Heather Z. Hanna Poems

Stripey underwear,
does not,
a sexy man make.
It makes him a zebra.
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Yellow pollen in the air
Yellow pollen everywhere
Yellow pollen on the go
Yellow pollen looks like snow
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Skinny people, beautiful people...
Because we are oversold on visual beauty
Our maleable minds are shaped
Like clay
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Am I bothering you?
Tell me true.
I need to know,
If I must go,
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I cherish you words and keep to them close
To peek as I need and help me to go
Through all of this time without your warm arms
Holding me so close, keeping me at peace.
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This day six years ago,
Silently we watched
The drama unfold.
Over and over
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HATE
Use that experience to
Reach into the hard places
And pull out with force,
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Yellow wormwood flowerheads
Push up between green leaves
And violet red stems
Of Poke Sally.
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Through the years of raising little ones
to bigger ones to big enough,
Takes so much time and energy
That creative thoughts come on bits and scraps of paper,
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Life keeps moving on.
Rushing forward all day long.
We haven't much time
For what we do.
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