life

Lilypads drifting like humans in this bluish-green marble of a world

Inner workings concealed but known, yet we know absolutely nothing

Flowing circle of life means death, birth, life, but what's it all for?

Every life, I've come to understand, is nothing but a dream

Posted in response to the challenge Acrostic.

OverTheRainbow

VT

12 years old

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  • hoping for snow

    I walk home wearing twin braids with bows

    and a big smile because I'm wishing for snow.

    Snow like a blanket, thick and white,

    I want it to fall all through the night -

    to cover the roads and the trees and the hills,

  • there was a girl

    her name began with a d and her hair curled in gold ringlets like coins

    and her laugh was infectious and her smile was too

    and her eyes sparkled when they caught the light. she walked

  • cats

    i think cats read poetry. you can tell

    in the way their tails swish and how they fold their legs

    all the time, probably wondering how silvery the pinecones

    will look tomorrow,