Poetry is my way of expressing who I am and who I was and who I will become. I was told I had some type of talent in writing in second grade. I was told by God the summer before my freshman year to sign up for a creative writing class at school and this is where I found the great pleasure writing can give you and that my second grade teacher wasn't a total liar. I have two novels published. For more information, visit www.outskirtspress.com/chelly or www.outskirtspress.com/JessicasChoice. Finally, I respect all of your comments and just hope that you enjoy my poems.
Sincerely,
Chelly
Grandpa,
How much I wish you were still here...
Are you able to hear me, even now,
Standing on the other side of
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Love me for who I have become,
Not for who I was.
Love me for my natural beauty,
Not for my plastered beauty.
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The most complicated element of life to understand.
Does he love me?
Maybe yes.
Maybe no.
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'So are you going? '
That was Ashley,
Standing in the kitchen doorway in a T-shirt and socks.
At twenty-one my sister was a petite five-four,
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