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 May 2016 Laura
Richie Vincent
As you're walking, take time to stop and smell the flowers
I was a flower that kept growing every time you picked me
The unfortunate part is that you kept coming back to me knowing that I would always grow back for you
And I couldn't run away from you because I was stuck in the same soil I'm sitting in right now
I just hope for the day when the sun is able to shine on me and let me grow without me having to worry about you coming back to take me away again
This is for those December mornings, when the sun is having a lazy day and the clouds are trying too hard to make a rainbow.
For dreams that only the night can carry.
For angels with broken wings envious of pigeons.
Fathers say our shoulders are strong enough to carry the world, but only some of us will have to, mothers say only some of us will get to.
Mother carries you in her arms and father carries you on his shoulders. The world isn’t that heavy today.
Most days we try, sometimes we fail. We only know what we know until we know better.
Our cheeks have known too many rivers and joy doesn’t flow around these parts no more.
But I do know a few things, I know faith is showing belief in the sky by planting deeper into the ground. I know curiosity shouldn’t always be explored and sometimes feathers are better pens than they are wings.
So catch flight with this, let this be your mothers’ arms and your fathers’ shoulders.
I know someday soon the world won’t be this heavy and we’ll get to carry it, even though we don’t have to.
One year
This is for you
You that counts time in moments
You that has stopped claiming to know things like the back of your hand because time has made your body a strange place
This is for my grey haired aunties and two stick uncles
One year is 365 sunrises and sunsets, It’s 52 crepes, It’s 8409600 breaths, It’s 2 coffins, It’s 10000 steps that if I placed on a map would show I never really went anywhere
It’s 100 I miss yous and 10000 I miss you too, It’s 2 I love yous still finding their way out of my mouth
Apologies to those of us that had to search for eulogies in old albums this year.
Congratulations to those of us that could search for eulogies in old albums this year
 May 2016 Laura
bee
a ten word story
When the mind seduces,the effect is eternal,
When the body seduces,the effect is temporal.
A great mind seduces another into love,
A great body seduces any other into lust..
Seduction of the body is temporal and that of the mind eternal,
 May 2016 Laura
Love
Love Shown
 May 2016 Laura
Love
I'm the *****,
the quiet girl in the front of the class,
according to the handicap stall in the upstairs boys bathroom, a ****.
I love, and when I do I love to no ends.
But you'd never know how much this ***** loves, because there is no love shown.
 Oct 2015 Laura
jeffrey conyers
Happy go lucky girl.
Happy go lucky girl.
Never ever sad.
Never ever sad.

To be in her present made you feel safe.
She always has a smile of warmth upon her face.
.
Plus, a positive mood.
That just grew upon you.

If , she was ever down.
It never showed.
Similar to clown that you might see at the circus.

She's just..
A happy go lucky girl.
Happy go lucky girl.
Never ever blue.
Never ever blue.
Least you never knew.

She lived in a world of only charm.
Believe in a world that existed with no harm.
If you ever was a few that knew her closely.
Even you would agree, she's a happy go lucky girl.
 Oct 2015 Laura
jeffrey conyers
You showed her fist.
I showed her trust.
You showed pain.
I showed her love.
Who you think?
She's gonna love better.

Now that's she's happy.
You trying reignite interest.

You showed her hurt.
I showed her a better picture.
You showed her mistrust.
I showed her effort.
Who you think?
She's gonna love better.
If not me.
The man that made her happy.

Every since she departed your world.
She has found her life served more better.
Cause I'm that man that made her happy.
Now you trying to reignite interest.

To no avail.
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