A Collection of Small Poems with no Title because I aspire to be Emily Dickinson

Welcome to my brain!! There are ten poems here, each scribbled down on a napkin, school worksheet handout, or in various notebooks. Rather than planned out and intentional, these poems reflect subconscious thoughts within the corners of my mind that beg to be written down.

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Where is life?

Is it there, behind the shelf?

Does it hide within my closet?

Has it run ‘way to that realm

Where missing socks and half-writ’ pœms,

Lost jewelry and pens and combs,

Each item which I once owned,

So incorrigibly dwells?

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How it hides!

I am playing with a toddler

As he giggles at this game

He won’t explain but I must foster.

“Run in circles!” “Move that chair!”

“Look o’er here!” “Look o’er there!”

Kid, keep instruction to yourself -

I’ll take life from ‘hind the shelf.

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There is only “now.” It’s all that exists.

Future may be lost, and past fictitious.

Should I not flow with the winds of time -

My life be lost dreaming, or worse - left behind.

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All artists get to choose

The way they’ll be driven insane -

The one by pursuing passion -

The other by turning away.

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You taste like Honey dripped on my tongue -

Familiar, sweet, my body succombs -

I open for more, the comfort you bring!

But Honey’s not made for those whom you sting.

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Pulled in waves -

Echoes through brain -

Stimulates the senses -

Songs are souls’ defenses.

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Why does the sun get a special name?

Positioned ‘round another star, we’d worship it the same.

Stars are the same, aren’t they? They burn and shine and stare -

But we’ve been placed below this one to love with extra care.

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I’d gotten used to the feeling of freezing.

When you came along and the cold went away I welcomed you.

Only now do I realize you’re not heat, you’re ice.

When I thought you’d thawed me out, you’d numbed me entirely.

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Where there is a door,

There always is a lock.

Where there is the sky there are clouds.

If I could but restore,

Or turn back the clock…

But fate never smiles on the cowed.

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Take my mind and take my soul.

Take my thoughts, I give you control.

Take it all just leave my heart,

So I can love even in the dark.

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Two waves at sea

can seldom see

limit to their eternity,

but nearing sand

I understand,

so when we land,

crash into me.