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  October 2021     2 years ago

Submitted Poems 4 total

City Rising

Normality, frivolity, the
Beating heart of the city.
The tram moving, dum dum,
With recognisable regularity.
Hazy, hot and laced
With humidity.
A new day dawning, a
Fuzzy sense of clarity.
Cafè allongè, but first
Show me your purity.
You can't...

by Emma George

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Caroline

She loved love
And there lies the irony
For loving love
Is eventually what took her.

It tore her away
From those who did
indeed love.
And to what end?
To satisfy the people
Who cannot love
And can only...

by Emma George

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Roots

Roots and leaves.
Leaves and roots.

One is meant to grow deep.
The other to fly away.

Roots root.
Leaves leave.

But when roots leave,
And those that leave, return.
What then?

She made roots.
He chose to...

by Emma George

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Belonging

I want so much to belong,
To feel that my bones have settled
In the right place,
And that I am safe and held.

I want so much to laugh,
A really loud, belly shaking chuckle
With my closest people,
And to be part of the...

by Emma George

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