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It Was One of Those Mornings

Spring had already come, but my mother was still numb, Winter anorak hugging my sweating and suffocating body; Sad inside, but quietly because I was by no means a dumb, Since I claimed to her that the others were free as anybody. Summer time loves my essence, free, liberal and breezy, Wearing t-shirts on the bus to school, a bold statement, To their fundamentalism, so religious, strict and uneasy, About our freedoms, like healthcare, radio and sentiment.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2016




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Date: 3/25/2016 6:00:00 AM
Your poem was delightful so glad that you had a good day after “It Was One Of Those Mornings” that really wasn’t awesome.. Congratulations on your placement..Sara
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Date: 3/24/2016 10:29:00 AM
Hi Rhoda, Congratulations on your win in the contest....Vlad.
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Date: 3/23/2016 5:22:00 PM
Congratulations on your placement! :)
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Date: 3/2/2016 11:14:00 AM
Impressed of the form and ideas in a kind of negative dialectic both in inspired rhymes (body-anybody,statement-sentiment) and significant experience.There were samples a lot about dogmatic thought (e.g.) fundamentalism and unhappy understanding of freedom, mass media manipulating and offering ready made ideas and feelings, very alike the T-shirts with their apparently innocent written words or even tattoo pointing... moral tribes...
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