Since we're discussing poetry, I decided to try to write. This is all I could do this afternoon... [View All]

[Haole Girl]

I better not quit my day job. ;-)


The Grade

What is bad? What is good?
When words fail
When education is not enough

When success is measured by status
and status is looked down upon

Defective and unheard
Average, or below average at best

I am as silent as a winter morning
on this warm autumn afternoon
The words spill onto the page
like ingredients for a recipe
never prepared

The sunshine is bright, but deceiving
there is little doubt
winter is on its way

I need these words
for comfort
They are all I have
They are mine

Simplistic failure

Another season slips away.

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