Save vanishing species
...The save vanishing species USPS stamp -
featuring an Amur tiger cub graphic
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Hillborn river, gentle Amur flows east
Embracing enroute a score of bes...
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Categories:
with pity, tiger,
Form: Ekphrasis
The Power of Three Thousand
...Don’t tell me change is impossible.
I’ve done the math.
3,000 people.
$10 a week.
That’s $30,000 every week.
Invest it wisely, even at 3.25%.
That amounts to $1.6 million per year.
Enough to s...
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Categories:
with pity, encouraging, humanity, inspirational,
Form: Narrative
I called you this morning, life, for a bitter tea
...I called you this morning, life, for a bitter tea,
We, who never knew how to exchange a true word,
We, who danced on the same tense wire,
Your eyes are estranged from me, the traces of past battle...
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Categories:
with pity, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
For the Story: If I Were Petty - Chapter One
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I'd steal it back—
my poem that she posted as her own.
I'd name her plainly, demand
a public apology—
an admission of hypocrisy
from the one who keeps her hands clean,
grins like a simp...
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Categories:
with pity, conflict, remember, writing,
Form: Free verse
Let Go!
...Let go
Let go of the pain
u have embraced
My girl, u deserve better
Those memories that linger
In your mind
Let them be consumed
By your darkness
Why hold it?
When it hurts
When your t...
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Categories:
with pity, 10th grade, dream, hope,
Form: Free verse
Tattoo Deportation- Inked in Chains
...The sound of wheels on tarmac
Keeps me focused
Keeps me grounded
Keeps me present
The sound of wheels on tarmac
Takes me farther and farther away
From everything I have ever known
Chained up...
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Categories:
with pity, longing, symbolism, war,
Form: Free verse
THE WAY THEY ARE TREATED BACK
...The God residing in the sky,
Looks at us with pity,
But then he is helpless,
Against our cruelty's tall and strong fortress.
I can see her in pain,
But her cries are all in vain,
The grief ...
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Categories:
with pity, absence, abuse, age, angel,
Form: Rhyme
The Way He Sees
...he doesn’t need to see the world
to understand it
the rhythm of the streets
tells him everything he needs to know
he feels the sun
not through his eyes
but in the warmth on his skin
the way ...
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Categories:
with pity, anxiety, confidence, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse
My Existence Itself Is My Threat - Part 2
..."What is my role?" I asked.
"You are part of the crew," he said, not the captain as I was told.
"But I know maps! I read compasses!" I pleaded.
He thundered, "Don’t you see? Your existence is your...
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Categories:
with pity, anger, betrayal, conflict, extended
Form: Rhyme
Was that how?
...A rainy day held me captive in memories.
Each droplet that fell turned into blood,
Revealing the wounds of my existence.
Nature joined in, not with strength,
but with pity in its silence.
As t...
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Categories:
with pity, 12th grade, beautiful, longing,
Form: Free verse
Unwillingly willing
..."300"
But this won't suffice..
"It isn't exotic to pay such a price"
How my sleepless nights and joy forgotten
If this isn't sold my family shall be trodden
The society seems correct when they...
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Categories:
with pity, art, conflict, depression, endurance,
Form: Prose
we are the God that we've been waiting for
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In August when the days are hot,
nights are cool, men are shot;
fooling with another's wife
too many men cut with knife.
Walk a street some evening
time is late and no one's there
even moon...
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Categories:
with pity, 12th grade, america, angst,
Form: Rhyme
A Sermon In The Spirit Of Love And Compassion
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Beloved souls, hear me as I speak, thus is my life, a hymn of compassion, an eternal psalm of love.
I walked amongst the lowly not with pity but with understanding, for in their suffering, I saw...
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Categories:
with pity, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Sacrifice
...Sacrifice
Today I sacrifice my martyrdom.
Today I cleanse my soul,
Release the past and reach for the new.
I'll look for the life I'm entitled to.
I rise above my delusions.
Pettiness ...
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Categories:
with pity, courage, depression, fear, heartbreak,
Form: Rhyme
The Crab
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The storm had loosened
the crabs last desperate grip
and lifted it up
on a wave,
flung it onto rocks to let
it die on its back.
I looked at it with pity,
picked it up and set it down,
ri...
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Categories:
with pity, bird, death, sea, storm,
Form: Free verse
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