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#1 Describe Nostalgia.


Time is stopping as each thought

is threaded from its undertone

and I wonder why it has brought me here, 

standing alone in a pool of surreal rain

and lessons I continue to seek. 

The world becomes an endless sky

of purple haze and distant laughter that I

once heard. It is out of sight, out of mind

until you find it in a place

impossible enough to reach. 

Did you know what this was?

When I was a different kind of content?

When I was so naive to understand who I was and

what I was to become?

Because even poems cannot paint the songs

that I continue to play on repeat... 

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MarinaM4761

Marina is a chicana who lives in the East LA area. Although poetry has become a recent passion of hers, she values the emotion and deeper meaning in addition to the fun and creativity it brings to her life. She believes that speaking through the language of poetry acts as a gateway to a voice beyond a single understanding in a graceful yet empowering manner and hopes that her message can reach out to those who wish to be heard and validated.

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