POEM STARTER
Paper boats, the scent of lemons, and tears.
Use these descriptors as inspiration for a poem.
I Kept Your Little Paper Boats
_Watch with me her last moments, her last breaths…_
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Laughter of me and my daughter pours out the speaker of my phone.
Icecream cascades down my hand melting off the cone
while Tears stream down my face as I watch her last moment.
Moments of her where she rowed a crooked paper boat.
I lick the melting liquid off my hand,
my nose poking into it, picking up it’s lemon scent,
Lemon was always her favourite flavour.
Trailing back to the screen,
Was a lemon cake, laying beside her on the tent.
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Oh how her smiles and laughs were tokens…
_Oh how much of valuable stones_
_Or even my own bones…_
_Would it take to bring her back?_
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_Oh I don’t care about a price,_
_As I would pay every cent of it, without even thinking twice…_
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_Dear daughter if you’re hearing this, I’m sorry I didn’t get to fly with you those kites…_
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_I still kept those paper boats…_
_Keeping them as memory,_
_Keeping them as an oath._