High Poems - Poems about High

Today in english we had a free write. I wrote about you, I always do. I hate writing about you, but it's all I do. My teacher says my work is amazing. I wonder what she would think if she met you. If you were amazing then. After it all. ...

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OF LIFE’S JOURNEY At birth, life’s journey is planned; While there will be many tolls, God’s GPS will guide you:- ...

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THE GROOVE IS MIGHTY HIGH/ LET’S THROW DOWN AND FLY UP TO THE SKY/ KEROUAC BLOWIN’WORD JAZZ WITH STRINGS/MILES AT THE BLACK KAWK, MAN WHAT A SCENE/ JACK AND MILES WALKED THE WALK AND TALKED THE JAZZ TALK/ NO BLUE NOTES HERE/JUST HIGH NOTES OF BE-BOP KOOL/ MAN I’M INTO THIS JAZZ SCENE/SAY BABY WHATCHA SAY?...

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I'm missing you all over again And it's not because you gave me hope It's not because I love you more now I miss you every day, especially at night And it's because I gave myself hope Because I saw you, now I see you everywhere ...

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When the wind chimes high when the wind chimes low through the links in his kilt he'll go all the lassies say hello Donald where's your troosers? A slimy heel slippery eel tho' no feared he'd take the fall(s) he lost his breeks on the course where caddies dropped (all) his ball(s) With apologies to Andy Stewart (1933 – 1993) ...

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they say boys don't cry, so he bleeds instead. silent screams hidden under hoodie threads. he skips meals like skipping pages in a book that no one wants to read- his ribs start spelling out "notice me" but no one speaks that language. "you're a boy, tough it out," they said when his voice shook like glass$and his hands begged for anything but silence. so he carved the words he couldn't...

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Hiding everything there was to say spent ashes in a pile of the day intentions inhaled and exhaled away unspoken words of love going up in smoke. ...

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As I sit by myself in a room full of Strangers, I listen to the cacophony , The Chaos of Voices, laughter and conversations ; It feels very familiar, and I can't help but wonder how soon it Will end . And again after a few...

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Life's no banked river... Life's roving waves frothing shores... Life's oceanic......

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IN THE HEAT OF DAY A peaceful warm day. Scents of flowers fill the air; So do summer flies! ...

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Yesterday was hot, it nailed its peeling skin to a desiccated air. This morning, rain is falling, but it has yet to land - a weightbearing sky creaks though it does not break. Above straining clouds a dam has broken, perhaps the deluge will crush all before it, but not yet, earth’s frying pan is lit and smoldering. The wilting dawn cannot wash its face, bedsheets smell...

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Judgement’s High Way My smug satisfaction drives in narrow lanes Deep with pitfalls of intentional ignorance “Righteous” reads my personal license plate Sentenced to loud lane-splitting intolerance. My bias trips on truth at tangled crossroads, Blinded to orgies in my house of thin glass, Cuts off compassion, in condescending tongues, Detours grace to side roads, a one-way bypass. But, grace stills my hands, determined...

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My high school reunion: old classmates, old friends, old adversaries, old strangers meet after decades trying to discern who's who, who's lived, who's passed, who's disappeared... lost youth commemorated... survival celebrated....

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strength they call her fondly she's courage to some i hold her hand, let her in let her show me who i shall be i hold her hand, let her in let her guide me through the thorny scene she stayed, with regret hidden in neat folds of guilt she held grief, letting broken trust be built she held softness, she held...

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Army BRAT’S Always ‘Wanna’ Fly High The tradition necessitates that as a child born unto military parents Called by the beloved acronym Born Raised and Trained (BRAT’S) Be always on the spotlight as they augment and compliment The guys in uniform ever shifting from one place to another Military BRAT’S never quite settle born and raised as sojourners Born of a...

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