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Literacy
What is the state of the language?
How should we use the words?
How much can we elaborate
Before we're dismissed as nerds?...

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Categories: literacy, education,
Form: Burlesque



Premium Member Black Poetry Day
My black is majestic my black is smooth
Even when I was banished from public pool
Even if I was portrayed black face fool
I was a raven...

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Categories: literacy, appreciation, black african american,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ode To Inspiration
Oh sapience of musings, oh savior of poetic art!
How longingly I seek you out to inspire my ballad
When lassitude of the night envelopes my mind
And...

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Categories: literacy, inspiration, literature, poetry,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Library Love
Lingering among the stacks
Interval of serenity, a luxury to
Borrow a world, then bring it back
Riches of printed page, once few
Are carried throughout the community
Requiring only...

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Categories: literacy, appreciation, books, community, together,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member If I Were the President
If I were the president,
in our fatherland, no citizen will be a bastard
and mutual respect, our networking web.

If I were the president
the people will be...

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Categories: literacy, leadership, patriotic, philosophy, poetry,
Form: Light Verse



Premium Member Flat Stanley Visits the Skagit Valley
Flat Stanley needed some time off
to have a little fun.
Cassidie thought her grandpa
would be the very one
to show him the sights and glories of
a great...

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Categories: literacy, flower, daffodils,
Form: Rhyme
Bravo
Bravo!
     His messages are always elaborative.
We converse as if we know each other well.
     He is a...

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Categories: literacy, appreciation, dedication, friend, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Exposed
I’m just an innocent poem

	roses are red that kind of stuff


Oh well then are the thorns

	male or female or what


Does critical literacy enhance

	the fragrance of...

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Categories: literacy, confusion,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Simulacrum
A literacy theft of a line or phrase
the facade, simulacrum of a writer
creating a mirror image, deception . . . 
    ...

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Categories: literacy, how i feel,
Form: Sapphic stanza
I Died Before My Birth
I went to rivers. Rivers asked me, "Do you know we're alive? "
I went to oceans. Oceans asked me, "Do you know we're alive? "
I...

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Categories: literacy, humanity, introspection, self,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Purple Poets
When I read your poetry
I grow in hope and literacy
I feel to you close
As a pod and green pea
I want to know 
What you are...

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Categories: literacy, appreciation, art, care, education,
Form: Rhyme
The Land of the Brave
Drink the Namibia Countryside 

Namibia a West African country, on the Atlantic coast
Namibia’s beauty is wonderfully surreal and alluring,
With endless savannah and bushland 
With most...

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Categories: literacy, addiction, animal, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Name
Right To Education
Right to Education...

Many people in the world are poor,
Whereas, the richer sections take a tour.
We are blessed to take the best,
But, what about the rest.

Many...

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© Esha Dutt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: literacy, child abuse, childhood, education,
Form: Rhyme
What Am I
Back in roman times I was called a stylus
I wrote messages and stories on papyrus Writing since Before Christ, 
Don't matter what the time is...

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Categories: literacy, adventure, art, dark, deep,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member A School Question
“What are we ever going to use this for?” 
Students ask every single school day.
So sit back, grab a coffee, get comfortable, 
And all the...

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Categories: literacy, education, teacher, teenage,
Form: Quatrain

Book: Shattered Sighs