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Mrs Ashley Somebody Nov 2014
Forgetting
Forgetting your face
Is easy; forgetting your name
Is simple; but you,
And what you turned me into,
Will not leave my memory.
#love #heart #hate #mind #change #forgetting #memory #turn #tanka #57577
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Mrs Ashley Somebody Nov 2014
Escaping
There are words inside
Trying to be silent here—
Sneaking past my lips,
They make themselves known loudly,
Reddening my cheeks and ears.
#words #escape #lips #speak #loud #tanka #ears #embarrassed #cheeks #57577
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Mrs Ashley Somebody Nov 2014
D5
It bothers me so:
My voice cannot reach that high.
I want to awe them,
But I can barely reach D;
So don't laugh now when I squeak.
#song #sing #high #tanka #reach #d #57577 #squeak #octaves #d5
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Mrs Ashley Somebody Nov 2014
Blood
They always tell me,
Blood is thicker than water:
But the salt in me
Is the salt of the great sea
Tied of ropes thicker than blood.
#heart #water #blood #sea #thick #salt #saltwater #tanka #rope #57577
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Mrs Ashley Somebody Nov 2014
Bravery
It's that cold, small lump
Lying in my stomach here
Keeping me away.
I wish I had the guts to
I wish I had bravery.
#away #brave #bravery #wish #courage #hurts #keep #tanka #stomach #57577
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Mrs Ashley Somebody Nov 2014
Dagger
You were a dagger
Plunged to the depths of my soul,
Numbing me since then;
The rest of the sharp arrows
That found their mark are painless.
#pain #hurt #soul #numb #dagger #tanka #arrow #sharp #57577 #forevernumb
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Mrs Ashley Somebody Oct 2014
The Fire
Fire burns in my veins,
Uncontrollable, flaming;
And won't let me be.
I don't understand myself
When the fire burns inside me.
#fire #burn #uncontrollable #flame #tanka #57577
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Mrs Ashley Somebody Oct 2014
So Cold
Afraid to open
And to be vulnerable;
To let you inside
And to let you feel my hands
They're so cold; I long to *feel.
#hands #feel #inside #hand #vulnerable #open #show #tanka #57577 #socold
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Mrs Ashley Somebody Sep 2014
Honestly
To you, my life is,
Or it is not, you aren't sure;
You really don't know.
So what am I really like?
And honestly, do you care?
#life #know #understand #care #tanka #mylife #57577 #honestly #mylifeis
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Mrs Ashley Somebody Sep 2014
Heard
Inspirational;
Death-defying, breath-giving
The choicest of songs
Singing in my chest, alive
And just trying to be heard.
#life #death #song #live #sing #wait #tanka #bird #57577
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