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I No Speaky
... I no speaky . . . 'cept better'n you! Hide white-crime behind white-erasure; that this brown skin'll ne'er win your view, unless more light lights-upon your vacuous “Truths”; f......

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Categories: commonweal, america, political, racism,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Social and Political Pulse
...Written 24, 2023, For Robert James Liguori Politics Contest ___________________________________ Politics is what triggers nations to collide. A place where powe......

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Categories: commonweal, analogy, appreciation, corruption, political,
Form: Rhyme



Argh Fresh Out of Reading Material
...Argh...fresh out of reading material! Hence... what better opportunity, I aver with zeal presented to one local everyman token schlemiel keystone state (Pennsylvania) three score lifelong trump......

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Categories: commonweal, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Your Artistic Interpretations Regaled These Deux Mopic Eyes
...(otherwise titled psalm to Amelie Beth by Matthew Scott, his genuine, gluten free and non GMO poetic non fake appreciative guise.) Ah, thee availed me reason to craft a poem with rhyme or reas......

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Categories: commonweal, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Night Light
...The last visitor before I sleep is always the old priest puffing up the stairs to my door, a wine cask under each arm, a loaf of pumpernickel in his teeth. He’s always too late to give the last ......

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Categories: commonweal, faith, god,
Form: Blank verse



Night Light
...Night Light The last visitor before I sleep is always the old priest puffing up the stairs to my door, a wine cask under each arm, a loaf of pumpernickel in his teeth. He’s always too la......

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Categories: commonweal, faithlight, light,
Form: Free verse
The Honey Room
...The Honey Room Brother Al, in his hood, is out in his field making love to his bees. From my room I can see him move through his hives the way people should move among people. The bees ......

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Categories: commonweal, love
Form: Free verse

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