Expectations
...Be someone worthy of being loved,
But don’t show too much affection
Share your feelings with others,
But never have a breakdown in public
Adapt to fit the environment around you,
But don’t c...
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Categories:
kincaid, 12th grade, anxiety, discrimination,
Form: Free verse
Painter of Light
...Near faint mountain ridges, upon bends of bridges,
splashes of light tickle as streams below trickle.
Moonlight's expansive flow sprinkles the gazebo.
White canterbury bells absorb sheen lus...
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Categories:
kincaid, art, beauty, family, happiness,
Form: Rhyme
Shovel
...I love planting. I love digging holes, putting plants in,
tapping them in. And I love weeding, but I don't like
tidying up the garden afterwards. Jamaica Kincaid
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Categories:
kincaid, garden, rain,
Form: Haiku
Distant Shores
...You SURFACE me like pebbles along the distant shores,
encompass me like a tide in the sand in mid-June.
White doves fly over the mount and sing your tune,
for my adoration ru...
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Categories:
kincaid, love, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Death
...Michael and Carolyn came home again
Their busy lives disrupted by death's end
Not knowing they'd encounter love unrestrained
By coming home for mom's funeral to attend
Life has some changes f...
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Categories:
kincaid, death, life, love,
Form: Sonnet
Melissa Lont 1825 - 1911
...Melissa Lont
1825 - 1911
How does one as low and humble as I
Sum up my life of 86 years
In a mere poem as brief and short-lived
As life itself?
And what is the secret to my long life?
What do I kno...
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Categories:
kincaid, death,
Form: Epitaph
Ida Kincaid 1866 - 1903
...Ida Kincaid
1866 - 1903
I was Ida Kincaid
Wife of Charles
And mother of a pernicious brood of five sinister sons.
My first born required eighteen hours of excruciating labor,
And I should’ve known...
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Categories:
kincaid, death,
Form: Epitaph