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  The Walk

  

  By sammyjanee, Plantsville, CT

  The sidewalk speaks to me openly, silently, as if we were friends once before. It's brittle with knowledge of rubber soles and I ask it "Where do you lead if I keep walking?" But it just smiles and opens slowly before me. My pace quickens, body stiffens, I am hit with a gust of ...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  Someone

  

  By sammyjanee, Plantsville, CT

  In third grade I wrote a letter to Santa asking why my friend Janie only received one gift on Christmas when I had gotten (I counted) seventeen. I was wondering if he could lend one of my presents to Janie next year, and by the way thanks for the My Little Pony. When my uncle died two years later,...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  my title isn't long enough for you

  

  By sammyjanee, Plantsville, CT

  Seasons morph One in To the other Fall to Spring To winter Again Ropes fray at the Ends Hang On Telephone’s Ringing Wait- My heart Miles From here (from where?) (to what?) Wherever he goes “take me With you” The river’s Lazy Sounds Dim Frozen Lips Co...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Clocks

  

  By sammyjanee, Plantsville, CT

  Watching the clock- Tick- Change- Tock- Hours pass and It’s hard to with- Stand on my own Two feet- That you are so Half- Gone, Is my sense of time- Your future is- Tick- Tapping on your- Tock- Window- Pane Is threatening to Take- Over your life Where will you ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Spell Suffocating

  

  By sammyjanee, Plantsville, CT

  Under heavy blankets of Woven fears We sleep, Smothering, Day in and Day Out Relentlessly crying For help - Help! - We are lost in our Thoughts, Arms tied Down with Knots Of Ropes of Lies, We lie- There is no Escape But through our minds Yes! Our thoughts are Proscribed Yet...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Unavailable

  

  By sammyjanee, Southington, CT

  Writing a love-letter From an anonymous sender Is so Typical Of a hopeless romantic Like myself. But he’s so handsome And unavailable and Unreachable and Unavailable. It’s the best I could do Instead of Just saying “Hi” Like I don’t deserve His passing glance. But he’...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Winds

  

  By sammyjanee, Southington, CT

  The winter winds lately haven’t been so harsh. They wisp against my cheeks, and bring serenity to my state of mind. I pretend that they are angels, softy caressing me, reminding me that there is more than I can see. (Is it enough to change oneself?) The whispers and whistles that com...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Remaining Unspoken

  

  By sammyjanee, Southington, CT

  You are the sunshine that I smell when I awake to the days that remind me that that summer existed. (You are always there for me, and I wonder if you know how much I need you) You are a nuisance, like that rain on my eyelashes that was too faultless to blink away (Without you, I’m not sure ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  The Ride

  

  By sammyjanee, Southington, CT

  The short bus ride from here to the other end of the world is therapeutic and calm. The gray-haired driver greets me, nodding, and I wonder if he knows how I used to feel about his grandchild. There's that path I always cross, and there's the road I avoid. The snowbanks on the sidewal...