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Sometimes poetry
sneaks up behind you
and taps your shoulder
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Sometimes poetry
hides from your heart and the words
slowly disappear
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Sometimes poetry
is a cat on a brown couch
teasing a little dog
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Sometimes poetry
isn’t anything at all
beacuse your brain hurts
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Haiku, I haven’t
forgotten you, even though it
seems like Megan has
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My baby waddled
into toddlerhood when
I wasn’t looking
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Tiny toddler
is a f-5 tornado
tearing through my house
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Summer snuck in while
Spring was busy stopping to
smell the new flowers
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I can’t tell which is
worse-this idea or these
poems I dare to write
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April brings baseball
cool nights listening to the
radio broadcast
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I can’t stop reading
books that make me ugly cry
Shelve them with Kleenex
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What if I ran out
of things to say right smack
in the middle of–
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Sleep sleep sleep sleep sleep
chasing that dragon nightly
sleep sleep sleep sleep
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Today was awful
too many bad things to share
But I ate pizza
danielle dreger 