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Old Maid

Posted on August 21, 2021October 22, 2022 by Erin B.
I hear mother warn me
I would be an
old maid.
Well, perhaps my need of solitude
is all I look for
in this life.

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Posted in A Simple Life, I Am Woman, Poems on Happiness, Poems on LifeTagged hear, life, look, maid, mother, old, solitude, warn

Quiet

Posted on August 16, 2021August 2, 2022 by Erin B.
She was so quiet and patient,
never said a word
but it is time
to change that.

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Posted in Poems on Happiness, Poems on Life, Poems on TimeTagged change, patient, quiet, time

Optimist’s Attraction

Posted on August 14, 2021August 2, 2022 by Erin B.
An optimist's attraction
to everything
is pure genius.

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Posted in Poems on Happiness, Poems on LifeTagged attraction, genius, optimist

Too Honest

Posted on August 10, 2021August 2, 2022 by Erin B.
The best poems I have ever done
felt
too honest.

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Posted in Poem on Love, Poems on Happiness, Poems on Sadness, Poems on WritingTagged honest, poems

Too Short

Posted on July 15, 2021November 5, 2022 by Erin B.
She began to discover life
wasn't too short:
laughter and love were
the answer.

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Posted in A Simple Life, Chasing the Light, Poem on Love, Poems on Happiness, Poems on LifeTagged answer, discover, laughter, life, love, short, too

What a Life

Posted on June 16, 2021August 2, 2022 by Erin B.
What a life!
There are still kind people
in this world - together,
we deserve to have it all.

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Posted in A Simple Life, Chasing the Light, Poems on Happiness, Poems on LifeTagged kind, life, people, together, world

That Summer

Posted on June 13, 2021October 26, 2022 by Erin B.
Sun-strained and in love,
all I could think of
was how I was free.
Pour me a last drop
of that summer.

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Posted in A Simple Life, Poem on Love, Poems on Happiness, Poems on TimeTagged drop, free, last, love, pour, summer, sun, think

Cigarette

Posted on May 29, 2021August 2, 2022 by Erin B.
In the darkness, the glowing cigarette
was traveling
slowly
to a mouth smiling
in youth.

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Posted in Poems on Happiness, Poems on TimeTagged cigarette, darkness, mouth, smiling, youth

Truth

Posted on May 20, 2021August 2, 2022 by Erin B.
I think
it is best to
speak the truth for 
your happiness.

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Posted in Poems on HappinessTagged happiness, speak, think, truth

Wistful Feeling

Posted on May 10, 2021August 2, 2022 by Erin B.
A despondent blue period rose
in my deep self,
with hours squandered, but alas,
today, for some reason
a wistful feeling
stopped me in the uncomfortable.

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Posted in Poems on Happiness, Poems on Sadness, Poems on TimeTagged blue, feeling, hours, self, uncomfortable, wistful

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