A Letter to Mr Keating
...A Letter to Mr. Keating
Your F1 visa is calling you for the last call to submit a paper
“To love that strong thou must leave ere long.”
We met there with notarization, tax return, Gre and 1099 q...
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Categories:
embassy, dream,
Form: Free verse
Almost Engaged
...Youthful Israeli embassy couple,
almost engaged,
gunshots fired in the May DC eve,
murdered sweethearts,
hate, it never pauses,
almost had hope,
shalom to the world. ~...
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Categories:
embassy, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Elegy
How I Quit Jersey for Juliapa
...It’s tattooed lightly on my upper arm
“I love my mom, and she loves me”, it reads.
A squad from Space Force dragged me in the weeds:
“We’ve nailed you, boy. You’ll do no further harm.”
I woke i...
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Categories:
embassy, satire,
Form: Rhyme
Windows of Hope
...The songs of the early nineties keeps ringing in my ears, it is the joy and the melody that I continue to feel and hear, I can still feel the chills as the snowflakes drops on my window sill and Sa...
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Categories:
embassy, business, celebration, city, dance,
Form: Narrative
Waste of Time
...She wanted to teach kids, so she went to R.S.U.
Much of it indoctrination, she didn't know what to do
She could walk out and forego her degree
Or play along, hide her views, and be less free
He...
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Categories:
embassy, discrimination, education, freedom, identity,
Form: Lyric
The Middle East
...The Middle East
When the persecuted became persecutors
chaos followed; what a mess the Middle East is
Both sides of the conflict like killing one other
up pops more fanatics with eager knives...
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Categories:
embassy, age, allah, arabic, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Calla Lillies
...White trumpets rise, a silent, stark decree,
Their waxy bells, a whisper in the air,
Calla lilies, born of purity.
A single stem, a graceful embassy,
Where light and shade in subtle hues compar...
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Categories:
embassy, flower, nature,
Form: Villanelle
Aaron
...In Cape Cod’s quiet, Aaron was born,
A life of promise, soon to be torn.
From chess and robotics, to skies so wide,
He joined the Air Force, with honor and pride.
In San Antonio, his skills to...
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Categories:
embassy, dedication,
Form: Rhyme
what we perceive
...The Perceived
When Joe Biden the American president
walking up to the steps of his plane
fell stumbled and fell several times
possibly because his aged legs didn't
lift high enough on the la...
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Categories:
embassy, 3rd grade, angst, anniversary,
Form: Blank verse
Oslo
...Oslo
I was in Oslo once and saw the old king
riding a horse, but I was a painting of the Danish king
the king of Norway is more moderate
he drives Bentley
The king and I are of the same age,
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Categories:
embassy, 11th grade, beach, best
Form: Blank verse
evil empire irony
...When 1953 began
Iran’s oil annexation plan
Meant seizing our stuff
But the CIA’s tough
And installed the Shah as he-man
Since Iran’s parliament was dead
And Muslims brutally bled
The people...
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Categories:
embassy, bullying, evil, history, irony,
Form: Limerick
YouTube and Chris Hodge
...YouTube and Chis Hodge
It came as a surprise to me that Chris Hodge
has been banned on YouTube, a man of knowledge
worth listening to
He is an honest intellectual; as such, it is hard
not t...
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Categories:
embassy, absence, birthday, confidence, drug,
Form: Blank verse
The Age Of Man
...The Age of Man
We carried on
The age of man
Till moon of tin bore
An electric sun
And all machines
Shone bright and clean
Keeping silent
But wanting more
Till the purpose mind
Did lo...
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Categories:
embassy, earth, future, god, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Winter Rainbow
...Daylight breaks through the gates humming a solemn tune in my ears, here I am standing on the anxious hill gazing at the moon rotating on the hidden sphere.
Its bright light sends ripples of hope ...
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Categories:
embassy, america, beautiful, business, city,
Form: Narrative
POWERFUL SILENT SPEECH
...Where is humanity?
as Congolese players,
stuffs and fanatics
were about to sing
their national anthem
at Afcon tournament,
they put their right hands
on their mouths
to express the silenc...
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Categories:
embassy, africa, conflict, emotions, violence,
Form: Free verse
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