THE SCAVENGERS
...For millennia,
the scavengers have spread chaos across the Earth.
They sow desolation
for sterile chimeras,
for fleeting vanities.
If I had held the power of creation,
this cursed planet
w...
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Categories:
bases, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
FREE SUB-SAHARAN
...The colored pains are carved onto the back of my ancestors’ history.
My oppressors see my Africanness as a curse,
the rotten fruit of savagery, slavery, and the barbarity of colonization.
The blac...
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Categories:
bases, 12th grade, africa,
Form: Free verse
Pupidee and Bupbidop Bididi
...No one knows what is DB
But these are Data Bases
If crime is planned
They're Pupidee
Their fingerprints and faces
Path to Justice do compute
Computer for the Justice
Whom do you defe...
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Categories:
bases, judgement,
Form: Rhyme
Big Mo
...
When a horrible commissioner
was suddenly fired,
team owners interviewed
Big Mo.
They told him,
You're hired.
Changes he made to the game
were made right away.
Protests which followed
...
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Categories:
bases, baseball,
Form: Rhyme
Army BRATS Always Wanna Fly High
...Army BRAT’S Always ‘Wanna’ Fly High
The tradition necessitates that as a child born unto military parents
Called by the beloved acronym Born Raised and Trained (BRAT’S)
Be always on the spotligh...
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Categories:
bases, appreciation, celebration, character, childhood,
Form: Narrative
Come On Darlin
...For Aunt Carolyn, in memory of Uncle Dennis
They were just teens outside a gift shop door,
He said, "Come on, Darling, let’s go explore."
With a wink and a grin, and her hand in his,
They stepp...
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Categories:
bases, appreciation, death, family, heartbreak,
Form: Rhyme
Our Lord God, Jesus Christ, is well able to deliver us part three Q and A
...Q Which person of the Holy Trinity represents the Ark of Safety?
A The second person of the Holy Trinity, Jesus Christ.
Q Why?
A Because Jesus Christ paid the ultimate price to rescue a...
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Categories:
bases, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose
Crackpot TheorI-Zer
...Crackpot TheorI-Zer
To Know So Much For
So Little! Turn All
Of These Screws,
I Cover The Bases,
I Spread All The News.
If I Turn On A Dime,
It's My Dime I Lost...
I'm Sure My Name:
...
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Categories:
bases, analogy, life,
Form: Rhyme
THE ARCHITECTS OF LIES
...They sowed chaos to claim their peace.
A few wars to realize their dreams.
They sell chains wrapped in freedom’s guise,
Spitting laws applied only to the weak.
They paint bombs in the colors of...
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Categories:
bases, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
THEY KNOW IT
...I know their fears.
I know their cravings.
I know their reflexes.
I know their thoughts.
They know that I know who they are.
I am exactly like them, but with a dose of Pan-African melanin.
I’ve...
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Categories:
bases, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
ATOP THE BLEACHERS
...
We watched our neighbor, Ollie, play in his first official ’T’ ball game
from our seats atop the bleachers…in the shade.
It was a treat watching the innocent exuberance of children…
before they ...
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Categories:
bases, baseball, family,
Form: Rhyme
My own personal updates part two Q and A
...Q: As of May 2025 who will start having to use real identification cards cause their
regular cards won't work?
A: Thus far only the passengers who ride commercial airlines.
Q: Is Tru...
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Categories:
bases, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose
Valentine's Day a Lovers' Serenade
...“VALENTINE'S DAY, A LOVERS’ SERENADE”
Valentine's day is an expression of love
Grateful for the blessing from above
Show her your thoughtfulness with sweet compliments
Make this special day...
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Categories:
bases, appreciation, black love,
Form: Rhyme
the Danish imbroglio
...a Danish imbroglio
The Danish prime minister is appealing to Europe to stop Trump’s idea of taking Greenland and making it an American state
What he wants not that he is overly interested
is to ...
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Categories:
bases, anti bullying, anxiety, betrayal,
Form: ABC
The Colonization Of Hawaii
...Colonisation Poetry Contest
Kai Michael Neumann
Hawaii, my birthplace, and hometown
Fell victim of being colonized and uprooted
Those dirty rats ceased the cheese
By the 1900's the U.S annex...
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Categories:
bases, corruption, home, introspection,
Form: Free verse
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