Best Sorting Poems

Like Harry Potter, the sorting hat (my mom)
has placed me in a bloody, crimson colored school.
It’s disorienting, as I go about, the logos are wack.

Poor little rich girl
no beachside lovers
this interminable, scorching summer.

I’m swept up by scholastic spirit.
Can you hear it? Cause it’s deafening me,
on...

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Written: December 15, 2023
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It is undeniable that anguish prevails
It hovers close to a lilting voice
There are no strains to rejoice
Once the beat soars, its genesis tweaks.

Giving alms is obvious
Beyond the ethics of the tithing...

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I work in fits
The contents of my head dumps out
Whatever comes out is me
Good or bad it's still just me 
The contents of head dumps out
I'll leave it to you to figure it out
Good or bad it's still just me
I wish it would come out...

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Drained after an aftzernoon sleep,
sweating like  a failed lover.
                   Not sure to have heard
            ...

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Pirate Bart just made a good haul
 Celebrated with a big brawl
 Then pulled in to port
 His loot for to sort
  And then he made a booty call!

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My chest feels so heavy
Or is it my heart
The tears sit on eyelids
I hope they don’t start
The music plays classic
The mood is so slow
The songs are so saddened
They touch on my sorrow

I’m missing you badly
I need you to hold
If just for a moment
So touching my...

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words used as a wall
hidden meaning to us all
memories I recall
poems that hold me thralled

as I read some again
from the start to the end
not written for a friend
but for love intended

I've finally sorted out
what we were all about
and I still have some doubt
that it could...

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Bending, Grabbing, Sorting
 
	          Chinese Laundry
                  Chicago, 1970
 
In a storefront laundry
on North Clark Street
brown draperies release
this quiet man
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The sorting hat knew me well.
I had a pet Basilisk and knew where they all dwell.
I speak parcel tongue, but I do not like Malfoy
I am waiting, barely breathing.

The sorting hat is making all kinds of noise, like a raid 
Spitting and snorting, I close...

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Where do I draw my bilateral line
in a polycultural sandbox?

In-between a merely personal traumatic
severing
excommunicating
dispassionate
divesting
divorcing
marginalizing
loss and suffering event

And a larger staged
eco-political
critical systemic
potentially multi-generational
traumatic climate event.

Why does it feel important
to distinguish,
and perhaps discriminate
personal from ecopolitical systemic trauma?

Against an InsideEgo post-traumatic stress disordered
biosystem
And against an Outside EcoClimate post-traumatic...

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Sorting skills help you find,
Gold,
Memories to hold,
Jackets to keep out the cold,
Places that are free of mould,
Money that you fold,
That makes the landlord less bold,
Documents that put moving on hold.

Maps that unfold,
Pointing to treasures a sight to behold,
Stories untold,
About family members that begin to unfold,
Leading...

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Writing is a way to express my feelings
It is considered a healthy way to vent
Until or unless it makes someone uncomfortable
Then you are crazy, or a troll, or a werewolf’s tongue or something

When you are too honest, things can go awry, 
haywire, you can land...

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I can understand why my pal has given
up on this garage sorting.  it is only 9:30
and I feel like we've been working on this
for ten hours. I did not even get here until 8.

I am giving up right now.
Nothing could make me stay.

This is...

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I have seen hoarders.  I need a refresher though.
Today.
Right now.
As I decide to give up because this 
bedroom is too much for me.
There has been a possible raccoon
den in the corner for six or eight years.
Today was the day I decided to tackle it,
hoping...

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