Facing Poverty
... If I went barefoot for a lifetime,
shoes would be pointless.
Toes ate board, concrete, grassland, shoreline.
Me, Tarzan to pedicurist!
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Categories:
schoolers, africa, appreciation, black love,
Form: Free verse
Park Place Story
...A charming quiet place
A pond full of swimming ducks
A long benches beside acacia trees
Up ahead this tree is long pave road
That connect to a big Bermuda park ahead
Leading to a university wher...
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Categories:
schoolers, introspection, memory, places, school,
Form: Narrative
Strength in the Storm
...Crazy how having respect for someone
Gets confused with kissing there butt
I guess I was just raised different form you
I'm sorry
But i'm honestly happy we're not friends anymore
I can’t be...
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Categories:
schoolers, 10th grade,
Form: Free verse
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:
schoolers, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Golden Godsend
...Good-gesture greenthumb gatherers gleaned grain,
gargantuan granary,
grower's great goodwill greeting,
gazillion grade-schoolers, grownups,
gingham-garbed grandmother's,
grievous growling guts g...
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Categories:
schoolers, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Alliteration
Pipe Lines of Kaimu: The Hawaiian Church in Kalapana
...I stood at the top of our dirt driveway looking back at our two-story house. It's kind of a long house where, from our second-floor windows, you can see cars driving on the lane road in our v...
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Categories:
schoolers, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, christian,
Form: Narrative
Corners
...Last night, Lisa, Peter, Leeza and I were in her father’s 50th floor study watching New York City. It’s a corner room with glass walls from floor to ceiling. He likes to watch the city himself and ha...
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Categories:
schoolers, holiday, humor, new york,
Form: Free verse
Graduation Delight
...Commencement exercises delight
never bore pre-schoolers in their flight
toward stage, full of bliss
for rewards* they can't miss
and promised graduation festive might.
A bless...
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Categories:
schoolers, appreciation, blessing, christian, god,
Form: Limerick
The Dance Recital
...The dance recital showcased
Hip-hop, jazz and yes, ballet.
The costumes and the music
Put much talent on display.
From pre-schoolers up to college,
All their hard work guaranteed
That they...
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Categories:
schoolers, dance,
Form: Rhyme
Names Today
...Nobody has a common name; we are named Apple and Broom.
Because movie stars did it, and they are glamorous and rich.
Apple is okay with it, Broom is dour though, full of gloom.
Why not Curtain or ...
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Categories:
schoolers, teacher,
Form: Rhyme
Unexpected Joy
...Most of my previous experience was with middle schoolers.
Seventh and eighth graders; I was terrified of younger students.
I had not been around them for years; what would they be like?
They would...
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Categories:
schoolers, teacher,
Form: Narrative
Silence
...Shhh! We turned at the sound and beheld the stern scowl of the public library monitor as she admonished us. Steely eyed, with piercing glance, jaw set so tightly even her wrinkles retreated in fear...
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Categories:
schoolers, 6th grade, books, childhood,
Form: Narrative
Students Shaky Sing-A-Long
...Students Shaky Sing-A-Long
***A bolted school bus amidst bobbing heads rolls downhill...
Fictitious dank bathroom basin bailing;
a mother's kiss and general list spelled.
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Categories:
schoolers, childhood, memory, school, song,
Form: Rhyme
Ted
...Ted was a proper torturer
he'd gag me after tea
he'd ram a flannel down my gob
then dangle me on his knee
A virgin when I married
my mums and dad were Mormons
home-schoolers don't do sex Ed. ...
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Categories:
schoolers, bullying, humor, innocence, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
I Never Wanted To Be a Mother
...pews of velcro Sunday flats
little girls in plaits and jean dresses
arms folded
heads bowed
fluttering eyes from under lashes
peeking towards blackgrayblue Brothers
in their suits upon the stan...
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Categories:
schoolers, baby, community, confusion, faith,
Form: Free verse
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