My Favourite Teacher
...University was intimidating at sixteen,
But I decided to take the plunge, and join anyway,
A passionate bookworm me, fond of reading and writing
Prepared to leap in an ocean of knowledge!
Firs...
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Categories:
third year, inspiration, teacher,
Form: Free verse
Defecation accidentally clogged
...Defecation accidentally clogged...
for the umpteenth time
during spate to sit scrawny buttucks
on porcelain throne id est
videre licet toilet bowl...
with toxic water brew threatening
to o...
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Categories:
third year, adventure, analogy, angel, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Messiah
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the year of our lord
two thousand twenty third year~
oh why aren’t you here...
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Categories:
third year, analogy, bible, jesus,
Form: Haiku
The Dreaded Messy Closet
...I see the closet door and I hear the theme song to Shark.
Doo doo doo doo doo doo doo doo
The one they used to play on Saturday Night Live in the eighties.
You know the one.
I opened it once to...
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Categories:
third year, sister,
Form: Narrative
Thirty Years Old
...Today I turned thirty years old.
At this age you start and think about your deeds.
Like today thirty years ago,
I showed my mother the way to death,
this was the first thing I did after I came to...
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Categories:
third year, allegory, allusion, birth, books,
Form: Bio
Something To Look Forward To, Part I
...His name was Emmet Patterson,
and back in 1863,
he led a cavalry unit
patrolling deep in Tennessee.
The state was firm in Union hands,
Tte Civil War in its third year,
but the threat of parti...
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Categories:
third year, courage, death, life, loss,
Form: Epic
Organic Chemistry Test
...Chemistry, a labyrinthine topic-cum-tantalising potent cryptic art,
bane of eager scientist with half a top-notch mind and ample heart
Teachers in this field strain every muscle but knowledge has...
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Categories:
third year, celebration, character, confidence, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Not Really That Special, Part I
...She was a young woman named Cassidy,
and she was not really lacking for looks,
the type of girl who liked the party scene,
would look at her phone, but not that much at books.
She had only reac...
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Categories:
third year, beauty, humanity, lust, men,
Form: Narrative
Movie Stars of 1932
...The crash has put the country in dire straits
But these two movie stars do not have similar fates
They descend the staircase in their fancy clothes,
Thinking everyone is rich, wearing wealth that ...
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Categories:
third year, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Foot In Hand
...As we’ve aged (tried retirement), sleep-patterns have changed.
I am staying up later! Sleep gravitates, ebbs
less from forces that rule in a drive to work job
(where one must leave home’s relative...
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Categories:
third year, age, friendship, love,
Form: Rhyme
Realtalk Parties
...What if political parties
all over Earth
were invited together to sign a covenant
at a We The BiCameral People Party;
A covenant to never nominate or endorse or vote for a candidate for public ...
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Categories:
third year, caregiving, culture, health, integrity,
Form: Political Verse
The 1940's and 50's Movie, Radio and More
...Don Winslow of the Navy at the movies...…., the Lone Ranger, and the shadow, on the radio. Three of my favorite pastimes in Wilmington NC, From just before my first grade in school to the end of my t...
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Categories:
third year, truth, world war ii,
Form: Prose
Outfoxing a Military Man
...Charlie told me that for fun
He watches a terrorized mouse
Get chased down and eaten by his corn snake
Jake, the Snake, every Thursday at two.
I met Charlie the first day of school
My third ye...
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Categories:
third year, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Lyric
Daddy's Little
...You were in your big blue suit,
And I wore the frock with a pear paint.
Suddenly when I saw a monkey with his big O shaped eyes,
The drop came out when terrified I closed my eyes,
I Ran fast and...
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Categories:
third year, baby, dad, daughter, father,
Form: Verse
Tiny
...i will never touch a christmas tree again.
the bristles, serrated. the bristles, poisoned. the bristles, double edged.
the ornaments shatter between my fingers.
i clean up puddles of blood and s...
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Categories:
third year, anxiety, christmas, guitar, lost,
Form: Free verse
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