Sued for Outstanding Balance
We used to call it Pit City.
Section eight housing.
My mom called ahead—
I was sixteen and still scared
to ask for what I needed.
I was on work-study
at a clean family practice
just around their corner.
A freak snowstorm.
They still lived there.
My mother’s friends.
Less lucky.
Sue was the daughter.
She’d shown me a bong
when I was nine.
She was cool in a way
I
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Categories:
outstanding, age, perspective,
Form: Free verse
My Time Is Now
The starry night,
Put me on a Trailblazer,
Walking through a crowd,
Without making a scene,
Of all the people I have seen,
Is there a place where I have been,
To a corridor where I have been there since,
I give myself a triumphant glimpse,
Until the eclipse,
Overshadowed by the blink,
It is not what it seems,
I did not play a game,
For bringing
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Categories:
outstanding, 12th grade, adventure, angel,
Form: Rhyme
Urban Afforestation
Condors and skyscrapers
Concrete walls and glass walls
Are outstanding landmarks of a city
Blocking the view of the sky and greenery
Cars and heavy traffic
Highways and flyovers
Add to the hazards of pollution
Urban afforestation is needed
To embellish our environment
To purify our environment
Greenery gives us spiritual calmness
and freedom
Soothing our eyes and souls
A reflection of purity, life and vigour
Shrubs and trees
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Categories:
outstanding, beauty, environment, freedom, green,
Form: Free verse
Cooking
Cooking is not a simple chore
In a closed up world of a woman
From purchasing, preparation,cooking
To cleaning up
A one-man-job
But ask for food varieties
Boiling,baking,steaming,roasting
Frying,pickling,seasoning,decorating
And a nutritional balancing
All are not that simple
To please
Not only the tongue
Choosy is the food
Choosy is the work performance
Choosy is the input
Choosy is the output
The so called an outstanding task
Of
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Categories:
outstanding, food, jobs, woman,
Form: Free verse
The Outstanding Story
Standing out in a field of outstanding corn
Swish found herself standing in line for the outhouse,
which was located way out in the back forty.
It actually stood in the middle of a corn row crop circle
Also in the line for the loo was an alien who was outstandingly blue.
Swish was too shy to engage him in
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Categories:
outstanding, word play,
Form: Free verse
Outstanding Melting Warmth
Determinately mean, sometimes severely cold can
December be.
But never does the love the sun has for us weaken.
In the aftermath of a snowstorm, there it is.
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Categories:
outstanding, hope,
Form: Free verse
Be Outstanding
Be outstanding
Forget the crowd
Follow your spirit
I tell you no lie
You cant loss
Your destination
If this be your way
Is obvious the crowd
Is been fooled
Is obvious so many
In the crowd are lost
So follow what is right
Don't grow to please the world
Instead grow to be
Who you are
Only this can
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Categories:
outstanding, africa, confidence, courage, encouraging,
Form: Epic
Horn Outstanding Haiku
Be A Better Putter
Be A Better Putter
Was with naughty iron that is a nine,
Which some say has become benign;
Balls seem to be slow as molasses;
Do need to take many more classes.
From golf course she would be cut;
Played never learning how to putt,
And you should see her terrible scar,
Received for not ever making par.
Received setback
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Categories:
outstanding, allegory, analogy,
Form: Haiku
Outstanding Inspirational Women
Inspired by Kath Walker, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Emily Dickinson
Ella you captured me
with all of yours I read
Curled up with all your poems
How they touched my heart and head
Though some they may not agree
Hence they were left behind
Your character was flawless;
With all that you had signed.
Emily I do begin
To search my very soul
Deeper now with all
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Categories:
outstanding, for her, inspiration, poetess,
Form: Rhyme
Outstanding Result
R-ighteous
A-uthor
Q-uietly
U-ses
E-xcellent
L-ines
M-aking
O-utstanding
R-esult
A-s
L-itterateur
L-ets
O-ptimism
S-tand
Topic: Birthday of Raquel Morallos (February 09)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
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Categories:
outstanding, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Outstanding Car
My outstanding car
lives forever in sampling
in future workshop
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Categories:
outstanding, allegory, allusion, car, funny,
Form: Monoku
One Outstanding Dedication
L-itterateur
I-n
Z-est
E-mploys
T-he
T-errific
E-xpression
W-ith
O-ne
O-utstanding
D-edication
W-onderfully
O-ffering
R-egards
T-o
H-appily
R-elieve
E-veryone's
E-veryday
S-orrowful
E-motion
Topic: Birthday of poetess Lizette Woodworth Reese (January 09)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
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Categories:
outstanding, birthday, poetess,
Form: Acrostic
Outstanding Natal Greetings
N-ice
O-ccasion's
M-oment
E-mploys
R-ighteous
M-essage
A-s
A-uthor
M-agnificently
B-rings
O-utstanding
N-atal
G-reetings
Topic: Birthday of Nomer Maambong (January 06)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
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Categories:
outstanding, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Outstanding Nobility
E-xcellent
D-enotation
I-s
L-etting
Y-our
N-ame
B-egin
A-dvancing
Y-our
L-ine's
O-utstanding
N-obility
Topic: Birthday of Edilyn Baylon (August 10)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
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Categories:
outstanding, birthday,
Form: Acrostic
Outstanding Kind
E-xcellent
L-itterateur
I-n
Z-est
A-uthors
C-omposition
O-n
O-utstanding
K-ind
Topic: Birthday of poetess Eliza Cook (December 24)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
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Categories:
outstanding, birthday, poetess,
Form: Acrostic
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