a little complicated
...It’s a little complicated - what isn’t? But my plans have changed (again).
Under some pressure - but not really - I was able to switch schools.
From Johns Hopkins university to the Université Paris...
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Categories:
scholarships, destiny, paris, school, student,
Form: Free verse
PETER GARGANO KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS WHITE MAN WITH A GRAY BEARD
...THIS ALL BEGAN 1994 MY FOUR TEAR OLD DAUGHTER HAD SLEEPS OVERS WITH CIRO GARGANO STEP DAUGHTERS EVERYTHING SEEMED FINE ONLY I WAS NOT AWARE OF THE STRIP CLUB MY ABUSIVE EX ATTENDING FREQUENTLY WITH P...
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Categories:
scholarships, allah,
Form: Naat
Reverse Psychology
...Ad Hoc Ad Litem: CHAPTER 2
Reverse Psychology has no real true antonym, if so, it would be known as persuasive psychology which is nonsensical and the redundancy of the word psychology be removed....
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Categories:
scholarships, analogy,
Form: Free verse
If I Was God
...If I was God,
I would have put the forbidden fruit a bit higher
So Eve wouldn't reach it
I wouldn't just make it forbidden, i would hire Joe Biden
With his whole army to guard it
I would have gi...
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Categories:
scholarships, character, creation, deep, psychological,
Form: Free verse
What She Taught and What She Learned, Part I
...Carmena knew why he was here,
their parents’ smiles made it clear,
to set her up with Oliver,
who always had made eyes at her.
They didn’t like her dating Chad,
and always spoke of her man bad...
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Categories:
scholarships, age, change, lust, men,
Form: Narrative
Ideals
...Ideals
Ideals
High ideals?
We all had them
In the forties, in college,
those long, all-night
heated arguments,
sitting cross-legged
on the floor,
debating how
to change the worl...
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Categories:
scholarships, care, conflict, culture, endurance,
Form: Free verse
Hidden Agenda
...Compassion
upholding helpfulness
toward better lives…
Such is the seed embedded along plots
of noble charitable institutions
to bloom along their vision-mission-goals
as well as to blo...
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Categories:
scholarships, blessing, character, christian, faith,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
This Is Africa
...This is Africa.
Where people are being judge by their past,
And our hearts are painted with black.
Youths are cuddled up in early relationship,
And their lives are like the speed of an airship.
...
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Categories:
scholarships, literature, , western,
Form: Free verse
Wealth Beaters
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Wealth Beaters
Why?
Because of the hospitals they
built?
Or the many scholarships they fund?
Is it the millions they sink, so
vaccines can be fo...
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Categories:
scholarships, conflict, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Brother
...I passed a homeless man on the walk.
"Too bad," I thought, not missing a beat.
I had important people with whom to talk,
and I was late for the executive suite.
I did catch a dimming in his wor...
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Categories:
scholarships, character, humanity, love,
Form: Rhyme
Can You Loan Me Forty Thousand
...I’ll breed shorthorns in Siberia if you can spare some money.
Fifty thousand ought to be enough to start.
I can email you if I need more.
I know I do not know anything about shorthorns yet
But I...
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Categories:
scholarships, money,
Form: Narrative
Oh, Sir
...Oh! Sir!
Great teachers changed the world for me,
I sometimes dreamed of teaching too!
"Yet, 'gift' to teach!" stays blasphemy
While 'taught' to teach still make kids bl...
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Categories:
scholarships, life, love, teacher,
Form: Rhyme
Go Ahead and Create a Title Yourself
...10th grade 11th grade 12th grade 01st grade 02nd grade 03rd grade
04th grade 05th grade 06th grade 07th grade 08th grade 09th grade
Does this mean that sooner or later you will to have to add BA,...
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Categories:
scholarships, 1st grade
, allegory, analogy,
Form: I do not know?
A Tale of Meraki
...
A tale of meraki
Overcome by the burden she sat teary eyed
Holding closely her two little boys by her side
Immersed in sorrow they had endlessly cried
After her loving husband h...
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Categories:
scholarships, care, courage, mother son,
Form: Rhyme
To Father On Your Suicide--1960
...You think not of life, but of the moon:
still and white. August wind chimes
like sweet bones sound a tune
of twenty-three; the somber age
when you will die
and summer turns another page.
Eac...
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Categories:
scholarships, family, father, history,
Form: Elegy
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