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When life tumbles and screams and rains and scorches down down down upon me, I turn to poetry. When life frolics and laughs and prospers …

All poems posted here are my original works, except the ones that are not mine. Copyright ©2012-2017 J.M. All Rights Reserved.

Lucky you, you get to read my diary.

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"I don't exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it." J.D. Salinger

ND    I am a high school math teacher who fiercely loves her students and moonlights as a poet.

Maryland   

Richmond    "If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the …

just north of ordinary    Under construction. Dreaming out windows. Want to hear me read it? Please visit: https://soundcloud.com/bexinlondono I have two eBooks on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/author/rebeccaaskew

Maybe just an extraordinary girl, living in an ordinary world.

New York    I am the lyrics of the songs I write, each strung together by the mind I fight.

"Even though I do not know you and even though I may never meet you, laugh with you, cry with you, or kiss you I …