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Motherly - Nyasia WileyHow can you heal a broken heart
When the purity of your own
Has been tainted
With the viewpoints of hatred
For the souls you trusted
With your own
How can I not run
When my own life has been
Nothing but...
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Categories:
12th grade, america, anger,
Form: Free verse
Good Vibes
Used to be a very strange bed,
Put a quarter in and it would vibrate instead.
I have pups that do the...
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Categories:
12th grade, appreciation, dog,
Form: Rhyme
Bridge Day
Tried to get out the door,
Have been to this day before!
Card games were all the rage,
...
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Categories:
12th grade, childhood, community,
Form: Rhyme
SOMEWHERESomewhere in the land of "riches"
Near the birthplace of God
A young girl is in bondage
Mothering at an early age.
Taken from somewhere in Africa
Near the birthplace of despair
Lured by promises of a well-paying job
A lucrative opportunity,...
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Categories:
12th grade, abuse, africa,
Form: Free verse
And That Is WarThere’s no film set
There’s no Tom Cruise
Everyone dies
In front of you
And that is war
They give you a gun
Sent off with the meat
Shoot you in the back
Cos we never retreat
And that is war
When you...
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Categories:
11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Inevitable JourneyInevitable Journey.
Every hour is a moment.
A piece of history
Your history, your story
Nobody wants to take your place.
Be in your shoes.
As the sun rises and disappears
Like an egg timer
The sand trickles through
Ebbs away, the seconds
Until the...
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Categories:
11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
when the sun again do risewhen the sun again do rise,
think not of me in ways kind; nah!!!
greet me as in throes; o greed lecherous pine.
dip me mid rude imaginings, vile,...
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Categories:
12th grade, desire, lust,
Form: Rhyme
The meaning of ColorThe Meaning of color
Blue is the color of the Ocean and sadness
Yellow is the color of sunshine and happiness
Red is the color of anger and passion
Green is the color of life and future
Pink is the...
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Categories:
12th grade,
Form: Free verse
You're the Canvas of my dreamsYou're the canvas of my dreams
Where my aspirations are painted bright
With colors that fades not with time
But shine through the darkest night.
You're the very surface
Where my legacy is etched deep—
A testament to those who doubt
The...
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Categories:
12th grade, dream, emotions,
Form: Free verse
The Room of the UnrequitedThe Room of the Unrequited
By Roger White
That evening, stillness permeated the lavender-scented room. Dusk crept through the windows
smudged by oily fingers, The day’s twilight left a dull umbra on wall...
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Categories:
12th grade, destiny, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
Looking at My HandsLooking at My Hands
By - Roger White
Pallid skin, once luminescent, now brown and stained like husks.
Gaunt fingers, once straight, now gnarled and twisted like twigs.
I lament where my hands have been is not where they...
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Categories:
12th grade, age, inspiration,
Form: Free verse
YESTERNIGHT, BENEATH THE MOONLIGHTLike a bird freed from a cage
I felt the liberating touch of age.
As I danced beneath the moonlight
My troubled mind took flight
Shedding worries and endless plight.
I was free, free as a cloud in the sky.
As...
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Categories:
12th grade, moon,
Form: Rhyme
Thespians Tragedy :Love's Silent StageToday, upon this stage, an actress must
Perform a tale of love and woe.
Many roles in past, she played and executed well
But in the hushed embrace of theater's din light
The actress is tasked with...
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Categories:
12th grade, character, feelings,
Form: Free verse
dont be rudeGrandma Moses was delivered by pterodactyl today
We saw her arrive, and we grandkids all yelled hooray
Thought you were extinct! We yelled up at the bird.
Don’t be rude, said the pterodactyl. So he had the last...
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Categories:
12th grade, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Couplet
HanyA tiny fear of losing or death,
In between where courage lives.
Loving someone on each breath,
And to keep their memories in archive.
How winsome is the moment of dying!
Where you are completely in gratis.
A busy mind will...
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Categories:
12th grade, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
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