Shannon Hughes Poems

Today I just had
That Happy Feeling
That glowing, bubbling
Happy Feeling
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I am sitting in a dark
Corner
Crying about lost causes
And listening to angry music
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I lay on the forest floor
Looking up
Mosaic of pine needles and sky
Splashes of clouds
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I am a nature lover
I wonder what it’s like to be the squirrel looking for nuts
I hear the frog croaking at twilight
I see the tall, tall tree above me
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Have your ever thought
That maybe we are already dead?
That this place we call Earth
Is our punishment?
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There he sits
A spotted frog
He grins from ear to ear
Waterbugs quake across the
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The sky bends down
And kisses the ground
Speckled with stars
We'll reach up, and catch them in jars
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Wondering lonely
Around the lake
Glum reflection staring back
My foot hits a rock and
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A fiery
Excruciating pain
Pulses throughout my
Rusting iron veins
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She wanders curiously through
The Forest of the Lost
Past the other creatures of pity
The Lost creatures
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