Paige



**__//Paige//__** friendly, family oriented, positive daughter of Jeremy and Misty Lover of dogs, photography, watermelon who feels forgiving, passionate, happy who gives advice, her heart, knowledge who fears the 100 butterfly, bad grades, centipedes who would like to see troops home, Alaska, world peace Cambridge, OH Hough

**//__Falling__//** Children Falling down Falling asleep quietly Dreams of falling Falling in love Falling fast in the seasons- Leaves of fall repress us all.

__**Swimming**__ swimming pushing kicking counting every second breaststroke backstroke freestyle flying working __//**EIGHT**//__ Eight fell over on its side but stood back up when it hit a slide The curves and loops of its noodled back rolled it over in just a snap and so the tattered number wined and layed to rest til it was nine. Dawn  Dawn blushed – betrayed her waking sky

To gently break another morrow fine.

Night waned – the black receding – highland

Reaching for the early morning wine.

The chorus rendered frantic caws and

Chirps and other avian song,

Mapping out the 'mine and yours, ' and

Goading more to sing along!

Quiescent water – deep of lake –

Reflected out the hazy red, but

Through the glass, a flick, a break:

An urgent tail from hidden bed!

And in the meadow, waking faces

Calmly spread a coloured veil;

The dew disclosing spider laces –

Oft with once a fly’s travail!

Dawn blushed; revealed her inner peace;

She handed on another blissful day.

Night ebbed, relenting to release of

Warming blood that gives to her display

//**BY: MARK SLAUGHTER**//   Happiness  I am the traveler   here for an instance and undefined  A stranger in an unfamiliar place   call me Happiness.