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i felt like a princess
going off to the ball
dressed to the nines
my hair all done up
in ribbons ‘n curls
glittery earrings
long silky gloves
ran up both my arms
i put on my glass slippers
hoped to be swept off my feet
and dance the whole night away
the length of my train sway and sway
i got to the venue the music delightful
soon i was spinning whirling and twirling
a prima ballerina pirouetting and waltzing
showing off all my very best ballroom moves
i swept the floor as wide and gracefully as i could
all night rock ‘n rolling in rhythm ad libbing freestyle
the orchestra was on fire with hits one after the other
out of nowhere the stroke of midnight did surprise me
so i picked up my dress finding the exit as quick as i could
executed a quick curtsy and reverence before disappearing
AP: 2nd place 2025, 3rd place 2020
Submitted on February 20, 2025 for contest POETRY COMES IN ALL KINDS OF SHAPE sponsored by VANYA EVANGELINA - Honorable Mention
and December 18, 2019 for contest N-A RERUN 4 sponsored by JOHN HAMILTON - RANKED 3RD
6 th grade new people, new school, and more bullies, and you. With your
kindness opened your hand out when they would knock me down. I would see
you standing outside of your class you had got in trouble again. You would see
me coming and wouldn’t care if it got you in more trouble. I needed help to where
ever I had to be. The last day I seen you I said “see you next year” and you told
me “no I am moving” I didn’t like that as we both said goodbye and gave each
other one last hug you told me that “I can do it and that you will be wit me”. You
where right I did do it I had finished school and graduated, but I always thought
about you. Always wanting to see you again as more years passed by. Then one
day I got a phone call saying your husband killed you. I couldn’t breathe I got the
wind knock out of me. Some one took my hero.
This is for you Angie I am sorry I never got the chance to repay you. I
love you
R.i.p Maria Evangelina Castellanoz a.k.a Angie
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