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A Poem by Vol
I had a professor once,
actually a lot
of them walked through my head
at
one time or another, trying to
spill
their beans, hoping they might
take
root and grow so tall I would
be able
to climb to the tops of clouds
and..
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A Poem by Pete
Remember that the smallest seed of faith is of more worth than the largest fruit of happiness. - Thoreau
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A Poem by MCS
Silence could be a bridge or a barrier. It could be unspoken understanding or simmering resentment. Only you can choose your silence.
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Lots of older brothers missing and killed, we were just kids but this is what we witnessed
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Atlas
Imagines
flamboyantchatter
nervous
narcissist
curtails
truth
in
cul-de-sac fashion
trapped
alone
sun
parts orange logic
he
squints at the moon
in
the dead of night
thinking
the world is his
when
t..
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My mother is taking me away from here, Felicity said as we crossed the bomb site beside Meadow Row; we ‘d been to the cinema to see a western film. When and where are you going?I asked. Don’t know when or where, yet, Felicity said, but Mu..
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Would lay flowersif I knew whereshe lay.Some piece of earthcovers her remainsI supposebut do not know.In summerI see her eyesin sun's warmth.In bird's songI hear her voiceor faintly so.In flowers' brief beautyI sense her beingrememberingnot seeing.Sh..
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I do not want to surprise you in a poem
I am not an entertainer
Call me a bad writer even
I express my thoughts
in paper
and if they are boring it is ok
they are genuine
and mine.
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It had to be.
He was nailed to a tree.
Know this when
You’re seized and bound,
Spat upon, mocked,
Scourged and crowned.
Humbly worn, you shall be
The rose to the thorns, and
When the laughter dies, and
They all t..
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