One Day Until New Year
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Since the beginning of man, there has been
hatred, wars and stinking thinking.
There are people who bow to their God, twenty- times a day.
Praying, their god blows you and your country...
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Categories:
scout troop, new year, psychological,
Form: Rhyme
Exaggeration Or Fabrication
...She had on a gray shawl, but I recognized her I told my friend Dawn.
“I used to have a gray shawl,” Dawn replied. It was wool and itchy.
She had left it in several restaurants, and her mother-in-la...
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Categories:
scout troop, friend, friendship,
Form: Narrative
You Are Supposed To Play Dead
...She came charging down on me with her full weight.
I wanted to be invisible, but it did not happen.
I was gripped tightly in the throes of death.
She was tearing me apart, in pieces
Unconcerned...
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Categories:
scout troop, animal,
Form: Prose Poetry
Serendipity With a Capital S
...I took seventeen girl scouts sledding on January 21st, 1979,
But I only went down on the sled twice.
You don’t remember that!
Yes, I do.
No, you don’t!
Yes, I really really really really reall...
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Categories:
scout troop, 12th grade, community, daughter,
Form: Free verse
Not Even Close
...A musical throng of 400,000 strong invaded a dairy farm in New York in 1969,
which set fire to the 70’s; but there was no chance of me being there;
I was a good girl, 17 years young; sheltered, n...
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Categories:
scout troop, growing up, life, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Baptists and Boy Scouts
...Baptists and Boy Scouts
So have you heard the latest scoop;
Baptist Church has told each scout troop
Gays aren't good for church anymore
And people about Baptists are really sore.
God said, ...
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Categories:
scout troop, political, boy,
Form: Couplet