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  Perspective

  

  By QuixoticDreamer, Birnamwood, WI

  I looked at me in a mirror glass and said Who would ever love her? She's nothing to see. My worst critic. You looked at me in a rainbow prism and said Who wouldn't love her? She's everything to me. Beauty. Elegance. Grace. Why do I look in a mirror glass ...
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  I Tread a Fiery Region

  

  By QuixoticDreamer, Birnamwood, WI

  I tread a fiery region. My callused feet blister and shriek my eyes, two streams try to douse the heat, but only raze my cheeks and leave lightning scars. My heart quakes, shivers in the flash of fever my hands tremble, knotted fingers clutched in silent prayer my lungs gasp and shudder, ...
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  All She Asked

  

  By QuixoticDreamer, Birnamwood, WI

  Sleep in my eyes, I trudge down the stairs my mother will offer a hug and a kiss I don't respond. She questions my choices for breakfast insists that I get all I need I don't answer. She wants to know that my clothing is cover enough for the cold I don't care. Assured that my...
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  The Prince

  

  By QuixoticDreamer, Birnamwood, WI

  I dance to the lead of the harrowing prince who tickles the mind with his paltry tricks Coaxes me on with never a clue of all of the things he's brought me to rue. Why torture me so? I'd rather you left sent back to my God to live in the cleft. But how can you leave what...
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  Your Smile Spoke To Me Today

  

  By QuixoticDreamer, Birnamwood, WI

  Your smile spoke to me today it promised many things a friend was there who truly cared whose smile makes me sing. Trial, fire, test, and storm will try to leave impressions but then you smile; I'll make it while you own this bright expression....