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Make The Grade
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...I am so popular in the grocery store Ninety-nine cents One ninety-nine Two ninety-nine Three ninety-nine Four ninety-nine Overused and underpaid if you ask me Always a bridesmaid, never a br......
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Caren Krutsinger
Categories:
make the grade,
math,
Form:
Free verse
PAY ATTENTION
... I pay attention. I see the sadness in a young schoolgirl’s eyes When she has been cruelly ridiculed and ostracized. For what? She doesn’t look the same As others; too tall, too fat, too blon......
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Chula Schlesinger-Fleming
Categories:
make the grade,
inspiration, introspection, philosophy,
Form:
Rhyme
Through The lenses
...I don’t like what I see; the camera keep staring at me; I don’t like what I see the stars keep shining above me and the earth is moving beneath my feet and my heart sorrows suddenly rolled away in t......
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Christine Phillips
Categories:
make the grade,
beautiful, best friend, change,
Form:
Narrative
Give
...Day by day As I make my way Far I have come Wondering what it is I am running from Or running to Wondering through life with no clue True Still becoming me Through all I see Each day that go......
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William P. Harris
Categories:
make the grade,
celebration, introspection,
Form:
Rhyme
Dental Rockstar
... I went to the dentist It had been awhile Yet after much drilling Followed by filling The bills heaped in a pile He said come twice a year Or try to make it three Brush three times a day A......
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David Fisher
Categories:
make the grade,
crazy, health, repetition,
Form:
Rhyme
FORGIVENESS
...FORGIVENESS They say that I should have forgiven Well, maybe could instead of should Such generosity of spirit is rare in me I am at heart, a somewhat cold entity If I were able to forgive, we......
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Howard Osborne
Categories:
make the grade,
forgiveness,
Form:
Rhyme
Rambling words
...Time on my mind So much left behind Life stuck in rewind Doing my best Trying pass life's test As I bumble my way Through each day Learning as I go Because I wish to know If it was even wor......
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William P. Harris
Categories:
make the grade,
allusion, angel, bird,
Form:
Rhyme
Living
...They say prison is a bad place to be From what I see Must be easier than life here outside The pain we hide Life out here Lot of fear They get locked up cause they can't handle real life Need......
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William P. Harris
Categories:
make the grade,
absence, bullying, conflict, fate,
Form:
Rhyme
Sound
...There you go, thinking you have to try Even though you know in the end you'll just cry Thinking one of these days I'll mend my ways Maybe find myself new As the hunger grew Turn on the light M......
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William P. Harris
Categories:
make the grade,
anxiety, art, blessing,
Form:
Rhyme
Older
...Seems as I grow older My body grows colder My eyes have started to fade In life I didn't make the grade My hair is gray So tired today I forget what I wanted to say Days seem long What have I......
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William P. Harris
Categories:
make the grade,
age, blessing, care,
Form:
Rhyme
New Cars and Cameras
...New Cars and cameras New places to go Another man to comfort you When you’re feeling low Remember all the times we spent Sharing everything as one Watching sunsets on the beach Kissing n......
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Mike Miller
Categories:
make the grade,
betrayal, emotions, goodbye, heartbreak,
Form:
Rhyme
Unfinished Sonnet
...I'm told that I'm supposed to write a sonnet, It isn't something I could ever do; I know I'd rather shop to buy a bonnet; A size six foot won't fit a size five shoe. I look and see how little......
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Jay Narain
Categories:
make the grade,
smile,
Form:
Free verse
Heaven and Hell Access All Areas
...As I wrote about Hell My senses got heightened I wrote an incredible poem But deleted it, frightened I'll try again, but from a safe space Like Tenacious D Lost something great in haste But he......
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Di11y Da11y
Categories:
make the grade,
hope,
Form:
Rhyme
Four Eyes
...You've been wrapping about my epitaph corteges don't make the grade Someone still saying goodnight Irene You have Midnight flights of fancy Someone is still playing pious your silver eyes still ......
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Antony Glaser
Categories:
make the grade,
analogy, appreciation,
Form:
Free verse
Hiding In Plain Sight
...Music has a special taste feelings lost in sound Touching heard across the room vision by the pound References left unto themselves choir boys in tune Trading what they never had tribute to......
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Kurt Philip Behm
Categories:
make the grade,
senses,
Form:
Rhyme
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