Your Voice NeedsTo Be Heard
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How could he honestly tell anyone
Who would actually believe him
A strong confident young man
Smiling on the outside ….petrified within
Excuses made for the obvious ones
With casual jest and...
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Categories:
apologised, abuse, men, pain, violence,
Form: Rhyme
A version of you
...A version of you I loved and one that will always be mine—
While you speak to me with words now,
I looked at you with feelings inside.
You greeted me with a nod,
While I spread out my arm...
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Categories:
apologised, farewell, friendship,
Form: Free verse
Dress Rehearsal Rags
...Up to my face she came.
I knew a storm was brewing.
She pointed an accusing finger in my face,
then took a step back and screamed
a tirade of venomous abuse in my direction.
I smiled as I headed...
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Categories:
apologised, abuse, conflict, relationship,
Form: Free verse
UMMM THE INTERVIEW-POTD
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One walked out
One walked in
I sat nervously in reception
Waiting for my torture to begin
Bouts of laughter came from the interview room
Knocking my confidence with each bout
I didn’t wan...
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Categories:
apologised, anxiety, confidence, fate,
Form: Rhyme
Yesterday's Wishes
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School bullies will always call you names,
but would they if they knew I was your blood?
Maybe the insults would have stopped.
There would have been a lot less scraps.
I would be a man without ...
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Categories:
apologised, angst, father son,
Form: Free verse
Always copy your work
...What if poetry soup just shut down
with all your work before you edited
always copy you work even if you have
to go to the library check your
titles as well sometimes
identity thieves actuall...
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Categories:
apologised, angel, blessing, books,
Form: Free verse
Outside the Window
...Outside the window,
I looked out of the window
and saw a man hitting a woman on the street.
It reminded me about a forgotten scene
of a man who slapped his pregnant wife
and died after some...
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Categories:
apologised, emotions, feelings, life,
Form: Free verse
How Many Friends Have You Now
...How many Friends Have You Now?
How many friends have you now?
How many write you everyday
Say they are sorry and their nation will pay?
How many have apologised?
How many have realised?
How t...
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Categories:
apologised, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Power of a Single Tear Drop of a Woman
...A single tear drop of a woman is something to not take for granted in life.
Quote by poet
When a woman cries
A real man feels
Pains.
When women cry for good purpose ...
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Categories:
apologised, character, courage, emotions, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
Pen Pals
...I am pen pals with the reaper and although he never writes back he’s my closest friend. I write him daily though not through the words of a young man but rather through the pain I display on my wrist...
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Categories:
apologised, dark, deep, depression,
Form: Free verse
First Love
...The phone was attached within the hallway of the house, she told me “We need to talk about something important”, “it’s so important that we need to meet”.
On the middle of the bridge in Thornhill, t...
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Categories:
apologised, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Australia Day 2023
...What does being Australian mean
It seems there’s no answer now that’s clean
There have been different people over years
That have come to the land some in tears
The First Australians walked ont...
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Categories:
apologised, home,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Old and Young
...I am a woman in my fifties, and have suffered widow pain
I said that I would never join, the dating game again
But never have I been so struck, and confidence unfurl
Met this young man the other d...
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Categories:
apologised, boyfriend,
Form: Ballad
Late Comprehension
...I died with high hopes I would directly rise
fast upwards to heaven. But to my surprise
someone kept me waiting, don't know for how long.
Commandments all ten dutifully obeyed,
three times per ...
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Categories:
apologised, heaven, paradise,
Form: Rhyme
Apology Accepted When
...Do you hear what was done
Those years ago under the Australian sun
We came to what we were told
Was an empty land for the bold
Some had no choice as a convicts fall
When their sentence was at ...
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Categories:
apologised, anti bullying, feelings, life,
Form: Dramatic Verse
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