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Someone Completely Different

sadness...

 

be stilled in brief moments

where I lay in Bermuda grass

watching pecan shells wiggle-

falling into lapses of imagination

where the reality does not tread-

 

tongue thick and restrained

I wonder why anyone taught

me to speak, when the world

tells me to shut up. 

 

To go away, not welcome-

not worth celebrating.

Gift of life, can only be found

in the wanderings

of far, far away from all.

 

Too much this,

not enough that-

the brunt and punchline

of the birth of jokes-

cruel jokes...

 

laughter aimed at me,

not with me-

even daddy left

because I wasn't 

good enough.

 

When I grow up, 

I want to be someone

completely different...

 

be stilled in brief moments

where I lay in Bermuda grass

watching pecan shells wiggle-

falling into lapses of imagination

where the reality does not tread.

 

 

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It's not great, but it's honest. That is what she says to me.

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  • Viyanna Rosemarie silver member
    March 9

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    Gift of life, can only be found in the wanderings
    of far, far away from all.

    i can so relate to all that you have written within this page. you wrote so well and said so very much in so few words. thank you for sharing this with me today and i am looking forward to reading more from you in the near future. viyanna rosemarie


  • londiscarpenter
    February 17
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    nice poem

    This would be so much better in a different, easier to read font.


  • Paloszoo gold member
    February 17

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    This is superb! I love the repetition of the first stanza. Makes the poem all that more powerful! Excellent! Thanks for writing for my contest. Good luck. I'm honored to have you show your work here.


  • penman gold member
    February 14
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    Wonderful

    Very profound and well expressed. So very well done. Best of luck in the contest.


  • maralisa silver member
    February 14

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    aw this is deep and poewerfully good luck in the contest and a happy valentines daymaralisa

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