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Tiny feathers.
Of black, white,
and softest brown.
Tiny wings fluttering.
With quiet sound.
Loud voice.
Of sweetest song.
Which can be heard.
From miles around.
"Swee, swee,"
calls the chickadee.
Handcrafted by God above,
the little chickadee
is a tiny miracle.
Of His love.
 May 2017 Hannah Jones
Andrew T
Drink the first beer after you wake up. The door to her bedroom is closed, so don't play the acoustic guitar, loudly, if at all. A dog is laying on the lumpy couch. Try your best not to disturb the dog who’s name is Pasco. You hear her talking upstairs, but you don’t go say, hi. Put on your coat, grab your smokes from your pocket, go outside to the porch and light up. No one is outside. It’s dark and the birds are chirping, and she hates when they do that. Do you best not to drink too fast, as you down the second beer. Try not to think about how she accepts you, or rejects you. Think about Virginia. Think about Chicago. Think about LA. Then breathe in deep. Don’t pass out, as you drink the third and fourth beer, one after the other. Throw the keys into your laptop bag, so you don’t try to reach in there and grab them. Sit down on the stoop. Pick up your cig from the ashtray, light it again, and smoke it. She doesn’t care as much and you’re going to have to be okay with this fact of life.

Don’t sleep on the couch tonight.
couch spotify uber cool word beers chicago virgina
 May 2017 Hannah Jones
Simpleton
He would tell you that he can't sing very well
But he sings in me
He makes my emotions dance to an orchestra he directs
He would tell you he can't reach the moon
But he kisses me in a way that would make the stars fall at my feet
You’re a blooming rose
I’m standing in your shadow
All covered in blush
One heart and one soul
Pure Spirituality
Serves to make us whole
This trembling earth
Spins us around
As our time ticks away
And dwindles on down

Now is the moment
We live in our dreams
Later is something
We’ve never seen

Yesterday came
But now it’s just gone
Only memories are left
Of that passing song

Tomorrow may come
But it certainly won’t last
Nothing can live
In the future or past
 May 2017 Hannah Jones
nivek
upside down is for Bats
and children
gymnasts too

I have lived the upside down years
straightened up
walked out my childhood

never was a gymnast
never bit by a Vampire
but there is still a first time,

for anything.
 May 2017 Hannah Jones
Bekezela
Every time I close my eyes,
I reach my happy place.
The night time is my time of bliss.
I imagine a world full of smiles across sad faces.

I imagine demons facing their masters and begging for an intervention just so they can prove that even sinners deserve a second chance.

I imagine the stars falling upon my hands,
Glowing as if they have never experienced darkness and yet stars are surrounded by complete darkness.

These stars pull the strings on my face,
Forcing me to smile and forget that just a minute ago tears were racing down my cheeks,
Leaving me with memories that only the heavens would understand.

Perhaps all that I imagine is a fairytale.
A little portion of bliss that only brings chaos that is hidden as beauty.
Maybe that's why the beauty fell in love with the beast.
But why even complain when for even a moment I feel happy?
I guess it's human nature to question our feelings and emotions.
Why am I so sad?
Why me?.....sometimes don't think about it. After all no one said life would be easy.
You find something that keeps you going...eg for me that's God
I woke for wonder, but hardly was,
Accustomed to the rays,
Of fierce, majestic Nature,
Her dazzling displays,

I queried quiet why I had not,
Facility to perceive,
The multitudes of Beauty,
In which the Saints believe,

And so, as babe, with awestruck eye,
I strode in to the festering view,
Of manifesting Nature, and I wake
To watch the world in bloom.
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