Jesus Is Riding On a Bus, These Days
...(A poem dedicated to Khadiza Merry)
They all heard that,
Jesus is riding on a bus, these days.
Vinay from the remotest eastern village was an eye-witness
He just acknowledged today, in confi...
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Categories:
storekeeper, care,
Form: Free verse
World War Ii Poems and Holocaust Poems - Iv - Primo Levi
...World War II Poems and Holocaust Poems - IV - Primo Levi
Shema
by Primo Levi
translation by Michael R. Burch
You who live secure
in your comfortable houses,
who return each evening to find...
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Categories:
storekeeper, evil, holocaust, race, racism,
Form: Free verse
To Kill a Mockingbird: the Unsung Heroes
...To Kill a Mockingbird is both a young girl’s coming-of-age story and a more nebulous production about the reasons and consequences of bigotry and discrimination, examining how good and...
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Categories:
storekeeper, angst, character, muse,
Form: Dramatic Verse
A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To My Hanging the Conclusion
...https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/a_funny_thing_happened_on_the_way_to_my_hanging_1038053
https://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/a_funny_thing_happened_on_the_way_to_my_hanging_-part_deux_1078413
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Categories:
storekeeper, america, brother, horse,
Form: Rhyme
Ya'Ll Come Back
...In those early years, growing up in the country
Walking barefoot, on old gravel roads
With neighborhood friends, a dog or two
Pulling a wagon of pop bottle gold
We were pirates, marauders, sear...
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Categories:
storekeeper, adventure, memory, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
The Ticket
...Inside the room in the administrative offices floor
of a plush hotel, an unmarried middle aged lady executive,
showing a lottery ticket, told her secretary
that she won five hundred dollars. She ...
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Categories:
storekeeper, humanity, thanksgiving, wisdom,
Form: Narrative
Goin' To the Store
...Granny cut off our credit at the store.
You were going to school
So we thought you could do anything.
We'll write a note, we decided,
Joe can write.
We devised a long list.
Sam, who was four, s...
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Categories:
storekeeper, childhood,
Form: Free verse