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Ten's Teeny Poetrees!



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Wed Apr 30, 2014 3:23 pm
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#17

I was never fond of the bright
blinding colours of the nursery
or the high voices of women who tried
to teach me how to dance

one step, two step, I'd stand on their toes
so that when the music finally stopped
they'd make jokes and laugh, and remember
me

There's no dancing here, inside the grey,
Where the walls so high they barricade the sunlight,
only whispers of stories nobody would tell
of murder, rape and vice

and in my dreams I see them
talking
about how they never saw it coming
never would have thought

that the clumsy kid who never
learned to dance
would step on the wrong persons toes
and come tumbling
tumbling down
We were born to be amazing.
  





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Wed Apr 30, 2014 10:00 pm
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#18

We bleed in shades of fire and ice
see the world in blades of grass and giant oaks
and cry in sweet, and cry in bitter
While the colours and tastes
and precious hues in between
get lost in our quests for certainty
We were born to be amazing.
  





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Wed Apr 30, 2014 10:01 pm
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#19

The moon shone high
in a blackened sky
and still the horizon burned

Cowards flee
from what could only be
the demon slayers final return

See it now
not only how
but why the kingdom fell

tell your young
of the songs we sung
before the sound of the mourning bell
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#20

call me a salesman
a scammer or a thief, whichever way
your pockets spill
into my palms
the pretty coins, one for the poor
and one for me
two for the orphans
and two for me

call me a liar, I don't really care
but when you lose your last leg
and really know what it means
to lack
then maybe, maybe, if you're really nice
you might find you get some of it back
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Wed Apr 30, 2014 10:02 pm
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#21 (GoT Tribute)

Monday's child is proud and strong
but tried too hard, and waited too long
Tuesday's child doesn't have much to say
but with courage unfailing, he'll last anyway
Wednesday's child has many tears to cry
when everybody she loves has come to die
Thursday's child has a list to kill
with all the recklessness she needs to fulfil
Friday's child has a mind full of ghosts
who slips between them and the bodies of hosts
Saturday's child is very small, and very lost
but forgetting him will bring great cost
Sunday's child was never born
and on the day of his death a vengeance was sworn
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Wed Apr 30, 2014 10:06 pm
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#22 (Golem! Golem!)

See me, see me, see me run!
Follow me, follow me, isn't it fun?
Jump and jump, higher than the tree!
Up and up, higher than the fleas!

Low down, low down, follow down the hole,
wiggle like a worm and scurry like a mole.
Follow the sound of water, till you find a little lake.
Don't you know not to follow strangers? This is your first

and last mistake.
We were born to be amazing.
  





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Wed Apr 30, 2014 10:13 pm
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#23

We clasp the keys in our hands
and drag our chains, like loyal dogs,
remembering when our freedom was so important
and wondering when we started
to cherish these bonds


#24

Wrap me in a fluffy blanket
paint my face red, and add some onion too
Hey look! I'm a hotdog!


#25

Solitude-
fare thee well, old friend.
Times change.

You soothed me,
but now I choose to
feel alive.
We were born to be amazing.
  





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Wed Apr 30, 2014 10:24 pm
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#26

In the bottom draw of my desk
is a pile
of old, blotted papers
of sketched out dreams and trodden
fairy tales

remember me, oh heroes
who dwell in the imaginations
of times
long gone

remember me, for when I'm old
and I forget the days and nights and inhibitions
I'll return to you once more

and we can pretend that I'm not old
or frail
just like we pretended I was not small
nor fragile
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Wed Apr 30, 2014 10:28 pm
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#27 (When all else is lost)

You talk in your sleep
endless incantations, and even when
I kick you, you pause

like you're deep in thought, and then carry on talking
and sometimes I dwell on if
in you're talking to me

like a mother to her child
and if you do, you can lull me and keep me asleep
so maybe I won't kick you so much in the night
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Wed Apr 30, 2014 10:32 pm
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#28

People are like socks
some are new as the day they were bought
and some are darned
over and over

and you know it's the ones
torn and repaired
that are the best

because they're the ones
that you pick out every time
because they make you feel

so snug and warm
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Wed Apr 30, 2014 10:39 pm
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#29

I swear one day I'll write a poem
and dedicate it
only to you

one that captures the life in your eyes
in letters and splodges of ink
but I fail, every time
and sink into despair
when such a dream seems all to far

and no verse I could ever write would come near
to the perfect that you are
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Wed Apr 30, 2014 10:47 pm
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#30 (For Lumi)

they said she was already broken by
the lightening that struck straight through her core
but I always found the black, charred alcove
was exactly what she needed to be

a mother to me

as they tear her up from the earth, she crashes
the pale, white insides splinter and the roots
once deep and sturdy
stretch out, naked in the light

and in the weight of her shadow I feel
the shallow roots
of a motherless child

slowly peel from the earth
We were born to be amazing.
  





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Wed Apr 30, 2014 10:48 pm
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Finished!


With thirteen minutes to spare ^__^
We were born to be amazing.
  








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