Childhood Above Poems

We are all part of the political landscape,
And from that there is no escape,
Even if on the moonscape.

We do however have the power to change...

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The Chicken

One hen can lay
over 500 eggs in her lifetime.
If each egg was brought to adulthood,
and then allowed to do the same,
the whole world could...

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The bright sun is shining                    ...

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Reality is something you rise above,                   ...

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Thinking about the day you left us 
It still seem unreal 
when I seen u laying there still
I couldn’t feel a soul
My body just went...

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I travel alone in the trip of life
Jewelry left behind but diamonds in the eyes
With blisters in my heart and oxygen enough
To hover free over...

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Adrift in slumber
My eyes see floating presents
Fall from the heavens
Colorful array around
As people collect them all



Written by
Cecil Hickman


Sponsor Michael J. Falotico 
Contest Name "Tanka me...

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I walk beside someone men judged.
A person born differently…
A baby in its mother’s arms
Not quite male; not quite female.
A heart of gold, but not perfect.
A...

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In this father’s mind, there is no other kind
Of noises that so resemble love
As the sounds that come from there, atop of the stairs
The patter...

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Angels Above
A. W. Nutter

At fifteen, I was to young to become a father
At fourteen, she didn’t need to be a mother
We were old enough to...

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The laughter I see,
is hidden so deep,
a memory of yesterday,
mine to keep.

Those that know you,
or think they do,
can never hold dear,
the days of me, and...

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Living below the low of slow roll
dyeing above the bow in fast sail
failNG front the sow is last paul
baylin flaps the lap si four call
wishin...

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