Why Is Governor Desantis, Killing So Many People This Year
the papers don’t say it,
they never do—
just the numbers,
like headstones without names.
men and women dropping,
old ones, poor ones,
sick ones who couldn’t pay
for the cure.
you look up,
there’s the smile on tv,
a governor’s smile,
white and sharp as a knife.
he says freedom,
but the graves keep filling.
he says choice,
but it’s always his.
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Categories:
many, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Mariguita has Many Meanings
mariquita has many meanings, one not so snug
she is a Spanish word for lovely polka dotted ladybug
she is also sometimes referred to as ladybird
An English word for ladybug which seems absurd
mariquita can also be referring to a pansy
or a faerie all antsy and dance-y
or a fairy light and airy, according to my Gran
another kind of
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Categories:
many, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Too many lives
my body ache and feel so old my soul torn and winter's cold i've lived too many lives
they say, "teenage is the best years of life but carelessness can bring you demise" lost in the petty things of life i lost a precious chapter of my life
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Categories:
many, 1st grade, emotions, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Too many lives
my body ache and feel so old my soul torn and winter's cold i've lived too many lives
they say, "teenage is the best years of life but carelessness can bring you demise" lost in the petty things of life i lost a precious chapter of my life
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Categories:
many, 1st grade, emotions, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Lived too many Lives
my body ache and feel so old
my soul torn and winter's cold
i've lived too many lives
they say, "teenage is the best years of life
but carelessness can bring you demise"
lost in the petty things of life
i lost a precious chapter of my life
they say, "care for each other, care for the poor
but care even more about
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Categories:
many, sad,
Form: Free verse
DAILY GRATITUDE SO MANY FRIENDS
I never thought I’d be blessed with so many friends
who make me smile…
who I’ve been blessed to know…
but my plan is…now that I have them…
to never let them go.
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Categories:
many, friend,
Form: Rhyme
Many and first as witness to Presidential crimes
Your experience in today
Change is not to be brought forth
Journal and starvation are framed
One mustn't and must speak
Afforded
The free press is after force of entry
Into location as advertised
"presidential crimes"
Can't is military discipline
Poverty is defined as can't
The United States can't unite
A document of a dollar in the poverty
The war is lost
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Categories:
many, america,
Form: Free verse
a world of many children
A World of many children
I read about people going to the dentist
getting shiny white teeth like Joe Biden
In Portugal, the white teeth craze is relaxed
The thought of an actress with perfect teeth
have to have them extracted because they
They were yellow and didn't have the odontology
of today
I remove my teeth at night and soak them
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Categories:
many, age, allusion, america,
Form: ABC
a world of many children
A World of many children
I read about people going to the dentist
getting shiny white teeth like Joe Biden
In Portugal, the white teeth craze is relaxed
The thought of an actress with perfect teeth
have to have them extracted because they
They were yellow and didn't have the odontology
of today
I remove my teeth at night and soak them
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Categories:
many, age, allusion, america,
Form: ABC
So Many Choices, Coincidentally
By the bye or by the way
either one I never say
I choose to use ‘incidentally’
anyway or accidentally
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Categories:
many, cute, language,
Form: Couplet
The needs of many World Class Quality
Aprilcity was the theme a ridiculous jesture
A smile to say it was witty
A jesture to say it was clever
A lighthouse ajurned to a castle
In the middle of the desert
Might the mermaids sing to me
Might the prayers of sea merchants
Sound above the rocks
Might the winds howl in such agreement
The staffs of respected people
To treat visitors as
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Categories:
many, appreciation, culture, fashion, food,
Form: Bio
Ladder Sways in So Many Ways
I linger, to pause for a while,
between the ladder rungs of what's been done below,
and what is yet to become above.
Below me stretches a dizzying array of tiers.
Each step is a relic of a decision,
I've made to take the next rung up or down—
Some firm, some sure, some splintered, and weathered.
Each step was risky, presuming
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Categories:
many, fate,
Form: Free verse
Many Associates Yet Alone
Isn't it funny how you can be surrounded by many people but feel so alone
It appears you have a social life because you're always checking your phone
But could it be an addiction to living life through the photos of others
Feeling an overwhelming sense of joy when seeing emotions by lovers
People talk with you but
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Categories:
many, lonely,
Form: Rhyme
MASK OF MANY FACES
Who am I, anyway?
I wear the mask of many faces.
I speak, read, and understand—
sometimes with words,
sometimes telepathy.
My voice changes with my face.
I just need a witness.
Attuned to me, I become every language you know,
but I do not know the geography of my own soul.
I dare not look at my face.
It is a drama mask—
sometimes surgical,
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Categories:
many, beauty, children, community, creation,
Form: Free verse
Why I Write Too Many Poems Like This
I guess I never grew up. I'm not mature.
Anyway, why'd I wanna do that fur?
My mom called me smart aleck so many times,
I'd be rich if, for each one, I had dimes.
Want someone to do something, just say "don't".
It may be dumb, but you can't tell me they won't.
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Categories:
many, poetry, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
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