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Poems: ‘Broken Podiums’ and ‘Rainy Eyes and Sunny Colored Pencils’
By: Angela Moore
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Broken Podiums
Anxiety glides over frost bitten emotions.
Skimming her internal rink caked with cracks.
Scraping to and from with cruel indifference.
And synchronized with melodic cries of defeat.
A truly haunting performance starring….
A shattered skater.
Desperately eyeing fool’s gold on broken podiums.
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Rainy Eyes and Sunny Colored Pencils
An icy storm rages in my mind.
With foggy thoughts and rainy eyes.
I just need to find those sunny colored pencils.
Brightening my day with their brilliant hues.
Luminescent little umbrellas that ease my rain.
Quietly and beautifully….
Calming the storm within.
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Angela Moore currently works at Yale University in the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. She enjoys writing poetry, illustrating comics, and relaxing with adult coloring books.