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Teen Ink Magazine, May 2003 : Poetry Articles

A Familiar Change Your words come in start and stop formation Around my ears and I Can bringmyself to Tears knowing that you Won't touch my arm or ... Continue...	A Girl with No Name Emptiness is your thick heart-shaped box with no opening, I've been domesticated in alocked house with no key, Thrown away, trashed, restored, adorned and thrownaway again ... Continue...
A Separate Paradise Hidden In the folds of the rounded mountains, Laughing children embark Ontheir trail of green memories and yellow stems Enclosed in gold rays andbutter breezes, ... Continue...	Beef Noodles I never chew just swallow It's bad luck if you do. Swimming in a porcelainpool Blue and white trees; ancient pagodas ... Continue...
Bella Hermanita I look at my sister now At pre-torn jeans and crushed sneakers Bronzed,eye-lined and glittering And I think, Why did she become what I couldnot? ... Continue...	Blue, Silent Circles when I sit with you in this quiet, small-town restaurant and we begintalking about great poets come and gone, I examine my own crumb ofhistory ... Continue...
Cold The winter cold, a death, but Circles full, where there is anend Must be a new beginning I watch thetrees, Reincarnated, Breathing leaves once again. Continue...	Crosses Made from Wood and Sinew Sometimes I wish that maybe I could Stumble upon burial grounds that have not felt theheel of a broken-in boot Sink into its soft ground, disturbing the dirt just abit, And that I would pull crayons and wax paper From my pockets, to makegrave rubbings ... Continue...
Good-Night Sadness Bluish-blackhorizons bruise the fiery pink of a setting sun. The soft motion of my quivering lips ... Continue...	Hope's Enigma Leaves fall softly on the lake Serenity ripples in theirwake. One ripple, one beat upon my heart As laughter echoes in thedark. While children cry and mothers soothe ... Continue...
In a Single Thought On the morning peace had no place in the world, A soldier was born. He volunteered an infinityof misplaced memories, Too graphic and real to remember, All for thefreedom we know today as the United States. ... Continue...	Mama is a Beautiful Flower When she comes skipping Through the hallway She waters us, Like growingflowers. And we thank her for being there. ... Continue...
Metaphor I'm a candy in sugar-coated syllables A dove, an unexplored house A lilystrolling on glass slippers Oh red cherry, white, blushing veils This peachis ripe with sweet juices ... Continue...	Morning Fivea.m. finds me again. Saturated darkness An alarm's tuneless notes ring inthe air Every part of me wants to calm its annoying wail, I'm afraidwithout its sound. ... Continue...
Payment for the Morning Lying in a field of sand Near a small straw hut Pickingpetals off flowers Blooming into dragonflies Peaceful evening, littlelight ... Continue...	Rain Drops of water As big as grapes Land on my head Cooling my face Continue...
Reality Throught the Eyes of Two Adolescents Observe: One face: There are little flower cups on one land, Dripping with tintedscents and rich nectar, Bees farming the ripe wine of Apollo, ... Continue...	Route 513 In central Jersey on Rt 513 snow and salting trucks disruptthe kids you baby-sit in the seat behind you ... Continue...
Shine Yesterday I was standing in the kitchen, happened to look outthe window at the Moon. It was bathing half full of the murkyblackness, ... Continue...	Side Street Brains followmy fingers home. just lie there and sing to yourself I'd love to knowyour brain's back roads. ... Continue...
Something Iam incapable of escapable thought, ... Continue...	Spider Webs Sometimes I go When no one knows, To a quiet place in mymind Where I can caress my thoughts To the melody of a lake'sripple ... Continue...
Summer Was so cold last night Frost covered the ground So I tiptoedoutside, Shivered but didn't turn around. ... Continue...	The Best Day Oneday I was walking down a trail, when I fell off a cliff and down into a ravine.The wounds are no longer visible, the pain is held inside, and though I standupright, every time I see her, I fall head over heels all over again. Continue...
The Dawn of Spring Tips of life burst through The frozen earth Melodies ofbliss Integrating with The crunch of snow Colors replace white As thedelicate geraniums bloom Unfolding the early morning light Anduncovering The dawn of spring Continue...	Throw Hearts Four identical wooden chairs around a matching square table. The flowers on thewall are choked by the scent of smoke ... Continue...
Untitled The TV stays off It isnot broken I know because I check once in a while But I never leave iton ... Continue...	Untitled Sun-bronzed skin of brambles dress of gentle greenfoliage rambling raspberry temptress. Continue...
Untitled Order another dessert peach sherbet melts with green frothy wraps ofchitter-fried butter batter in Michigan eateries ... Continue...

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