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I’m not the girl
You fall hopelessly,
Madly, irrevocably
In love with.
I’m the girl
Who holds her place.
You won’t fall
In love with me
At first sight.
You won’t get
That meet cute,
The one you’ll have
With her.
I’m the girl
You have to be
Friends with.
I’m the one
You think you love;
The one you
Want to be true
Because I’m too good
For you
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Form: Free verse
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By Michelle Morris
07/04/2023
Did you ever feel like a placeholder
In someone else's story?
That you were expedient
And not worthy of true effort?
It can be disheartening
When you are used in love
It can cause trauma
But you can still be whole
Put yourself first
In a kind and decent way
Know your limitations
And create boundaries that stay
Life is for the living
Your best authentic
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placeholder, care, courage, encouraging, love,
Form: Free verse
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Testing this site, to learn how the poem appears,
I hope the result will assuage my fears.
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Form: Couplet
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lightning struck
and a sparrow fell
into the nurturing arms of the great oak
the branches grew and grew
and it built a home.
and eighteen years of fair weather
blessed the bond
built in the roots so deep, so strong
in every vesicle, a memory.
but one fowl storm
and the branches gave way
to drop the sparrow in its sleep.
trust is earned
but life is
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Categories:
placeholder, allegory, betrayal, friendship, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
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for Hidipo Hamutenya
1939-2016
At the end of this hard road
Spider webs adorn the graveyards
Of all those who reach freedom
By intellectual decree.
The tears of the fallen
Are not anywhere to be found,
In the eyes of the surviving.
You lay in the casket displayed on thorns
With the nation's cosmetics painted on,
And exile sounds and exile thoughts
Were banished from you by
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Categories:
placeholder, africa,
Form: Blank verse