Tag: contemporary poetry

  • Giving Thanks in My Own Way
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    Giving Thanks in My Own Way

    It’s Thanksgiving in three days, the time we express gratitude for the things we have. But really, how thankful are we when we say we are? I think being grateful to be alive has never been more meaningful than it has these past two years. For a lot of us — who experienced it, had someone…

  • Sleep — An Ode
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    Sleep — An Ode

    Of all the things I could’ve wished for, I wished for one thing only: sleep. Not because the bags under my eyes, with every passing night, got darker, heavier, deeper. Not because the world around me slept and, so, it felt like the applicable thing to do. Not because Vogue and aestheticians demanded eight hours…

  • A Teacher is that Person

    A caring teacher is a person who goes out of her way to earn your trust and to get to know your emotional needs as much as your academic needs, in order to better help you. A kind teacher greets you every morning like she hasn’t seen you in a week. Her hugs can be…

  • Pride: A Poem
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    Pride: A Poem

    When I think back to all I’ve had and how I blew it and the things they ruined, and how hard it can be to repair a feeling so fleeting but so filling, there’s almost always been this culprit and it’s impulsive and repulsive, and most of all, destructive. Some of us inherit it and…

  • Stories that Remain Untold

    “You miss him?” I tell them not, can’t miss what you never had. Never had a father figure, but never mind, mom was stricter in my childhood the only victor. Can’t put him anywhere in the picture of a now damaged structure that once could’ve been salvaged if our relationship hadn’t been ravaged by neglect…