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Girlhood (In honor of International Women's Day)
I love being a girl
but I hate what it took
for me to be able to go to school
for me to know I will be able to vote
for me to know that I will be allowed to get a job when I grow older
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It starts with us
I’ve heard too many times
The excuses of our nation
That change would be too hard,
Too frightening
That it would take too long
But why are we arguing
About something so necessary
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A Self Portrait Drawn with Words
They say her eyes are green
But she likes to say they are hazel
Like the sun setting through the evergreen trees
Her hair like a bright morning
When when sun has just risen
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The Unanswerables
Life is made of the unanswerables
Because they are everywhere
Because everything we know has a root cause
And every root cause has another
Until there is no cause,
There just is
"Why do we exist?"
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Tee Shirts and Blue Jeans
When she was little
She wore the same shirt every day
In different colors
The shirts where plain with a small design
Her mom bought her plenty of sweaters
With cute patterns and fun colors
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Dear Beatrice
Dear Beatrice,
Loves
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Growing Up
She used to listen to the snow and think about how beautiful the world was, how magical.
How perfect, pristine, like a flower curled in a tiny fist.
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You
What if you were
just
a thought,
an idea,
a possibility,
a thing floating
with nowhere to
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I'll try.
I have never been a poet,
But for you I will try.
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Technically...
Technically, I’m an immigrant;
I wasn't born here.
Technically, I’m too young,
just shy of a year.
Technically, I’m inexperienced,
barely know the rudiments.
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To Dance
To dance is to soar
To feel what it's like for the birds
To be free in the air
If only for seconds,
Because in your mind, it will last a lifetime
To dance is to be electric
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everyone has discarded their jackets again
it is finally finally finally
warm - kind of,
sunshine / soft rain / sixty degrees with a brisk step to it
that makes me think nobody but Vermonters who miss the days
of tap step / crocuses / daffodils buried in snow