How Sam Got His Voice
...Sam Adams
Was born prematurely
Spent his first moments
In an incubator
Born with bad hearing
Bad vision
Bad teeth
And a speech impediment
And a learning disability
But he learned to cop...
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Categories:
public speaking, age, child, childhood,
Form: Narrative
The Acting Lark
...The acting lark
Since I was not going to be a George Ramsay of cooking
I decided to become an actor, paid my money and went
to the relevant studio, which situated in an old building
in Liverpool...
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Categories:
public speaking, 3rd grade, birth, blessing,
Form: Blank verse
Ict Helps the Man In Learning English
...By George P. Lumayag
The unconscious speaks against facts,
But the conscious mind reasons out that ICT can guide him.
MS Word reminds him of his misspelled words,
Highlighted by Red wavy und...
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Categories:
public speaking, internet,
Form: Couplet
Figuring Out Your Dream Job
...Want a job that includes oodles of math?
No math, despise math. Math Phooey!
No public speaking, I'd rather not be noticed.
Or running for office, wanting lots of votes?
Monday through Fri...
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Categories:
public speaking, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Why Do I Feel So Sad
...Why Do I Feel So Sad?
Why do I feel so sad?
I had lots of love.
Why do I feel so sad?
I still have lots of love.
Why do I feel so sad?
My career paid high.
Why do I feel so sad?
I w...
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Categories:
public speaking, change, future, hope, prayer,
Form: Free verse
Public Speaking
...Do you have a fear of public speaking?
Perhaps you should engage yourself with a little karaoke singing.
Afterwards, if you can look at yourself and laugh,
public speaking should become a less cha...
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Categories:
public speaking, confidence,
Form: Rhyme
Emotionally Intuitive
...Emotionally,
a wordsmith, caregiver, plant tender, embroiderer;
enjoy studying esoteric astrology, being in nature and dancing,
daydream of owning land, living remotely, publishing.
Sadness lives...
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Categories:
public speaking, dream, emotions, fear, identity,
Form: Bio
Stage Fright
...Come out come out! Where ever you are!
Those of you hiding in the crowd know
who you are.
Come out come out! wherever you are!
those of you scared to speak out loud
in front of a crowd know wh...
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Categories:
public speaking, adventure, allegory, courage, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
Dedication
...You gave me a voice no matter how it flow
It didn't matter how it goes. For I had you that's all I know.
I was shy and timid through all my public speaking
But you stood by my side through my writ...
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Categories:
public speaking, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Absent
...
Absent
By: Tom Wright
9-11-2019
Having never been gifted,
with a lodestar.
Public speaking,
isn’t listed in my repertoire.
So I often stammer,
while feeling red faced.
Pursuing o...
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Categories:
public speaking, how i feel,
Form: Lyric
The Bloomfield Poetry Circle
...‘Twas supposed to be just a one shot deal.
Share my tribute poem, and away I’d steal.
But two dozen disparate folk,
Quietly attended the words of not one but two poems I spoke.
Unaccustomed...
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Categories:
public speaking, appreciation, feelings, poems, society,
Form: Sonnet
Sojourner Truth
...Sojourner
Abolitionist. Slave. Women's Rights Activist. Mother.
Daughter of James and Elizabeth Baumfree. Wife of "Thomas", a slave
Lover of her five children, freedom, humanity, public speakin...
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Categories:
public speaking, history, people,
Form: Bio
Hello, I'M Still Here
...the way that I’m feeling right now
is exhaustingly difficult to explain with words –
I feel like a child, even now when I try to communicate
with you,
but I don’t think you’ve ever
...
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Categories:
public speaking, dad, daughter, forgiveness, growth,
Form: Free verse
Martin Luther King Junior
...Doctor Martin Luther King Junior
a black man from Atlanta, Georgia.
An activist and visionary
he spoke against racial injustice.
This Nobel Prize-winning man of peace
preached toleran...
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Categories:
public speaking, america, character, courage, destiny,
Form: Blank verse
Public Speaking
...Public Speaking
Public speaking made me nervous when I was in school
Getting up in front of class, I always lost my cool
I memorized my speeches and really knew them well
But between my brain...
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Categories:
public speaking, funny, school,
Form: Rhyme
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