Long Sleepover Poems

During finals week, I’d spent days on various reports and papers, scribbling in the margins of notes and books, checking facts, revising flashcards and prepping with friends. I’ve an unshakable faith in plodding persistence.
We were...

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ONE NIGHT SLEEPOVER
The embers of the fireplace glowed,
We were all alone in the forest 
spending a family vacation
 surrounded by big, shadowy trees 
and a river that never flowed.
At first, I acted as though 
I...

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Your daughter has created a barrier out of cushions from the couch
	In the middle of your living room
		Which she and her sleepover friend proceed
	To jump over, entreating you to "judge" the quality of each jump.
You...

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Spending an entire weekend
             with one of your best friends
             ...

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Valentines day is always something special to me, I explained. 
So I planned a romantic evening and got ready for my campaign.
The children were at a sleepover with their favorite friends they adore.
So I met...

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I’m spending the Christmas holiday with Lisa and her family in NYC. 

My parents are finishing 2021 in Africa, with “Doctors Without Borders.” “Step” (my step father) is a heart surgeon and my mom is...

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Vanishing souls lies in death's pastures
Fleeting joy, incurious in my surroundings 
Shades of green glistening in glory 
An unpredictable breath that barely measures
A destiny that lies and vanishes through the Death Valley

A heart's main glee 
Shines peaceably... passing...

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I try to be the best wife and mom
Yet  my patience is running thin
There are bills to pay and screaming mouths to feed….
Oh, Where do I begin?
Just too many duties
In the course of a...

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Yale’s friday “spring fling” was a soggy success - both as a concert and super spreader event. My groove-spirit was dampened by weather and a final I had the next morning. 

I pose here tonight,...

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A sleepover 
Hooray
My sister and I
We pack light
a small bag each

It's been 3 days
I am out of fresh clothes
I miss my toys
Can I go back now?

Apparently sleepover
Does not mean what I thought
Ah, if only I...

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December rains
Hurl aqueous tears;
Salty aftertaste

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Monsoon season
Wet and wet again;
Abrupt mood swings

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Seek knowing
Beyond word count;
Awareness sums

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Wet market lanes
Slippery slimy walkways;
Jerky footfalls splash

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Bargain hunters
Black Friday sales;
Mob mentality

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Hot tea brew
Random conversations;
Drifting away

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Rustic tea house
Aromatic fragrance;
Poignant deluge

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Elemental harmony
Geomancy fortifies;
Feng...

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Under the rainbow
we have blue skies and
amazing sunsets

Under the sunset
silhouetted chimney tops
on the horizon

Walking, looking up
not at familiar houses 
but at shared heavens

I imagine, feel
I'm anywhere else
even out of state

Just strolling along
in the rural countryside
Or...

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Make sure you enunciate it loud
      and all five girls in accord…
Then repeat three times,
             “light as a...

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Just shy of eighteen,
A girl with glistening eyes of dark chestnuts
Complimenting deep umber hair.
Observes life as it passes by minutes.

The classmate who is genuinely funny.
Her laugh echoes,
Etching its sound into minds of anyone who listens
A...

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In our hug
My body shakes
As it strikes me
That this is the last.

This is goodbye.

No sleepovers
That fill the house
With endless screeching,
Inside jokes and continuous laughter.

No horror movies
Encouraging the thrills and scares
While one sits upright, 
Unaffected by...

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We all burst in to laughter at once rolling on the soft carpet with joy

I know I can always count on you, to be there for me when I need you
To hug me, when I...

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I was sitting in school when 
it happened
But I didn't know, not then
I was driving home from school when
Police were breaking down the door
But I didn't know, not then
I was opening my notifications
when parents were...

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Painted Delilah's,
scarlet sirens, 
apples and bloodshed-

all these,
a breathless, 
quilted extinguisher
to save my soul

Temptation, danger, 
damnation, anger,
a shade of shame;
a reckless taint of hell.

But I'm not a red woman,
I don't go looking for Red,
don't invite it...

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There were two good friends,
The flowerwoman and
The fisherwoman.

Both selling
flowers and
fish at the market.

One weekend,
The fisherwoman  invited
The flowerwoman for a sleepover.

At night,
after talking for a long time
they were tired and wanted to sleep.

The fisherwoman ...

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Dead are the pure days, when colour wasn’t the issue
When food and culture, before the moral punctures
Before came predators to hunt, and scavenging vultures
To make a rudiment of, our own footpaths by tortures

Dead are the...

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"Play With Me"

Come play with me and have some fun
pick a card and choose a game
Better still
we'll play them all one by one

The first card is the swing
it tells us to close our eyes
Imagine swinging...

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How many times could I dull start a poem today - I need to clean the car, manicure my nails and generally look presentable... 

I'm half way there, ish. 

I never know the last time
I'll...

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She has been to the opera, she has been exposed to culture.
She has seen an orchestra and a few poetry readings.
Her parents were careful to let her see what they wanted her to see.
They were...

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My joy at its best, my hurt at its worst.
My joy at your conception and my belly swelling.
 My hurt at your birth with waves of contractions.
My joy at your first steps in those booties...

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I shake my imagination out of her hiding place and she laughs.
What now?
Let’s find the unique, all-powerful, delightfully intriguing mystery words.

Trixie joins us, and puts her arm around Imagination, a clear warning.
Damn. There is nothing...

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