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Mar 2013 · 451
Fall Leaves
Lisa Ann Rakow Mar 2013
The ground lures the Fall
Leaves to leave their home and come down
And cover the dead grass.
Mar 2013 · 2.7k
The Green Gem of August
Lisa Ann Rakow Mar 2013
Green gems change color in
Dim, still light of the volcanoes
Rain cools sizzling Spring Earth
Mar 2013 · 649
Global Warming
Lisa Ann Rakow Mar 2013
Our World turns slowly. She
protects us all, and all we do
to thank her, is **** her.
Mar 2013 · 752
Maisie Cinquain
Lisa Ann Rakow Mar 2013
Maisie
I love her so
I need to cherish her
Because she could go any time
Don’t go
Mar 2013 · 389
Love
Lisa Ann Rakow Mar 2013
Toby
I loved him so
His sister Maisie, too
But something happened to Toby
Love you
Mar 2013 · 688
Toby Cinquain
Lisa Ann Rakow Mar 2013
Toby
What a good dog
Toby went through a lot
We went through a lot together
Goodbye
Mar 2013 · 667
Watches
Lisa Ann Rakow Mar 2013
Watches
Great trend setters
Designed fashionably
Time-telling trap around your wrist
Quartz face
Lisa Ann Rakow Mar 2013
Shocking shakes from the Spring ground shoot everything skyward.
Screams & shrill shouts soar through the skies.
Shrimp-sized children spring out of bed to safety.
“Shouldn’t this be happening somewhere else?” so many scream out.
Shrubs stirred out of sports shoot in the windows.
Finally, Haiti’s people stop dead in their tracks.
The Spring ground’s shakes stop, but screams don’t
Mar 2013 · 758
August 1, 1997
Lisa Ann Rakow Mar 2013
A child was born on this day
Under the roof of the St. Cloud Hospital
Great things would happen to this child
Unrealistic ideas would flow through her mind
Surprising events would happen to her in her life
This day would be thought to her as the day of the Peridot
1 love will die
1 day will be secretly feared
9 watches will start a fetish
9 candles will always be lit in her heart
7 will be her magical number
Mar 2013 · 334
Depression
Lisa Ann Rakow Mar 2013
The sadness overtakes your life.
You feel sluggish & tired.
All you want to do is sleep.
You can’t eat.
Tears are constantly running down your cheeks.
Feeling comfortable in the steamy water of the bath you’ve drawn.
Nothing could ever get your happiness & glee back.
Your life has washed down the drain, but you don’t care.
Nobody cares about me, you think.
I love no one, &  no one loves me.
I despise everyone, I don’t care who they are.
I hate them.
I loathe the happiness of others.
Until, finally, when you go up to Heaven, you’re the happiest person ever.

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