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The Sun is Setting
The Sun is setting &nbs
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This Is What Peace Is
The gentle sway of trees in the wind, golden locks of hair blowing in the breeze
Syncing with the cattails in the shallows
This is what peace is.
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In the Woods
In the woods,
All is silent but for the twinkling sounds of falling snow
Flakes descending, like crystals
They are bejeweled with angles that dazzle and delight, so delicate
Each one unique among millions.
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To Lose a Friend
I remember you, now
Though I don’t see you anymore.
Memory is the only choice.
The time on Easter when you ate one of the eggs us children ran searching to find
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Past and Future
The world is full of problems. It made the man wonder why he bothered to get up in the morning. The sun was shining — but it was too bright. And was it possible for that baby across the street to wail any louder?
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Evolution
There is a road that winds endlessly on and on; it does not stop, yet in some places it becomes hard to follow.
Loves
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Last Day of School
I wrote this poem about a month ago, and I recited it at Fifth Grade Night on Wednesday, June 12, and just this morning at my graduation.
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For A Friend I'll Never See Again
She’s lived here
most of her life
She never thought
that would change.
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Love Is
Love is a gas station chain in the Midwest.
Love is little girls with Mary Janes spreading kisses around the playground.
Love is little boys who claim to hate them.
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Waning Moon, Fleeing Soul
The moon is waning,
slipping away into the night,much like my mind.
As I run over boulders and logs and grass and hills and trees and rivers and —
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Do You Hear the Raven Call?
A wingspan of ash, she scours the sky for signs of a way forward.
Beneath, the writhing landscape of a future so foreign we cannot yet comprehend which color she will be.