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Out
I am out trying to get ideas for a poem
I go up to you
and ask if you have any ideas
you stop, think
I wait patiently
and then you say
“Write a poem about your love for this book series I got you into”
I smile a little
then walk away,
I don’t want to say no to you
I start looking for something
a feeling
an object.
I go to the forest
hopeful to find
a raindrop
a treefrog
to explain all of these emotions
that makes me feel so small
now I sit and think
about poems
how they seem effortless
and they always have so much hidden meaning
they are always beautiful and sweet
I want to do that
I want to be one of those people who are
destined for success
they are so wonderful.
Am I?
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I am a Maine poet and a 7th grader at Friends School of Portland in Cumberland, Maine. My poetry is narrative and focuses on feelings I’m unsure about, with attention to the emotions of life. Edward Hersh inspires me. I am a debut poet and this is a simultaneous submission.