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Hey!  My name's Jessica Moyer and here can be found
my writing and all that pertains to it.  Have fun looking
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Writing News...
Click for links of my web publishings.  I recently placed second in a county wide poetry competition an dhave been featured in Teen Ink once again.
Remember to check out the More Poetry page because I'll be adding some poetry to there that you haven't and won't ever see here.

Also you can find a short story of mine that might change periodically at
Short Story.

And there's Quotes and book Reviews
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Smooth Jazz

She is smooth jazz. 
My love for her
a fresh snowfall. 
Her touch fire
on my icy skin. 
Too bad I prefer
rough rock 'n roll
warm summer sand
and won't risk
getting burned.
Sample Delights

Catch the evasive meanings
when you send the soul
to sample the delights of
carefully arranged words.
I'd love feedback esp on newer ones which I'm usually still unsure about...
Links to other people's poetry (with their permission of course)
Jana's Poetry
Visions on Soft Grass

The shadows of dusk
lean heavy on the evening sky
as I fall to soft grass. 
My mind plays a smooth jazz tune
painting for me a picture,
the neon lights of a smoky joint
where the song would be
choice number twenty-three on the jukebox. 
A twenty something, real pretty
and a touch less innocent than she'd like
would start to sway her hips unconsciously. 
All this blurs as I fade to sleep
because the past makes me weary.
Just Around, 'Til Tomorrow

Running home with wet sneakers from the lake
chased by a boy who grew up all too fast.
The summer heat settles thick in the air.

You know tomorrow will be a day for last good-byes
as childhood friends set out for the rest of their lives.
But for the moment you gasp at the muggy air.

Knowing you're not really running from anything
because children don't run anywhere, just around,
and you promised not to be a woman 'til tomorrow
Oh So Obselete

Watching her hands, I think
if I have only one regret
(I don't think I could handle more)
let it be that I didn't learn how
to make magic, make music
pour from me through ivory keys and my own hands
(which would fit far less perfectly than hers upon the piano)
Because if I had, I could let the world hear
the sounds of my tears while my eyes remained mercifully dry
(I'm oh so tired of crying)
and my forever inadequate pen untouched upon the table
I could give form to the many loves so deep
(I want to know so badly if they feel it too)
I cannot express with my simple words
I think, please, just give me the medium I could never master
and I'll never write a single word more
(because each one would be oh so obsolete)
Passing with Love

Every Tuesday and Saturday night
for twenty odd years
she sings breathy jazz and earthly soul
to a tipsy mass of twenty or forty,
and I, am always there.
She's dreamed too hard and too loud
for me to sit quiet waiting at home.
So each night i bring a red rose of consolation
and she gushes its everything she's wanted
but she'll die with regrets
and i'll still be wishing i could have been enough.
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