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Essays

You wish me to write,
To create something grand.
Something for a purpose that I have yet to understand.
Something I don’t care for,
Nor something I like.
But still I am forced,
Against my will to decide.
Let me write of love,
Let me write of hate,
Of anger and pain and times that have changed.
Let me write my soul,
Put my heart on

Categories: essays, art, student,
Form: Free verse

Why I Love Writing Poetry

Why I Love Writing Poetry?

Did I mean why I love writing poems?
Nevertheless, I love writing poems or poetry:
To simply have fun, make others happy,
Inspire and defend others; to fan the flames
Of fairness, and to seek justice, fairness for the weak,
The innocents, the underprivileged, and the sick;
I can go on and on until I lose consciousness.
I

Categories: essays, extended metaphor, inspiration, literature,
Form: Rhyme

Vodka Plus Essays

Please Pogo music, wake me up. The night, now reduced to warm laptop light, is inching toward dawn. I pray to the patron saints of writers - is it Neri or Ávila? Whichever is on call I suppose.

“I’ve indulged in reprobation,” I confess, openly to the fuzzy, waxing, crescent moon. “I need that alchemy that

Categories: essays, education, student, teen, writing,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Essays

We have to write a lot of essays
and I love it - the twisting of words, 
the molding of nouns and verbs until 
thoughts are clear and paragraphs 
sit symmetrical and idealized.

I’ll write a paper, and scowling,
write another version and another 
- lavishing them with attention
until every word is perfect.

I miss handing in papers though
-

Categories: essays, school,
Form: Free verse

Essays On Eternal Pages

 
Dad you told me that life was like chapters,
had that, got it-  but I think we live books !
Sad, but also lovely to think this way,
mad, crazy-  we have within us notebooks !

Essays written on eternal pages,
malaise and happiness for us to find !
Gaze at, or re-live that moment again,
maze - is

Categories: essays, introspection, life,
Form: Lento

The Dead Essays

The Dead Essays


Today I wore all black 
But there is no funeral procession. 
So I just went to work and sat at my desk
Before piles of essays which need to be read,
A red pen in my hand - 
Because I am old school 
And the students can deal – 
And it would seem that women
Of

Categories: essays, irony, school, student, teacher,
Form: Free verse

History Essays

Pale sun, gray sky
Shadows long on the wayside
Bright lights inside
Words hide

Closed door
Balls of paper 
On the floor
You don't give
I can't take
Ink still in the pen
Page still blank

Empty mind   
The past unkind
Half-dead
Half-mad
Lending life to men long left.

Did Cavour hinder the process of Italian unification? NOOOOO!

Categories: essays, school
Form: Free verse