So I'm gonna try to write stuff every day and I'm just going to call them poems. It probably won't be good content, but I just want to force myself to write every day.
I like to think of how your hands go up behind your head, and you itch your neck. it's a little tick you don't know you have, but I remember when you did it all the time as a kid.
back when we played with dolls and toy horses and we fell in love with the lost girl plot - where a young girl loses her way, and gets found by people (who just happened to have horses) who want to help her.
I like to think of how your upper lip curls up when you smile, and your eyes get all squinty, as they're shadowed by your thick lashes it's a feature I know you notice, because you're self conscious
but I love it (and I love you)
I know that some sisters don't get along and I know we haven't always but I miss seeing you - having to now rely simply on memory. missing out on watching you grow into adulthood makes my heart ache.
And I know you want to see me (I want to see you) And I know you miss me (I miss you)
but I like to think that you think of the way I laugh, and throw my head back. The way I'll snort and wheeze, and make every sound imaginable just because you made a pun.
I like to think that you remember the way my lips spread into a pleased grin when you tell me stories about school or something you did with friends.
I like to think you love it (because I love you) And although I can't see you, I hope you know (I miss you)
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So right from the beginning I already feel kind of intimate with the narrator and that is a pleasant feeling that we don't really experience much in poetry It is lovely to love someone to an extent of knowing all their ticks and those memories and bond that we get throughout is poignantly formed. Ahhh <3
I'm acquainted with the creaks of our old home: The ice maker grinding, and the screen door's loose grip, causing it to catch in the wind, and slam back on the doorframe. The hum of the heater, the screams of the washing machine, the groaning of the floor beneath our feet.
Often, when we let silence fill our mouths, and we sit alone in our rooms, we can hear the pops inside the walls. Like a knuckle, shifting under pressure, air is released.
But it's home, for now - and we make do with what we have. Now, at least, there are no more squeaks in the walls, since we ridded the house of mice a few weeks ago.
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you would tickle me in my armpits and chase me all around the house - you smiling, me screaming "tickle monster! tickle monster!" and unknowingly, you were too rough with me but I enjoyed it when you picked me up and threw me on the couch with a "wee!"
I felt like I was flying, for few seconds when you'd lift me up in the air and spin me around
with my daddy, I could fly (when you were there, anyway)
you used to take me to Chuck-E-Cheese, and I would play the reflex games and win you would help me count the tickets I'd get a bunch of tiny dalmations (plastic, in my pocket) and we'd both enjoy pizza (not because you could eat it, being lactose intolerant, but because you knew it was my favorite)
you would bring home toys, little miscellaneous obscure things, after every trip you took sometimes, i would wake up to a little airplane on my sidetable and hope you were home but you had gone again
daddy, you would fly (away from me, more than I could understand, at the time) I remember counting down the days until I could see you again I wished I could fly with you, daddy
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