Schools are Changing
...Gates once locked with poverty's rust
now swing on golden hinges
Every child a key-holder:
the girl whose fingers paint light from darkness,
the boy who dreams in mother tongues and thinks in mat...
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Categories:
polyglot, appreciation, books, care, change,
Form: Free verse
REAL TRUE COUPLET
...Putting words on paper does not make a poet,
Writing a recipe does not make a cake.
Knowing how to comment on football does not make a coach.
Reading just one book does not make an intellectual......
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Categories:
polyglot, allusion, analogy, appreciation, creation,
Form: Free verse
Polyglot Looney Toonies
...
Por Que Pig and Bugs Bonet
nisht parlez vous francais
Aber Mikhail Maus und seine spouse
drinkt 'L'chaim!' in ihrem haus
Eso es todo, amigos...
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Categories:
polyglot, giggle, international, language, word
Form: Rhyme
My Polyglot Pen
...My pen writes in English
My pen writes in French
Mon stylo écrit en français
My pen writes in Spanish
Mi pluma escribe en español
My pen writes in Italian
La mia penna scrive in italiano
My pe...
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Categories:
polyglot, class, freedom, inspiration, literature,
Form: Free verse
Alkas Poetry At a Bar
...In the bar where I drink,
I declare myself, I confess:
I go from poor to rich
in an instant,
From rich to poor
in the o...
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Categories:
polyglot, adventure, allegory, allusion, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Wine Poetrix
...When I drink wine,
I'm French, Italian, Spanish.
, German...I'm polyglot...!...
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Categories:
polyglot, allegory, allusion, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Light Verse
Polyglot Heart
...My mind is kind of uncultured,
but my heart is polyglot
speak all languages
that speak love...!...
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Categories:
polyglot, allegory, appreciation, language, love,
Form: Light Verse
Smith
...I am Irish,
I do not patter a brogue, not lilt, or prate the Celtic.
I’m annexed English, cockney, a dead queens piglish,
chameleon tongued.
Something took me, shook me like a spade
until an u...
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Categories:
polyglot, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Malignant Ulcer
...I see this ulcer
Mind boggling in perception
Body arresting in phenomena
Of diverse shapes and designs
Magnificently wrought together
In one whiff of putrid scent
It is of an exotic nature
Mag...
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Categories:
polyglot, integrity, leadership, metaphor, people,
Form: Didactic
Indecifrable Word Translation
...None word
surely achieves
the sense of pain and mirth...
Dressed in truth,
attempt to reach the sun,
but with wax wings
can't even exit the atmosphe...
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Categories:
polyglot, allegory, allusion, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Dancing Meditations
...Dancers
and health therapists,
meditators
and educators,
speak of an embodied
listening
and teachable "CORE."
We need,
on bad days,
and want,
on better days,
To exercise,
stretch,
fi...
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Categories:
polyglot, health, peace, philosophy, religion,
Form: Political Verse
Love You Messages
...When the StraightWhite Patriarchal President
sent out his Praise and Thanks Message
"We love you"
to those who would cathartically enjoy beheading
VicePresident St. Peter's Pence
loves homophob...
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Categories:
polyglot, health, love, peace, political,
Form: Political Verse
Lady Liberty Still Stands Proud In New York Harbor
...When did the arms of Lady Liberty turn inwards
Her torch extinguished; her poem long forgotten?
You have heard me say it often since begotten
That which makes America greatest is her diversity.
...
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Categories:
polyglot, america, history, language, new
Form: Quatrain
Bright Beauty
...If a maturely individuated ego...
Honey, you just left out most of us.
Could you work on being more inclusive?
is organically
holistically SelfAware,
co-redefining as
Not some Other consc...
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Categories:
polyglot, birth, earth, health, light,
Form: Political Verse
No Polyglot Here
...
No Polyglot Here
By: Tom Wright
9-7-2019-
I’m no shade of polyglot,
It’s only English for me.
Italian, French, or German;
Now which would it be?
Learning another language,
Would...
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Categories:
polyglot, funny, humorous,
Form: Lyric
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