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This Is What Peace Is
The gentle sway of trees in the wind, golden locks of hair blowing in the breeze
Syncing with the cattails in the shallows
This is what peace is.
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In the Woods
In the woods,
All is silent but for the twinkling sounds of falling snow
Flakes descending, like crystals
They are bejeweled with angles that dazzle and delight, so delicate
Each one unique among millions.
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To Lose a Friend
I remember you, now
Though I don’t see you anymore.
Memory is the only choice.
The time on Easter when you ate one of the eggs us children ran searching to find
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Past and Future
The world is full of problems. It made the man wonder why he bothered to get up in the morning. The sun was shining — but it was too bright. And was it possible for that baby across the street to wail any louder?
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Evolution
There is a road that winds endlessly on and on; it does not stop, yet in some places it becomes hard to follow.
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Loves
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Now is a tree
Now is a tree,
a place that is made of history.
Feel with your fingers
for lines etched in the bark,
the future is there
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Papa Simmons; 5/3/2024
Hello sweetheart!
My goodness, how time has flown.
You used to be so little, do you remember?
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belly buttons and beating hearts
I clung to my baby blanket that wrapped around my limbs. my limbs, small and swollen, cushioned by my mother's organs. I was warm, I clung to the insulation of two beating hearts.
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The Art of the Unloved Child
i will meet you on the soiled floor with splintered knees and pointless pinkie promises, bearing the gruesome girth of your loveless little lies / forever fighting to quench my thirst, but your roots will always remain sodden / they say