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Race to Christmas
Fly out of bed
Hit your head on the fan
Watch as it swings
Dress as fast as you can
Storm to your sister's room
Don't knock, lightly tread
Then bust through the hinges
And leap on her bed.
Shake up the bed -
Reversed
Not again.
Three cases in my tiny school.
From where, from who? Who knows?
And yet it's clear that for this year
That's the last I'll see those folks.
Did I look them in the eye
As I asked about their day? -
wHaT A yEaR
Where to begin in this almost passed year of 2020.
It wasn't fun, to put it simply.
It was kind of horrifying.
But- I mean- there had been some good parts.
Like the time when- um- Frozen II came out. -
12 Days of Zoom School
(inspired by the Twelve Days of Christmas song. Follow the same format when reading!)
On the first day of zoom school my teacher gave to me
An essay test in history.
On the second day of zoom school my teacher gave to me -
Black Fish Net Tights
Its been over a year.
An entire year since I met you and never saw you again.
And you've yet to leave my heart.
And yet I can still picture your face.
Your presence that made my heart melt with something I've never felt before. -
Loves
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Writers Block
Normally words flow right out
Normally thoughts come running
Writing it down
Before they can run away
Sitting now
Looking around
Nothing running
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Persephone
Persephone was tired. Tired of being nothing more than the daughter of a nearly forgotten goddess, of being a sweet innocent nymph, a girl content to frolic in fields under the sun.
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First Snow
The first snow I saw this year was in a cemetery.
An old, abandoned cemetery.
The small, barely perceptible flakes fell,
Bitter as any of the old graves,
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Firefly Catcher
I’ve never caught a firefly
I guess I’ve never tried,
I wouldn’t want to trap their life
To keep them bottled up inside
But maybe I should get a jar
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Brother Dearest
you, my brother,
are a paradox
of my happiest
and saddest memories
I could sit for hours and watch
