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paper burns/tears/folds too easy MAG

June 30, 2022
By RobynElizabeth BRONZE, Webster Groves, Missouri
RobynElizabeth BRONZE, Webster Groves, Missouri
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Favorite Quote:
"'I've had a splendid time,' she concluded happily, 'and I feel it marks an epoch in my life. But the best of it all was the coming home.'" - L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables


paper kids in our make-believe paper town:

still dreaming as our city burned down

we were made of i love you’s that weren’t
made to last;

our origami hearts left torn
all too fast

we folded our airplanes and parted
our ways,

turned the next page from our
melancholic days.


The author's comments:

This is a finalist in the June 2022 Poetry Contest!

 

Robyn D. is a 9th grade student born in Toronto, Canada. She's lived all over the world as an expat, including Missouri, Connecticut, and Shanghai.


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Afra ELITE said...
on Jul. 3 2022 at 6:23 am
Afra ELITE, Kandy, Other
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Favorite Quote:
"A writer must never be short of ideas."<br /> -Gabriel Agreste- (Fictional character- Miraculous)

Robyn, the metaphor is so good!!! Love this!!!