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Miseducation of the *******
Mentors like priests preparing me for holy rite
Institutional slaves to a false trinity
Subduing adventure, exploration and discovery to classroom rigor
Eternal stairway ... moonbeams to the...

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Categories: institutional, black-african amereducation, me,
Form: Acrostic



Free
Poetry is spontaneous, pure, raw emotion,
don't you dare label what I say as cliche. 
This is my perspective of life in motion,
through experiences encountered day...

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© Sam Jacks  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: institutional, how i feel, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Pied Piper From New York City - Part One
The Pied Piper from New York City – Part One

Dare his name be said?
I say, of course, Yes! 

The Pied Piper, himself, is the man,...

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Categories: institutional, allusion, america, betrayal, corruption,
Form: Political Verse
A Semantic Shield
A kind of cultural sensitivity,
that strengthens discovery; a space
for identity and history.

  It’s a style of thought,
  chosen to highlight its core;
 ...

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Categories: institutional, life,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Great Little England
skinny island rump
  highway seas churning the horizon under turbulent skies
  entity England
  migration waves still grounding along the continental shelf
 ...

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© Ian Love  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: institutional, culture, england, history,
Form: Narrative



Justice Is Colour Blind
A blot they want to wash, detergents do not work
Ineffectual, institutional and cover ups a stir
Excuses abound, squirming hierarchy found 
"Its just a darkie, why...

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© Rob Carter  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: institutional, political, race, racism,
Form: Rhyme
Why Kant You Tell Me the Time
Father time legendarily and Omni potently 
 existentially linkedin, binding cradle to grave 
since advent of *****sapiens, the whiffed bald credo 
 an employee...

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Categories: institutional, change, day, history, philosophy,
Form: I do not know?
Doctor Office
I stay sick because I am premature  but one thing I notice about going to, 
Doctor is when it is the 30 minute wait...

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Categories: institutional, art, love,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Grimfree
Note:

Dear Chris,

I could go into souls as mindbody identities with interdependently co-arising individuation, also known as living, and incarnation, but my gut says to go...

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Categories: institutional, birth, creation, culture, deep,
Form: Narrative
These Same Mc's, Moulded Clay
You look stupid in videos on phones at the start,
it doesn't make you look badmans calling women a tart,
when I see those skits I think...

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© Nick Trim  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: institutional, england, hip hop, home,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Brother--Nelson Mandela, Umtata, South Africa--Tribute Poem
Nelson Mandela, crossed my spirited mind today, a visionary legend of peace, love, equality, and unity of all people.

As a prevailer of great affliction, he...

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Categories: institutional, brother, confidence, dedication, discrimination,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Heart
Heart
           by Odin Roark

Can an enigma be weighed?

Many would hold the heavy heart
Is indeed noticeably...

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© Odin Roark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: institutional, heart,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To Be Read Aloud
Are you listening? Open your ears
For this is to be read aloud it needs your voice 
Because it can not speak on its own...
This is...

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Categories: institutional, funny, life, nature
Form: Free verse
Humanity Calamity Insanity
Institutional reformation inside of this nation 
Prisons have risen to the ranks of solicitation

Politicians in formation line up for their vacations
Due to a prisoners isolation

The...

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Categories: institutional, angst,
Form: Ode
The Great Wall
THE GREAT WALL 
It’s funny and this is true
Years ago, I thought hopefully of being locked away
I envisioned more of an institutional setting
Nothing to do...

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© Evan Sachs  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: institutional, anger, angst, change, prison,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs