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  Nesting Dolls

  

  By Claire_A, Pleasanton, CA

  You are born smooth, small, and perfect. You are a newly carved figurine in a shop, fresh and ready to be painted. As you grow older, designs and colors start to spiral over you. But when you see the new styles in the shop, you try to repaint yourself, to match the other dolls on the shelves....
• Poetry > Free Verse
  They Say That Poetry

  

  By Claire_A, Pleasanton, CA

  Compacts Long pieces into short Chunks of meaning But I say no Poetry is A butterfly dancing In open air Like lace So light and intricate With little holes For the fabric of your favorite dress to show through The meaning Is scattered like sand When you walk on it You barely feel t...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Black and White

  

  By Claire_A, Pleasanton, CA

  By day I confine my thoughts to the page. Write in soft gray pencil, Let the words fall in perfect rows Letters Lines. Hide them with a curved hand, A guarded heart, A skeptic's mind. Keep them on the paper and watch As the meanings smear with age Until I can't look at the mess I...
• Poetry > Haiku
  Rose Petals

  

  By Claire_A, Pleasanton, CA

  Rose petals drift down. Maybe they are falling stars; Maybe they are tears....
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Floating

  

  By Claire_A, Pleasanton, CA

  Last year, there was a moment when I was drowning. I struggled, struggled, to stay afloat, As the waves crashed over me, Smacking me under the water Suffocating me. But then I learned to swim. And I glided away, Away, And I could feel the sun on my back again, And the wind in my hair, An...
• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  Underwater

  

  By Claire_A, Pleasanton, CA

  The sky is smooth as a sea-polished stone, split through the middle by a frail thorn of sunlight. The scent of chlorine clouds the air as flecks of water nestle into my tangle-wet hair. Voices are cheering, laughing, talking; they skitter around me in a song that sounds rough and raw to my ears ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Reach

  

  By Claire_A, Pleasanton, CA

  Wilt Like a flower soaked with sunlight Like a dog Who has run, run, run... The flower is defeated. The dog is exhausted. The life in them is dying. Try Like a sapling streaked with striking winds Like a colt Whose spindly legs cannot support him... The sapling is too small and weather-...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Flower

  

  By Claire_A, Pleasanton, CA

  Petals soft and lonely, Glory faded on your wings Stem twisted green and spiked with thorns Small and simple, sweetness sings. When sunlight finds its golden rays It draws them in to set them free It catches on your snow-white crown Freedom, freedom, call to me! When nighttime shrouds th...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Paintbrush

  

  By Claire_A, Pleasanton, CA

  I painted the sky With a river of stars. One Two Three... On and on My river rushes. I painted the sun With a dollop of gold. Swirling Swirling Swirling... On and on My sunlight sparkles. I painted the world With a carefree hand. Sweep Brush Stroke... On and on My world billo...