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POEM STARTER
Write a sonnet about something you learned recently.
Don’t worry about nailing iambic pentameter here – instead, try to meet the Shakespearean rhyme scheme ABABCDCDEFEFGG.
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I get rid of a letter
And a larger problem appears
If only I could get better
I wouldn’t shed as many tears
Marks of past failure
Haunt me the next days
How I want an adventure
Out in the bright sunrays
A leader shows me the way
Through the hazy rain
But I still don’t feel okay
And still feel lingering pain
I really can’t find my path
When I’m looking at the map of math...
I thought a lot of things about myself
I thought I understood who I was
So I couldn’t bring myself to ask for help
When I realized what I am not
I assumed the title of the smartest in the room
Despite the crippling weight of the crown
But resting now disappointment looms
Knowing I’ve let myself down
My peers think what they say are compliments
But instead a double edged sword
For I tread along a...
Once upon a time I felt that I had done wrong,
I couldn’t hold back and the words just escaped me,
But after so long I found it hurts to bite your tongue,
My thoughts tumbled out into the world so thoughtlessly.
Then something happened: to my surprise,
I felt a release, an escape of sort,
After the storm I began to realise
After my outburst I had a thought
It’s better to be honest, be straight, ...
If given the chance
You would leave me behind
Not a slight backward glance
Nor a note left to find.
Should opportunity arise
You’d desert me again
Leave my watering eyes
Spilling into my hand.
When the option appears
You know you won’t stay
Confirm all my fears
By you leaving this way.
You’ve always been free to follow your heart
But if I’m not included it’s best we now part....
She said she loved me with all her heart
We were to spend our lives together
Now my world is falling apart
Emotions scattered like the wind blowing a feather
It all came out of the blue
One day happy the next day needing space
And now I have not a clue
And around this house I pace
“What did I do?”
I’ve asked over and over again
“What can I say to you
To get us back to where we began?”
But the...
Never ignore your gut feeling
Your intuition is talking to you
It is not your mind imagining
First impressions are often true
Don't dismiss it or shake it away
It tells you what you need to know
Some people don't match, that's OK
And you have to accept and let it go
Sometimes I try to be kind
I tell myself I'm being judgmental
It's a lie that makes me blind
Makes me miss on the essential
Some p...
The U.S. stops to observe the war
The Monroe Doctrine confining thought
How democracy shakes at its core
How European battles grow fraught
“Make the world safe for democracy”
Wilson’s encouragement clammers loud
Americans sense atrocity
Their opposition to war avowed
Washington’s farewell address looms large
Foreign policy, neutrality
Into American psyche surcharge
But Wilson’s words snared morali...
People come and go
New ones come and stay
You think that they’ll show
The whole of them in a way
You could say one was unhappy
Maybe it was me
I guess we’re all too snappy
You cut down a planted tree
Then one becomes a third wheel
While the others close in
This was never part of the deal
I never should’ve let them in
So go ahead and leave to have a flawless friendship
But deep down you should know...
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