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Lee Ann Schaffer
Lee Ann Schaffer
(1962 / Charleston, South Carolina, US)
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Lee Ann Schaffer Poems
- Hades To Persephone Tell me that you weren’t hungry that ...
- A Teacher's Prayer For The Los...
- Growth, Overgrowth, Undergrowt... </>A vine grew up ...
- Mean Mistress Moon My head had howled With the words ...
- Spider's Song Within a small spider's dream Are we what to ...
- Craving Amnesia I wish I couldn’t remember The resonance ...
- We Shall Be We shall be Sea and strand: No ...
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Hades To Persephone
Tell me that you weren’t hungry that day.
Tell me that’s not what got you to stay.
Seven seeds don’t seem like quite enough
Reason to leave a mother’s deep love.
I want to believe you had the choice;
I was hearing more than my own voice;
That you opened the palms of your hands
To offer your heart, not meet my demands.
Convince me that you want to be here;
It’s not my trick that keeps you so near.
You chose me. You love me. This is real.
No silly seven seeds sealed the deal.
Miss your mother when the door must shut;
Love and hurt when you...
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Mrs. Schaffer,
Your poems are great. I need some pointers! Good Job.