I started to write poetry as a way to release my pains and emotions and thoughts. I for some reason have to rhyme all the time. I never took any poetry class and just found out what a couplet was about 2 weeks ago. Funny thing was, I just started home schooling my children and it was in his literature assignment.Yet this is new to me sharing them with the public but here goes I say. Hope you enjoy them and move you in some way.THANKS Shannon Middleton
To a dear lil boy
Who could never ever hug a toy
For I long to hold you up close to my heart
For that day I feared when you'd part
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Standing still as my life goes by me
Cannot hold on much longer see...
So much going on stuck within a tornado
Standing within its EYE
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Up, up, up so high
Puffy white clouds in the sky
Look for a moment tell me what you see...
The winds changing their shapes, what could it be...
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Raped by the system is how I feel,
Raped repeatedly traumas and more ordeals.
It all started behind racial abuse at Huey School
Now raped by the system, No that aint cool.
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I really love you Matthew Jr.
I wish you were born a little sooner
Then and only then you'd be alive today
Who knows God may have taken you anyway!
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