Long Young person Poems

TO:  Department of Motor Vehicles Commissioner, Chief States Attorney

FROM: Dillen Dye’s Employer

8/16/16

RE: Some apparent non-compliance with the Americans With Disabilities Act; common courtesy, civil respect; freely accessible pursuit of health, happiness, and prosperity

I don’t...

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Grandma died when I was 18 years old, on Christmas day. I never really got to know her well, since the family had pretty much kept their distance from her due to her 'weird religion.'...

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You see the past in me
I'm alive...I survived the disdainful rainfall
Don't be shy to ask for help
I arrive...undone and I must've lost it all...cuz I get no where in life at all 
Can't help, but...

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Okay. So, according to her license plate, Sarah had something to do with the name “Welbeck Street” and had once asked if the Journal would consider using “Harvard Yard” in her name. Also according to...

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AND MANY THOUGHT WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE

Tell me child, what it was like so many years ago?
When as a young person you grew
In what we considered was times of uncertainty...

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Consonant Like A Vow (el)

Now ma nada twirly (to early) twittering 
condolences to the esprit de corps, qua 
(just recently) late John McCain, and his 
surviving family suddenly damning original 
way word odd did see,...

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a person aged from 13 to 19 years.
I am, no longer twelve
adolescence I am youth
Adolescence and I am in a transitional stage
I am a young person
Why? Is everyone always telling me what to do
I'm a...

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I saw a young man shouting in the street,
he couldn’t have been much more than twenty,
and for some reason felt ever so mad
about his country, this land of plenty.

He seemed to be so very passionate,
so...

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Eleven years later and the young boy from the corner,
kept up with his scouting and a leader he’d become,
Two people were so proud of every one of his achievements,
The leader who first met him, And...

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Dear Pastor:

Your sermon yesterday triggered memories going back more than 50 years.  
During the Jim Crow years in the South, I was about 12 years of age when out of nowhere it seems, a...

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Will I be a cleric or a pastor?
I 
I think of be a priest in Catholic Church,
All allies & helpers cry
Yes, my fiancée said I dared not,
 I awe her logic of rejects me to...

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the world watches Holmes
sit “dazed” in the courtroom,
with each mainstream media
monolith
churning out the sound bites
referencing his eyes & his
red hair---
the picture that goes viral is
of course the one that can
be likened most to something
out of...

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PHYSICIAN WILLIAM HARVEY CLAIMED THAT THE HEART IS A MUSCLE PUMPING BLOOD TO THE ORGANS OF THE BODY, ALSO HE DISCOVERED THAT THE VEINS FLOWED TOWARDS THE HEART.

AS A YOUNG PERSON WHEN EVER I READ...

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the rhino & cougar conundrum 

fair enough to say that when
s/he got into it, when she dove 
head-first into the pool of passion with
both eyes closed & arms outstretched,
that there was an inherent excitement
to be...

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Walking the local area coastline, 
Cup of coffee in the local Café 
Sitting, observing people passing 
Checking on dress sense today, 
Shoes, where did they purchase them? 
Spotted a homeless person 
Shabbily dressed and looking...

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Too Many Poppies  

I don’t want a poppy
I don’t want a shield
I don’t want to visit
Rows in Flanders Fields

Another young person 
Yes a young soldier fell
They laid down their life 
What story does it...

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The young must know that they are loved
For there is goodness in every young person
Give me souls--the souls of young people
These boys are not bad, these boys, they need me
In their midst I feel completely at...

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Most females have forgotten that it takes more than 
just being a woman to qualify as a lady.
Many women think that being sexy is all about 
T & A, and not about inner beauty and...

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How did the phrase “Spitting Image” originate
Seems kinda gross to me
Now here's something I've often wondered about
Do Queens expectorate... surely Kings do
For that matter, they pass wind too
Some people... okay some men...
Make a big production...

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And I sit here silently holding on in a world that is not my own
Wondering why outsmarting drug dealers
And running away from broken homes has landed me into a brave new world 
Where we go...

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Be Best..
What does that mean? This was to be the First Lady's attempt to reduce social media attacks on young kids who utilize social media more than ever these days.

This is however, the opposite of...

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Banned Books Week Thirtieth Anniversary

By Elton Camp

That some books are contemptible I must agree
But that’s not some fanatic’s call, but up to me

When books the government undertakes to ban
That type censorship can quickly get out...

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Courage is when . . . 

any person - like the crucified Christians in ancient times - take upon themselves certain death standing firm to their convictions.

Courage is when . . .

any person - such...

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Yes, therapist. I have a broken heart.

No...not the feeling of being crushed by a boulder, when you're rejected by a crush.

No...not the feeling of...realizing you're no longer the young person you used to be. Not...

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Oh my child...
Where is the chubby cheeked, innocent, wide-eyed toddler I swear was just standing in your doorway?
Oh my child...
Who is this beautiful young girl standing beside her handsome father today?
Oh my child...
Who is this...

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