***** REPUBLIC
...They captured and tortured my humanity.
They believed slavery and colonization would slaughter my Africanness.
Their heirs now ask me to sing praises of assimilation and integration,
To become yet...
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Categories:
radars, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Anchor My Soul
...I try to move the ship but enough water was not in the ditch
The water kept rising and falling and sometimes it feels as if my
Sprit is drowning; there are several avenues around me and all of them...
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Categories:
radars, america, business, community, endurance,
Form: Narrative
My Body Explained in Metaphor
...My Body Explained in Metaphor
My Life is an ever-changing hill.
I stagger up foot over foot
And hand over hand
If I’m lucky occasionally I trot down
My eyes are two cameras
They focus on wh...
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Categories:
radars, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Tracking the Extraterrestrials Amongst Us
...Tracking The Extraterrestrials Amongst Us
?
In shadows cast by stars above,
A nation's watchful gaze has found.
In covert ways, they seek to prove
The beings from beyond our kind.
Eyes keen, ...
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Categories:
radars, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Box Off
...Box Off
The black box that tells of approaching enemy missiles is turned off
The black box that jams enemy missiles it turned off
The black box that dispenses radar jamming chaff is turned off
Th...
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Categories:
radars, conflict, flying, war,
Form: Free verse
You Cant Hide
...“You can’t hide behind your finger..”
– Greek Proverb
You can’t hide behind your finger…
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Categories:
radars, body, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Sweetwaters Music Festival
...Far off the beaten track and trail
on quest for music’s Holy Grail
led pilgrims on biblical scale
more than can be counted.
With midsummer sun on our cheek
in tents to shel...
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Categories:
radars, adventure, music,
Form: Rhyme
Monoku Time Again
...I
Human perception is self-limiting - like radars, we scan for targets - not diffuse area.
II
Gestalt psychology knows how humans focus on figures, not background canvas....
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Categories:
radars, discrimination, environment, growth, identity,
Form: Monoku
Startled
...Pavlov got it right I feel, conditional behaviour we never seem to lose
This one revisits sometimes for me and dog, but over time it seems to weaken
Last year we walked away from our previous l...
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Categories:
radars, feelings, history, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Winter Whites
...*Image of Snow Winter White by Pixabay.
Winter Whites
Master winter's crystalline zephyrs brisk,
studies o'er its righteous domain quickly,
promptly the seasonal occurrence whisk,...
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Categories:
radars, color, winter,
Form: Sonnet
I Look For Stars
...our meeting
a casual conversation
breakfast and promise
but a phone number lost
and memories linger
over prairies plains distance
I look for stars
do you?
a place on roadmaps
I come to a...
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Categories:
radars, feelings, friendship, longing, remember,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
radars, conflict, environment,
Form: Free verse
Pathogen Given Provision
...Ocean girdled nation had prospect for absolute containment
Overseas observers, in distant comfort, complacent
Wuhan origin arrivals sparked a catastrophic failure
Leaving lock down 25th January, ...
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Categories:
radars, age, confusion, death, endurance,
Form: Quintain (English)
Sisterly Love
...My sweet baby sister (AKA the traitor)
Has radars for ears and the mind of a spy,
She eavesdrops, twists facts, and then tattletales,
And proudly serves mom an elaborate lie.
I swee...
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Categories:
radars, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Free To Roam
...A warship she is, this ship of gray,
Underway, underway, making way.
The decks vibrate, the tone, the sound,
Un-der-way-un-der-way, the pistons pound.
On the horizon stands a singular mast,...
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Categories:
radars, anger,
Form: Rhyme
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