Journey
...You are telling them to leave to go wandering in the street; you are telling them to leave when there's nothing in the pantry to eat. Their ancestors have journeyed across the red sea when the pharao...
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Categories:
montezuma, africa, america, books, business,
Form: Narrative
Two Genies With Wishes
...Magic happened on the shore of the Montezuma horizon
Two genies appeared, Mondomay and Mighizeb
Dressed in gauzy dainty chiffon, carrying two cats and a swan
They were a corpulent two, one with br...
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Categories:
montezuma, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Silence of River Styx
...In the shadows of the Montezuma mountains there lies an ethereal river
Ancient Greeks knew of it, and wrote legends, many which are lost.
She is the River Styx. Where your soul travels beyond flesh...
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Categories:
montezuma, mythology,
Form: Free verse
Old Glory
...Do not debauch the banner--red, white, and blue,
By waving it above traitorous insurrectionists’ yell.
Old Glory was “so gallantly streaming” in 1812,
It has stood the tests of time tried and true...
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Categories:
montezuma, america, history, patriotic,
Form: Curtal Sonnet
Human Sack Gruff Ice Agonizingly Glommed
...Human Sack Gruff Ice Agonizingly Glommed...
Murderously Skewered, And Torturously Zapped
Directv linkedin to accentuate
piddly money crisis, tis zen uneasy fate,
I imagine dragons gyrate
ting,...
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Categories:
montezuma, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Demons of Our Better Angels After Yeats
...First were the clowns
Shadowy angst of the Deplored,
Lurking at the periphery of our vision;
Then in the darkness, the stars wheel and weep;
As the hard words of hatred fly,
Let the Jews flee t...
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Categories:
montezuma, allegory, angst, passion, political,
Form: Blank verse
What Makes Me Happy
...What makes me happy?
Sometimes I wonder if anything makes me happy anymore,
But then I think,
There is something.
Several somethings.
I love her, my cat.
She may not like me too much,
But I ...
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Categories:
montezuma, happiness,
Form: Lyric
The Marching Band Played John Philip Sousa
...The marching band played John Philip Sousa
My daddy held my hand
Lining the streets elbows to my head
My daddy put me on his shoulders, where I could stand
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The marching marines stopp...
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Categories:
montezuma, child, nostalgia, patriotic,
Form: I do not know?
The Ocotillo Invasion
...Utah cringes as hacked Ocotillo turn carnivorous,
spitting psychoactive pollen into the atmosphere,
dusting entire subdivisions.
The victims wander,
searching eagerly for where sunlight is stro...
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Categories:
montezuma, crazy, dream, environment, future,
Form: Free verse
Montezuma's Revenge
...Must stay close to the WC
Senior Montezuma is laughing hysterically
Thoroughly enjoying his revenge at my expense
Didn't drink the water but it made no difference
Been back home for almos...
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Categories:
montezuma, humorous,
Form: Narrative
Trees
...The birch’s leaves seem to glow silver in sun’s light
While the trunk is ghostly white
The tree makes for nostalgic sight
But its beauty dazzles with delight
The willows crown is like liquid sunshin...
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Categories:
montezuma, tree,
Form: Rhyme
Grand Spanish God
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Montezuma Golden on earth he lived upon his land
Cortes his rival metalled horse and soldier Spanish grand
Aztec warrior a noble race to them a god should come
From far beyond their skeleton ...
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Categories:
montezuma, adventuregod, god, race,
Form: I do not know?
In Memoriam
...The end of May is coming . . .
When the nation celebrates Memorial Day.
Schools and offices are closed . . .
It's the summer's first holiday.
Do we remember why we celebrate today . . ...
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Categories:
montezuma, dedication, history, holiday, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
The Cross and the Lance...Pt.1
...The human experience fulfilling sensation,
our environment is our creation,
not ours originally,but ours to maintain,
natural system,needs are sustained...
Everybody has a bell that rings
cell...
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Categories:
montezuma, history, politicalworld, song, song,
Form: Free verse
I Have Read
...I have read about the destruction of jerusalem
But i do not think the mortality was greater than in Mexico
When Cortez heard
that Monteczuma was approaching
Speaking through Malinche he hung rou...
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Categories:
montezuma, adventure, education, rain, rain,
Form: Classicism
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