Amanda
I've seen a lot of places
I've seen a lot of pain
I've seen of so many people
Give their love in vain
I've walked on every continent
Swam in every sea
But when it comes to truly seeing things
There's nothing like you to me
You are kind
and you are good
You show love for most everyone
Just like we all should
To me you
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Categories:
amanda, daughter,
Form: Rhyme
Amanda Wants to be an Individualist
Amanda is thirteen
Claims she wants to be an individualist
Has pink and purple hair because Monica does
Wears her shirts tied at the waist like Jacque
Has fake tattoo sleeves like Erica
Had to have sparkly pink boots like Meeme
We keep waiting for her individualism to appear
So far,
Nothing….
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Categories:
amanda, 8th grade, 9th grade,
Form: Free verse
For Amanda
My first-born miracle,
You blessed my youth
And forever, my heart
With your liquid brown gaze.
All the men in your life
Were caught in your baby grasp,
Helpless to resist your sweet,
Angelic smile
As you changed from a tempest
To an imp, to a cherub,
To a diva, and back again.
So quixotic,
So determined,
And so very loved.
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Categories:
amanda, baby, beauty, family, feelings,
Form: Free verse
A Panda, Called Amanda
A panda, called Amanda
thought she was so much grander;
and ever so much finer
than all the tea in China.
Although a little fatter
(Which did not seem to matter)
than leopard or the monkey;
she was, for sure, less chunky
than mistress trunky trunky;
who had the largest belly
this side of Eastern Delhi.
Amanda lazed, ate bamboo;
sometimes practiced her Kung-Fu
(which didn't make her
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Categories:
amanda, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Amanda Berry
Supari raped Berry repeatedly,bound,and gagged her in the basement.
The next day,her seventeenth birthday,he gave her food and a shower,
then locked her back in the dark basement with only a TV for company.
Two days later,he chained her in an upstairs bedroom with a trash can
for a toilet.In the first six days,she was raped at least
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Categories:
amanda, abortion, abuse, addiction, america,
Form: Romanticism
Running Out of Time
I
In this nation we buy airtime
Or Data for internet access, and texting
After church I see I'm low on airtime
And Data. From poems, I may seek vacation
II
But the world is running out of time
For reforming our ways, for environment, home
May I add, Time for prayer, or lockdown again
Omicron has not killed ... yet. A sinister plan?
III
Take
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Categories:
amanda, abuse, africa, anger, anti
Form: Rhyme
Amanda Challenge
Amanda's Challenge
My name is Amanda; I am pleased to meet you.
I must tell you my story I swear it is all-true.
It happened one day I was feeling quite low.
I had run out of answers I did not know where to go.
While all of my friends played out in the yard.
I pondered my homework it was
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Categories:
amanda, 1st grade, 2nd grade,
Form: Rhyme
An Angel Amanda
You have given me the gift
That no other could ever give,
That is an angel from heaven,
The gift is you.
Only love of innocence that is unconditional,
Filled with smiles and laughter,
Held within my heart that we both share the key.
You are the reason my eyes can see,
You are the air that makes me breathe.
You were given the
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Categories:
amanda, angel, blessing, mother daughter,
Form: Rhyme
Ode To Amanda Gorman Poet
Ode to Amanda Gorman Poet
Amanda Gorman in Voyage Magazine;
Appeared so natural as well as serene;
First for a black person this and that;
Had heard her read poem as we sat.
Much honor on her was bestowed;
Excellent manner with honorable mode;
Never forget and seemed so revealing;
Poem she read excellent and appealing.
What our President did will be to invite;
At
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Categories:
amanda, allegory, analogy,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Ancestors Applaud Amanda Gorman
Amanda Gor-man
Influ-en-tial wo-man
Black-nifi-cent
Great with her pen
Mic in her hand
Recite her Po-em
"The Hill We Climb” en
Joe Biden inaug-uration
Our Sis-tren
Choclate Mel-a-nin
highly com-mend
Ancestor's applaud from hea-ven
©Copyright January 29, 2021 by Brian Pierre-Alexander
© All Rights Reserved
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Categories:
amanda, black african american, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Ole To Amanda Gorman- My Dedicated Verse
A true poetess
A words woman
Amongst Maya Angelou chest
A spiritual part
of her beating heart
You wear her breath
In your small stature you're mighty your magnificent
Wordsmith Poetess
Framer of letters words and verses
Amanda Gorman
A prophetic words man
Mighty virtuous young woman
Write on
Write on
You Amanda are Maya Angelou spiritual niece
You're the prophetic calling in the horizons peace
Strong, firm, young
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Categories:
amanda, analogy, appreciation, dedication, devotion,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Amanda Lou Babysitter With Boo
Vibrant vigorous vexing virginal vampire name of Amanda Lou
Could transmogrify, materialize, reincarnate and shapeshift too.
Other trick-or-treaters would get a shimmery, shivery, shocking shock
When she changed from a vamp to an imp to a fairy on one block walk.
A charmer, this darling girl named Amanda Lou, so she enchanted them.
Changing from ghoul to ghost to
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Categories:
amanda, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Worthy of Love Amanda
I am worthy of love and I am deserving of it too, not that you cared about this, I was of no concern to you
My name states it there in black and white, how could you just throw me to the side as though I was never a part of your life?
I am a person,
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Categories:
amanda, heartbroken,
Form: Rhyme
Come On the Veranda Amanda
Come out on the Veranda Amanda
For the sun is setting soon
We will speak of love with candour
As we stroll beneath the moon
I will strum upon my mando-
-lin, choose sweetest songs to croon
For you are my heart’s commander
And your nearness makes me swoon
As we let our steps meander
Through the twilight, petal strewn
Will you
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Categories:
amanda, parody,
Form: Rhyme
Amanda My Love Mate
The breast of love is timeless
The toast of love is space less
Amanda my love take my love juice
Drink of it they're from my manly cup
Of love my affections yes the body
Sign that made you mine
I will sing my love songs to you
Like the lullaby of your father
I will milk your life with love more
Than the
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Categories:
amanda, color, cute, dedication, deep,
Form: Lyric
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