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It’s Monday afternoon, the first day after Fall Break. Several of my suitemates are here, relaxing a bit before we hit the dining hall and then scatter, like debris from a bomb. There are a zillion things to do on campus, on any given night. Lisa and I are going to a seminar, Anna and
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Categories:
magazines, friendship, humor, perspective, school,
Form: Free verse
How Do I Find Success
How Do I Find Success?
Writing away, day by day,
Words are what I do,
Writing a story
Every character has to have some glory,
Writing a poem
Line by line,
Making that poem rhyme,
Writing a book,
That’s what I undertook,
And the writing continued
For me,
Day after day,
Month after month,
Year after year,
Churning out my best,
But how do I find success?
Published, sure, I am,
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Categories:
magazines, hope, inspirational, poetry, success,
Form: I do not know?
Magazines Suffocate Me
Magazines suffocate me in my sleep
They chase me down, they make me weep.
They cover my mouth, I cannot breathe.
They call me names, they will not leave.
Read me! Each demands in a haughty way.
They taunt me in my dreams all day.
They press up against my mouth and nose.
They whip me with a garden hose.
They chase me
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Categories:
magazines, 10th grade, women,
Form: Free verse
Hate To Let These Magazines Go
A pile becomes two piles pretty quickly.
Finally a fallen stack not picked up for a couple of days
Maybe a week.
A giant mess after two months.
Your feet slipping and sliding as you
maneuver around it.
Pretty soon it is not worth going into the living room
So you stay in the bedroom,
after using a shovel to make a
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Categories:
magazines, fun,
Form: Free verse
Magazine Ads Are Ridiculously Pricey
Designer shoe ads
Magazine ridiculous
Overpriced items
Movie stars can afford them
Regular people cannot
Exorbitant price
Two thousand dollar blouses
Dresses? Do not ask
Money I will never have
Magazine ridiculous
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Categories:
magazines, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Tanka
Magazines Are Holding Us Hostage
Magazines have captured us and taken us hostage. We were easy.
Not realizing how fast they multiply. We are up in our knees in them now.
They must have litters overnight, maybe in the daytime also.
They crept up on us sneakily, one or two at a time.
Mail carriers brought them in.
My husband dumped
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Categories:
magazines, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Light Verse
Women Magazines
Women Magazines
'you cant be too rich
and you be too thin'
the glossies spout out
'your efforts will win'
but forgot to tell all
there's only one snag
it's full of cake adverts
and £5 a mag !!
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Categories:
magazines, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Choosing Prolife Magazines
I was in Nazareth the other day
waiting for a visit with my acupuncture ecotherapist.
The waiting room is minimalist-zen, I suppose.
While waiting to be invited in next,
I took a chair
with a magazine table in front
displaying two magazines,
one to my left
and one to my right.
The one on my left
was about the Democrats' ProLife Policy,
advertising titles like
Earth's Cooperative
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Categories:
magazines, beauty, destiny, earth, health,
Form: Political Verse
Magazines In Every Corner
Magazines in every corner
Rubber bands on lids of jars
Silk ribbons and dried flowers
Glossy brochures from afar.
Mantle, desk, and table
Piled high with worn out books.
Long forgotten potpourri
ticked away in tiny nooks.
Faded quilts across the bed,
Davenport, and tattered chair
Decorated by a lazy cat
Gently grooming her gray hair.
Dusty must moldy air
Timelessly suspended
Ages past, lives once lived
Forgotten and now
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Categories:
magazines, life,
Form: Lyric
Do You Have Movies and Magazines That Don'T Belong In Your Home
I visited a garage sale. And had a
surprised look on my face.
I noticed that some things
were "out of place."
To my right... Was a shelf filled with books..
And Christian ones too.
To my left... Was a sign that read;
"I have adult movies for you."
I wondered and thought with
some kind of
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Categories:
magazines, confusion, daughter, dedication, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Magazines
Photographs of girls,
Thin, pretty in magazines:
Today's role models.
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Categories:
magazines, confusion, people, satire, teen,
Form: Haiku