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Thanks for posting this, I love writing poetry! If I may, I can contribute to this thread:

Two poems from my poetry class--

Remembering an Old Friend

A brain freeze can kill someone.
The mind rips with white noise and frigid snow,
and you know what picture should pop out of the cereal box.

It itches like an annoying wasp,
evading the desperate grasp of your chilled fingers--
rubrubrub in aggitation, but it just stings harder, branding a hole.

Throw in the flag, and
like a runner caught at home base
the outcome's not worth the trial and tribulation.

You lift your head.

Snow, leaves, cement,
black Puma boots, leggings, wool skirt,
a thick brown hide jacket, gloves--one clenched
at the side, and one shaping your name--

Then her face, and she smiles. And,

The warmest breath of July melts the snow into Strawberry-Kiwi Koolaid you two sipped while dangling your tiny feet over a whitewashed Sunday porch, grazing the nubs of cattails, the scent of raw spearmint
burning the nose,
long ago in Elementary school,
before she told you she was moving to Alaska.

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Not Like Dad

One of my X's is yours, right?
Too bad the doctors didn't have a microscope to check
that time.

My thoughts, then, must be yours,
since we both lived together for nine years,
even though you worked most of the time and left afterward.

The way I speak, surely,
But I could never get that laugh down,
with the chopped-up 'eheheh' like an evil Buddha.

Well, how about my hair?
It's darker than mother's, especially wet...
But in the sun it devastatingly shines.

My eyes! I have brown eyes!
Yours are black and boxed in, though,
and you always ask why I freed myself with contacts.

But our skin, perhaps._________________Yes.
Even though on one side it's lighter,
it's brown on the other--on my arms, shoulders, and face.

I think, sometimes, I am like you,
even though you say whenever you see me,
"How'd you get so white? Not like dad, eheheh."

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Thanks for sharing your poetry, looking forward to further promoting literary expression with you~!