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short poetry 2/1
i have a couple of pieces of lined paper in my school binders that i use to write daily short poems. i hope you enjoy reading some of them!!
child of vermont,
the snow thickens the sky
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tu bi'shvat
& the trees outside stand like arrows
in the winter morning, stiff & afraid.
the world is cold, and hard,
and the new february ice lays unforgiving.
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recipe for a snow day
Combine in a large metal mixing bowl:
One wooden spoon or ladle, tucked underneath your pillows
before bed. One pair of old pajamas turned inside out
(backwards may be substituted.)
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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
Loves
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Riverside
In the early morning I wake. I dress silently and slip out of my sleeping bag. I slowly unzip the tent flap, trying to let my tent mates sleep. The morning air is cold and biting, and a deep fog encases everything around.
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why? here's why.
if the world were to burn tomorrow morning
i would laugh in its face
because who is dumb enough
to care about a world
that doesn't care a single bit about them?
truthfully, i don't know.
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free
“land of the free” but we watch our step, so we don’t get taken away, and our rights are slowly started to fade
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let the ice melt
let the ice melt
let them lose their pelts of hate and coldness
let them seelet them see the horror they cause,
turning neighbors into enemies -
threads of one
the morning arises. the grandma praying for her day the teenager walking his mini poodle thinking about the schoolwork he has
the teacher arriving to work planning her lesson
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Ankles Cuffed to Endless Constellations
I had led my own crusade to
the stars above; to the unknown.
Through soles of my feet, I graced the
lights upheld. Carefully, I danced
to the song of success. Chasing