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I love you like the sun loves the moon
I love you like the sun loves the moon
The kind of love that only exists in the in-betweens
Between day and night
Because love is a spectrum
And I don't love you at the end of it
I love you in that sweet spot
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When the bluebirds sing
When the bluebirds sing
The grass is finally green
When the bluebirds sing
The children run and scream
When the bluebirds sing
The bears no longer hibernate
When the bluebirds sing
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Traffic Lights
Green
Yellow
Red
Simple
Rules
Yes or no or take it slow
Humans
Nothing like traffic lights
Never what they seem
Or say
Or do
Too complicated
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Girlhood (In honor of International Women's Day)
I love being a girl
but I hate what it took
for me to be able to go to school
for me to know I will be able to vote
for me to know that I will be allowed to get a job when I grow older
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It starts with us
I’ve heard too many times
The excuses of our nation
That change would be too hard,
Too frightening
That it would take too long
But why are we arguing
About something so necessary
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A Self Portrait Drawn with Words
They say her eyes are green
But she likes to say they are hazel
Like the sun setting through the evergreen trees
Her hair like a bright morning
When when sun has just risen
Loves
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A Trapped Poet (inspired by Emily Dickinson)
I am just like her—
Trapped in a sea of white.
My mind is just as frayed—
My heart just as sliced.
By the glittering blades
That contrived all her words.
The letters of her thoughts,
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Books saved my life
No one would know this now
From the way I suck up words
Books done in one sleepless night
It seems I've been reading my whole life
But in third grade
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Scared
We're coming up on the end of the year
and a new horizon soars closer every day.I don't want to leave this place,
yet every day I long to be gone. -
For A Friend I'll Never See Again
She’s lived here
most of her life
She never thought
that would change.
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Last Summer
Last summer
I tried to avoid school
but also
tried to get myself ready
for the big class
for the hard homework
the stuff that never ended up
being a problem.
Last summer
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We're Growing Up
We hit the pinata
With so much joy
And so much laughter
Like we’re little again.
We pile onto the hammock
Like we’ve always done