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Premium Member DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SURVIVOR WHO WORE WIRES PREGNANT FOR THE FBI
...I AM A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SURVIVOR I'LL NEVER EVER BE HIS VICTIM AGAIN I'LL NEVER EVER MISS THE STENCH OF ANGER RAGE VIOLENT OUTBURST THE SPITTING WHEN HE YELLED SCREAMED AMAZING I SURVIVED AFTER RETU......

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Categories: rockaway, allah,
Form: Naat
Premium Member Far Rockaway
...Though little Suzie was wild about horses, she was too young to ride, At just five golden years old. Like summer faded, where nature sighed. Playful Suzie longed to visit Banbury Cross, a......

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Categories: rockaway, celebration, child, dream, fantasy,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Rockaway, NY
...Ten mile peninsula in Queens, N.Y., nighttime jetties of moonlight white caps, waves rising and ebbing. My grandfather walking with me on the daylight shore so many summers ago. My dreams of R......

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Categories: rockaway, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Rockaway Baby
...Rock away baby in your tree top, When Earth winds blow our cradle can't stop And all Her Queen's horses and all old bald white men can't put Her regathered together again. Her welts raise......

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Categories: rockaway, age, earth, health, integrity,
Form: Lyric
A Hearty Valent Sign
...Ah what fair moan laden fantasy lassitude looms large if this chaste ole buoy got cornered into an alleyway by a bevy of beefy buxom babes dead set on hounding this doggone codger anyway s......

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Categories: rockaway, blessing, celebration, courage, dream,
Form: Free verse



Sunblock
...In my sixteens I used to go to Rockaway Park on the A train made famous by Armstrong's song, it had rides, small restaurants and a clean beach... there I got golden brown with lots of cappertone. ......

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Categories: rockaway, adventure, food, friendship, funny,
Form: Free verse
Living
...to walk a tightrope, to engineer a train, to walk into a lions cage, to freefall from a plane to ride the cyclone in coney island, to ride the bumper cars in rockaway park to ride a ferris wheel at......

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Categories: rockaway, inspirational
Form: Narrative
Rockaway
...White lips curl furiously as warm hands reach for the mouth that speaks so loud. Swallow—swallow. Gracious god falling from the sky; there dies my warmth, there dies my youth. Silently......

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Categories: rockaway, nature, sea,
Form: Blank verse

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