By 12
...By 12
By 12 I was
fully grown. My height was
the envy of
the short arses in
my classes. I wasn’t a
porker like
some ... I was
spared fat jokes. My level of
pituitary activity was, w...
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Categories:
encoding, humor,
Form: Free verse
At 8
...At 8
At 8 I’d the
most remarkable
growth gush. The baby oak trees were
in awe of
my height and weight. I indulged in
that and
indulged in
towering over, intimidating, anything smaller...
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Categories:
encoding, humor,
Form: Free verse
STILL LOST
...STILL LOST
THEME: MY WISH
There's a aching in my heart
There's no light in my soul
I wish I could find a spark to light me on
"Cause I'm still lost.
Trying to figure it out
To figure a way...
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Categories:
encoding, 12th grade, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
When Our Eyes Met
...Call it yours, Call it mine,
The tale we wrote was glorifying.
I was a driller ,
Your eyes were the mine.
'Excavated until I could see through them,
The mesmerizing light was the love with shine...
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Categories:
encoding, 10th grade, beautiful, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
Parts and Holes
..."You are a part of me
I do not yet know"
claims interdependent Valarie Kaur
And I wonder,
Is she speaking to me?
Or rhetorically asking any stranger
except me,
already known
because I feel ...
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Categories:
encoding, earth, health, integrity, time,
Form: Political Verse
Silver Threads
...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLCHXfkGOIw
Perhaps if we were to take apart grief as we unravel life
one single moment unstitched pulled out of time
we'd begin to see that death is only a si...
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Categories:
encoding, analogy, death, life,
Form: Free verse
Hidden Swastikas
...I once wrote a POTW, getting to know you, was the theme
Simple little rhyme, about soupers commonalities it seems
Now I’m discovering disparity, divisions, different schisms
Joining the dots to...
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Categories:
encoding, allusion, corruption, how i
Form: Rhyme
A Dawn Arrives Bearing Message of Heart
...A dawn arrives bearing message of heart
And pleads with the sun to disperse the fog
And engages the sky to paint its horizon
In orange and pink with shades of crimson
Not much time it has to sa...
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Categories:
encoding, love, romantic,
Form: Verse
All Dim Ones and Zeros
...Encoding seven binary digits in length;
Of so these sequences;
All 'dim ones and zeros'
Bits, radices conversions with divisor two;
An electronic device for storing and processing data, typically...
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Categories:
encoding, analogy, character, computer,
Form: Free verse
Binary Love
...for I am the one
within your finite zero
adding us to love
01100110 01101111 01110010 00100000 01001001 00100000 01100001 01101101 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 0010...
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Categories:
encoding, computer, love, science,
Form: Haiku
The Language of Words
...You come into my world
a child of mine
of heart and mind creation
sweetly under my flair
following my soul
tracing my steps
growing to a tremendous wealth
encoding my particles.
Soulless, dry...
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Categories:
encoding, allusion, beauty, blessing, creation,
Form: Free verse
Interstellar Being
...I walk from galaxy to galaxy
Devouring planets,
With my mighty eyes I can detect you from light years away,
I move across dimensions
Warping time and bending the laws of gravity
to Destroying ...
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Categories:
encoding, deep, earth, humanity, identity,
Form: Narrative
My Brother's Pain
...I heard it was raining
I saw him sighing
It was my brother, breaking
'Oh', how he was aching
I could not bare him shaking
He made my soul broken
His pain had my brain exploding
It felt as thou...
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Categories:
encoding, betrayal, conflict, depression, fear,
Form: Rhyme
The Extra-Dimensional Feline Muse
...Fingers pirouetting semi-nimbly on the keyboard
the intermediate ballet course of my muse
encoding the fleeting images and rhythms
before they escape, a joyous outflowing
And from the rough di...
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Categories:
encoding, cat, humor, muse, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Windstorms of Neglect
...Dearest Sons
and dearest Cinderella StepSister,
I regret ways I have failed each of you.
From today's view of memory clips,
frames as farms of teaching-learning times,
my Great Lover Eldest, y...
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Categories:
encoding, culture, family, happiness, health,
Form: Political Verse
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