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Love is Blind

by Evelyn Judy Buehler

I was a marvelous ophthalmologist, impacting how others saw this world,
As tomorrow one day sees yesterday, on lanes where hued leaves swirled.

I corrected hazy, crazy vision problems, with eyeglasses and with surgery;
Like a second look, evoked by raspberry rose, to verify beauty's certainty.

I also did frequent research, on hidden causes and cures for eye disease;
Just as reasons for rainbows and stardust, lay hidden in nature mysteries.

I had once studied cosmetology, and I loved the art of applying makeup;

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We Refugees

by Benjamin Zephaniah

I come from a musical place
Where they shoot me for my song
And my brother has been tortured
By my brother in my land.

I come from a beautiful place
Where they hate my shade of skin
They don't like the way I pray
And they ban free poetry.

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The Duel

by Eugene Field

The gingham dog and the calico cat
Side by side on the table sat;
'T was half-past twelve, and (what do you think!)
Nor one nor t' other had slept a wink!
The old Dutch clock and the Chinese plate
Appeared to know as sure as fate
There was going to be a terrible spat.
(I wasn't there; I simply state
What was told to me by the Chinese plate!)

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Nature Trail

by Benjamin Zephaniah

At the bottom of my garden
There's a hedgehog and a frog
And a lot of creepy-crawlies
Living underneath a log,
There's a baby daddy long legs
And an easy-going snail
And a family of woodlice,
All are on my nature trail.

There are caterpillars waiting

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The Family Tree

by Olive Walters

We've got a family album
Like a family tree
A thrill to turn the pages
The pictures we can see

Starting off with grands and greats
Then slowly down the line
Like a book of history
A journey through the time

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Recent Family Poems

Bound by Flesh and Blood

by Lili De Assis

I build my own cage,
in an attempt to thrive,
but what if my passion, my soul, is just outside?
Inside there is nothing,
nothing but a carcass, rotting away over time
with familiar blood and familiar eyes
Generations of me holding my hand,
holding me down
begging for their fate to become my own
For a second it gets to me,

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Love is Blind

by Evelyn Judy Buehler

Broken

by Aras Acolipeps

They brought me into
a broken world.
They told me to make
a better place.
But before I became
an adult,
they blamed me
for their broken world.
And they blamed me
for being broken.

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Chocolate Ice Cream

by lily Vilchis

A angry old man wrote a lullaby.
He sang the song
to his grand daughter.
His rusty, gone voice stumbling
out a tune about chocolate
ice cream and puppies.
She knew no difference in love
for chocolate ice cream and
the old wrinkled lips
serenading her.

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LUCACI FLORENTIN - SERENDIPITY - ȚARA MEA NOUĂ - MY NEW COUNTRY RO

by Lucaci Florentin

LUCACI FLORENTIN - SERENDIPITY - ȚARA MEA NOUĂ - MY NEW COUNTRY

Va pup dragii mei fani , mult ați mai așteptat
Acest poem nou, frumos , din sufletul curat
Și iată din senin și curcubee vă fac din nou șah mat
Am toate formele legale și la OSIM eu l-am înregistrat
Să nu vină vreo impostoare tupeistă să zică că i l-am furat
Bazată pe eșecul statului de drept cum ni s-a precizat
Pe prostia, lenea și incompetența unui sistem ratat
Ce perpetuează racilele comuniste, securiste de rahat

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