To a Superior Judge
...I could not do what you are mandated to do
every day on society's justice bench,
weighing retributive justice
against restorative healing.
I cannot look with any comfort
at police
and correc...
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Categories:
special education, anxiety, blue, bullying, culture,
Form: Political Verse
We Cant Save Everybody Mrs Kay
...The child was telling the wildest story imaginable.
I was in a special education class, and he was in second grade.
The story included bombs and fires and explosions.
He was totally animated as he...
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Categories:
special education, humor, humorous, teacher,
Form: Narrative
5 Minutes
...5 minutes
Black man- Regular Font
White cop- ALL CAPS
Excuse me Mr. Officer can i ask you a question
WHAT THE HELL YOU WANT BOY YOU ARE GETTING OUT OF YOUR PROTEST SECTION
Why do you hate ...
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Categories:
special education, america,
Form: Rhyme
Special Education
...They are, at most, held
back from their advanced classmates,
later, they advance.
2019 September 17...
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Categories:
special education, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Senryu
Future Health
...If we could sing
of futures searched
If we might ring
with resonant sacred research,
We might find within each inside thing
a place Future co-invites,
outside reconnects
ego-remembers
fro...
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Categories:
special education, analogy, caregiving, green, health,
Form: Political Verse
More Than South Africa Poem Contest: Miracles
...You ask, Do I believe in miracles? Have I seen healing outside the Bible?
Is the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit accessible –
To me and you, beyond the Book of Acts, after Pentecost -
Is the age of s...
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Categories:
special education, abuse, discrimination, education, evil,
Form: Free verse
Being Bullied: My 5th Grade Nightmare
...It's been twenty (20) years going on forever since I'd been bullied around. It seemed that this devastating event would never go away; it was going to haunt me for the rest of my natural life. On th...
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Categories:
special education, 5th grade, anniversary, bullying,
Form: Bio
Who Is Christopher Carson Burton
...Who is Christopher Carson Burton?
Who am I?
Do I know?
Do anybody know who I am?
I'm just a regular guy a nobody.
A regular guy who grew from poverty.
Someone who was abandoned...
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Categories:
special education, black african american, how
Form: Bio