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When i write a poem

April 28, 2010
By AlyahFriedPudding BRONZE, Oviedo, Florida
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you live life only once, why spend each day doing the same thing when you can be doing something different?

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When I write a poem,
The whole world stops,
Birds gliding in mid air come to halt

Baseballs 3 cm. from the plate freeze
And the world becomes silent

No car horns
No chattering
No cell phones beeping,
No iPods blasting

The breeze stops blowing
Waterfalls stop roaring,

Just peace and serenity
The world becomes my notebook,
Filling it with the most precious words

When the poems done
Things go back
And the world doesn’t even notice

© Tom B., North Vernon, IN

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