Ironies Within Ironies
...The morning sun filters through dust-laden windows of the district education office like an unwelcome truth trying to penetrate wilful ignorance. Shelves buckle under the weight of untouched research...
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Categories:
academician, education, irony,
Form: Haibun
Mango Epulaeryu Poem
...Epulaeryu Mango Poetry Season
Greetings my dear brothers and sister of God's inspirational grace, and I pray each of you will defeat Covid-19 and its elusive Delta and Omicron variants, and live a...
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Categories:
academician, appreciation, celebration, fruit, joy,
Form: Epulaeryu
We Can'T Be Complacent With Covid-19
...WE CAN’T BE COMPLACENT WITH CODVID-19
We are fighting an unseen enemy
It is real not rare- this coronavirus
At this time of COVID-19 pandemic being our enemy
Don’t be complacent Mr. Clean
You...
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Categories:
academician, 3rd grade, care, health,
Form: Narrative
The Day After Christmas Letdown When Just a Little Boy
...Upon reflecting with misty eyes
childhood days of yore
the mantle of anticipatory
excitement mantle I wore
upon advent of December
twenty fifth not quite threescore
years ago knew nothing
ab...
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Categories:
academician, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Sue S Side Almost Won Out As the Tomb Poem
...Sue S. Side Almost Won Out As The Tomb Poem...
(alternately titled: a page taken from the play
book of Little Miss Muffet.)
"Oh...My...Argh..." "Somebody...
Please...ease...help...me...ee"...
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Categories:
academician, 8th grade, bereavement, crush,
Form: Free verse
The Relevancy of Aristotle Within the 21st Century Lesson 1
...“The more you know, the more you know you don't know.”
Said quote attributed to Aristotle,
stands the test of time,
and not only did out last
many another aphorism,
but most any...
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Categories:
academician, 11th grade, celebrity, for
Form: Elegy
Shy and Silent
...We sat together in the campus hole in the wall pub
You - the greatest academician of all time
Me – shy and silent with a thousand questions for you trapped in my brain
Now, older and with my con...
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Categories:
academician, forgiveness, friendship, life,
Form: Free verse
Villanelle: Who's Afraid of Virgin Wolf's Wisdom Tooth
...Villanelle: Who's afraid of the Virgin Wolf's wisdom tooth
(As unlikely as it may sound, this happens to be the TRUTH: the foremost French journalist, André FONTAINE of Le Monde; an illustrious...
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Categories:
academician, anti bullying, betrayal, family,
Form: Villanelle
Memoir of An African-American Man, Achievement, Ii
...Achievement, 2 of 2
—Time to share—
I cried and bewailed
while staring at mother’s peaceful yet painful face
in the casket she is laying. I cursed the world and swore ...
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Categories:
academician, black african american, giving,
Form: Epic
The Love of the Father
...“Daddy, will you pray with me?” I asked him.
He sat on my bed, took hold of my hand
and prayed for me.
My pastor father....
his words rising like incense
up to the throne of grace.
I heard hi...
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Categories:
academician, father, god,
Form: Free verse
Ageless Anguish Through Regimes
...Twenty years in the past we looked
Twenty years in the past is today
Creaking and cracking unending for all
Masochist Regimes competing
He reigned with dark goggles twenty years past
The masses bl...
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Categories:
academician, life, political, people, people,
Form: Free verse