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Lydia Rae Bush Poetry

Category: Social-Emotional Development

Sugar and Acid

May 5, 2023May 27, 2026 Alphabet Ravine2 Comments

I’m sorry to your craft beer, but I scan the cocktails. 
It’s not that I want a fruity drink— I just can’t pass the citrus. 
I’ve seen berries turn what’s sweet to sweeter then melt to nothing, 
but my mandarin soul could make a stoic pucker. 

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Sharing the Trash Compactor

April 28, 2023May 27, 2026 Alphabet Ravine2 Comments

The man, whose phrase translates
to my grammar if not my custom,
reassures me literally,

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Skinny

April 21, 2023May 27, 2026 Alphabet Ravine4 Comments

Dip with me into the lakes,
immersed in murky water, which covers 
how far we
have yet to go.

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Trust Displace

April 14, 2023May 27, 2026 Alphabet RavineLeave a comment

If I have said the truth permitted and nothing but the truth permitted,
have you seen, in my navigation of social convention,
my honesty? My openness?

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Adaptation

March 31, 2023May 27, 2026 Alphabet Ravine1 Comment

Strong and small and fragile and soft,
and always still standing-

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Opportunity

March 17, 2023May 28, 2026 Alphabet Ravine3 Comments

I can do
anything, 

but sometimes I do
nothing,

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Dramatic Flair

February 24, 2023May 28, 2026 Alphabet RavineLeave a comment

Life’s a beef stew,
and what’s a better way
to show what the flavor of a mixture
boils down to

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Harbor

February 3, 2023May 28, 2026 Alphabet RavineLeave a comment

Your respect for me stands as tall and immovable
as the cliff. You ebb and flow,
as the lapping waves.

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Secret

January 9, 2023May 28, 2026 Alphabet Ravine2 Comments

I hung the skeleton on the outside of the closet.
Funnily enough, the skeleton looked like me.

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Pedestal

April 27, 2022May 28, 2026 Alphabet Ravine3 Comments

Your world she’s never entered
over which she was the queen

shakes beneath her every footstep,
though its sky she’s never seen.Read More »

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  • Embodiment
  • Social-Emotional Development
  • Systemic Dysfunction
  • Intertextuality

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