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Winter
Cold winds tickle the trees
As light snow falls quietly
On the leaves of an evergreen
Forest
Grass falls as the storm growsWinter whistling its bitter,
Freezing songs
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tink tink tink
tink tink tink
Standing outside
The harsh,
Cold wind
Rushing through my soul
And cutting into wounds,
The ones you can't see
And I start crying
Trying to hold back the tears
But I can't
And they come , -
October
October.
Already?
It still feels like winter.
The orange of the pumpkin
Looks like the sun
And reminds me
You don't know it's fall,
Because you never saw the summer -
We Built This Path
Suddenly
I am riding in a rickety carriage
Full of other prisoners
Who are all enduring the same pain
As I am
And the sun
Is hiding behind a cloud
A cloud that covers the whole sky
In a blanket of
Black -
Collecting Dust
I wonder
If inanimate objects sign up for jobs
Maybe heirlooms
Get the best jobs because they have something treasured,
Like Experience
Getting passed down from hand to hand
But I doubt this
Because
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"I'm From" - Poetry Challenge
Identity is a huge part of our lives, because it makes up everything about who we are and how we move about the world. And part of our identity is where we are from.
Loves
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Just a Bracelet
After 5th grade,
My bracelet
Was a brown bead
On a thin white string.
After 6th grade,
My bracelet
Was a green bead
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Wishing
waves
wash
against
the
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Dawn to Dusk
Light is lobbed to the leaves and they cradle it
In the evening they throw it back to the sun
whose tendrils collect it
then go home
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Before
Before
we wake,
we are huddled under
blankets
and dreaming.
Before
we wake
there are others
living,
breathing,