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I Am Black And I Live In Florida
... I am poor and Black, living in Florida, Where the sun shines bright but justice hides. My rent climbs higher than my paycheck dares, And landlords call it legal—so it stands. I walk through h......
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©
James Mclain
Categories:
textbooks,
12th grade,
Form:
Free verse
Ironies Within Ironies
...The morning sun filters through dust-laden windows of the district education office like an unwelcome truth trying to penetrate wilful ignorance. Shelves buckle under the weight of untouched research......
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©
Dr. Padmashree R P
Categories:
textbooks,
education, irony,
Form:
Haibun
Depression
...Depression at night. It is a sound. It could be a tree branch. Or someone in need of help who is knocking on doors, hoping someone will save them. It could be a dog. Or a train. Anything co......
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©
Angelica Tao
Categories:
textbooks,
depression,
Form:
Free verse
Awaken the Giant: A Tribute to Swami Vivekananda
...They called him Narendra first— a boy with fire in his heart, a mind that danced with stars while the city slept in the dark. His questions shook the ground: "Where is God? What is the truth?" ......
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©
Lokendra Singh
Categories:
textbooks,
art, beautiful, blessing, blue,
Form:
Free verse
Fanfares of the Common Man
...At the breakdown of ages man disappears and reappears In the form of an easy-to-use scheme Over the last half-century, man has been replaced By technocratic ideas of what a man is But the real ma......
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©
Gregory Colodub
Categories:
textbooks,
political,
Form:
Free verse
Chalk Dust and Unspoken Words
...The blackboards loom, a silent witness to that day— I glimpsed her, and my chest tightened. Only god noticed how I held my breath. Chalk-scented classrooms, her pen tapping desk, My eyes fixed ......
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©
I.A. Ryd
Categories:
textbooks,
first love, high school,
Form:
Tercet
Four Years of Growth, A Lifetime Found
...As newcomers, we arrived, shy and uncertain, Wandering through the corridors, looking for a remedy. To the intense sensation of being a newcomer, Seeking our spot, uncertain about what ac......
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©
megan petty
Categories:
textbooks,
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Free verse
Loving an Enigma
...???You are a riddle wrapped in stormy skies, A puzzle box with ever-changing locks. I am the scholar who forever tries To understand your paradoxical talks. One moment, you're a sunrise warm and ......
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©
Steven Dooley
Categories:
textbooks,
abuse, devotion, extended metaphor,
Form:
Sonnet
Fondest Childhood Memories
...I was down the ladder, I was negligent in working harder, I couldn’t read and spell well, It was a menacing hell. I ranked fourth from the bottom in the end-of-session examination, This was a ......
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©
Thompson Emate
Categories:
textbooks,
childhood, me, memorial day,
Form:
Rhyme
When we have all gone mad
...When we have all gone mad and lost our reason And turned into dumb, blind, compliant sheep And no-one’s left with sense to see the treason That was wrought on us while we were fast asleep; When h......
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©
Richard Grenville
Categories:
textbooks,
anger, political,
Form:
Sonnet
Politics of Memory
...History books rewritten, pages turned, truths overturned. Past reconstructed. Memories are planted like seeds, carefully cultivated. Reality harvested. Leaders cast long shadows, dark spot......
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©
Dr. Padmashree R P
Categories:
textbooks,
memory,
Form:
Free verse
Cultivating Change
...In the greenhouse of young minds, we plant the seeds of tomorrow, Where knowledge blooms and awareness grows, we must not borrow But cultivate a future, green and bright, For the climate crisis lo......
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©
Dr. Padmashree R P
Categories:
textbooks,
creation, earth, earth day,
Form:
Free verse
Unshackle the Classroom
...This is a call to arms, not with guns, but with pens In the battleground of classrooms, where history pretends Textbooks are prisons, locking away truths untold Lessons are handcuffs, keeping mi......
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©
Dr. Padmashree R P
Categories:
textbooks,
culture, education, home, people,
Form:
Free verse
Chalk Dust and Stardust
...Amidst the chaos of chalk and dreams deferred, We ask ourselves, where can we find the spark In this labyrinth of rote and rigid words? The burden we bear, a future stark We've trudged through ......
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©
Dr. Padmashree R P
Categories:
textbooks,
education,
Form:
Free verse
Classroom a Lab for Demo
...In dynamic classrooms Amid inquiry and exploration with my mind racing, in casual attire or rolled-up sleeves, With my hands on experimental apparatus, questi......
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©
Dr. Padmashree R P
Categories:
textbooks,
children, education, engagement, school,
Form:
Free verse
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