Bayliy is a student at Westwood high. Where only rich people send their kids, all the kids have back stories except for Bayliy. No one knows where she came from but she's there. She avoids everyone and waits but what is she waiting for?

I was inspired to write this short poem after visiting the Gardiner Museum's Spring Awakening exhibit in Toronto. Colourful floral installations reminded me that Spring (although hard to believe with this weather) is right around the corner!

On Christmas Eve, around 1812, Pip, an orphan who is about six years old, encounters an escaped convict in the village churchyard while visiting the graves of his mother, father, and siblings. The convict scares Pip into stealing food and a file to grind away his shackles, from the home he shares with his abusive older sister and her kind, passive husband Joe Gargery, a blacksmith. The next day, soldiers recapture the convict while he is engaged in a fight with another convict; the two are returned to the prison ships from which they escaped...

"Poetry...is thoughts that breathe and words that burn."--Thomas Gray "Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash." --Leonard Cohen Poems on the tough stuff in life. Poems on the crazy good stuff in life. Poems to make you smile, and poems to make you cry. Long poems, short poems. HIGHEST RANK: #5 in Poetry

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