Poetry Challenges

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11- Write a poem about your most embarrassing moment-- Oh, do I have to? -blushes-

So, I Bought Her Some Roses
So, I was young, naive and ill equipped
(probably still am)
For what was going to come from giving her roses
A crowd surged over us
And I was unable to control
I wanted them all to leave me alone
But...they wouldn't stop

All she did was hug me
What was the big deal about?




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Anxious yet giddy,
ready to give this a try.
Going to move on.
~~~




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12- Write a poem about the environment-- This is very late, but nonetheless let's continue!

Grasslands
So, I trek
Out to the grasslands
Hoping to see life
A lion or two

But what do I see instead?
I see the remains
Bones of once living things
Now reduced to dead organisms

I wish there was more to man
Than just killing things




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12 - Poem about the environment. (Leaning towards weather here in this one)


today i straightened
my usual curls
just to peeve
a cynic.

of course, my spite
was thwarted
by "torrential
winds" -
goes to show you what happens
when i rebel against the
grain.

i wondered,
what if the
wind grew to
such an intensity
that it flung
vehicles onto
the roof of my
school gym?

"oh, wait,
that's called a tornado,
idiot."
"My hobbies include editing my life story, hiding behind metaphors, and trying to convince my shadows that I am someone worth following." - Rudy Francisco



That's just what translation is, I think. That's all speaking is. Listening to the other and trying to see past your own biases to glimpse what they're trying to say. Showing yourself to the world, and hoping someone else understands.
— Ramy (Babel by R. F. Kuang)