4 prompts 4 poems

Hello!

Basically, I came up with what was supposed to be 4 prompts for one story but I ended up changing it to 4 poems based off of them instead!

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Aliza was young in body, her 8th birthday coming up and could paint centuries of stories.

Samuel was young in spirit, their 20 year-old body creating verses that could feed millions.

Jack was young at heart, his body held a wise man in the room of a 14 year-old dancer.

Veronica was young in mind, she may have aged 17 years, but her words were as old as time.

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Red paper

Blue hearts

Tired eyes and sour parts

Swollen hands

Broken seams

Colored desks and monotone dreams

Her life was new

But aged the same

Her years had left as fast as they came

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A poem should long

It should be short

It should be strong

A poet

The like

All things at once

But never the same

It’s not quite a riddle

Not always a rhyme

As a dreamer dreams

Or writer writes

As a singer sings

Or teachers teach

A poet should be strong

In the field of its own

One like none

None like one

A poet should be strong

But never the same

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Many spoke

“Dance is for girls”

A frilly tutu; a girly leap

Hair so tight you barely speak

But maybe there’s more

To the one you see

I prefer the guy

Between you and me

His form always strong

But as soft a snow

His heart is the size

Of his head to his toes

So don't joke

About the boy in tights

Soon they may be dancing

Under professional lights

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From ancient greek

To new text “fleek”

There's a language on every road

Every street

Even the animals

Speak in tongues

They say want they want

They say what they need

But a brains like mine

We work differently

We speak all the tongues

They clutter at our feet

We can speak any languages

Unknown to the mind

But say every word

That you’ll hear in due time