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  If you were a rose

  

  By HannahBK, Discovery Bay, Hong Kong

  If you were a rose I would caress your powdery crimson head Red as lust Soft as velvet against my bare skin I would slowly remove Thorn by thorn by thorn Until you lacked any power to hurt me. Then I would rip your petals off, And throw you to the ground to rot....
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  Silent Warriors

  

  By HannahBK, Discovery Bay, Hong Kong

  Growing up in a modern, liberal family, I spent my entire childhood oblivious to the fact that I was any different from my three brothers. Undeveloped, I ran shirtless through the sprinkler in summer; I beat all the neighborhood boys in races; the whole family would bake in the kitchen together; I w...
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  For the Abolition of Sexism

  

  By HannahBK, Discovery Bay, Hong Kong

  Since the beginning of time We have been here: Talking in hushed tones as To avoid arousing the beasts of abuse, Struggling under the indescribable Weight of oppression; But here all the same. While you spilled blood in war And sweated in harsh factory fumes, We raised your kin and made ...
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  Wuthering Yorkshire Moors

  

  By HannahBK, Discovery Bay, Hong Kong

  Ah the sights that I've seen in my lonely years, a solitary expanse in a corrupted world. Such creatures have trodden my delicate skin, such distasteful thoughts have blown through the wind and through each hair on my worn body. Every time the rain falls, the tears of God absorb into m...
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  Wishing for you

  

  By HannahBK, Discovery Bay, Hong Kong

  Wishing for you Wisps of black Brush against my memory; The remains of foundation Stain a scarf I will never wash. Our figurines on my shelf face each other: Half painted, half alive, Half made of smiles and Half made of tears. Blades of grass talk of a picnic On a spring’s day i...
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  One Step Further

  

  By HannahBK, Discovery Bay, Hong Kong

  I catch a glimpse over the mountain I have spent so long ascending; The tips of grass are beginning to wake below the Snow caps that have built up for years and years. I continually lose my footing; The icy path is slippery and deceiving And the uneven rocks I step over Move in unexpected w...
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  A Salesman Should Always Smile

  

  By HannahBK, Discovery Bay, Hong Kong
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  Rickshaw Parkinglot

  

  By HannahBK, Discovery Bay, Hong Kong
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  Flowers for Sale

  

  By HannahBK, Discovery Bay, Hong Kong
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  Eye of the Dragon

  

  By HannahBK, Discovery Bay, Hong Kong