School Verse Poems

In his school years
he was good at naming things.
Trees, minerals, the anatomy of rabbits,
butterflies and all things
he saw or imagined he saw.

Later…much later,
He realized he...

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Crystal blue                       ...

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A mother's love can run deep   
just how deep is that love   
deep enough for all to see.

 

A loving mother...

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Mediocre son (me) crafts letter to his papa

Impossible mission to escape end of life woe
visit courtesy grim reaper 
inevitable for every mortal,
whether he/she alive
yesterday, today...

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Mom, I Bit Her Back”

When I was a little girl, I had two older sisters who were in school and I was left at home...

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EIGHT


A deliberate surprise 
A shove from the back
while creating artwork 
in my second-grade class
Perhaps an ocean scene
A distant angry memory
of my eight-year-old 
consciousness


The broken waxy...

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I hope you’ve forgotten this site exists. I can’t just keep this in my notes, I have to get it out of me before I...

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Ginsberg Writes the F- WORD

 FALLEN GINSBERG COINS “” INTO POETRY,
Our college creative-writing professor
Announced in 1972,  to our class of hippie poets, 
Like me,...

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Memories of My Parents

Memories of my father
Bring forth the autumn walks.
Shades of nature on the crunchy leaves
At the man-made lake down the hill
From the little...

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She remembered a time when she was six years old;
when she was trying to make her hair look like how a friend’s did in school...

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Nowhere

Unremembered moments, 
"lived through" over the years...
trying to fit in, 
to make sense.

Demands from the outside, 
everyone looking in. 
Someone is running, 
around... but they...

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Undocumented Warrior

By George W. Clever-----2002

I sneaked into this country on moccasin feet
No one knew I was here
Till one day someone asked 
Where is your C.D.I.B....

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A new day dawns with the sun to the east,
A renewed freshness of energy released.
For piles of trials and trivial pursuits,
Get ready and strap on...

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BLACK LIVES
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My friend bridles. Huh! All lives matter. Is she is being 
deliberately obtuse? Should I add ‘’too’’ or ‘’do?’’

She adds, I’ve blacks in my...

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I have no words
For the pain that I feel
Doesn’t compare to what
You’ve gone through

When I think of you
I remember when
We played house and school
Linkin logs...

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