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Best Yrs Poems

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Premium Member Bill
R.I.P. William Dale Eubanks
d. July 1, 2012, aged 68 yrs., Tennessee Ridge, Tennessee

Death came as no surprise
the first Sunday in July;
it claimed you, on a...

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Categories: yrs, courage, death, dedication, farewell,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Cherish Armour
"Cherish Armour"


She 
wears 
Her armour,

LOVE -

draped like chain mail
shields You 
with Her heart

When She is drowning
She will throw You to the sure
safe for Your future

And...

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Categories: yrs, daughter, journey, love, mother,
Form: Free verse
Daddy's Song
Time has passed by so quickly
You’ve been gone 2 yrs today
I never knew something could hurt so much
The wound from losing you hasn’t even begun...

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Categories: yrs, absence, anniversary, dad, dedication,
Form: Lyric
A Faceless Enemy (What's There To Celebrate)
He appear to be a ladd of maybe 9 yrs. old.  It's Friday, as our troop's prepared to move
out unto enemy territory, and then...

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Categories: yrs, black african american, confusion,
Form: Personification
Premium Member The Sea Hag and the Funky Monkey
She came out of the sea at twilight
Weak and trembling, bent with age
Her hair entwined with seaweed
The pounding surf a watery stage. .

She stood awhile...

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Categories: yrs, fantasy, imaginationdark, dark, stars,
Form: Quatrain



A Letter To My Father
How am I suppose to know you care,
If every time I grieved for you, you weren't there?
I always thought someday you would have came along,
But...

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Categories: yrs, absence, daughter, emotions, father,
Form: I do not know?
Journey
Journey
By  Ifunanya Anyene

Category B (14 yrs)
Grade 11

As a seedling I start,
Fresh and unharmed by the flaws of nature,
From the grounds I depart,
Top of the...

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Categories: yrs, journey, poems,
Form: Couplet
You Just Gotta Know
If she doesnt call you 
[ Its because she is waiting for you to call her ] 
When she walks away from you mad 
[...

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Categories: yrs, lovekiss, love, sleep,
Form: Narrative
Schizophrenia and Me
Good Morning
My old friend
Nice waking up to see you again
Still doing ok?
Cause I am doing fine
Except for these thoughts,dreams and pains of mine

Do not worry...

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Categories: yrs, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Rape
In my mind this horror remains in my remembrance.
That awful, dreadful day, that man took my innocence.
I was just barely 15 yrs. old.
Not the cocky...

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Categories: yrs, life, people, sad, me,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member 'white Privilege' Does Exist
Abandoned as a child believed to be no more than five, the matron of the orphans home, was...other than my mom...
The first to have to...

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Categories: yrs, discrimination, racism,
Form: Narrative
Merry Christmas Ps!
This is always a very very difficult time of year for me. I get so dang depressed,
and yes the majority of that pain comes from...

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Categories: yrs, love, thank youchristmas, me,
Form: Free verse
Untitled
A hearts bleak blackness,
Cold as ice.
Lie just once and pay the price.
Of 16 yrs full of sorrow and pain,
Sharing some of the glory and all...

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Categories: yrs, sad, words, me, emotions,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Possums On the Run - Part 3
"Possums on the Run - Part 3"


Collecting cut 
silver blue grass
carries garbage bags
green-ant bites, no siree,
this aint fun.
Stand guard, he’s the 
lawn mower Pope 
(she...

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Categories: yrs, childhood, father daughter, journey,
Form: Free verse
In My Head
Suicidal thoughts kept running through my head
Thinking maybe i'll be better off dead
My life is like algebra hard to find a solution
To me killing myself...

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Categories: yrs, anger, spoken word, suicide,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

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