Best Asl Poems

we came from different worlds
cowboy boots and motorcycle
she carried pen and paper as did i
hers was to communicate with the world
mine was the labor in poems
i walked the high iron
she taught the deaf to speak
a chance meeting we ended up
sitting on a bench where
she taught...

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Pleasure is.
So sweet the seasons sounds,
That makes for those summer days.
Skies make for a back drop of hues of blue,
Sweet mowing grass now sheared as hay.

Upon my face the beads of perspiration,
As I wipe my fevered brow.
The days now long as I swing forth the...

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girls and boys 
skinny or not 
ill tell you a story so pull up a chair or sit on the floor
a deaf man came to watch a play 
a another one came and said shout yay
the hearing people came and laugh at them just because...

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S pectacular smiles worn by schoolgirls.
P owerful and poetic when the answer is right.
E ngraved-in-anger in case of a fight.
C oward smiles on home-work not done.
T ight-lipped smile is just for fun.
A n annoyed smile when no place to sit.
C an-I-help-you smile if a friend...

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Dangerous future, children are expecting
Full of Internet connections
Spending their time playing, chatting
Without any restrictions,

New language, they are using
Easy for talking, and introducing
Only three letters said, to meet a new pal
What is your “ASL”!

No more laughing sounds
Nor at home, or around
Faces lost their features
While fingers are...

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After Analicica Sotelo’s Death Wish


Her swollen eyes speak a different version of ASL for those of us who understand it,

But not too many of us understand it because her composure is thicker 
than the makeup she uses to hide the wrinkles taking over like tyrants....

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This story begins with Julio Jones,
a logger who worked trees in the Cascades,
never married or had a family,
he was a loner, that just was his way.

Now he was no hermit, by any means,
he would show up at the town festivals,
volunteer his time so they ran...

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Young geeks, txt with lightning speed,
Old dudes, lol, trying hard to find the next key to text,
w/e our asl may be, we are trying to convey,
our feelings, imho, in a cryptic language.

Codgers love the high from aged malt,
Whipper-snappers are already addicted to texting before they...

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