Posts
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Cuando Levantas Tu Corazón Hacia el Mar
I'm not a native Spanish speaker, nor am I fluent (I'm learning it in school), so this may be pretty rough.
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Her Majesty, the Sky
The sky wears billowing gowns, layers
Upon layers of silk fluttering
With the breeze, and
She dances in it with ease, never
Tripping or stumbling but
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A Philosophy on Glitter
What you think is a great rock
over your head is
actually a great ball of glitter;
when you think you're about to be crushed
by a massive rock, and
it has become too heavy to hold, the
ball will pop, and
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We Shall Become Beacons of Hope
We were once one
With the trees, a
Cell which would come to
Sprout, to birth, to
Hatch us all: the
Life that breathes
The world, and
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She With the Eyes of Fading Stars
Tears slipped quietly
Down her face, hair
Messily tied back into
The lowest of low ponytails, and
Perfectly manicured nails just begun
Loves
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Where There’s No Cursive
It’s not the slashes through the timeline,
Not the practiced cursive
Spelling out names
That we must all know.
It’s the blank in between -
Japanese Footbridge and the Water Lily Pool by Claude Monet
Beautiful pink flowers and brown muddy waters
Green bushes and bristles, pushing out from the bank into the sun
Weeds sprouting out, growing and growing
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sensación de fin de semana / end of the week feeling
(disclaimer: i am not a fluent or native Spanish speaker, obviously. i just enjoy it and am learning it in school so i thought i'd share a short poem i wrote in class.)
jueves
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camouflage slip-ons
whatever shoes i was given back then i could not possibly let go of.
it was unfathomable. it was an outrage
that the light-up ones, the purple sandals,
even the astronaut rainboots had to go. i wanted them,
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into mud
When you bite your jacket,
you taste the salt that has soaked in,
all the times you have worn it.
But there is no detaching-
you have sunken your teeth into a moment.
