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Tag: questions

Poems

A Reckoning

February 28, 2013 ROMPoetry

svalley7What happens to pine needles?
They get wise and smell strongly
Of no place you have ever been.
Where do daffodil petals go?
They rely on the wind and spread news
To the beetles and river rats. Continue reading “A Reckoning” →

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Poems

Note To . . .

September 28, 2012 ROMPoetry

On the 13th day,
I recognized the feeling
of you in my body linked
to those boyfriends of my lovely
high school and college past
who I had but did not have,
that I yearned for because
there was a bittersweet beauty Continue reading “Note To . . .” →

Tagged boyfriends, endless longing, love, mystery of life, nature, poems, poetry, questions, writing1 Comment

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