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Best Poems Written by Shoshana Batson

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Sewing Love

How to
Capture
Between pages
Or pixels
Or caught between
Stitches 
Do memories catch
Between the threads?
Does love
Linger in the ink?
One can pray
In the silence
Where laughter once rang
Find the steady beat
Of a sewing machine
Where your heart used to beat
Trying to sew
Myself back together
If I just keep
Sewing
From the heart
I can bind
My heart up
Fit pieces together
Here is where it tore
When Elisif’s laugh was lost
Here when Phil’s light went out
And here, this big one
When my grandfather died
These old stitches are fraying
Starting to come undone
Here the slapdash job
From when Jackie put a gun to her head
Here from Steve being ripped away
So suddenly
This bit holds up well
For an eight year old’s
Handiwork
And here a spot needs darning
My heart is worn 
It needs
Many a repair
But I have little time
For the careful stitching
Of so many holes
Yet they wont 
Close
On their own
So I keep busy
With fabric patches

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When We Dream

When I dream
I leave behind
The pain that
Shackles
Tackles
Pins me to the earth

When poets dream
They give flight
To thoughts once tied
To impossible
Improbable
Now comes to life

When dreamers dream
They are not just idyling by
Letting time slip away
Their fruits are not tangible
Yet important so
Let a dreaming dreamer lay

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Good-Bye Phil

Goodbye, Phil
Why die, Phil?
Now we all cry, Phil
Your greatness, Phil, in not tainted
Most could recognize
Your paintings, prize
But who could see behind those eyes?
Writers’ group did
When you put pen to paper you took off the lid
For your soul I will bid
To send you to heaven I vote
As long as there’s enough black paint 
I hope
And endless canvasses
And to criticism just say “nope”
Unless it’s constructive
And not reductive
You deserve the best
Kind and gentle to the rest
No favorites did you have 
Yet with you gone our hearts need a salve
Your light permeated my life
I just pray you are now free from all your strife
You are special, Phill
One hundred percent you, Phil
No one can replace you, Phil
I love you too, Phil

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To Be Virgil

I was their Virgil
He told me
Not that the Farm
Was a pit
But how much more hellish
Could life be
Than right after
Loosing
Your oldest child
To the disease called
Addiction
I tried to offer
Every comfort
Every respect
Every word of wisdom
In my repertoire
And when they needed space
To cry
Breathe
Be
I backed off
I literally guided them
Around campus
I put myself
As gate-keeper
Between them
And the community
Extending condolences
Sharing memories
So many people
Me, trying to keep
From letting them be
Even more
Overwhelmed
They were
So full of questions
I tried to answer
Everyone
And so he dubbed me
Virgil
Dante’s guide through hell

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Birch

Nostrils flair
As scents waft in
Gasoline
Wet asphalt
Rain pours down
Cars muddle by
I safe in my perch
Safe in my birch
Still unbent by time

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Boston Marathon 2013

Rock us
To the core
Images splattered
Across every screen
New news, wrong news, bad news
In the brouhaha all semblance
Of order is lost
A marathon turned to a scramble
Some run for their lives
Some race to the fallen
The horror drags on
Police killed
School than neighborhood
Shutdown
Locked down
Ghost town
Of a vibrant city
Stats come in
3 killed in double blasts
260 injured
1 policeman shot
Yet the suspects (2)
Are dead or caught
Does this mean
We can
Breathe?

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Sunflowers

Constant reminders
Pin-prick my heart
Till I bleed out
Melt down quietly
Alone
No one notices
Try to regain calm
A tentative hold
Easily broken
Disquiet
No one to bleed the toxin
Clean the wound
Allow for healing
Instead it silently
Festers

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Howl Luna

Words seep
Blood flows
Clots form
Minds bend
Souls snap
Cuts scar
Hope dies
The world
Revolves
Till you're dizzy dizzy 
Dizzy
No time to breathe
Falling behind
No time to sleep
Staying blind
Howl at the moon
No one else listens