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Smile Deferred

August 30, 2010
By Otto. PLATINUM, Pueblo, Colorado
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When a smile is deferred...
When I want to,
My mind becoomes blank
The rain patters
Around my face
To drip past my neck,
As a humming birds'
Bright wings whirred
And still, mestiriously,
My smile remains
Deferred.

© Sean C., Princeton, IL

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Tafoya...... bite this. XD
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