Long Preteen Poems

KEY - W: Will/Me - F: Friend - M: Mom

Thanksgiving week of '75, as a concurrent student earning multi-degrees from two campuses, and one off. I lived above the Uni, uphill, panicview Hilo Town and...

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Tell Them

To all who have never known, it's time that you've been told. 


Tell the population to change its ways before these lost lives and souls are all in vain. 

Tell the girls to think...

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Date:  April 2041

It's been one week now. There
Was no sign of the Black China 
Men. The other Hakim family 
Members decided to take residence 
Closer to the foundational family.
Which was Greatgrand and 
Carter Hakim...

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Drink the poison from my blood, breathe the rot from my lungs.
Take all that has been decaying inside me and nurse it to health like an injured bird.
A child who was once pure, turned sour...

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My life hasn't been easy 
I've experienced much pain. 

As a young child, I had a some- 
what of a normal childhood. 

I didn't have many issues, I 
came from a two-parent home. 

I knew...

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i may put my defense up in my castle,
i think i made a mistake, i may be drunk i don't no what it takes,
i stand in front of the mirror, seeing my reflection with red...

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Shortly after me and mom's showdown is when
I had my one and only out of body experience.I
had been doing dishes one summer Saturday evening as per dads direction.There was a knock at the door.I went...

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Ad Hoc Ad Litem: CHAPTER 1

Conscious/ness is a product of decisive reasoning; a sound mind, and based on scientific averages, a standard knowledge of what is right and, what is wrong.
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Angela is our oldest, she was the prettiest baby imaginable
Her large blue eyes from her Daddy’s side of the family, spoke volumes.
She had a gorgeous face and curls that danced when she toddled.
We thought she...

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Don't pass me by says the baby

in his mother womb

God already has a plan for my life

please don't  think of getting 

rid of me to soon.

Don't pass me by ,says the toddler

in his crib,

mommy...

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For Granted 

(Verse 1)
One day you have it all 
The next day you can loose it 
You have on life to live 
So you choose it 
Choose what you want to do 
Live out your...

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Trixie and Blixie were identical twins.
Darling little girls.
Hazel eyes. 
Big puffy shoulders.
Magical pearl-laden dresses, made by their mother, who was a wonderful seamstress.
People on the street would stop her.
“They are so cute!” they would say.
“Do...

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Coming from the same plane.....
They start talking, he offers to buy her a drink which she agrees 
A soft drink, it's just fanta
He shows her how to put the straw in through the lid
This is...

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whittlin' away
- an essay

I went to buy a pocketknife
recently for a preteen I know,
a small boy with wide dreams
and spaces to live in that match

The usual hardware haunt was
quite limited in its selection,
so I went...

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Why?
Why not!
Their point of view

Each Friday they drank 
vengeance
every bottle drowned
another ache

Knights
shedding the end of a week
elegant shine
lost in devil may care

Needs
numbed in a 3-day marathon
Drink, drink,
drink until dread's dead...

Why not?
Coz they can't unsee 
a...

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Behind The Curtain Door
There's one in front,
          there's one in back,
Both keyless doors,
          with wooden latch,
All else...

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I sit under that banyan tree
The same one we met under once
We were in our own world
Despite the blazing guns

The winds caressed your cheeks
The birds sang paying homage to your beauty
Your hair in which I...

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I’ve always envied men with curly hair,
men like Jim who receive compliments from strangers.
When we were young, women adored him,
failing to notice me.

I guess my hair has been a life-long curse,
looking like England’s Boris Johnson...

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There were times, long ago,

when the young, preteen me

would intertwine herself

with the age-limp branches

of one of the two odd trees out.

But now, five years later,

the new me has reshaped her story,

gazing back on the memory

of...

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There is coming a time with days of peace, poise, and promise.
But for now, these are the days of conflict, violence, war, and strife.
I use to hear the elderly say, "When I was Young.....", but...

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The legend begins before time begins
In a far away land so beautiful and green;
The child gushed out to the sunny world
And was given the name Eileen!
But the gal was not an ordinary child
For she spoke...

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Lemme tell ya'
about a kid 
whose mind is so far down the gutter
he was seen scheming on another kid's mother
being obscene
at the scene he
whistled and muttered  
"Nice Udders!"

I'm telling you
little dude is smooth
with more...

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To take baby steps... stumbling on the way. May fall on your bottom, several times… each day. Just a dibble maybe a dabble to ease into truth. Fetus, to infant, to toddler, to preteen, to...

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Best Boy Beyond

Precocious boy, yon ere the age of twelve,
Parades vast knowledge, complexity...

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She missed out on music lessons as a child.
Her parents taught her piano, which was so mild.
For years, she worked poorly and was lackluster.
And quit piano as a preteen as she couldn't muster.

She preferred Brian...

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