Sonya Florentino Poems

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21.
# # The Prize

I have nothing to prove to anyone
I am neither proud nor ashamed
I will run at my pace
I’m not in a race
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22.
# #sorting Pictures (Edited 11/11)

She’s pored over old photographs
Shifting through layers
Trying to find her lost child
To see for herself the transformation
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23.
# # Flicker (For Meggie Gultiano)

FLICKER (for Meggie Gultiano)

A flicker of hope
And darknesss has lost
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24.
Bare-Back Rider (A Lucid Dream)

He was a stallion
A big black horse, I was
Astride his back, muscular, bare
Hanging on to mere tufts
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25.
Like Sentries (Plus Tanka Version Dedicated To Nora Olmedo)

There they were

Up there!

East West North South
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26.
# Day Of Empty

I hope it’s still far away
That day
When I will stare blankly at a page
Empty, waiting
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27.
# # # Paper Birds (For Sandra Fowler)

(inspired by the poem 'Paper Birds' by Sandra Fowler)


What are poems but emotions in words
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28.
Knowing

She could feel his eyes

on the nape of her neck
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29.
Besides Air

Besides air

Water
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30.
# Dawn's Awakening (Inspired By A Poem By Jasmin Whyte)

(inspired by the poem 'Overcome' by Jasmin Whyte)

When was the last time I witnessed the dawn
when I was actually there to feel it enter my skin
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