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Carve Me A Bed. {poetry}

Keep your Valentine from the grocery store.That thing of nothing,That anything for anyone. No, carve me a bed.That’s right. Yes, I did say that.Carve me a bed. Charge straight into the heart of the woodsunstoppable, and fall to your knees in the leavesand pray fervently to be shown our ...

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Mother. {poetry}

At times I saw you as a lamb, timid and frail, But now I see that you are a wolf in the night, A hawk in flight, A woman warrior with invisible scars; Scars that tell a story -- a story of love, loss and life.

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She Flies — She Believes In Everyone She Meets. {poetry}

18 years old, big city dreams, a head full of plans and a heart open wide, she jumps from the branch, only to discover she’s always had wings, she flies, and she flies, and she flies.

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Let the Moonlight Guide Me Instead. {poetry}

She didn’t know that at night I’d creep out of my bed and let the moonlight guide me instead.

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I’m Not Sorry. {poetry}

Life is messy and my soul is here To revel in the chaos, In the minute details of us, all of us.

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I Know a Boy Who Chases Shadows. {poetry}

I know a boy who chases shadows, Wiring his mind to numb the pain Pixelated fairy tales Swallow him up like acid rain

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The Edge and I. {poetry}

I’ve never lived on the Edge. Or near it, really.Or in the fabulously fabled Center.I’ve mostly been mired in this marsh of a Middle.Like a toothless crocodile. You know the Edge, the legendary Edge.Seems everybody else has danced on it in toeshoes.Bragged about making love on it,in a ...