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A widow bird sate mourning for her Love
Upon a wintry bough;
The frozen wind crept on above,
The freezing stream below.

There was no leaf upon the forest bare,
No flower upon the ground,
And little motion in the air
Except the mill-wheel’s sound.
Sickness beware,
I will be there,
Weakness watch out,
I'll be her crutch,
Sadness, oh you,
Can back away,
'Cause I'll keep her from your rain,
Anger, calm down,
I will stay my ground,
Fear, fear me,
dare not come near me,
Forget about failure,
Lose all the lies,
All you demons beware,
For her,
I'll be there.
 Nov 2012 Leah Ward
Mariah Fairre
What is it to be strong?
Is it to remain standing, while the world around you falls?
Or is it to catch the falling world, and lift it above yourself
Knowing the weight will one day crush you

My mother is a warrior
Standing on a battle field
Surrounded by the carcasses of dead and broken dreams.
Dreams that she herself brought to their end, by the quickness of her own blade
And lost beneath the ****** hands and battle cries
Hides the broken child, who believed there would be more.
I don’t know why she does it
Fight the way she does
I’d like to believe it’s out of love for me
But I don’t think so.
I think it’s because she doesn’t know what else to do
She’s too strong to fall
Or too scared.
 Nov 2012 Leah Ward
Mariah Fairre
There once was a land, some would call far
You can find it beneath the forty-eighth star
If you take a right turn at the end of the sky
And then follow the tears that a child has cried

Magic will find you, once you are there
It will come in the form of a blue dancing bear
From the curve of his nose, to the gait of his pose
To the belly that stops him from touching his toes
You’ll love this blue bear, wherever he goes

“Come and dance!” called the bear
From the gypsies green fire
“And we’ll whirl and we’ll twirl
‘round the cloud castle’s spire

You can stay there forever
Just you and the bear
And you’ll never be lonely
And you’ll never be scared
But know, as your dancing feet leave the ground
Once you’ve gone up
You can never come down
A life in the stars at the cloud castle’s fair
Spinning forever with the blue dancing bear
 Nov 2012 Leah Ward
Mariah Fairre
Deep
Like the ocean is deep
Fathoms and fathoms and fathoms
Of mysteries and of secrets
Ones that spark dreams and nightmares
Of millions of particles of life
The surface is a reflection of it's surroundings
But is so very different beneath the befuddled waves
External forces constantly affect it
The push and pull of the moon and the sun and the wind
Move it, but are unable to reach it at it's deepest
It is constantly moving, and changing
Bringing in the new
While fighting to maintain the essence of what it is
You are deep
Like the ocean is deep
The radiance of the star that leans on me
Was shining years ago. The light that now
Glitters up there my eyes may never see,
And so the time lag teases me with how

Love that loves now may not reach me until
Its first desire is spent. The star's impulse
Must wait for eyes to claim it beautiful
And love arrived may find us somewhere else.
 Nov 2012 Leah Ward
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 Nov 2012 Leah Ward
Jessie
Oh, those winding curves and me with no brakes.
Oh, those long legs and me with no reaching arms.
Oh, those pearly whites and me with no available floss.
Oh, those voluptuous locks and me with no comb.
Oh, those big revealing eyes and me with just a windowless soul.
Oh, those velvet hands and me with not even cotton fingers.
Oh, that woman of absolute perfection and me with no way to contain her.
Wrote from a boy's point of view.
 Nov 2012 Leah Ward
Jacqueline P
Your heart is empty, did you not know?
There is no room for anything to grow
There is not land for flowers to bloom
No your heart is full of empty room.

Your head is the sea, does it ever call?
Ye waves are crashing twenty feet tall
There is no safety for a boat to glide
The waves are the thing that cause you to hide.

A poet could lie and make up his own
Or hers, whatever, and steal someone's home
They could capture ones heart but that I couldn't do
I could never capture the empty heart of you.

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