The Real You
...Maybe it is not fair,
that I have been
clinging to an idea of you—
because maybe
the real you—tempered between
my fits of desires and invention—
carries less music,
walks a busier street,
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Categories:
reimagine, allusion, betrayal, change, courage,
Form: Free verse
To the Moon and Back
...ill drive down the highway at one eighty two
you'll say that'll we'll die but i know that can't be true
cause the strings and the signs of fate pulled us together
and they won't tear us apart for...
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Categories:
reimagine, 12th grade, allusion, light,
Form: Rhyme
If Dreams Mean Anything
...Who are you and who am I
and could it be we’re kindred spirits
deep inside?
And I wonder if this life’s a dream, the matrix
of an endless scheme
begotten long ago,
when time was not
and ...
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Categories:
reimagine, birth, death, life,
Form: Rhyme
Nuclear Winter: Holiday Dinner Reimagined
...
We sat in the fallout
of last year’s gift exchange—
smashed angel centerpiece
taped back together
as good as a rogue bomb
if someone mentioned it.
Our voices dragged
like anchors throu...
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Categories:
reimagine, christmas,
Form: Free verse
Chalk Dust and Stardust
...Amidst the chaos of chalk and dreams deferred,
We ask ourselves, where can we find the spark
In this labyrinth of rote and rigid words?
The burden we bear, a future stark
We've trudged through ...
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Categories:
reimagine, education,
Form: Free verse
Endangered Education
...In halls once filled with promise bright,
A shadow creeps and dims learning's light.
Reform, a word with noble aim,
Now, threatens all in education's name.
Standardized tests, a rigid cage,
Co...
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Categories:
reimagine, education, psychological,
Form: Free verse
Its your Birthday!
...Its your B’day,
Time to be Happy & gay.
Put on that lovely smile & walk that extra mile!
After all the cakes you bake,
The calorie counter is at stake!
Lay down the boots, drop the shoulder.
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Categories:
reimagine, birthday, fun,
Form: Rhyme
Work
...Words
Are not sufficient to express
The devastation waves that crashes
Into a dead wish
Exhaustion
Engulf the body of cocooning tiredness
To sprawl upon hard cold surfaces
Reimagine arms aro...
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Categories:
reimagine, anger, anxiety, business, career,
Form: Free verse
Descartes Reborn
...If consciousness dies
is that all there is
or does some higher state
reimagine what was
When consciousness dies
will birth reoccur
no longer indentured
to time and its spurs
If consciousn...
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Categories:
reimagine, imagination, time,
Form: Rhyme
From Death To Mirror Magic
...Switching from satanic to death magic is difficult,
Between the two the sense of honor becomes hope,
As death magic happens without manifesting,
The energy we use to think as muscle,
Satanic tens...
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Categories:
reimagine, angel,
Form: Rhyme
Long In the Tooth Male Doth Recount Reflect Reimagine
...Long in the tooth male doth recount, reflect, reimagine...
his woebegone damn dental daze today May 5th, 2021
No particular rhyme nor reason
garden variety indentured flunky (me)
revisits his ...
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Categories:
reimagine, 2nd grade, absence, age,
Form: Rhyme
For Just Once
...If your courage lasted for
just an instant
Overriding your fear,
all excuses behind
If one choice you made
could then reimagine
A world once illusioned
—stepping out of your dreams
(The New...
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Categories:
reimagine, courage, dream,
Form: Free verse
This Is Earthjust Us
...This is Us,
my waist too big,
his check too small,
she's not the fairest
of Them all,
We must confess,
This is Ugly,
we are a mess,
the Earth's ungrounded
greatest pest,
But, This is Us...
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Categories:
reimagine, green, health, humor, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
And Rome Vainly Waited For His Return
...On sunny days walk beneath the aesthetic pine trees
that gently undulate in the tepid Roman breeze,
their image is reflected in the Tiberius' flowing water;
majestic is the Colosseum, the mighty p...
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Categories:
reimagine, beauty, history, nostalgia, peace,
Form: Lyric
Caring For Yourself
...Luxurious lingering, lovingly lithe, lounging
Reposing, relaxed responsive respite
Enjoying enthusiastic exciting meditative moments
Replenish, rejuvenate and reimagine yourself
Necessary nirvana...
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Categories:
reimagine, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Blank verse
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