etiquette
...I’m in the residential dining hall with my suitemates Lisa and Sunny. We’re talking about sausages.
Why? Because April 30th is ‘National Sausage day.”
Someone mentioned that when I complained abo...
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Categories:
remi, health, humor, school,
Form: Free verse
Black Roses Perfectly Grown
...Chinue Achebe
You are the moon of Africa' night tale,
You are the muse, the pen and the mood
A thousand brave waves of the blacks
I write through the galaxy of your stars here.
Wole Soyinka
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Categories:
remi, africa,
Form: Ballad
Perfect Me Lords of Poetry
...This I ask not in folly but in honesty,
Perfect me gods of poetry
Make me an eyes that sees,
Make me the mouth that speaks.
Let me be the hands that writes,
The legs that walk for perfection
Th...
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Categories:
remi, art,
Form: Ballad
The Two Brothers, Lemmy and Remi
...There were two of them
Lemmy and Remmy...
Two leaders born
Born of destiny
The weight of government
Must rest on the shoulders
Of Lemmy and Remmi
Israe-el and Leki
One king the other ...
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Categories:
remi, brother, conflict, destiny, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Elegy For Marie
...Send a tear to your lapel
for the debt you owe Marie
and others of her ilk,
it's just as well still
not nearly as good
as opening our eyes
Marie & Remi Ochlik
were shelled out of existence
while r...
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Categories:
remi, death, dedication, devotion, inspirational,
Form: Elegy
All Over the Place
...U
p
b
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t
Left Right
Kinda don't know what to do sometimes
l i g
F y n g
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Categories:
remi, confusion
Form: Free verse