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They
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ilene bauer
| Rhyme |
gender, words,
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Gender Rolls
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David Welch
| Rhyme |
creation, food, gender, humor,
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All Life Is Sacred
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Rico Leffanta
| Limerick |
bullying, culture, discrimination, gender,
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Lust
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Rico Leffanta
| Limerick |
gender, humanity, lust, political,
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OCTOBER TO REMEMBER
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Ajeyemi Wasiu Ajewumi
| Free verse |
gender, anxiety, appreciation, betrayal, depression,
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Chili con carne
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Rico Leffanta
| Limerick |
gender, beauty, body, culture, food,
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Hoppy Times
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Rico Leffanta
| Limerick |
gender, culture, discrimination, endurance, funny,
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White Male
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Oliver Pierce
| Free verse |
discrimination, fear, gender, i
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Love's Great Sanctuaries
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Gerald Dillenbeck
| Political Verse |
black love, caregiving, gender,
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What's Your Hope
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Gerald Dillenbeck
| Political Verse |
gender, gospel, green, health,
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Theres A Pedophile In The House
by matthew harris
There's A Pedophile In The House...
(ah...ah...ah...ham eye white...???)
OMG,... and he looks...
SAY WHAT??? just like me???,...
absolutely...
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Elegy |
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Categories:
gender, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Uncle Betty
by Rico Leffanta
I know you were just being petty
When you laughed at my Uncle Betty
But who would believe
That he could conceive
After eating all that spaghetti?...
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Limerick |
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Categories:
gender, body, change, culture, family,
Advent of Love's Adventure
by Gerald Dillenbeck
When and where
ecological sisterhooded wisdom dies
So too theological Win-Lose compromise
between nature's humanity
brothered, yet sometimes bothered,
with spirited patriarchal divinity,
secular Western CoOperating Truths
inhaling sacred Eastern Beauty.
Subjective...
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Political Verse |
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Categories:
caregiving, earth, gender, health,
I AM NOT
by Steven Miller
I AM NOT!
I am not Black, cause you say I am
I am not White cause I look like you
I am not Red, from a tribe...
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Bio |
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Categories:
bible, class, confidence, gender,
I Netted Mosquito Magic
by matthew harris
I Netted Mosquito Magic ™
(near microscopic totally tubular proboscis
gave one local bummer, a bloody respite this
summer, hence....aye goot good wry min
reason tubby...
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Dramatic Verse |
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Categories:
gender, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Ladies Last
by Rico Leffanta
The ladies stood in a long queue
The mayor thought they might sue
With their knees together
In all kinds of weather
They await their turn in the loo...
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Limerick |
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Categories:
culture, discrimination, gender, health,
How
by Abhishek Kumar
How do you expect her, not to get wet
While standing in rain
How do you expect her, not to burn
When walking in flame...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
abuse, discrimination, evil, gender,
SoulTrain Scripture
by Gerald Dillenbeck
Back in ancient matriarchal time
Divine inspiration told sacred stories
of epic journeys
for creation and birthing re-creation
and against death and degeneration
Around fire-circles
for cooking
and cleaning
and keeping wolves
and shape-shifters...
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Political Verse |
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Categories:
bible, gender, health, integrity,
Slit
by Brianna Hobson
The butcher walks in
To cut and keep leftovers,
He's working with meat...
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Haiku |
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Categories:
abortion, birth, creation, gender,
Bitter Integrity
by Gerald Dillenbeck
Integrity's EarthSoul
with eyes to see
and ears to hear,
with nose to smell
and mouth to taste,
longs to exclude
spit out
purge local and global awareness
of degenerative Earth's bitter climate...
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Political Verse |
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Categories:
bullying, caregiving, gender, health,
Strawberry
by Brianna Hobson
Tell him about
menstruation
He needs to know
He needs to hear it
He needs to know
When she's bleeding
What she’s been through
Through her eyes
He's gonna see...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
body, gender, mother son,
Dear Shari Todd written July 29 2015 hello 2u
by matthew harris
wing my loss) if grim reaper
came for das scribe as skew
ward poem attempted to infer, now
circling back to...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
gender, 12th grade, 7th grade,
Apple Facts
by Lovie Divine
An apple is an apple. It is an apple to the core.
It is an apple because God made it an apple.
It needs nothing...
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Imagism |
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Categories:
analogy, creation, fruit, gender,
COLD HEARTS
by Rita Oyewale
Cold,
When we are grief is untold
When we are helpless and hopeless
When we are all wandering with no direction
When all hope is lost amidst insurgence.
Cold,
When the...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
corruption, death, emotions, gender,
Making a Wrong Turn
by Freddie Robinson Jr.
What can a bewildered brotha’ say,
it happens every unnatural day
Sunshine is labeled as shade,
crystal clear is called opaque fade
Did I make a left turn
into...
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Ode |
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Categories:
gender, perspective, society, wisdom,
Maureens creation
by Charlie Knowlton
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Free verse |
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Categories:
funny, gender,
Androgyny Grief
by Freddie Robinson Jr.
You shake your mandrill fist angrily
towards the sky
Epithet accusations hurled at God
Unrighteous indignation
rest uncomfortably
within your flat bosom
Testosterone milk
feeds your androgyny grief
You feel that your...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
angst, gender, truth, wisdom,
Shape |
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Categories:
angst, gender,
Oh To Have The Balls
by Maureen McGreavy
...
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Senryu |
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Categories:
angst, gender,
I am a Woman
by aastha mehta
Every month, I loose blood.
My , abdomen, every part of my body - gives me pain..
For days.. I cry, I hardly move.
I'm a woman that...
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Prose Poetry |
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Categories:
gender, beauty, body, feelings, for