A Single Poetic
by Aly S., Brunswick, ME
She speaks so fluently
In paper-bag words
Stanzas leak from her lips
As water from a paper cup
Her history lies in a wide array ...
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Aged Music
by Elizabeth B., Iola, WI
Creamy butter dust
covers sleek records
1950's tunes, hidden in ridges
In my nose
forces a bunny's wiggle
when volume of dust
comes alive with melodies
Grandma gives a squeeze
to my shoulder
ready for a waltz
about her room.
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Conspiracy Against Five-Year-Olds
by Menaka S., Philadelphia, PA
I wonder if I used to fly
When I was five, or was it
Just a lie? I can't know now
It's been erased by elder folk.
My mother told me it's not true ...
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Creating Our Path
by Jodie H., Scandinavia, WI
Flickers of lightning bugs,
Feel like we are walking
Through stars.
Branch touching branch, ...
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Echoing Footsteps
by Helen W., Shelby Township, MI
Listen to those echoing footsteps of long ago
into the never-ending river of time they flow.
Hear those soft whispers rising to tell a story
that will make privy its loss and faded glory.
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Eve
by Anna X., Knoxville, TN
Perhaps I know
The eclectic
Agony of
Eve, ripfully
Torn between that ...
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Fox Hunt
by Shi-Shi W., Columbia, MO
The weather is beautiful for foxes:
a fiercely sunny Saturday in the Cotswolds.
This moneyed city folks' favorite retreat
stretches out along clumps of red hawthorn berries.
Here, the rose-rambled houses cast shadows across the land ...
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I Remember
by Rich M., Congers, NY
I remember his smell
Of Johnson's Baby Oil.
Warm, weird, kinda heavy.
His skin shiny,
Cheeks like tomatoes. ...
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It lacks champagne
by Amy F., Arlington Heights, IL
I find myself in a dream
remembering the Atlantic Ocean and you
wherelobster claws
cling to blue and white dinner plates.
Long,collected ...
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laugh
by Hayley M., Waterford, CT
Laugh (for life
so insignificant
(magnificent)
bits of dirt
we are)
laugh rays of light
as delicate as
butterfly wings
your smile
faded brightness
warmly falling
on me
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Monkeys
by Jilian L., Clarkston, MI
The wood is aged
with cracks and lines,
and the saggingbranches
weep.
Their protective limbs ...
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Sleep
by Josh B., Oak Ridge, TN
A shining void
Of endless depth
Beneath a heavy lid
After a rending breath
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The Arcane
by Meghan E., Amherst, WI
Our starch stiff bed-sheets
Were like new sails of a pirate ship
Billowing, rippling with nomadic leaves
Shaking so hard I was afraid the stamped vintage flowers
Would peel off and become tangled ...
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The Bumblebee
by Sarah K., Jenison, MI
Imperfect by design
Ungainly sporadic jerks define gawky movements
Flawed in nearly every way
A veritable outcast
Among hive-minded conformity ...
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The Habberdash
by Lauren H., Orland Park, IL
The Habberdash went out one day,
Upon the shards of Camber Bay.
He squiggled and squabbled,
From swing to sway.
He never paused to chibber away. ...
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The Park Kissing Midnight
by Anita S., Phoenix, AZ
Stroll beside a whispering stream,
Shallow waves secretly pocket the stars' brilliance ...
Within every dancing ripple it greedily snickers.
Envy looms about its immortal diamonds.
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This
by Joshua O., The Woodlands, TX
This is how he whispers in her ear
soft lips parting and closing with
declarations of undying love -
while he checks the score out
of the corner of his left eye ...
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Untitled
by Shana S., Haslett, MI
Blinker - turning left, I get the sudden feeling - I miss you.
It's the songs on the radio and the wind in my hair that remind me.
As I am going down the highway, it feels like you're with me.
Fragments of glass and plastic litter the side of the road,
a defunct memoir of your last moments ...
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War Song
by Andrea M., Congers, NY
I wonder what the world sounded like
before the low hum of factories,
cars, and people rushing,
carrying brown leather briefcases ...
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