Price Control
...In AD 301, a Roman Emperor made a decree
He fixed the price of food and clothes
If you sold for higher, there was a death penalty
If you hoarded those goods, your blood would flow.
Since no one...
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Categories:
chavez, america, crazy, culture, fire,
Form: Lyric
trust me
...trust me
trust me like your trust fund baby
trust me like the world is crazy
trust me is too understated
i mean feel me
feel me like the world might kill me
haunt me like abandonded buildings
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Categories:
chavez, trust,
Form: Rhyme
Champions of Liberty
...
Freedom's flame ignites,
From every nation's heart,
Heroes rise in light.
Gandhi's gentle strength,
Mandela's enduring fight,
Chavez, a beacon.
Across distant lands,
Aung San Suu Kyi's p...
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Categories:
chavez, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Choka
flood anxiety
...What’s causing panic disorder?
Venezuelans flood our border
Their country we rebuked
So here they’ve regrouped
Without a legal court order
Authors Note: Actions have consequences and sanctio...
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Categories:
chavez, irony,
Form: Limerick
Book Big Chicas Dont Cry
...Book—Big Chicas Don’t Cry by Annette Chavez Macias— YA/Fiction/Family Saga
abuelita’s lessons gone~four cousins unite after years of tumult...
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Categories:
chavez, childhood, death, family, for
Form: Monoku
1960 To 1969
...I am John F. Kennedy as
President.
I am a civil right activist
100 percent.
I am Woodstock rock n
Roll festival.
I am the first man on the moon
Unforgettable.
I am And...
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Categories:
chavez, history,
Form: Rhyme
Hit Squad '23
...Hit 'em up! Hit 'em up!
Up, out and away
Singles, doubles, triples
and of course, the Big Bombay!
Snitker stoically managing from
the dugout
Ron Washington on third and Eric
Young, Sr. on...
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Categories:
chavez, appreciation, baseball, celebration, firework,
Form: Rhyme
Ode To a Female Folk Icon
...Joan Chandos Baez is an American singer
Eighteen years old, first of the later date
protest folk singers
Famous before Bob Dylan!
Songwriter, musician, and activist.
Folk music of protest an...
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Categories:
chavez, appreciation, celebrity,
Form: Ode
Acrostic of Connotation
...J-oyful
E-xpression's
N-atal
N-ote
Y-ields
C-onnotation's
H-eartfelt
A-crostic
V-irtuously
E-ndorsing
Z-estfulness
Topic: Birthday of Jenny Chavez (January 27)
Form: Verti...
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Categories:
chavez, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Our Friends From the Underworld
...OUR FRIENDS FROM THE UNDERWORLD ©
Soul to soul, our echoes roll
Melancholy from the depth of my divine despair
And a rush of blood which causeth bloodshot in the eye
And they smell fear like a ...
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Categories:
chavez, 1st grade, death, death
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Pouring Ink For Andrew
...A memorial poetry today February 6th, 2018 to remember our loved one - late Andrew Chavez.
POURING INK FOR ANDREW ©
Imagine if we're given one moment
Just a single slice of the past
We'd hold i...
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Categories:
chavez, 1st grade, death, memorial,
Form: Elegy
Harmony of Yearly Composition
...J-ovial
E-vent
N-ecessarily
N-eeds
Y-early
C-omposition's
H-armony
A-s
V-erse
E-mploys
Z-est
Topic: Birthday of Jenny Chavez (January 27)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...
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Categories:
chavez, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
I Wish Cesar Chavez Was Here
...I wish Cesar was here
now
Someone who know how important
farm workers are, giving them a strong
voice,
You got to see this empire
and how it has exploited all the life
that built it,
And all...
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Categories:
chavez, america, analogy, anniversary,
Form: Choka
A Tale of Two Countries
...There once was a wonderful magic land
Known for sugar cane, Havana and sand
Then a communist came
Fidel Castro his name
Freedom, the good life, democracy -- banned
Now comes an even gori...
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Categories:
chavez, loss, pain, sad, society,
Form: Limerick
Rising Dawn
...R-ay
I-s
C-anceling
H-aze
A-nd
R-ising
D-awn
C-hooses
H-ues
A-s
V-iew
E-xpects
Z-enith
Topic: Birthday of Richard A. Chavez (August 16)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...
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Categories:
chavez, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
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