THEY KNOW IT
...I know their fears.
I know their cravings.
I know their reflexes.
I know their thoughts.
They know that I know who they are.
I am exactly like them, but with a dose of Pan-African melanin.
I’ve...
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Categories:
demonizing, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Dawnland Testimony
...Honorable Members of the Mainiac Judiciary Committee
I hold gratitude for you, and for the Wabanaki Tribe of indigenous wisdom, on whose land we deeply listen for this opportunity to address this ...
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Categories:
demonizing, addiction, america, anti bullying,
Form: Political Verse
What Happen To My Country Now
...Flooded street I see
Not with water but people
Because of injustices, suppression of human right
Because of political persecution of some sort
People inundating the EDSA street
The former head o...
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Categories:
demonizing, conflict, freedom, people, political,
Form: Free verse
ReCentering Domestic NonViolence
...This brisk, sunny March morning, I return from delivering my son to his adult daycare van.
Upon opening The Norwich Times, I delight to read the new Center for Safe Futures "will be taking a hug...
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Categories:
demonizing, culture, depression, health, hope,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Freedom vs Order: Competing Constructs
...Freedom with far Freedom with Order with less Order with far
less emphasis on less emphasis emphasis on less emphasis
Order - on Order - ...
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Categories:
demonizing, destiny, extended metaphor, freedom,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
More Resilient Dancing Days
...Shared enthusiastic curiosity
between two or more
Lovers
may also become felt
as mutually assured
active hope
we might make it through dinner
without seeking reparations
while digging our ...
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Categories:
demonizing, extended metaphor, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse
Demonizing Hate
...The hate is so thick,
Like killing snake, brutal,
Demonize, frontal....
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Categories:
demonizing, evil, hate, passion, truth,
Form: Haiku
Mid Term Voting
...**My goal with this poem is not to divide and conquer on issues, and its not even to take sides. It is met to be about voting. It has nothing to do with what is on the ballet, my feelings, my polit...
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Categories:
demonizing, day, writing,
Form: Couplet
Resilient Redemption
...Probably few of us
have capacity
to see ourselves
as both Angel
and Demon.
Many of us
have had the experience
of demonizing
and punishing ourselves
for sins of the past
extending into our...
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Categories:
demonizing, forgiveness, health, identity, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Breaking Through Nationalism
...Yuval Noah Harari
suggests that Nationalism's
Big Three Nemeses are fear of
nuclear holocaust,
degenerative climate trends,
and Business As Usual disruptions
of eco-politically salvific techno...
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Categories:
demonizing, caregiving, earth, health, peace,
Form: Political Verse
Green Peace Resonance
...At first we had traumatic stress
just being born
and later shock of near death,
physical and mental,
natural and spiritual,
lack of health
and unsafe, messy wealth.
Then traumatic cultural ...
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Categories:
demonizing, culture, green, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
Watering Gaian Grace
...One of the least talked about,
yet most problematic issues
for regenerating
Global
social-psychological
mental and physical
health and public safety
movements
Well fed and watered
to e...
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Categories:
demonizing, caregiving, community, earth day,
Form: Political Verse
Teachable Momentum
...Today
we left off yesterday
to pick up
where speaking non-violent principles
too often neglect to listen
to liberally artistic,
green and active
yet non-reactive
compassionate healers
may n...
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Categories:
demonizing, caregiving, green, health, light,
Form: Political Verse
Ignominious Cult Leader Best Kept Locked Up
...Our unhinged president,
(a veritable loathsome miscreant)
cannot get away with murder,
nor will mine paltry poetic
(side winding) gambit
help clinch deserved punishment
for leader of free world...
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Categories:
demonizing, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
It Was All a Lie
...I remember back to Michael Brown,
though it now seems so damn long ago,
He was just minding his own business,
ran afoul of a cop’s ego.
Murdered in cold blood for being black,
the man had even t...
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Categories:
demonizing, betrayal, how i feel,
Form: I do not know?
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