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Holding On While Letting Go

Poetry

This is a collection of poems I've been writing since September of 2013 about various topics--my life, the world, love, things that are important to me, meaningful to me. What will they mean to you, if anything at all? Will my efforts have been in v...

Dandelion

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by silverlynx216

by silverlynx216

Dandelion (a true story)

One day I saw a dandelion,

So I decided to give it a blow.

The seeds flew off like paper in wind-

Going wherever- who knows?

But there was something special

About this one little weed.

I couldn't quite figure it out until

I saw one last seed.

After all the others had gone

With where the wind went,

I noticed that my breath

Had not all been spent.

I blew and I blew,

But it would not move.

It was one stubborn seed.

To me, this was new.

I finally decided to

Pick it off the top.

I wondered then, when I blew across it,

If there was something making it stop.

I placed it down

Upon my my hand,

And blew it

Far across the land.

Then I realized

What made it so unique,

I realized that it was

Acting like, sometimes, me.