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Daughter, Sister, Mother, and Grandmother. Studied at Troy University. Sometimes I am better at writing what I am feeling, than I am when I try to speak my feelings aloud. My hope is that something in my writings will touch the fabric of your soul.

  August 2022     3 months ago

Submitted Poems 12 total

God Help the Unheard Children

Children should be seen, not heard
Who made up this rule?
If this is how you truly feel
Then you Sir, are a fool.

Many children go unheard
We look, but pass right by -
We’re much too busy with our own
To question them, but why?

A child...

– by Leslie Kay Lanham

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Today

You can’t look back at yesterday
It is no longer there -
And don’t look for tomorrow
You’ve not yet breathed that air

You’re left with just the here and now
This moment you are in
For soon, today will too be gone
And will not come again

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– by Leslie Kay Lanham

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The Tiny Frog (a bedtime poem)

Once there was a tiny frog,
Who jumped inside a hollow log -
That rested on a bed of clay,
Beside the river’s edge one day.

And playing with his frog friends there,
He turned to them and did declare -
“I’ll count to ten,” he said with glee,
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– by Leslie Kay Lanham

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Hurricane A-Brewin

There’s a hurricane a-brewin
The barometer is falling
And no one’s going to save you
When the angry winds come calling

You should have never cheated
No you never should have lied
Now soon you will be drowning
In the ever rising tide

A...

– by Leslie Kay Lanham

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added 9 months ago
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Thunder and Lightning

Huddled in darkness, a woman with child
Praying tonight, her punishment is mild
Unable to meet his many demands
Her husband unleashes a storm with his hands.
Blow by blow, until he’s done
Nowhere left for her to run
Wishing she could escape...

– by Leslie Kay Lanham

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added 11 months ago
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Beautifully written. Great rhyme and verse. Excellent.

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Thank you so much!

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This brought me to tears. Beautiful and touching. Well done.

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Thank you (I think

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Hauntingly beautiful. So, so good!

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Well thought out poem.

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Beautifully written poem that takes the reader deep into imagination.

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I appreciate your “critique” more than you can imagine. You have definitely boosted my confidence.

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Thank you very much for the kind words.

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