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I FELL IN LOVE

...I fell in love with words. This verb That URGE! was all of the most powerful Emotion of everything I knew. I FELL HARD! Such a CHARGE! I knew a GOOD GROOVE NOW! The knowing and WISDOM of the ......Read the rest...

Categories: north carolina, allusion, angst, beach, best
Form: Free verse

The Real Black History

...Written By: D. Collins 2/26/24 When I hear "a country of immigrants" I wince in pain. Because one ethnic group traveled here in chains. ......Read the rest...

Categories: north carolina, slavery,
Form: Crown of Sonnets

Upon approaching advent of an early spring 2024

...Upon approaching advent of an early spring 2024 (alternately titled GENESIS RESPLENDENT) No matter the calendrical/official onset of vernal equinox takes places Tuesday, Mar 19, 2024 and transpi......Read the rest...

Categories: north carolina, 12th grade, animal, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme

THE STORY OF MAE ROCK

...I have a slavery folktale of my own I am Mae Rock, and I was once a slave Always taught being black you must behave How did I get the name Mae Rock? I was named for Unbreakable, Unstoppable and S......Read the rest...

Categories: north carolina, anger, anxiety, betrayal, character,
Form: Free verse

Leaving a book incompletely read tantamount to being sacrilegious

...Preface: On February 4, 1861, the seven states that had seceded by this point convened and created the Confederate States of America under the leadership of Jefferson Davis. Just under two m......Read the rest...

Categories: north carolina, absence, america, anxiety, baptism,
Form: Free verse

Elena

...North Carolina ballerina, sweet lady of the Piedmont, she so sterling, died from the selfishness of a drunk driver. Gliding into a pirouette as she enters God's garden of youth. The anguish......Read the rest...

Categories: north carolina, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Free verse

Jose Mendoza

...Jose Mendoza, was a young migrant farmworker, he was harvesting sweet potatoes on Barnes Farming property in Spring Hope, North Carolina on September 5, 2023. The temperature was in the 90's, a......Read the rest...

Categories: north carolina, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Elegy

Returning To the Snowman

...We built a snowman the other day when winter had the gall to visit North Carolina…in the middle of the Fall We went back the next day to visit our snowman… to the exact post we set him on but s......Read the rest...

Categories: north carolina, snow,
Form: Rhyme

Overlapping Joy

...Some days when I wake up….I have this comfort system I employ… I list a few things…a kind of free association…that I’ve found bring me joy. I have discovered here in North Carolina…a different lo......Read the rest...

Categories: north carolina, joy,
Form: Rhyme

Waiting For the Change

...We’ve come North Carolina in October…to visit the Blue Ridge Mountain Range… to experience the coolness of the season and watch the leaves of Autumn change. We’ve come in early October because we......Read the rest...

Categories: north carolina, autumn,
Form: Rhyme

The Reason For a Missing Poem

...I did not post a poem yesterday… I’m sure some of you were concerned…even though nobody inquired…. to set your minds at ease…I didn’t forget…I am not sick…nor have I retired… It wasn’t from lack......Read the rest...

Categories: north carolina, humorous, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

The Old Mill Is Gone

...The streets are filled with crying men, filling the gutters up with tears. As we walk from our final shift, that’s fed us for a hundred years. Eleven hundred jobs vanished, like a leaf caught......Read the rest...

Categories: north carolina, poetry,
Form: Rhyme

A Day Late But Not Forgotten

...A Day Late but not forgotten By Franklin Price 08/19/2023 Nineteen months and a day ago, my Barbara left this life She was my muse, my lover, was my darling and my wife. I'm in a Louisiana mot......Read the rest...

Categories: north carolina, anxiety, god, granddaughter, love,
Form: Couplet

Rain - North Carolina

... Swiftly, lightening Flashes in the sky, singing ~ Melody so calm ......Read the rest...

Categories: north carolina, appreciation, home, rain, storm,
Form: Haiku

Operation Christmas Child

...Throughout the world year after year, shoeboxes packed with gifts bring cheer to needy kids who hold them dear. Their smiles are a delight. Each person’s small donation buys a child much-neede......Read the rest...

Categories: north carolina, children, christmas, joy,
Form: Rhyme

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