Poetry Finalist: “Setting Fire to the Stars”
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August 22, 2015
I’ll start a revolution, make my own brand./ I’m blocking out all the white noise;/ but your eyes are like a black hole, I just
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I’ll start a revolution, make my own brand./ I’m blocking out all the white noise;/ but your eyes are like a black hole, I just
Fallen leaf,/ Fallen leaf,/ Why have you left your tree?
Trees claw,/ Birds crow,/ Stuck in the mud -/I have to go.
I’ll check out as soon as I can, really/ Different cities — I have a list of places where you’ll find my bones/ someday when
Pink/ The color most commonly overlooked / Pink can be happy/ It can be angry and/ It can be sad
They say she’s not quite right/ But they assume she’ll be okay/ And so they overlook her/ Day after day …
It has arisen, my dears, my children/ The war of a millennium years/ Blood of all are spilled throughout/ Filling the bare ground with a
The snow falls without a sound/ And again and again, all around/ Shivers, sighs, no disguise/ Twisting, dancing, always prancing …
She’s actually dangerous, as crazy as they get/ I’d never love again if she is my predestined/ I guess we all could use that lesson
Any representation of an outcast/ is ammunition for the upper class…