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Colvin
Colvin Poems - Poems about Colvin
You cannot silence, what demands to be heard
...Not only did they colonise land They colonised history too They decided to make history a blank canvas To start anew By painting over the colour in white paint Hiding the accomplishments of tg......
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Layla Riley-Hill
Categories:
colvin,
discrimination, history, prejudice, race,
Form:
Free verse
Elementary Mathematics, 101
...“After one-hundred, which number comes next?” inquired Ms. Colvin as she studied her text. All of us kids raised our hands high, then Ms. Colvin picked Brett, this one dumb guy. “Two-hundred,......
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Scupper Navajo
Categories:
colvin,
2nd grade, fun, math,
Form:
Rhyme
Magnum Opus
...Coltrane with Giant Steps coming downstairs, feeling A Love Supreme after two weeks King going up the mountain and dreaming as he speaks Miles said, So What... Kind of Blue Malcolm, By Any Means ......
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Stewart Watkins
Categories:
colvin,
absence, career, courage, creation,
Form:
Rhyme
All Hallow's Eve
...ALL HALLOW’S EVE The skeleton with the wicked grin, and Resembling Benny Warner sat on a park Bench on Colvin St., a few doors from The corner. There aren’t any more of those exquisite Chocolate ba......
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James Morgan
Categories:
colvin,
halloween, humorous,
Form:
Narrative
My Ancestors Blood
...My first amendment right was never fought for overseas! It was Martin Luther King who was beat to his knees! It was Fanne Lou Hamer who gave me permission to speak! It was a war on Sunday but only in......
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Man-O Burnley
Categories:
colvin,
africa, america, black african
Form:
I do not know?
When Tears Touch--A Collab With Olive Eloisa Guillermo
...WHEN TEARS TOUCH The twelfth of November reminds me of the day When our paths first crossed then came to grow on trail. Soon... all the days like waves rolled into years......
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James Fraser
Categories:
colvin,
people, places,
Form:
Rhyme
When Tears Touch - a Collab With Ja Fraser
...WHEN TEARS TOUCH The twelfth of November reminds me of the day when our paths first crossed then came to grow on trail. Soon... all the days like waves rol......
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Olive Eloisa Guillermo - Fraser
Categories:
colvin,
feelings, friendship, life, love,
Form:
Rhyme
Elegy For Marie
...Send a tear to your lapel for the debt you owe Marie and others of her ilk, it's just as well still not nearly as good as opening our eyes Marie & Remi Ochlik were shelled out of existence while r......
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Goode Guy
Categories:
colvin,
death, dedication, devotion, inspirational,
Form:
Elegy