Yasmeen+Brownlee

Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. ~Carl Sandburg, Poetry Considered

 the crawling feeling of being watched   forbiden word uncovered  in one breath catches attention  easy going teachers  shock vibrates through class  new found knowledge uncovered  words forgiven  puzzlement of ones reason
 * Memory Poem **

 conversation spread  cold feeling iced over of connections  intelligence un thawed connections  new word discovered

 i have been given books ever since  i was a young <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> i read them but i never got the enthusiasm <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> until the 6th grade <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> i have large books and small books <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> blue books and red books <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> each one is different and unique <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> taking one to world newly discovered
 * Ode to Books **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> adventures full of adrenaline <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> journeys creating new worlds <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> happiness shinning through days <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> greif darkening all of the corners <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> misery wiping away all humanity <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> craziness harming other

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> each of my books are new and inviting <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> addicting and enticing <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> each little book costs money <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> with no icome to create purchase <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> work is thus needed <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> or asking with hope

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> the gift given to worhship <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> exploration to find what it is you want <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> anticipation and worry of problems <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> excitement called to by grasp of desired

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">"Driven by a godawful wind." - Naomi Shihab Nye --> Two countries
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 160%;"> Riff poem **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> Swept away without knowledge of, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> Destination <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> Expense <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> Risk <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> Cause.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> Free travel at expense of miscellaneous disasters, <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> caused by the churning fingers of mother nature. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> Catching onto <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> Changing <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> Winds

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> Un-decided direction causes turmoil in mislead guidance. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> Obstacles fill the way.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> Swept under moving steel structures, around rubber contraptions. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> Rising Higher and Higher. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> Over never before seen buildings. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> Illuminated paths along the landscape. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> Hovering over new found paradise

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> free of worries <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> obstacles <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> noise <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> smell <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> and people

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> small moving things excite my senses. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> like watching the future and past, of <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> paths taken <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> paths remembered <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> paths forgotten

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> a change in currents <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> slightly disorients focus <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> blurry then clear <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> no living <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> and no paths taken <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> luscious green cover miles <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> waving welcoming feelings through the wind <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> sharp pain of nostalgia <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> descending in to the welcoming green <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> brushing against the tip of grass. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> close <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> but yet so far out of reach <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> current continues to move

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> welcoming feelings blurred by <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> painful departure

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> enjoyment gone swept away yet again

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">Yusef Komunyakaa

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;"> Poems by Poet <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">You And I Are Disappearing--Bjorn Hakansson <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 80%;">Facing It <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 15px;">Thanks <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: 15px;">The Smoke House

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