STEADILY THINKING ABOUT THIS
...Women will say it's men
Men will say it's women
They all throwing
Shades at each other
Defending their gender
Tendering different agenda.
Women will leave their man
Because he cheated
T...
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Categories:
tendering, africa, community, dark, deep,
Form: Narrative
Sonnet
...Sonnet
From far, back I have come
To their surprise, I brought a dove,
Happy they were, everyone at home,
And a nest they weaved for her, what a love!
My brother, a smith, made her a golden...
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Categories:
tendering, 12th grade,
Form: Sonnet
She is a River
...“Women can change better’n a man,” Ma said soothingly. “Woman got all her life in her arms. Man got it all in his head.”
“Man, he lives in jerks-baby born an’ a man dies, an’ that’s a jerk-gets a fa...
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Categories:
tendering, allegory, america, freedom, humanity,
Form: Verse
Mistress
...this isn't meant to last forever
he whispers into my neck
I am the rot that grows in humidity
I am the mud on his shoes
in this wetness–
the tendering of his hand
my body
how it aches...
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Categories:
tendering, angst, hurt, longing, lost
Form: Free verse
A Life Well Lived
...A life well lived, a story to tell,
Full of memories, both good and swell,
Where love and laughter linger on,
And joy and happiness are never gone.
A life well-lived, with purpose and meaning,
...
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Categories:
tendering, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Epic
Rosh Hashshana 2023
...Rosh Hashshana 2023
Began at sunset
on Friday, Sept. 15,
and ends at sunset
on Sunday, Sept. 17.
No matter yours truly an atheist,
I consider myself
fascinated with my Semitic ancestr...
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Categories:
tendering, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
A Trite Nihilistic Occasion
...A Trite Nihilistic Occasion
This doodling Yankee
(boot noah dandy)
doth newt lack chutzpah,
tries to finagle Fitbit
fitting figurative footwear,
that ideally Fitzhugh
like custom ma...
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Categories:
tendering, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Adieu Papa Madabe
...A patriarch, legend, family man,
A moral compass,
An arc of proprietary leadership
With octopus creeping advancements
Inducing pomiferous effects
Africa’s epitome of
Struggle against racial opp...
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Categories:
tendering, appreciation, eulogy, inspirational, leadership,
Form: Elegy
Waiting On Rainbows
...Waiting on a rainbow to show up
is like waiting for man
the long hours or even the years that requires
for one of Nature's wonders
Some have divine the scientific approach to
rainbows but I am i...
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Categories:
tendering, analogy, beautiful, creation, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
In the Far Beyond
...Remarkable how her beauty appeared in my dream
A long time since I caressed her cheeks, or saw
Her sweet smile responding with a radiant gleam,
Last night she returned in a strange mys...
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Categories:
tendering, dream, lost love,
Form: Sonnet
Wild Goose Chase
...Pursuit for elusive prey
teases yours truly
into treacherous catacombs
dangerous mentally
challenging pitfalls,
sets small hairs of back
on camp creeks edge
of night, where dark shadows
evo...
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Categories:
tendering, adventure, allegory, america, animal,
Form: Free verse
Betrayed Trust
...Wrath shortening my breath, tendering my pulse
Her, walking across the class to kiss the friend I lost
Shame on him, to give up my trust for the one I love
Back to the good old days, I and her o...
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Categories:
tendering, betrayal, conflict, confusion, depression,
Form: Ballad
God's Star
...A cold morning and smiley faces,
Enjoying all as Christmas graces.
The heat of the wintry star,
God is in but he is too far.
Tendering heat on the eyes,
As the great star arises.
Love is reb...
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Categories:
tendering, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Broken Bird
...I see the horizon turn purple on your skin
As the sun sets slowly from our sight
And now our last song begins
The birds have flown from somewhere within
Parting in violet air with the advent of...
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Categories:
tendering, emotions, feelings, lost love,
Form: Villanelle
One Word
...
with midnight dreams we dance
unyielding, i stir unwilling to awaken
incessantly seeking
You
like virgin wings of the monarch, your shape gently unfolds
i clutch the edges of slumb...
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Categories:
tendering, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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