Child Career Poems

CRISIS TEAM:HELLO WE ARE HERE TO HELP  

AGENT BROWN: HELLO I AWAKEN EVERY NIGHT BETWEEN  THREE OR FOUR AM I CANNOT BREATHE PANTING...

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Papa’s not here
For we had hunger to fear-
He took his backpack 
And never came back.
Mama’s gone too-
Drunk she got
-nothing I could do 
The money she...

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It’s an awful feeling to be wrong
Like a fish thrown back and having to explain the trick to others
Or a child at the chalkboard 
Walking...

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Oh, but I am just a man
an entertainer 
a man of the people
I have bubble gum at the bottom of my shoes
and yes, the children...

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at that moment in the purity of her eyes
i remember finding the trace of hope for mankind



AP: 2nd place 2022

Posted on December 13, 2022...

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See Dark skin just mean more sun block, 
it got absolutely nothing to do with 'Races'.
It Just means Your Ancestor lived in places closer to...

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THE HATE YOU GIVE
By: Sikolwethu Mthethwa 

Shed a tear for the kids who never had a compassionate witness to all their pain
Caregivers quick to label...

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Hurts so hard god knows the reason,
It feels like I am in the prison.

Hard to drink and gulping impossible!
Chocking on food is all that’s real.

I...

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It does a lot make one barmy,
Asking women to join The Army,
For torture with its classic pain,
For the captured does drive insane,
And her bravado jail...

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Out of the provinces, lies my line...
Toiling the toxic night, 
Nightmarish lackey of the routine... 

I, child of the leaves...
Left the soil,
My Memsahib detached... 

My...

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I’ll be panning for gold, the child told me.
I’m looking for shipwrecks, said another.
The third one was going to become an adventurer.

I felt relieved.
Glad they...

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Childhood’s no longer a time to chill,
We’ve found ways child’s very child to kill!
Time then to draw a line—
Every child's no Einstein,
S@tire that enough of...

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Born is when it all begins ....... life,
Male or female a child of the times,
Natured hopefully by parents,
Loved through childhood ..... hopefully 
Trying to be...

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t-rump...reigning sourasst...
made his fortune as a stand-in...
fall-guy in wall-street emergencies...
financial vehicle bank rupture blowouts...
someone has to cart the monetary debris away...
and so profit from institutional...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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