Long Class assignment Poems

FEAR


WHAT SCARES ME
FROM AS FAR BACK AS I COULD DREAM
THIS IS WHAT Fear has done to me
This is a verse, bout’ what is cursed..
What scares you?
Is it the crossing of a busy street?
What scares you?
Is...

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FOOTSTEPS ON THE MOON--


If I lived in outer space before death or even now alive…
As my celestial body rises, I fly yet;
Are my footsteps on the wind?
Forever in my path are skies…
Yet I rise and...

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I tranquility
I’m calm
I restfulness
I’m peace and quiet
Peacefulness I am
I quiet in quietude
I’m silence
I’m soundlessness a hush
I’m calm
In the calmness of the Lord
PEACE


Stillness still am I
Privateness seclusion in mine solitude
Isolation retirement
Freedom from interference
Mental calm in mind...

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**THE MAN AND THE PEANUT**

Who was George Washington Carver?, black educator and scientist;
and maybe even some crimes he tried to abolish;
Then he devoted special attention to agriculture development;
From the sweet potatoes;
He developed things like dyes,
...

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in 2040 in a small town in
near Seattle. 
 A Group of college students
on a class assignment found
a briefcase with the words
"GODSENT" on the front.
they pried open the case and found
documents addressed to " Fittall...

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your Little Wonder

I broke away from all;
all of your little trappings;
God saw to that;
Your eyes;
Eyes seem to have hate (just where is the love);
Yes rights of hate this truth;
Sitting here napping, romancing...
All the negative things;
Being...

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Way, back me..
Git way back man
From now on there’s not gonna be no kissin, huggin or lovin, ya dig it;
Because we’re not juz your made up maids for U and ya filthy male friends;
Come on...

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As a young teen I sadly confess, I dreamt of becoming an actress.
A class assignment drew me to Warner's  in D.C., where I
brushed up against black history..
I stumbled into a meeting of the NAACP.
The...

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Shine on summer sun shine
Oh, oh, oh shine on, shine on sun, sun ah!, Oh shine
He gives me all his warm and tender love
He shines light through my window
And he’s such a amazing fellow, I...

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Everything’s been frantic since the break.
What people don’t tell you about college,
is that you’re just tired ALL of the time.
I’m so tired, yawn ‘scuse me.
So if you’re planning to talk to me, bring coffee, make
some...

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hiro
Hero hiro father I admired;
Always employing/employed
Not a LAZY bone;
faTHer always working
Always working, devoted;
Male parent, begetter, patriarch;
Biological father dad, daddy;
Always employing/employed
Not a LAZY bone;
faTHer always working
Always working, devoted;
Co-nurturer, father
very, very strong work effects, never took vacations
Next...

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"Oh, precious dragon you're ever so beautiful Your freshness caress surrounds my body you provide me with bliss and old perfect dragon how beautiful you are for my Consciousness does insist yet I resist your...

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At the Doorly Zoo a well-trained guerrilla waves
It’s 3:00 am
Gorilla flung his manure like a combat soldier in guerrilla warfare
No one but the ground keepers are there, MAN DOES IT SMELL

The phone rings at 3:00...

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Quietly I spoken, true words;
To shy to say;
Too shy to say out loud;
I love you!!
Spoken beautifully and loud and clear,
For the world to hear;
I say to myself God Oh Lord I love her;

I thing toe...

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This Age Old Tale Has Now Been Truly Told

Farmer was old, beloved land eroded
Story told, how his farmhouse exploded
Very soon after he was newly wedded
Inquiry his young wife dearly dreaded.

His body freshly placed in new...

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Class assignment: Read only the first verse of Easter 1916 by Yeats, then write a continuation (without looking up the original).

I have met them at close of day
Coming with vivid faces
From counter or desk among...

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I stand here in silences, but God knows me
I sit here in my personal space, quiet yet God hears me
You ask me how am I doing,  you speak to me, say, “Hi”
Ever so ever...

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When I am cold;
You make me warm;
Just like a anchor-hold;
Your love has counter-charm;

When you touch me

I feel  like flying;
Cause I'm on a natural high;
I'll feel like crying;
Honey, darling, please don't never leave me or...

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PANTOUM Believe it Or NOT-I LOVE EVERYBODY- -

At my old place of employment for many years
I was in charge of the jobs start up meetings
and in this informal business meeting
my start up salutations prompts was...

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I AM A HERO
BLACK
Are you my kryptonite
To battle the powers that be
Discrimination, political 
Spirituals warfare
Sadly my powers that be ruled over me
I AM A HERO 
WHITE Are you my kryptonite
White supremacy, skinned heads
Wounded knees
Shaved cold...

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LIGHT-SWITCH
I was ignored in the light
So I hid in the dark
I was shamed and sly
So I told myself a-lie
Full of despair, now I grown out my hair
Like Samson my strength in follicles
My feelings recreational 
Neither...

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Angels Above be with me 
keep me far from harm's way.
Angels Above above be with me 
throughout every moment of the day.
Guide me through my troubles 
and help me do my best.
I think now it's...

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Oh! as I begin this journal hardly ...I REMEMBER those Car-Keys
I remember in high-school the first time I placed car keys in the ignition

I remember that I had envision some grand flow

I remember that I...

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Death is beauty only when it’s physical and your –
Soul and spirit goes to heaven
Ugly is beauty causing you to recruiting
Beauty is just a name
For the selfish
And the immune
Beauty is beheld
And I shall not behold
~
Beauty...

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...suffice surrounding sides do say,
What if I were a shadow ;
And as I follow behind you this day;
It's you that I shall follow;

Surround you now not at night
Heavenly spirits never entice
Arise and cling only to...

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