we are all alone: totally wired
...Everything’s been frantic since the break.
What people don’t tell you about college,
is that you’re just tired ALL of the time.
I’m so tired, yawn ‘scuse me.
So if you’re planning to talk ...
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Categories:
class assignment, poems, school, self, sick,
Form: Rhyme
Growing Up In the Sixties
...As a young teen I sadly confess, I dreamt of becoming an actress.
A class assignment drew me to Warner's in D.C., where I
brushed up against black history..
I stumbled into a meeting of the NAACP...
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Categories:
class assignment, high school, history,
Form: Light Verse
Angels Above
...Angels Above be with me
keep me far from harm's way.
Angels Above above be with me
throughout every moment of the day.
Guide me through my troubles
and help me do my best.
I think now it's t...
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Categories:
class assignment, 7th grade, angel, blessing,
Form: Free verse
If My Heart Could Talk--
...If my heart could talk
it would say thank you Lord God
if my heart could cough
I would purged up all my sins
if I will let my heart talk
beating flow constantly
Reviving me,...
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Categories:
class assignment, analogy, appreciation, heart,
Form: Free verse
Beauty-
...Death is beauty only when it’s physical and your –
Soul and spirit goes to heaven
Ugly is beauty causing you to recruiting
Beauty is just a name
For the selfish
And the immune
Be...
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Categories:
class assignment, analogy, beautiful, how i
Form: Free verse
The Files of Doctor Hugh Mein
...in 2040 in a small town in
near Seattle.
A Group of college students
on a class assignment found
a briefcase with the words
"GODSENT" on the front.
they pried open the case and found
documen...
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Categories:
class assignment, animal, nature, science, science
Form: Bio
If I Had- - -
...If I had? Like at my finger tips
If I had my soul in my hands, I’d be rich;
My spirit would rank high in dividends;
Wouldn’t need any rich men’s;
If I had a perfect wish, I’d have at ...
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Categories:
class assignment, analogy, caregiving, cheer up,
Form: Free verse
The Powers That Be Kryptonite- -
...I AM A HERO
BLACK
Are you my kryptonite
To battle the powers that be
Discrimination, political
Spirituals warfare
Sadly my powers that be ruled over me
I AM A HERO
WHITE Are you my kryptoni...
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Categories:
class assignment, analogy, anxiety, corruption, discrimination,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
O Fair Adrenaline
...O’ fair Adrenaline
Oh, powerful you make me strong;
I can’t do wrong
Beautiful Adrenaline
You got my heart pumping
Got my breath in my chest
I’m just sweating
Biceps protruding bulging;
I ...
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Categories:
class assignment, analogy, appreciation, engagement, for
Form: Free verse
Erasing Your Memory
...If I could erase the memory, of hate I would
Upon all the humans, of this torn world;
This is expressly how I feel;
This would be a new world for me;
And why would I erase, this the pr...
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Categories:
class assignment, analogy, blessing, confidence, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
Peace- -
...I tranquility
I’m calm
I restfulness
I’m peace and quiet
Peacefulness I am
I quiet in quietude
I’m silence
I’m soundlessness a hush
I’m calm
In the calmness of the Lord
PEACE
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Categories:
class assignment, analogy, bereavement, confidence, peace,
Form: Dramatic Verse
The Phone Rings At 3 a M At the Doorly Zoo- -
...At the Doorly Zoo a well-trained guerrilla waves
It’s 3:00 am
Gorilla flung his manure like a combat soldier in guerrilla warfare
No one but the ground keepers are there, MAN DOES IT SM...
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Categories:
class assignment, analogy, animal, corruption, environment,
Form: Free verse
Lamented Loneliness Yet Not Alone
...Lamented Loneliness yet Not Alone
I am more than a mere man
I dress in the spiritual clothes of Jesus
I need prayer and redeeming grace
I am related to God the Father and the Lord Jes...
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Categories:
class assignment, analogy, blessing, celebration, how
Form: Free verse
Pantoum Believe It Or Not-I Love Everybody- -
...PANTOUM Believe it Or NOT-I LOVE EVERYBODY- -
At my old place of employment for many years
I was in charge of the jobs start up meetings
and in this informal business meeting
my star...
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Categories:
class assignment, analogy, appreciation, engagement, how
Form: Pantoum
Dirty Am I, Was I Until Jesus Washed Me Clean- -
...Dirty am I, was I until Jesus Washed Me Clean
O’ but that I have been lost
Trapped incumbent to this storm
Tattered and bathed in my own sin
until Jesus came and washed me clean
Trapped incumben...
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Categories:
class assignment, analogy, confidence, forgiveness, how
Form: Pantoum
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