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Best Poems Written by Miranda Hawley

Below are the all-time best Miranda Hawley poems as chosen by PoetrySoup members

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Waves

I am getting tired of the tidal waves
That bring me to shore,
Spit me out and drag me in once more.
I am tired of the crest dropping
And the trough getting deeper,
While the pain in life gets steeper.
I am not always under,
But I haven’t learned to surf the top.
Arriving at the trough and wondering
When the pain is going to just stop.
I am tired of the drama that sets the waves into motion
And I wish that the voices in my head would stop their commotion.
The crest of the waves are moments,
But the troughs are drawn out loud and long,
The crest might spit positive emotion
While the tough brings a tearful drowning song.

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I Can You Can

I can write, and you can sing
let us combine what we bring,
sweet music will be our thing.

You can draw a picture,
and I can fill it in
joining our talents into a masterpiece. 

I can read to you a book, a chapter, or a line
and you can sit by my side  
Peace can be found in quality time.

I can drive you to the store in your hour of need
You can bake the macaroni while I grill the corn
together we can share the food, and weather any storm.

And if you are half the picture you want to see
there I am around the corner
with the other half of we.

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Dear Santa

This year what I want for Christmas is simple and true
I do want a few tangible things 
Like some boots for heading through the snow
Or like a 2nd car that doesn’t even need to be new.
But what I want the most,
It is not something that you can do.
What I want is to say goodbye!
Goodbye to the cancer that my mom has
And hello to the strength she once knew!
I want her to say goodbye
To the nursing home she needs to stay
I want her to say hello to the strength of yesterday.
The cancer came as an unwanted surprise
And what I want for Christmas is its demise.
I want my mom to be healthy and whole
I want her cancer to go, go, go!

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Don'T Blame Me

I am but a small rabbit in your garden,
and I admit it is true,
I am the one who ate your carrots,
but don't blame me for the berries gone
from your bushes, that was a deer.

I am a deer in your garden,
and I admit it is true,
I am the one who ate your berries from bushes,
I will take the blame for that 
but I refuse to feel guilt for the carrots
that the rabbit ate.

I am your pet cat,
and I admit it is true,
I did drag the mouse inside the house,
because I wanted a toy to play with.
Don't blame however for those missing berries,
because that mouse was the only thing on my mind.

I am your pet dog,
and it is my job you see,
to protect your family.
I had to bark at the rabbit who was eating your carrots,
and I had to bark at the deer who was eating your berries,
and don't even get me started on the cat chasing the mouse,
but don't blame me at all for any thing they have done,
all I did was tell you that something wasn't right,
after all its my job to protect you.

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White Flakes

**This is my attempt at trying to write a nursery rhyme.  I think this might be "free verse" but if I am wrong, will someone please tell me where to properly put this poem at.

Arctic wind, arctic wind blow blow blow
Send the flakes a flying snow snow snow.
White flakes, white flakes coming down real fast.
White flakes, white flakes use a snow suite and a mask.

Grey sky gray sky dumps the blowing snow,
Snowballs and snow fights throw, throw, throw.
Grey sky gray sky cancel school you see.
This fills the boys and girls with glee.

**Edit suggestion taken from Andrea Dietrich!

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Jack and Jill

Jack and Jill went up the hill
we tell our kids this story all day long
but Jill was bitter and she was savvy
and she went to her lawyer with a sad song.
The lawyer filed in the court
and Jack got the report
That Jill was after his crown.

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From the Hymns

**Is it weird that someone my age (Gen Xer) actually likes the hymns at church?  I mean I like the much more modern songs that they sing on Christian radio too, but I like the hymns.  As such I wondered what I could come up with simply mixing the lines of the hymns up and wound up with this poem.  

I will lean on the everlasting arms,
because I am weak but He is strong.
A mighty fortress is my God,
and I will praise Him all the day long.

I will turn my eyes upon Jesus
because He lives and because
He is a risen Savior who holds the future
and I know that He holds my hand.

Jesus loves me, this I know
because of His amazing grace.
So when the roll is called up yonder,
I shall see Him face to face.

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What Doesn'T Kill You Makes You Stronger

Life screams and tempos tosses
that you walk through hell gates and bosses.
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger,
while the hell in your life last longer.
It is not until when you ran through the rain
and know the strife of the pain,
that you can look back and honestly say
My God gave me just enough strength that day.
You had the strength that took you through,
on the other side you are stronger than you knew.

Trauma can throw its blunt ugly force,
and from its course you want to divorce.
You could have been dead on that fateful night
the devil in your destruction found delight.
But on the other side you stand
And from victory you reach out your hand.
The trauma made a mockery of your state
Your victory it could not debate.
The hell of the night drags longer,
but what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

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Orphan

O-Outward she seemed fine and healthy
R-Really it was a dagger in the heart to hear!
P-Penetrated through the ovaries was a cancer cyst.
H-Happened that it was the size of a grapefruit before we knew
A-And it had metastasized so that numbered her days.
N-Now both of my parents have passed on, and I at the age of 43 am orphaned.

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Nostalgia

NOSTALGIA

N:  Never stop retelling
O: Our 
S: Stories
T: That made us stronger
A: And helped us to
G: Grow along the way
I: In peace or hardship
A: And in love!