Trifling war
...Why did i did that i shall never do that again
Should never make them feel like this again
Feeling empathy for the soul why am i doing it again I must be absurd overreacting again
I feel for t...
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Categories:
outlanders, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Innerverse
...Another day, I wanted to stay in bed, and live in the dream inside my head. Wondrous places, perfect faces, glowing lips painted red.
Outlanders call it pathetic, to prefer a world that's...
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Categories:
outlanders, dream, fantasy, introspection,
Form: Verse
The Outlander
...I am an Outlander
Who lives on a high hill
Overlooking a man-made lake
That once was a rapidly rushing river
Along whose banks the Ozarks Bluff Dwellers and the Osage and then Delaware
Hunted, f...
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Categories:
outlanders, change, childhood, community, history,
Form: Ballad
Gatlingburg Tennessee
...Did ya hear the whispering in the breeze,
It’s the great Smokey Mountains calling me homewards,
Listen to sweet tones of the Tennessee hills, it’s the great
Gateways of Gatlingburg, singing with...
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Categories:
outlanders, adventure, america, beauty, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Gamecocks
...Just because we wish it so, means not that it will pass;
this lesson’s one we all must learn in the Gamecock class.
Runs my blood, it’s red and black---garnet the deepest hue,
any orange is anathema...
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Categories:
outlanders, football, sports,
Form: Rhyme
Diaspora of Her Soul
...Amidst the binge of the champagne, and the glitter on the faces, she heard the
distant lullaby. Glistening repertoire of appreciation elated her, but her soul had been
far forlorn. She smiled her...
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Categories:
outlanders, death, introspection, , Lullaby,
Form: Prose Poetry