Tag: poetry
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#Poetry | “Cringe”, a poem about regrets
Looking back…hindsight is always 20/20, as they say. It’s not easy to shake the past and move forward. Recently I’ve seen many of my my friends sharing memes promoting mental health awareness and acceptance. It’s hard for me to be to be as sympathetic and compassionate as others. I really struggle with expressing my self…
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“Ain’t Even Summer Yet”, A Texas Poem | #Poetry
Already this spring has seen some days in the 90s. In Texas, that can be humid and miserable–all the more so if you have no air conditioning. Thankfully we were able, after months without it, to get ours fixed yesterday. It had finally gotten to the point of unbearable, and with my mom’s health issues…
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A Valentine’s Day Poem
Something Bitter, Something Sweet Memories are like a howling wind,Crashing against my skull.It’s not like I ask to stare into the forest of clouds–But your eyes still drag me in.Flashes of what could have been race in my brain–I still feel as hopeful as morning dew on a rose bush.Like the promise of springtime I…
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Poetry: Pumpkin
This came to me while I was backing some seeds from an Acorn Squash which is, in fact, a type of pumpkin. Pumpkin You chose me from a lonely field –Though others had much more to yield. What hands have taken What hands will give –a new life somewhere, I hope to live. Like the…
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Poetry: To Love a Writer
To Love a Writer Do you remember when we first met?Our eyes caught in a fixated stare.My fingers danced across your open pagesas your hand ran throughout my hair. A thousand lives in just one breath;You weave time within your hands.A finger runs down an innocent spine:I fall, like time’s coarse grains of sand. I…
Designing Lorri 