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Inferiority Complex As a Kid, Adolescent and Emerging Adult
Inferiority complex as a kid, adolescent and emerging adult

Yours truly (an amazingly,
gracefully, and markedly modest
passively aging baby boomer -
formerly introverted long haired
pencil necked geek),
prattling wordsmith doth behold
nostalgic memories regarding father
(Boyce Brandon Harris)
long ago lapsed decades

during...

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Categories: de facto, 11th grade, 12th grade, 1st grade, 2nd
Form: Rhyme



Onerous Task Confronted Teachers and Parents
Onerous task confronted teachers and parents

As prospective students
ably ready themselves to matriculate
and/or first set little feet 
inside halls of learning,
I rebroadcast a poem crafted
at the height of Covid-19.

A couple years gone back educators
adaptation regarding coronavirus...

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Categories: de facto, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 6th
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Each Day of Our Lives
Each day’s (we’re alive) one more leaf that has fallen
from tree (Fate’s collusion?), our edifice grown
with the help of light garnered from sources outside
of our provenance, moisture, and minerals,
‘cheap’s’ turned to ‘gold,’ not by Chemistry’s...

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Categories: de facto, humor, political,
Form: Rhyme
Literal Sense
LITERAL SENSE :

Concrete counterintuitive ratioed for looser and Leader;
Interim arguments to know who's worst and best person,
Makes no sense either.
Itemised unique personalities need no prejudice session. 
Sparked to negate fallacious  rudiments; deal art.
Trumpling down...

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Categories: de facto, inspiration, wisdom,
Form: Lyric
Extra Extra Trumpasaurus Extinction
Extra...extra...Trumpasaurus Extinction...
iz only wishful thinking

Political polls whether advisory still consider 
forty fifth president 
dangerous, hazardous, lymphomatous...
known to wield violent blows,
his delusional perception analogous 
to fable regarding emperor without any clothes
best to handle beast with more'n...

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Categories: de facto, abuse, age, america, angst, anxiety, bullying, fear,
Form: Rhyme



Twas the Night Before Inspection
Twas The Night Before Inspection...,

Not a human creature stirred, nor seen 
through out Highland Manor, 
     property carpeted in lush green
(a deathlike stillness descended un keen
hilly quiet, October 10th, 
 ...

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Categories: de facto, 11th grade, 12th grade, adventure, conflict, fate,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
Memoir: Crashing Women's Studies- Feminists, Beware Lol
Don't ask me how it happened; I have no clear recollection. I have always had this brazen habit of coming right out and directly asking for whatever I want; I always figured "no!" was the...

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Categories: de facto, art, funny, poetry, social, women,
Form: Narrative
Twenty first century civilization gone I askew
Twenty first century civilization gone?... I askew.

Ah... what luxury to wax poetic 
as freedom to trumpet thoughts, 
ideas, emotions, et cetera will wane,
especially if president number forty five
courtesy wealth and/or stealth
dons the mantle as de...

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Categories: de facto, abuse, america, anxiety, bereavement, crush, hate, november,
Form: Rhyme
Atomic Brinkmanship Double Edged Sword of Damocles
Grisly bared horror jawbones Kristallnacht
totalitarian brandishes, flaunts, launches 
global threat half cocked.

Vladimir Putin itching
to loose nuclear bomb
end of the world scenario ofttimes
iterated throughout history
though an atheist (actually Unitarian),
no doubt this, that or another psalm
countless times...

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Categories: de facto, 11th grade, 12th grade, age, angst, cry,
Form: Rhyme
A Letter To Dear Mr President Abraham Lincoln
When you proclaimed all slaves in the U.S.A. to be freed, it meant the total abolishment of the slavery system, I suppose.  When you issued the Emancipation Proclamation, I think what you had in...

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© Su Ben  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: de facto, america, black african american, freedom, prejudice,
Form: Narrative
Inferiority Complex As a Kid, Adolescent and Emerging Adult Part One
Yours truly (an amazingly,
gracefully, and markedly modest
passively aging baby boomer -
formerly introverted long haired
pencil necked geek),
prattling wordsmith doth behold
nostalgic memories regarding father
(Boyce Brandon Harris)
long ago lapsed decades

during papa's prime time
many years past when complacence
existed about...

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Categories: de facto, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, 1st
Form: Rhyme
Electorate On Tenterhooks Until
Electorate on tenterhooks until...
outcome of 2020 presidential election announced

Polling places slated to open seven o'clock
in the morning November third two thousand twenty
heightened tensions will strain patience
to breaking point concerning
extreme anticipation common joe experiences
(biden his/her time)
regarding...

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Categories: de facto, 12th grade, bullying, change, environment, grave, horror,
Form: Free verse
Twas Fortnight Before Inspection 2021
Twas fortnight before inspection 2021...,

Not a human creature stirred, nor seen 
throughout Highland Manor, 
property carpeted in lush green
gently hilly terrain,
(a deathlike stillness descended un keen
quiet and quite cool April 26th, 
deux thousand twenty one).

Vicious...

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Categories: de facto, abuse, anxiety, april, community, courage, cry, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
Atomic Brinkmanship Double Edged Grisly Horror Jawbones Kristallnacht
Vladimir Putin itching
to loose nuclear bomb
end of the world scenario ofttimes
iterated throughout history
though an atheist (actually Unitarian),
no doubt this, that or another psalm
countless times the Bible
references Armageddon and doomsday
impossible mission to remain
cool, collected and calm.

Whether...

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Categories: de facto, abuse, angst, bullying, environment, farewell, grief, heartbreak,
Form: Rhyme
Morning Coffee
”This morning, with her, having coffee.”.
(Johnny Cash, when asked for his description of paradise)
 
A coffee stain on my desk; you left it behind,
and I sojourn there, staring at it like it was a magic...

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© Diana Bosa  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: de facto, absence, blue, leaving, lost love, love, morning,
Form: Free verse
Snaggletooth the Snitch
Me and the missus live in decent
sturdy accommodations (formerly 
Schwenksville Elementary School
ofttimes referred to as prison,
and manager as the de facto warden),
albeit not so shabby nor chic low income 
quite modest (rather unmatchable cost wise)...

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Categories: de facto, absence, autumn, care, class, friend, funny, identity,
Form: Rhyme
Onerous Task Confronts Teachers and Parents Part One
The following reasonable obsolete rhyme
verst heard in my faux class (sic) lilting brogue
courtesy coronavirus (COVID-19) rogue
wrought approximate sixth month academic hiatus
nevertheless September 1st, 2020
signals resumption of school year back in vogue.

Challenges abound as millions of...

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Categories: de facto, 1st grade, 2nd grade, 3rd grade, 4th
Form: Rhyme
Peyton Proved His Excellence In His Shortcut Life
Peyton, a thirteen year old boy
Looks on, pose for a photo; 
He’s in for a test with sound health 
Going to rejoin school   
After long break for crucial treatment
And awesome wait 
After the...

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Categories: de facto, bereavement, betrayal, teen,
Form: Free verse
Woke Up September 6th 2020
Woke up (September 6th, 2020)...

Got outta bed boot
did not drag comb against head
of  beetle browed foo fighter,
he did not arise
bright eyed (by George), nor bushy tailed
to bucket flush toilet.

After attending her asinine
morning toiletries, the...

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Categories: de facto, blessing, celebration, fate, humorous, international, joy, september,
Form: Rhyme
Atomic Brinkmanship Double Edged Grisly Horror
blue war red hot political issues dont amount 
to a hill of beans 
   when Sword of Damocles  count
approaches zero hour 
   as global tensions mount

signaling increased chance 
 ...

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Categories: de facto, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, culture,
Form: I do not know?
Charge D Affaires Struck By Lightning Bolt
Charge d'affaires struck by lightning bolt

While high falutin dip low matt
flying his kite insurgents
planned coup d'etat
clear out of blue, a devilish
forked, jagged, knifed
dagger "O" type electric current licked

more'n the pants off harried envoy
clear rants heard
all...

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Categories: de facto, 10th grade, 11th grade, 12th grade, conflict,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Which Here Is Dorothy --
and Which the Witch?

Warning!  Suitable for Children Only!

"That dog's a menace to the community.
I'm taking her to the sheriff to make sure she's destroyed."
-- Miss Almira Gulch,
a citizen taxed,
speaking of a pet owner

* ...

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Categories: de facto, pain,
Form: Rhyme
No Longer Hungering For An Appetite
Though not exceptionally
famished, I took one bite
after another until tureen
licked clean to the delight
of zee missus, whose tasty

two stuffed peppers numbered finite
adequately apportioned appeased
served December 26th, 2020
supreme supper highlight,
hers whose non verbal expression
translated high as...

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Categories: de facto, 11th grade, 12th grade, december, food, husband,
Form: Rhyme
Poetic License Sic Stet Amor
Alter-ego                                  ...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: de facto, allusion, art, language, love, poetry, rights, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Driving Thru Rat Race Maze
I ain't gonna brag, boast, blab...,
lest yours truly suffers demise from backstab,
resignedly taking wheel of our automobile
donning, (but NOT trumpeting) 
role as taxi cab

shuttling the missus, (she effusively glad)
to medical appointment
me, the obliging husband
in order...

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Categories: de facto, adventure, allusion, appreciation, environment, funny, recovery from,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs