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Posts tagged with poetry

1. A Reason To Celebrate

   2019-01-23 23:28:00 UTC

   These country roads won’t take you home. Their winds pick up dirt desperately   like heads up pennies on hot pavements hoping for a change of luck,  a change that only comes  from changing course.  Like all wild things,  it’s up to fate.  I wrote this poem about the roads that…

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2. Flame

   2019-01-04 03:14:00 UTC

   I was the flame  of the candle you used  to guide yourself through the dark  of your drunk and hopeless nights but sober my light burned your fingertips wax dripping like tears  igneous on the surface  of your skin and heart and I became harder for you to hold.  suburbia,…

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3. Thorns as sharp as knives

   2018-12-18 19:03:00 UTC

   But I was suppose to be the finest rose in the garden… …vibrancy like constellations, pedals crafted by god,   thorns as sharp as knives. poem : a description of envy  p.s we are all fine.  Mom’s photo from a road trip across the USA in the 1970’s. 

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4. A poem about people & places

   2018-12-11 22:12:16 UTC

   Do you ever get the feeling like you’ve left apart of your soul  in all the places you’ve ever been?  Like you’ve given apart of your heart  to all the humans you’ve ever loved?  Some things we never do get back and some things keep us coming back.

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