USPS Stamps Poetry Contest
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To have your picture on the face of a stamp,
Is a honor reserved for the ones who cultivated change
Among the mèlange of inspiring faces,
Lays the face of someone who served on the basis,
Of fr...
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Categories:
motivator, black african american, freedom,
Form: Ekphrasis
Act Of Defiance
...All at once I absquatulated,
in hindsight now I know why.
The craziness simply escalated,
I no longer held the desire to try.
The pellucid message in silence
is a fierce strong-arm motivato...
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Categories:
motivator, emotions, feelings,
Form: Quatrain
A Father
...A father is the reason a child grows up so strong
A father gives us the confidence, and the idea to go on
A father set the example for his children way of life
A father is the head of the house an...
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Categories:
motivator, deep, emotions, father, fathers
Form: Rhyme
Civilization
...I’m an Asian
So, I’m civilized!
-Really?
I’m a European; an American white
I’m an Oceania and I’m civilized!
-Really!?
I’m an African
Victim of apartheid
An oppressed black
But, I’m ...
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Categories:
motivator, satire, social,
Form: Free verse
Journaling fantasies
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Have you ever seen the glimmer in my eye?
Have you heard the thump of my heart?
As quiet as it may be, just your sight sends me soaring.
Just your presence brings miniature clouds of hea...
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Categories:
motivator, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Feeling It
...Feelings felt are hard to feel when feeling isn't really ur deal
Pain is easier to describe it's much more deliberate it takes more pride
Pride is something not everyone has the honor to experience...
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Categories:
motivator, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Love and change
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Is it about time I turned a corner,
And mix with more friends and not be a loner.
Grow with confidence push myself harder,
Nourish my body with trips to the larder.
Walk wi...
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Categories:
motivator, bereavement, cancer, death,
Form: Rhyme
Souls are Worth What You'd Sell for
...My first enemy was one I should have loved
He claimed that he loved me but I suppose not enough
He carved the gaps in all my memories
And deprived me of what made me
A child at twelve and adult a...
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Categories:
motivator, abuse, death of a
Form: Free verse
Mandella had the right idea
...Mandela had the right idea for sure.
How can the law get justice for crimes of a repugnant nature,
That are bought to light 30 or forty years in the future,
When evidence is scarce by nature,
And...
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Categories:
motivator, age, change, character, confusion,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Mountain Movers
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MORTALS like you and I can do great and mighty things.
We can OPEN locked doors without assigned keys. We
can operate UNDER the circumstances or in spite of them.
We NEVER say never or accept ...
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Categories:
motivator, confidence, faith, god,
Form: Free verse
A starseed, A lightworker
...Finding selflessness serving the good of the greater
The mission, leaving all better, a little more sound
A starseed, a lightworker; a humanity relator
I'm drawn to those whose emotions need a r...
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Categories:
motivator, deep, faith, humanity, inspirational,
Form: Villanelle
Silent Thoughts
...Right here and there
I never wanted to be alive
This living thing traps my emotions
Turning them into devotion
I can never tell
If this is really what I planned for
Or something that everyone w...
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Categories:
motivator, allusion, dark, depression,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Lawless Land
...dreams …
diaphanous …
mysteries of the mind
that will never find an answer
fluid and dynamic
beyond our affect or sense …
personally,
I remember only a couple from my childhood
rather nonde...
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Categories:
motivator, analogy, dark, dream, fear,
Form: Free verse
On Pain
...Children cry.
I cannot scream.
Finding the itch is more than losing the twitch.
Pain speaks every day.
It speaks of the inability to remain still.
A need to scream w...
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Categories:
motivator, pain,
Form: Free verse
Tales of Two Run Outs
...There was a legend in the world of cricket,
For whom fans rushed to buy the tickets.
Who started getting run out on 1st wicket
And like a poem, got run-out as well in his last ODI wicket.
He ...
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Categories:
motivator, appreciation, childhood, devotion, farewell,
Form: Rhyme
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