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Paper Birds

February 25, 2014
By BenHorrobin PLATINUM, Courtice, Other
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In the winter you made me paper birds

They migrated from your hands to mine

And you told me something

About how you truly loved someone when you gave them a thousand cranes

You left in March

With the start of the thaw

And I hunted the birds in frustration

Filling their tiny wings with buckshot

So they had no choice but to fall

© Sarah A., Escondido, CA

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mereCat PLATINUM said...
on Jun. 20 2014 at 2:15 am
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You are so brilliant - I don't even have the words to describe these poems anymore. I just know that they mean so much to me.