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THE GIFT OF ROOTS AND WINGS
... I remember a blessing we were given as first-time parents… that became our parental battle cry: Together may you give your children roots to grow and wings to fly. But having been parents and ......
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Jim Yerman
Categories:
downright,
children,
Form:
Rhyme
Legendary Convict
...Walked in through those gates, the legends foretold/ valley of death? Try a circus of old/ The baddest dude charged, Timber! Came the call/ He fell like a Jenga tower, five stories tall/ A gang r......
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Michael Fulkerson
Categories:
downright,
character, cool, environment, funny,
Form:
Rhyme
Show Off
...Rise and shine, Know you are Divine, You get to draw the line, Let your heart and mind align, Feel your energy intertwined, Within all of your design. Love is the light you shine, ......
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keith mchugh
Categories:
downright,
7th grade, 8th grade,
Form:
Rhyme
Love in hindsight
... you've been gone almost five years still i remember so well the harmony we were downright inseparable mostly i remember the peace we felt so I couldn't help but take a moment to wonder what ......
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Line Gauthier
Categories:
downright,
loss, lost, memory, pride,
Form:
Free verse
taxes '25
...(It’s that vernal, infernal, tax season. How about a tax avoidance vignette? It’s poetic—in it’s own way) Some students at a table near us in the dining hall were discussing America’s financial in......
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Anais Vionet
Categories:
downright,
green, growing up, money,
Form:
Free verse
Scarcity created by Those that Steal Our Abundance
...Abject poverty it is said, must actually be honed, Then cultivated and even forced bred, This necessarily includes paper money of course, since they print it for free, offset by our taxes a mea......
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Kurt Hubbard-Beale
Categories:
downright,
betrayal, community, society,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Karma
...Children are not always so innocent -- I have met some downright mean and vicious... made that way or just born? the non believer, would be shocked to know just how blossom-high and deepl......
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Joe Dimino
Categories:
downright,
creation, death, forgiveness, freedom,
Form:
Free verse
On the Lighter Side
...I don’t like the da, da da, da dark Keep the nightlight on, please! I would rather sit in the park With the Sun always on, you see I for real really don’t like the dark Especially when evil......
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Benjamin Bartley
Categories:
downright,
celebration,
Form:
Rhyme
Dumpster Fire
... To sell smart trash bins a man George did hire, but loss loomed large, put him in dumpster fire. He promptly fired the dumb man, became a keen garbage fan, saved his busin......
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Subimal Sinha-Roy
Categories:
downright,
humorous,
Form:
Limerick
My dog's as smart as a geek and other doggy poems
...My dog's as smart as a geek. He can bark in English, Arabic, and Greek. He’s expert in canine mathematics, can discuss dog-fight aerodynamics, and is fluent in bow-wow doublespeak. And yo......
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Marinus Jansen
Categories:
downright,
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Light Verse
Goin' Granny
...Written By: D. Collins 1/23/25 When all is said and done, I do what I do good. Prevent any MF'z trying to keep us in the hood. <>...
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Darrell Collins
Categories:
downright,
grandmother,
Form:
Crown of Sonnets
for someone
...It’s hard to meet someone serious at college. Everyone’s busy, self-centeredly grinding away at their dreams. So much so that people tell you to not even try (especially as a freshman). I was mo......
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Anais Vionet
Categories:
downright,
anniversary, boyfriend, celebration, humor,
Form:
Free verse
Save Me From The Bare Darkness
...{"I wish somebody, some entity would’ve told me, even warned me with the intuitiveness that lies within the motherly instincts, the nature of humanity without malevolent reluctance. That lying in t......
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Dilara Aydin
Categories:
downright,
absence, abuse, addiction, betrayal,
Form:
Free verse
11 THE LEARNING CURVE
...the next few years were testing, I had to learn new skills from the handling of a wheelchair to the sorting out of bills to go shopping with a wheelchair, trying to navigate the aisles some people......
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Pauline Faller
Categories:
downright,
recovery from,
Form:
Rhyme
The Tragedy of 9 11
...On a beautiful day, skies clear and blue, stood two tall towers, twins so true. But up above something was awry, a boeing 767 had taken to the sky. But in this big plane all was not fine, because a g......
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Alicia Cavanaugh
Categories:
downright,
conflict, education, sorrow,
Form:
Rhyme
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