisy. -
What Everyone Said and What I Believe
Ever since I was a child I was reminded it was not my fault.
I was reminded it was not my fault and I would never believe it.
When my mother and father were set at each other throats -
Questions for the Spirits That Haunt Graveyards
One
Does a willow still weep just as loudly
even when it has no leaves to cry with
in the baneful dead of winter?
Two
Are there still more colorful flowers
Loves
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My Girlfriend
I feel her bracelet cold on my wrist
I taste the coffee bitter in my mouth
I smell her perfume drifting in the air
I see her standing over me, strong and beautiful
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shapes
circle: the roundedness of a
marshmallow spent too long in your pocket,
meant for my mouth; the almost-perfect
eternity
of your fingernail as you traced my collarbone
remarking how winglike our shoulders were;
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A Letter for Everyone on YWP – One Last Time
Dear YWP,
The first time I wrote you a letter I was 13.
The second, 15.
I'm 18 now; how time flies, my lovely people.
And this is the last letter.
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I Saw the Tv Glow
Have you ever seen the TV glow?
We have all seen the blinding light the TV gives off,
But have you truly seen it glow?
I Saw the TV Glow,
And for the first time, I felt peace-
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The glow of the TV
Do you remember the time
that you and I
spent in front of the TV?
We watched Disney cartoons
and the world around us
stopped.
I rememberwhen nothing else mattered
and we could just be.
