Work August Poems

The afternoon's a fire, but my head still frozen to the pillow.
The fan blows soft and I lay softer.
Without a signifier I'll get up for...

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Strength is womanish.
Beauty is womanish. 
Nature is womanish. 
Each start and end of love, faith, and 
creation is womanish. 
Besides that, women are still being judged 
for their...

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ARGH! NO MORE MEDICARE!

A worst nightmare loomed large
notification courtesy Montgomery County
Assistance Office caseworker
implied medical coverage axed
I felt hammered, nailed, shingled out...
livid with rage
frenzied, harried, jarred...
railing...

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Put Youself In Their Shoes Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Eve Roper
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It was late August, during summer break,
We went to our grandma’s village called Snake.	
She had...

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Night came harvesting our sights
into his basket of darkness
at the same time, the once drizzles on our roof
had turned into a rainstorm
putting a period to...

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those early attempts at a Mexican food
no store bought cardboard taco shells
she had to prepare her own
the appearance of the tortilla press
the arrival of the...

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Princess Diana was born in England and died in France.
When she was in a car wreck, she didn't have a chance.
She divorced Prince Charles of...

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Just as well I was driving at a moderate speed.
Having resumed control I spied Lelia sticking her tongue out at those reckless varmints.
She stopped the...

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The days, which I still remember,
When I just used to sit and wonder.

What will I do for living,
In my future what will I be doing.

Like...

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Quote: Nature is flawed yet flawless, the ground likes your toes, and that your ponytail endears the breeze. (By Poet) 
     ...

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Pollution, climate change and toxicity
We have to make clean many a city
Virus free culture and civic amenity
If possible we vacate the earth kitty
So that a...

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Give me a reason
Why I shouldn't fall in love with you
And I'll give you the reason
Why I want no one but you

Tell me you love...

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RAIN

There is something ornately comforting in a downpour of a day’s healthy rain
So replenishing, so cleansing, so renewing, as so the giver to feed life’s...

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The choice


I could have been a farmer that was not a choice
the authority sent me there, I think as punishment for being rebellious.
I could have...

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School’s starting in 12 days.
A thousand kinds of torture
in a million different ways.
You work and have a boss
who's awfully hard to please
in school, we have...

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