January High School Poems

Veronica Sawyer, a rebel in plaid
She joined the Heathers, but they were so bad
They ruled the school with their cruel games and lies
But Veronica had...

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You’re making me wait
“just two more weeks,” 
but already the wait’s
crossed half a year.
“A few more weeks, 
no difference,”you say,
and it’s true, but you see,
in...

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somewhere smothered
under the glaring white 
lies my summer

you know

the three reasons 
I teach

June
July 
and 
August

and it's just
January

so.....
i've come to believe
just as much as Persiphone's return...

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Twirling around the glossy smooth floor
Racing with friends on roller-skates
Tossing my hair as I glide across the room
Feeling so certain that this is my destiny

Weaving...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Vacuum
by Michael R. Burch

Over hushed quadrants
forever landlocked in snow,
time’s senseless winds blow...

leaving odd relics of lives half-revealed,
if still mostly concealed...
such are the things we are...

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when the shadows fall far beneath the cradle,
too far for the wind to blow,
i feel the chill somewhere in the night-
clammy, it approaches and calmly...

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So you say you want to fit in...

                 ...

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MY FRIENDS* 

I keep thinking of my friends 
as one by one they die
so I really have to think of them 
as  just passing...

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DAFFODILS AND AQUAMARINE GEMS

Daffodils blooming in wild profusion
Warm, lazy, balmy days
The sparkle of my high school class ring
With its stone of aquamarine

My birthday on St....

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In a second my life changed like i could never imagine
The world was all Topsy turvy 
and i a floating object in the turmoil
A simple...

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I used to think that life was a joke.
When I was 9 I started to smoke.
When I was 11 I began to drink.
But as I...

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