Kyra Howard Stars Summary

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Stars (Blank Verse) by Kyra Howard

a vivid memory, it was midnight during the winter. white powdery snow on the ground,

the night sky becomes so different in the country - its becomes like that father and farther away from the city. The stars in the city are like the city dwellers who they look down upon unwilling to come out during the night out of fear.

the celestial delights of the night sky, everywhere, they surround us all the time

but it's in the country, where if one looks up at the night sky

the world becomes a planetarium - the specks of sparkling diamond dust that’s set up against the jet black backdrop of space, this crisp view.

there are spectacular light shows - shooting stars, constellations like the little dipper and
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While he grows up, jimmy aged and started dying. when his imagination dies I do too. he left his favorite teddy bear on his bed; patched, flattened and old.

it has a few holes in it, Jimmy sat on the edge of the bed then disappeared completely.

then he walks back into his old bathroom, he left something in there.

this child’s imagination died, the most beautiful thing about a child, it died

so he became a man with no wings because he didn’t have an imagination anymore.

lover boy’s eyes () by Kyra Howard

so dark and feminine

they stare back into mine with passion, as we cuddle

they’re focused on his video game

I'm losing and it's not fair

he looks down at me pouting in his lap

I’m bad at this but I keep playing because he keeps looking at me

with his dark soft puppy dog eyes, they’re captivatingly beautiful and bright

with his long eyelashes, eyelashes long and dark. it wasn’t the because of their color, but of the words

that are can say without speaking.

Every time I look in them, it's like staring into an

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