Nelly Wilder Poems

I'm laughing with my friends and I realise you are staring
so I quickly flick my hair and smile,
I try so hard to impress you but you do not see
that I am falling.Falling in love with you.
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1: When you find me looking at you and you smile.
2: When you come up to me and talk to me, to try and make me laugh..
3: When we have to work together you saying out of the blue things to me.
4: When I look up and you are looking at me.
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If you look at the stars on a clear and chilly
night you can puzzle your life story together,
But do you want to know?
What your destiny says,
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I glide through the woods as careful as a little Robin imagining how they are so gentle and agile as they take the wind.
I stop as I see a Mockingbird looking at me, singing
glorious words of grace and security, when it suddenly stops
its merry tune and stares for a short while behind me in terror.
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In the summer I sit on my swing listening,
just listening to everything I could
possibly hear.
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Late at night I hear the trees creek
in the woods and bats swooping down
in the valley, I watch slowly till it
comes to dawn every moment savouring
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