Captain Morans Angels
...Captain Moran never gave up hope.
We were being tossed like washrags.
Many pirates of our crew were brutally ill.
The waters of the Caribbean were dangerously dark.
Some of the rest of us wanted ...
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Categories:
washrags, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry
Put To the Test
...-- Put to the Test --
John Herlihy
Questions arise if democracy is now put to rest;
Perhaps we ourselves are being put to the test.
Words no longer have the force of their meaning;
Instead the...
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Categories:
washrags, poetry, society,
Form: Sonnet
Fredrick - September 12, 1979
...He was coming.
He was coming fast.
He was coming to pay us a visit.
A brooding, lethal monster 30 miles out.
He was coming straight at us
and nothing or no one could stop him
Our house was on...
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Categories:
washrags, house, natural disasters, weather,
Form: Narrative