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Co-Author of Horror Book series Personas by Laura Lollie. Mother of four awesome children in East Tennessee.

  July 2022     1 year ago

Submitted Poems 6 total

October 31

Halloween is coming
the night is growing dim
Howling at the moon
has become a distant hymn

The animals are hungry
they're searching for their prey
The children of the night
keep their precious wolves at bay

When the clock strikes the...

– by Laura Dotson

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Fears

At night in your head
do you get a slight dread
that there could be something
under your bed?

Do you cringe at the thought
that you just might get caught
by a hand grasping tight
if you turn out the light?

And could it be true
as I say...

– by Laura Dotson

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The Mirror

I am watching someone
who looks very sad
some broken heart
somebody once had

I picture her happy
a short time ago
but the clouds she was floating on
have descended below

She smiles sometimes
but not really inside
all of her tears
she...

– by Laura Dotson

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An Ode to my Mother

Black sheep am I
try, I will try
better,
write a letter.
Can't think, won't sink
in.

Words with invisible ink
smeared across empty pages
trying to explain
actions
louder.

Familiar faces
happy now
they accept
shades of gray....

– by Laura Dotson

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Nurture vs Nature

I nurtured you to love.

You naturally loved to kill.
A broken wing. A battered thing. So it became a thrill.

I nurtured you to love.

You naturally loved to lie.
A silly fib, a broken rib. you made your brother cry.

I nurtured you to...

– by Laura Dotson

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That's so cool! thanks! I remember that dread. lol

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