Getting wise to it
I hate that I let people waste my time.
They'll clutter my head with busy chatter
and I let them unload their garbage.
They walk away without a clue
that they have defecated on my peace.
I keep thinking they'll get wise to it
but they never do and still I say nothing
but maybe just maybe today's the day...
AP: Honorable Mention
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Categories:
disrespect, anxiety, peace, people, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Daisies Mean no Disrespect to Ding
Bumblebee Ding pollinates the daisies as the grasshoppers sing
The daisies like him, but here’s the thing, they call him a ding-a-ling
Not to be disrespectful, but it is their privilege and their way
For daisies are the flowers that want to forever play.
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Categories:
disrespect, 3rd grade, 4th grade,
Form: Rhyme
In my youth, I never whistled at a passing woman
In my youth, I never whistled at a passing woman.
In my youth, I never made a raunchy catcall.
But I’m sure the gist of what I must've been thinking
could’ve made a city like Sodom or Gomorrah fall.
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Categories:
disrespect, 12th grade, allusion, evil,
Form: Quatrain
Rage Forged in Disrespect
There’s a rage that ignites when someone damages you
An uncompromising, bewildering storm within.
Your brain churns with thoughts of vengeance,
A thousandfold wrath ready to erupt.
But do you compromise your soul to feed the fire?
It’s all connected, yet so utterly disconnected.
They have no idea what they’ve unleashed
This inner demon clawing at the gates.
A thousand futures, a million
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Categories:
disrespect, anger, conflict, deep,
Form: Blank verse
Don't Judge Me
It's when people/
Treat you like garbage/
That makes you/
Want to hide/
Under the table/
They are quick/
To judge everyone/
Without getting/
To know the real you/
People don't know me/
I'm not a bad guy/
Yet, they judge me/
Treat me like garbage/
Treat me with respect/
Because, I am not garbage/
I am a man of wisdom/
I've seen it all/
Take those masks off/
Be the real you/
Show
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Categories:
disrespect, anti bullying, betrayal, character,
Form: Free verse
Back and Forth
Back and forth
The words shoot across
Slicing through my pale quivering skin
Sometimes there’s no pause for air
As the hate spews from both sides
I’m torn between the love I created
And the love that I have chosen
There’s no winning tonight
And it’s only just begun
March 16, 2024
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Categories:
disrespect, anger, anxiety, family, hurt,
Form: Free verse
No Disrespect
There is no disrespect in letting go and moving on.
Left unchecked grief can hold you back, and that's when things all go wrong.
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Categories:
disrespect, grief,
Form: Couplet
Fear
I used to be afraid:
afraid of being disrespected,
afraid of losing,
afraid of staying alone,
afraid of being cheated.
Now with the passing of time
and growing age,
with continuity of all these
I stated above,
has lost its density.
Lately, I have learned that,
those who disrespect,
they reflect their insecurity,
or their desire to be like me,
but they can't.
I have realized,
whatever I have lost,
is just
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Categories:
disrespect, allegory, encouraging, fear, growing
Form: Free verse
With all due disrespect
I stand unapologetically me;
Unafraid to be different, unafraid to be bold,
I stand for the truth for it is gold
I raise my voice; let it be heard
With all due disrespect!
I rise above the fray, unbowed and without dismay,
My spirit unchained and free to soar
Unbound by the mocking, the scorn, the token
I rise with all due disrespect!
In
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Categories:
disrespect, growing up, growth, introspection,
Form: I do not know?
Disrespect
Living is a lesson
The dead do not speak
Yet I find the sickest thought is the emotion of disrespect
You don't know me
Some never will
Yet I ride life's emotionally rollercoaster
Like a cheap thrill
Do they cross the line of no return
When you don't exercise what you feel
When you play make sure you win
Because the adversary is definitely real
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Categories:
disrespect, 12th grade,
Form: ABC
Sasha: the Zuze
Humbly;
With no disrespect,
Or ill manner;
Were I Jesus,
I’d build my church on her!
Simon Peter would deny me thrice,
But I could rely on her. I can.
She’s never let me down.
So, on her I’d build my church,
The foundation;
She’d be my rock.
And in her I’d plant my seed,
Assured; come harvest, I’ll reap!
Whatever you may think of this,
Precisely, it is
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Categories:
disrespect, appreciation, fate, girl, identity,
Form: Rhyme
Not Simple Anymore
I
Fear of God was healthy for friends
The relationship was it, not ulterior ends
II
Fear of God is still widely spoken
Love of things, brings Promises broken
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Categories:
disrespect, best friend, betrayal, bible,
Form: Free verse
Disrespect Pours Out of a Bully Child
Disrespect pours out of this child on a regular basis.
His classmates would like to see him float onto an oasis.
Where he could enjoy his company and bully himself.
Or high and far away, up on a three-tiered library shelf
That he could not yell mean things to them any more
This child is loud, nasty, racist and
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Categories:
disrespect, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Disrespect To An Elder
An eld man descending from a bus
hurry up, you slow motion ancient cuss !
who said you, be aged !
no one acted right usage...
elder, is the time... creators of fuss !
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Categories:
disrespect, adventure, allusion, bullying, discrimination,
Form: Limerick
Pride and Joy
Pride......and joy?
Pride is thinking that you know too much
Thinking that the love you have is even half enough
It's clinging to honesty as if heard earnestly spoken
Or getting hurt and saying bones and will aren't broken
It's setting aside the friendships that build us up
And giving respect to a thought or reason conveyed with guff
It's separating
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Categories:
disrespect, anger, anxiety, best friend,
Form: Free verse
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