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It's All About Me
I believe in lots of things I can't see 
My dreams are like a ship's consciousness 
drowned in the ocean 
I want to live for...

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Categories: diploma, pain, today,
Form: Prose Poetry



Premium Member Tick Tock Tick Tock
"The clock is a useless tool, measuring mortality, 
narrowing vitality. Don't let it tick-tock away the waning moments  
and fine components of your final...

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Categories: diploma, life, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Reconstruction
Lincoln never imagined
today’s white victim zeitgeist,
pouting persecuted supremacists, 
their clenched jaws and fists.

Civil war rages in limbic memory.
Encoded somewhere,
the panic attacks and mirages.

Nobody is qualified...

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Categories: diploma, america, discrimination, freedom, hate,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Vomit
Am I vomiting?
Or do I throw down instead of up.
Singing with a sudden frown,
In barf upon a promised gown.

I wore it to prom as a...

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Categories: diploma, art, humor, humorous, parody,
Form: Free verse
Time Flies
Wearing Daddy's boots & cowboy hat & not much in between
Why, Momma, ain't she just about the prettiest baby you've ever seen?
I'm sure wishing she...

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Categories: diploma, childhood, cowboy-western, family, father,
Form: Cowboy Poetry



Premium Member In the Land of Opportunity
In the Land of Opportunity
    Entitlement reared her pretty head
  Without a backstop to plain bad luck
    Social...

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Categories: diploma, career, education, money, usa,
Form: Rhyme
Your Life Has Just Begun
Four years of high school,
everything seems so cool. 
Not thinking of how everything goes so quick,
the thought of leaving makes you feel sick.
from the start...

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Categories: diploma, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member They Are Paying Me Way Too Much Money
I did not hesitate for one second.
I am an elementary school counselor.
I get to play with children.


They uplift me, and delight me.
I do my best...

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Categories: diploma, me,
Form: Narrative
The Mechanic
The Mechanic
                       ...

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Categories: diploma, world,
Form: Rhyme
It Seems Like Only Yesterday
It seems like only yesterday
I heard your first cry
But today you spread your wings
And discover how to fly.

It seems like only yesterday
I held your tiny...

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Categories: diploma, inspirationaltoday, , Lullaby,
Form: Rhyme
The Discipline of a Student
Oh Lord, I know you know I have been thanking you a lot lately
But today I want to pray
~~~	~~~	~~~
Almighty Lord
You know me and you know...

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Categories: diploma, on work and workingme,
Form: Narrative
Memoir of An African-American Man, Achievement, Ii
Achievement, 2 of 2
                     ...

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© Su Ben  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: diploma, black african american, giving,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Straight To Hell - a Short Story
I was a seventeen year old senior in a coed, catholic high school.  Our gym classes however were still all boys and all girls....

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: diploma, life, day, school, teacher,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Bloody Bloomin Rose's
Ah, the bloom was on the Rose
yet, the taint of alcohol and drugs
looms nightmare like behind her baby pink cheeks. 
Porcelain skin tones, raspberry rogue
nails...

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Categories: diploma, angst, caregiving, childhood, confusion,
Form: Narrative
Attention
Room observations, i got a desk with books on it.
Random paint blotches that look like comets.
Picture frames and accolades.
Diploma and Phone case.
Lava lamp from my...

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Categories: diploma, feelings, humor, rap, youth,
Form: Rhyme

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