If Love Had A Thousand Faces
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Quote by M Rose: If love had a thousand faces they'd all look like yours
Your visage is what I'd seek first in my lost and found box.
I'd feel for the corners of my box wi...
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Categories:
schoolchild, appreciation, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
School Uniform Palaver
...The school child not in it clad
To end up ‘Not Glad’:
A sure vexing of his body with whip
And final nursing of an inflamed hip …
Also, a barbaric conversion into laborer
Which makes his Discipl...
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Categories:
schoolchild, bullying, care, education, violence,
Form: Rhyme
Low Down
...1/15/21
If you didn't, you better know now
Nearly always around smoke clouds
I was or I wasn't oath bound
Often telling me, I got no grounds
And that I need to slow down
I roam around
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Categories:
schoolchild, dark, deep, life, poetry,
Form: Rhyme
Hey Pete
...hey pete
by Michael R. Burch
hey pete,
it's baseball season
and the sun ascends the sky,
encouraging a schoolboy's dreams
of winter whizzing by;
go out, go out and catch it,
put it in a ja...
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Categories:
schoolchild, america, baseball, boy, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Dickhead
...“Dickhead”
There is a saddened kind of shame
a name that’s cruel and thus demeans,
elementary obscene
a child can not reach deep enough.
It started when I read above
my third grade level ...
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Categories:
schoolchild, childhood, depression, introspection, on
Form: Free verse
The Classroom
...Raise your child very carefully
otherwise your child could get damaged psychologically like me.
I could have attended any college university.
I could have had numerous Associate and Bachelor degre...
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Categories:
schoolchild, school, child, school,
Form: Rhyme
Asquith Street, Jones Town
...A long spine of asphalt, sizzling black
The macka back cart rumbling
On the morning nerve, herring sprat
Is high life some days in this place
Across the street the bakery
Up the street the parro...
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Categories:
nostalgia, places, schoolchild, longing,
Form: Free verse