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swhitby8
Oct 20, 20231 min read
How Do Angels Learn To Fly?
Scott Whitby, 2023 How do angels learn to fly? Do they read and study words? Or do older angels wink and say "You gotta jump!...just like...
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swhitby8
Oct 17, 20231 min read
in poems and song, just be
Scott Whitby, 2023 You were so knowing like nothing I had seen, with words I'd never heard even in poems then you became my friend I...
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swhitby8
Oct 13, 20233 min read
Fencing
Scott Whitby, 2023 It was the first day of summer. I fell asleep comforted in the idea that I was free of school and early mornings and...
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swhitby8
Oct 12, 20231 min read
Where Were You
Scott Whitby, 2023 Where were You when I scraped my knees, when I was cold, scared, and couldn't sleep Where were You when when Dad...
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swhitby8
Oct 12, 20231 min read
Pain
Scott Whitby, 2023 I don't owe you any of my pain It is mine and I won't share I can carry it It is my pain...and I believe that's fair...
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swhitby8
Oct 12, 20231 min read
My Audience Of One
Scott Whitby, 2023 I write words that fit together to tell a story or whatever Girls with wings I conceive in my secret world of make...
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swhitby8
Oct 12, 20231 min read
The Only Way
Scott Whitby, 2023 Terrible things happen so they can pave a broken road, the one crooked and hard to pass like holes in our souls There...
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swhitby8
Oct 12, 20233 min read
Cotton Field
Scott Whitby, 2023 Me and Daddy hoed cotton every summer, all summer. He took eight rows, I took two. He stayed ahead of me and I was...
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swhitby8
Oct 12, 20231 min read
The Odds
Scott, 2023 What are the odds my parents would divorce, both remarry, and leave my adolescence so miserable I could leave home at 18 and...
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swhitby8
Oct 12, 20231 min read
Water
Scott Whitby, 2023 She is a loud river rapid and violent slamming again and again against the stones that can't hide She is so hurried,...
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swhitby8
Oct 12, 20231 min read
Revelation
Scott Whitby, 2023 Not the book but the event. The event that strikes from nowhere, cracks the stained window, the sentence that makes...
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swhitby8
Oct 12, 20231 min read
I love
Scott Whitby, 2023 I love that you get there early after driving that far that your eyes smile more than your lips and that you play a...
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swhitby8
Oct 12, 20231 min read
a tree
Scott Whitby, 2023 I found a tree It had shade and fruit and beauty. It made me feel comfortable and happy. It shared all that, asking...
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swhitby8
Oct 12, 20231 min read
God
Scott Whitby, 2023 God We say we know You are this...and You are that We say we know You are in Heaven...have been forever We say we know...
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swhitby8
Oct 12, 20231 min read
You Are, I Am (Song)
Scott Whitby, 2023 I'm black and white You're red and blue I'm gray at best Not purple like you You are a poem I’m only a word You tell...
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swhitby8
Oct 12, 20231 min read
You Are, I Am (Poem)
Scott Whitby, 2023 I'm black and white You're red and blue I'm gray at best Not purple like you You are a poem I’m only a word You tell...
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swhitby8
Oct 12, 20232 min read
The Door And The Lock
Scott Whitby, 2023 There was a door to a place. I was told the place was perfect and necessary. My teachers said that. They said...
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swhitby8
Oct 12, 20231 min read
...of my life
Scott Whitby, 2022 It's the early part of my life Crickets at my windowsill Chuck Will's Widow Is mocking the Whippoorwill Calves are...
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swhitby8
Oct 12, 20231 min read
Sleep Tight
Scott Whitby, 2023 I looked for a poem To bring sleep and ease I couldn't find one So here this is Sleep tight...all night Don't think,...
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swhitby8
Oct 12, 20231 min read
Now I See
Scott Whitby, 2023 I looked across the hay field Worried how long the bales would last I listened to the songs Wondered what they meant...
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