a little free spirit where it's due.

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a little free spirit where it's due.

She gags at the thought of drinking day-old milk.

She can't stand homemade bread.

But she can tell you the difference between -

homegrown and processed.

 

Small town girl, raised like it's the city.

Her hair's in a mess, but that dress looks so pretty.

A wilting flower in her hair and some designer jeans.

Oldies on the radio, part of the local scene.

 

It may take her years, but she'll get it done.

She'll get it done, she's never broke a promise.

It may take her months, but she'll figure it out.

She'll get those priorities...straight - somehow.

 

With an exposed shoulder to the wild wind,

she sways along, she sings along - to the currents.

 

'It's still winter for a few more months...'

 

'And your calender only means so much...'

 

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shallenemcgrath commented on a little free spirit where it's due.

01-18-2011

oooo Alyson! This is so good. I love that line, "Small town girl, raised like it's the city./Her hair's in a mess, but that dress looks so pretty." Right on.... You can do this Alyson! Don't make the mistakes I did when I was young. Go out and grab it! BElieve in yourself. Take the initiative in school... this is where your talent will come ALIVE. Build it and they will come!

AlysonAlive

01/18/2011

Thank you so much!(: ♥

VoiceMilkNHoney

02/15/2011

ohhhh yes! Listen to Shallene, Alyson! She's a buoyant cork in a sea of "Me ME ME" ...grab on to her words and come alive in your youth...stand tall...allow your poet to grow and to be strong...you're a young sapling..you're bendable and bowing, easily bent but never broken....blow and bend in the winds...you're gonna be amazing!!!

Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) U.S. poet.

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