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The Student Art & Literary Site of Community College of Allegheny County

The Phoenix

The Student Art & Literary Site of Community College of Allegheny County

The Phoenix

The Student Art & Literary Site of Community College of Allegheny County

The Phoenix

A Sequence of Short Poems

Here lies me.

In the ashes of electric fires

Where I did burn amidst the lovely

Dancing people

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Silent, and with love

 

We are all islands

But some of us build bridges

Some are very long

 

Leaves cast inkblots on the cathedral

But only for now

 

Do not border my world,

For the sky has no rivers, and

The cosmos no mountain ranges

 

What other planet?

What other place, with greener grass have we

To travel to, when things are rough at home

And we, for all our bold resilience

Must run away?

 

Orange leaves

Glitter in the sun

My eyes are growing weak.

 

The sky’s so blue today,

I could fall into it forever.

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