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Laura Alaniz

Laura Alaniz

Heartbroken

My heart breaks
A little each day
For problems I can’t solve
For things I can’t change
All I can do is pray
 
Please help me
Make it through another day
Mend my broken heart
It’s cracked
But it’s still beating

(2015)

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Poetic flavors

If food is poetry The flavors The smells Singing in harmony Is poetry food?
This isn't me

The medication is not me But neither is the sickness it tre… You may hear its effects In my voice In my opinions
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The nightwriter

My poems are short Written at night In my head I wake at dawn Shake my memory
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Explore

I’ve known Deep inside All along My value That I matter
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Where do my bubbles go?

Your enthusiasm exhausts me This coke is flat The bubbles disperse Leaving a sticky and sweet Aftertaste
I want you

How do I Catch your interest? Once again I know You are bored with me
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Choking on emotion

When the emotion comes up It feels like heartburn Like acid Clenching my throat My ears go watery
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Forever in Debt

I will be Forever in debt To my mother Any gift Would come up short
Cool

When we are young we strive to be cool with our clothes and the way we move and our friends with swag as adults though our friends be co…
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Lonely

Antisocial tendencies Amplified by sickness I can people watch Yet I can’t people talk I am lonely
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Palabras Bien Pensadas

Escogí las palabras Más adecuadas Por lo que yo Quería decir Abrí la boca
Love is in the details

Ask any female Love Is in the details I love you Three greatest words
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Happiness

I cannot let you hold my happiness For your hand to caress or to drop It is not healthy It is not safe For your happiness to depend on an… I’m taking it back but no longer r…
HEB

Well-intentioned stranger Eyeing me limp through HEB Why would you ask If I stepped on a nail? How do you know
Miss America

If I was in a beauty pageant My talent would be 'Lefty who writes upside-down’ Beside the contestant Who burps her ABC’s
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