Silent Struggles
...In the hallways where whispers cut deep like a knife,
I walk with my head down, hiding my strife.
You're just thinkin' it's a small thing that happened,
But the world ended when it happened ...
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Categories:
jeer, 11th grade,
Form: Lyric
Blessed Are
...Blessed are the poor in spirit, they say,
But the world kicks them down every day.
Crowns of hope crushed beneath gilded shoes,
While rulers feast and pick and choose.
Blessed are those who mou...
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Categories:
jeer, christian, corruption, faith,
Form: Rhyme
I See The Light In You
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I see the light in you, a flame so clear,
Not loud or fierce, but ever near—
A hush within the storm of men,
That calls me back to truth again.
Empathy and kindness, how they shine,
Like sil...
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Categories:
jeer, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Debate
...In halls of thought, where words take flight,
Two minds converge to seek the light.
With logic keen, they shape their case,
Yet truth slips past in reason’s race.
An ancient art from ages old,
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Categories:
jeer, perspective, society, truth,
Form: Free verse
Let it -----RAIN, Lyrics
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I'm trapped in this cave
Enslaved by a legion of chains
Your puppets jeer and taunt
Painting the wall as droplets fall
The cobra dance in the flame
Scarlet and velvet choke the air
Till a hea...
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Categories:
jeer, anger, betrayal, hate, heartbreak,
Form: Lyric
Jida’s Odyssey
...(The tale of Jida, the rat who reached for the sky)
In the green land of Ile fair,
Where fruits were heavy and sweet was air,
There lived a rat, both small and spry—
And he did long to eat the ...
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Categories:
jeer, sky,
Form: Narrative
The Shadow That Follows Me Still
...When I was a girl with ribboned dreams,
I saw myself on TV screens.
A mic in hand, a voice so clear,
Telling stories the world would hear.
I loved the sound of words I spoke—
Not for praise, o...
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Categories:
jeer, anti bullying, anxiety, bullying,
Form: Free verse
Fear Only Fear
...Afraid to ask
Afraid to cast
Afraid to hear
Afraid of jeer
Fear is delaying truth
Fear is growing from youth
Fear is reliving the past
Fear is irrational typecast
Asking diffuses fear
Ta...
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Categories:
jeer, fear,
Form: Rhyme
Silent Struggles
...In the hallways where whispers cut deep like a knife,
I walk with my head down, hiding my strife.
You're just thinkin' it's a small thing that happened,
But the world ended when it happened ...
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Categories:
jeer, 10th grade, bullying,
Form: Lyric
Life is an Act
...Life is an Act
As life marches on swiftly
As clocks tick incessantly
We, the shadows of existence
Act out our scenes
On the glorious global stage.
Are we heroes, are we failures?
Does the audi...
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Categories:
jeer, africa, age, allegory, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Voices from the Cross
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Thief on the Left
I hang here bound in guilt and shame,
My life a hollow, fleeting flame.
The nails bite deep, the crowd’s cruel jeer,
And yet this man—they mock with fear.
He claimed to be th...
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Categories:
jeer, bible, inspirational,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Vortex of hate
...I fend with the wine
I hide with a laugh
I jeer at my time
Forlonging so as it pass
I stand with my defiance
I fall with pride
I swim through my failures
I lay my faults by the side
I never ...
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Categories:
jeer, deep, hurt,
Form: Rhyme
Moisten Dat the Harlot
...Bing informative
the SCHWA sound
become the topic of the day
Dipithong, Dipithong
ooh, ooh wee!
Schwa:schwa!
the Schwa sound
the schwa sound is destroying me.
T notch filters.
Try to spook t...
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Categories:
jeer, business, character, guitar, music,
Form: Ballade
The Conquistador
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Conquistador your stallion is unbridled longing for
the company of an angel's touch to brow
I see your breast plate armor has lost its sheen
but in your face I see the sign of cuts re...
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Categories:
jeer, analogy, appreciation, blessing, body,
Form: Lyric
Hooked On The Moon
...the brightest toe nail clipping
in the sky the moon two points
one hook where by a dangling
dangler of collar and tie swung
a swinging caught he estranged
and left forgottenly o deranged
for he...
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Categories:
jeer, fun, humorous, light, moon,
Form: Light Verse
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