Social Dysphoria
...I admit to my defeat ...
I've been vanquished.
No other loss I've ever known,
Has left me this anguished.
What makes it worse is
Not knowing who really beat me.
As they were invis...
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Categories:
adolescents, conflict, confusion,
Form: Quatrain
Fortunate Failures of Fallacy and Regret
...Fortunate failure of fallacy and regret
Contortionist cartoonist illustrating what id like to forget
Proportions of misfortune that I have to measure then reject
Insubordinate illusions of what th...
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Categories:
adolescents, life,
Form: Rhyme
Banned Book Club VI
...Conservatives’ banning’s apropos of nothing
At twelve when he delt with this
shouldn't have to jump through hoops
should’ve been able to explore when a teen
But because of many conservative group...
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Categories:
adolescents, books,
Form: Free verse
Held Together Like Daisy Chains
...pluck me like a ripened fruit from the garden
that the sun shone on early in the morning
and you would sigh in relief at the harvest
because i was good to you
see me as fondly as the first buds...
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Categories:
adolescents, emotions, fate, how i
Form: Free verse
ODE TO THE YOUNG ADULT CANCER SURVIVOR
...
I stood at the threshold
Of a promising life,
Ready to step out bold,
Face challenges and strife.
I wanted to soar,
Like an eagle in the sky.
Eager to conquer more,
To reach really hig...
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Categories:
adolescents, cheer up,
Form: Rhyme
Beauty Inside
...Through birth, adolescents, and then through youth
The shapes and colors all remain so new
The shine adheres without dissipating
No rust, nor mar, perfection not fading
A house but built the da...
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Categories:
adolescents, age, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
CapsandStems
...Home, even though a cozy cove sits secretly offshore,
it takes a hope and a skip away from my lone abode.
Terms with simple truths, they supply the groove.
They mount the horse and leave the sunse...
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Categories:
adolescents, hope, horse, house, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Tell Us
...Our children are awake.
When will you let them sleep?
Saying all they want are just silly dreams
suggesting they keep quiet
and go to sleep while you deal with the poorly guided
naive adolescent...
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Categories:
adolescents, age, humanity, internet,
Form: Rhyme
take my words
...Take my words
Gently
As a thorn-crested rose
Beauty
Shielded by doubt
Shivering
In its self-ness
Caress my words
As infants
Seeking
Sustenance
Toddlers
Tumbling
Over one another
Adolesc...
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Categories:
adolescents, poetry, self, words,
Form: Free verse
L Etat Trouble De La France
...Qu'est-ce que nous sommes, sinon des larmes tombant dans les villes,
Tu es moi, et je suis toi, et ensemble nous pleurons,
Écrivant de la poésie au milieu de la nuit,
Fuyant la politique, les nouv...
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Categories:
adolescents, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Empowering Peace
...All my favorite on-line EarthJustice
and Transformation
and Compassion
and Global Peace resources
are scientifically
and inter-religiously sure
we have all the information
and physical resourc...
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Categories:
adolescents, health, nature, peace, religion,
Form: Political Verse
The Often Awkward Nature of a Kiss
...You will just have to teach yourself
one poor female victim at a time
for kissing is a dangerous occupation
for adolescents and virgins.
Angles and shapes have to be factored in
at lightning s...
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Categories:
adolescents, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Just Another Average Christmas
...Just Another Average Christmas
Just another average Christmas, not especially good nor bad,
When everyone says dinner was the best they’ve ever had.
When Mother w...
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Categories:
adolescents, christmas, humor, humorous, satire,
Form: Rhyme
On Theistic Integrity
...Let us begin
by explicitly undressing
what may have been
implicitly held
multicultural feelings:
1. For the overwhelming masses
of teeming and scheming
healthy human adults,
and especially...
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Categories:
adolescents, culture, freedom, god, health,
Form: Political Verse
Do Murders Seem Senseless
...Violent offenders released without bail
a senseless reform, it unfailingly fails
Victims walk alone in dark alleys at night
then rant on the news 'bout the lack of streetlights
Movies at ...
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Categories:
adolescents, america, death, murder, society,
Form: Couplet
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