1. she sang like the wind picking cracks out of the window,
wanting in
2. i dug a hole in the middle of the street
3. the snowflakes dance on my tongue, sweet and cold.
the world hushed and swirling white,
the warm gust from beneath your hair
vanilla-scented.
4. the day tastes of possibilities
5. Sarah is in Cleveland
6. or San Francisco
7. i have drifts of books,
8. my brother rings to tell me,
"My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz.
It's the letter I use to spell yuzz-a-ma-tuzz."
9. because poetry must rhyme,
and Dr Seuss is Christmas-present king
10. my dad’s second cousin,
twice removed, leans into her sister to say,
“Still waters run deep and the devil’s at the bottom”
11. the silent moon of December
12. drags our laughter into the snow.
we wear sunglasses against the glare and ignore the camera.
13. i built a wall of green grass between your half of the bed and mine
14. Sunshine dropped her
basket
15. i will stitch the threads of our life together so no one can see in
16. we will emerge with powdered wings
17. fly under the sound,
18. moje láska
19. the world whispers
20. and the silence settles thickly over the night
Author notes
this was so much fun!!
A contest entry
- Is your Writing in a Wrut? by just mercedes.
1700 points, ended December 17, 2008, 22 entries
Gold trophy winner
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
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Comments
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we do all kinds of fun things like this in the slush group...i appreciate this type of creativity - love this, you have some really great lines here, Kate=)
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i love doing things like this. it stretches my mind.
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Oh my! This is a POEM! I really like it - I hope you had as much fun writing it as it gave me reading it. Thank you for this entry.
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haha. yay. i felt kinda silly, but honestly, i think it helped me feel creative.
or just made me work for it.
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