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                      To Be Seen

                      Published by Paula Frew at January 30, 2023
                      Categories
                      • Poetry
                      Tags
                      • anonymity
                      • bruised
                      • cling
                      • seen
                      • shadows
                      • unseen
                      woman looking out window - to be seen

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                      I cling to the shadows
                      willing to be overlooked.
                      I love the anonymity
                      and cling even more.
                      I peek out furtively
                      to see if I’ve been noticed.
                      To be seen is unacceptable.
                      To be seen is
                      to be bruised.


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                      Transplanted from Ohio to Kentucky to be near her only daughter and three young grandsons, the author wrote her first poem in the fourth grade. She fell in love with the form and was first published in an anthology at fourteen. A battle with multiple sclerosis has caused her to find her home in a nursing home, where she has found time to craft her poetry as well as time to teach writing to other residents. She has been published in several literary magazines and anthologies, including Ohio Bards and The Walt Whitman Anthology.

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