My Favorite Teacher
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Traveling down the memory lane paved a long time ago,
I remember when I was completing graduation,
what profession I’d pursue afterward I didn’t know,
one professor gave my career a direction ...
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Categories:
statured, career, teacher,
Form: Free verse
WHOM TOLD YOU THIS-
...Mellow golden browned skin
Naked no one knew then
Eyes of her Father’s
Blacken hair coarse fine
All at the same time
Washed feet
Forehead sweet
Whom a told you this
Strong neck
W...
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Categories:
statured, analogy, appreciation, beautiful, community,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The Priceless Tea Drinker
...*"A tribute to "Pops" (Joe), (04/23/31-01/20/24) though what pans below mirrored life in the States for me, not Pops, but for two years at The Home before he passed, I'd drank tea cause he's unable t...
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Categories:
statured, appreciation, beautiful, best friend,
Form: Rhyme
Flows -
...Open gods beautiful eyes
see outside your soul
the beauty He does
awaken Dear One
beautiful heart beats
flows the essence Waters deep
Flows of God in part
arise statured daughter...
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Categories:
statured, analogy, beautiful, caregiving,
Form: Free verse
Plant
...PLANT
pops up
slight statured
like child from earth's womb
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Categories:
statured, tree,
Form: Verse
Hypothetically, What If I a Born Again Atheist
...Hypothetically, what if I (a born again atheist)...
tentatively took page from playbook of devout believers...
Allowing, enabling, and providing
cautious optimism to abound
thus easing grief in...
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Categories:
statured, 12th grade, bereavement, cry,
Form: Free verse
Doors of Perception
...doors of perception
doors of perception
when cleansed will reveal
our true nature..
this is the sage advice
of a statured voice..
the cleansing
clears away beliefs
which have imprisoned
f...
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Categories:
statured, happiness, inspirational, nature,
Form: Blitz
Brittle Bones Break 1
...Brittle Bones Break
It is heartwrenching to read today of a grotesque medical anamoly…
When a cute little girl of four suffers from a cruel bone malady…
The medical journals have identified it ...
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Categories:
statured, anxiety, caregiving, child abuse,
Form: Free verse
God, Set Them Free
...At last I am free
from a language that
tried to subdue me;
And all the faces from my past.
That of statured men (on knees)
stripped from sacred dignity-
from being man.
Trying hard to disput...
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Categories:
statured, slavery,
Form: Free verse
Animus Persona
...Extraordinaire, he raised the ice.
He told me this when I was a child.
He said he heard his neck pop.
He laughed and said, “That stopped my dare devil’s persona.
As you see, I am short.
I liked ...
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Categories:
statured, appreciation, bereavement, celebration, how
Form: Narrative
The Man and Boney Fingers the Story
...He was a well statured man I dated briefly, finding my way to the place where my Dad was born in the twenties and then crying for the foothills where I grew up such a short time later.
You know the w...
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Categories:
statured, abuse, caregiving, cat,
Form: Prose
Onam Carnival of Kerala-2
...“ the problem with Equality is that we desire it only with our superiors”
“Equal were all and happy they all were,
Deceits and falsehoods were unheard of there,
Free from all illness, cares an...
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Categories:
statured, day, faith, sea, social,
Form: Shadorma