Graduation Truth Poems

"The Kingfisher" 

Easters
fast escape us
like every 
Christmas 
comes and goes
like a Graduation
where the parent
is excluded
and the lost 
prodigious progeny
eventually 
makes their quest
for an elusive
Holy Grail
buried...

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The Schoolroom is the world
With God's wisdom unfurled
But fools govern today
To the oppressed's dismay

For His wisdom they disdain
So much they cannot explain
Proud because of their...

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I have found that to grow
in the maze of life
you need more
than what, you are told

simply because, to know,
what, you need to know
is more, than...

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Freedom 

I can go outside. 
I can go inside. 
I can climb a mountain, 
or swim in the sea. 

Freedom. 

I am free....

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HITTING ROCK BOTTOM
Don't look at hitting rock bottom as a dark and dank place to dwellLook at it as your first experience, as to what...

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Lynching Live; So What? Trumped-Up Normality Reins

Knee lynching streamed live,
Shadowed death’s source is revealed;
Justice remains blind!

Cameras roll, showing death’s shadowed 
source.
Cameras don’t lie; streaming the...

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We’ve heard it said, 
That partial sight is worse than no sight
We would rather not see men as trees.
That half-truth is no truth
It is rather...

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My son’s name is Dylan, was country raised
in the hills of Wyoming where cattle graze,
helped on the ranch, but never felt fulfilled,
hated his hometown as...

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I hate to say it, but it's true
You don't like me, I don't like you
It's good to graduate from this place
So I won't have to...

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Mirror mirror on the wall
I see my light brown eyes staring back at me

Mirror mirror on the wall
my petite size that never got any taller

Mirror...

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Hello girl,
Can I lie to you, can I say you wear the most beautiful smile
Like I never saw my mama wear a priceless version on...

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We had heard stories relating to those years
Inquisitive young minds we were, guessing so bold
Told of images so alien that would scare our inner fears
As...

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Life, love and communication, this is something for every nation. It started with temptation and verification, but ended in complication. So listen to this declaration.

We...

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First kiss from my mother

A three year old gets hug from her father

Amazing to learn the first letter 

Playing with my brother looks great

Good looking...

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Somewhere under the clouds I found love,

shakin’ it up-
I made a steam puff,

makin’ it up-
I was a dream of…

Holdin’ the sun,
I was a steak for...

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