What are some signs of the times Q and A
...Q Is it Saudi Arabia and France that are spearheading the 'two state solution'
between Palestine and Israel 'in yet another failed land for peace negotiation'?
A Yes
Q Has Germany an...
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Categories:
friends only, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose
empathy
...I think of all these people, who will land in the emergency room
That night,
I think of all those who think of suicide as we open
A door,
I think of very old dogs walking around knowing
that th...
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Categories:
friends only, appreciation, care, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
Today
...earthquakes erupting across from this page moving mixtures of cursive listening to me and herself morfine her spelling call button exact minute of hour she's eligible to request another sublingual sq...
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Categories:
friends only, miss you,
Form: Free verse
With My Dying Breath
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* My take on the theme of my contest. Just for fun.
A canopy of silvery stars speckle the ebon expanse above me, at once beautiful but at the same time, taunting. For if these jewels in space w...
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Categories:
friends only, anxiety, fear,
Form: Prose Poetry
Chapter 85 -- Damian Delilah Mallory: the Young Solomons
...Damian Stood in the morning sun.
The sun felt good on his face.
Delilah was still sleeping. He
Kissed her face and caressed
Her belly until she awoke.
Hey my Mrs. Me. Come on babe.
We will be ...
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Categories:
friends only, adventure, birth, business, father
Form: Alliteration
You Matter
...The last time you felt good, you played along with them, and they were fooled
The feeling inside was blue and you always considered the suicide rendezvous
It’s when you can’t laugh or cry, and feel...
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Categories:
friends only, suicide,
Form: Rhyme
No Longer See Good
...I use to see the good
In the world.
Now I don't,
Not any more.
Now I believe in
Something different.
Families only love you
For what they can
give from you
Then they turn
You away.
When...
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Categories:
friends only, world,
Form: Free verse
Butterfly Spirit
...I just found out the other day.
Why did it take so long to hear it?
I apologize. I just recognized
The wings of your butterfly spirit.
On the outside your wings seem delicate.
You appear to ne...
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Categories:
friends only, character, happiness, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Life's Hurts Make Us Stronger
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"Every struggle in my life has been a ....
lesson, and made me stronger and given me wings."
Now, I can look back on my life and see the chapters
some are beautiful but many are...
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Categories:
friends only, hurt, life,
Form: Verse
I, Too, Sing America, and Did So In My Diapers
...I, Too, Sing America (and did so in my diapers!)
by Michael R. Burch
I, too, served my country,
first as a tyke, then as a toddler, later as a rambunctious boy,
growing up on military bases aro...
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Categories:
friends only, child, childhood, children, memorial,
Form: Free verse
Poem of the Day
...P-oems that have a message or say something bright.
O- r one that is well written and leaves you feeling light.
E- xpresses feelings deep inside and gives one pause and thought.
M- aking an import...
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Categories:
friends only, anti bullying, encouraging,
Form: Acrostic
Thru Passion
...Play music, can dance
Observe old body on floor
Shake the world slowly
Love is like a rose
In time it shines the world's heart
out of time it dies
Mountain brook sings songs
Like solitary ...
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Categories:
friends only, fantasy, life,
Form: I do not know?
They Wish He Would Hurry
...Here he comes! They all say, anticipating fantastical antics.
He does not disappoint. Pushes his head into the fish tank.
Shakes broken cracker crumbs onto an unsuspecting partygoer,
Leads the ro...
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Categories:
friends only, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry
Friends, Only Furry
...Tooee was a Lab Albino
My sons friend was a vet
She brought her home one day
And Tooee became our pet.
She was as white as snow
A ball of fur who lived for three years
She was a rat, she was th...
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Categories:
friends only, pets,
Form: Free verse
Corona - Revised a Lot
...There’s a thing called Corona that’s going around,
and the yakety-yak of it’s bringing folks down,
for it’s not like some circus that’s coming to town!
If you turn on your telly, you’ll probably h...
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Categories:
friends only, sick,
Form: Rhyme
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