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Something cheesy (stupid)You are like the rarest of metals, / found on Mars. / Bright green and deep purple

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ThrushesTerrifying are the attent sleek thrushes on the lawn, / More coiled steel than living - a poised / Dark deadly eye, those delicate legs

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**H.M.S. FRIENDSHIP**Friendship is built upon the foundations of / Unique and quirky first impressions. / It is not brought together by what others

@TheQueensJewel34

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What is Transgender?I think sometimes, about what it means to be transgender. I probe and probe for answers, because as the possibility for a new age of enlightenment and safety increases, the others want to know. I’ve come up with many answers, but I can hold to none. I don’t deserve to paint the definition of a culture with the limited experiences I’ve had. I don’t see myself in the transgender identified people allowed on television. I don’t see myself in the transgender identified people making news feeds and giving high profile interviews. And as my nation’s exposure to our culture increases, likely will their curiosity. Am I transgender? Do I have the right? I’ve heard doctors, psychiatrists, may refuse transgender patients access to hormone therapy based on how dedicated or convincing their portrayal of their identified gender. If you want to be a man or woman, you’ll have to look like the women and men on TV. If you want to be transgender, you’ll have to look like the trans identified people on TV. Every single one of us who has an active role as either participant or observer in our society is prey to the crisis of validity. Am I pretty enough? Am I strong enough? Am I brave enough? Mom enough? Dad enough? Competitive enough? Successful enough? Rich enough? **** enough? Pious enough? It never ends. We’re, as a nation of people, being crushed and compartmentalized by this ever present lens, looming over us, exploiting our weaknesses and fears so it may grow wider, and support itself as it follows us, seemingly forever into the future. And one of the worst fears this camera of existential torment exploits, in most of us every day, is, “Do I have a reflection?” “What does it look like?” “Do I look like me?” What does it mean to be transgender? I can’t get away from that question. But I don’t have an answer. There are varying degrees of anguish, depression, panic, anxiety, and other wonderful emotional states that creep up on you and breathe down your neck nearly every waking day. Absolute contempt for the lie of a life you’ve lived till now, and contempt for the fragments still stuck to you, in memories, attached to your body and mind. Fear of those in your own community who would purposefully humiliate, invalidate, or attack you, choosing their own universal moral code over the innate urge and capacity to support the health and continued well being of another human. A ******* neighbor. A ******* pupil. A ******* employee. A ******* sister, brother, son, daughter, mother, father, cousin, ******* blood. What is being transgender like? By my experiences, it’s just like being anyone else in the country. But with a lot more fear, death, exclusion and medication.

@shychaospatrol1

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Gypsy of the RailwaysI march to a different drummer / My life it is my own / I'm an explorer of experience

@roger-turner44

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generation Z1995 saw the start of Generation Z, / the ‘iKids’ with a knack for this new-fangled technology, / Millennial 2.0,

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GlobalizationTrade,Globalization,Terrorism and Corruption / What's the difference? / Each of us look at the world with open eyes yet with closed minds.

@SamirRaezacNadcilac29

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Paradoxical Tendencies‘I am…’ 'Or am I’? Who can say? / ‘A posteriori’ leads the way / For the extra and the ordinary

@Ballads-of-a-philosopher-poet47

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Bullying EqualityI will never understand / Society’s preference for love. / It is made out to be

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Ode to HatersYou look at me and you frown in jealousy. / Yeah, you secretly know I have swag. / Pants a little low, black and red shirt that says

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to the girls who whisper "I think she might be gay."i. when I was young, I was never complimented. I never felt good enough and it hurt and somewhere along the line I began complimenting everyone because I was never complimented and I never wanted anyone to hate themselves the way I did. just because I call a girl pretty does not mean I want in her pants. / ii. we live in a country where a gay poet spoke at obama's second inauguration, where five openly gay senators serve, where all fifty states have had a gay elected officer in some capacity, so if I were to be gay, what's the problem with a relatively unknown sixteen year old girl from a relatively unknown town in a relatively unknown state being gay? / iii. do you want me to be gay? do you want a better, more socially acceptable reason to make fun of me? is my weight not enough?

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GlobalizationMankind began as a troop animal. / Living amongst its own kind. / Stepping out of the trees onto the Savanna.

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The World NEEDS HelloPoetry (Please Make A Contribution.)Afghanistan needs hellopoetry / Albania needs hellopoetry / Algeria needs hellopoetry

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Bright FlagsThe great hiway of dawn / Stretching to slumber / pouring out from her greedy

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United Nations**United Nations** / *Let us all now make this promise / To be signed by every land

@carl-joseph-roberts29

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hu,manA: Don't you find it irritating? / Z: Hm? / A: Don't you find irritating the human need to feel happiness?

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AT THE THINNING OF THE VEILThe fear is limited / To the chills up the spine / Ghosts cling to the living

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SexualityI always wondered why people judged others for their sexuality. Shouldn't love be just the words like "love is love". People should be able to express themselves thru words and actions. Sexuality is something others take for granted or even advantage of. If a guy comes out gay woman usually always say "the pretty boys are always the gay ones" or how men always come up to woman who are lesbian say "I can turn that girl straight in just one night". Or even hearing still to this day people are protesting on the street against gays and gay marriage. Today's society rather care bout brands, religion, race, and someone's sexuality rather than someone's cultural background and getting to know someone deep within. Teens who hide in the closet due to their families being against their sons or daughters for being gay become suicidal and the suicide percentages go up. People take deaths more serious than those who are a live and trying to make some of their selves. Rumors that are spread round by high school students bout someone's sexuality turns into harmful beatings, but the school system is too into themselves and care bout their job title rather than to take care of harassment and bullying. Celebrities who hide their sexuality then later come out are the talk of the town, then there is always that one person from paparazzi who screws with the news headline and puts lies into everyone in society and everyone believes what they see rather than to think outside the box that not everything they see online or TV is true. Parents who are gay are looked upon as to "who wears the pants" in the relationship, or "whose top", or even whose the "daddy or the mommy". Then the children who have gay parents become victims and are always assumed they are also gay too or just not normal in today's society. A lot of countries for example Russia abuses their laws against gays and soon enough fights and killings close to murders happen every minute of every second of every day. Even presidents in a lot of states and countries are against gays and try to pass laws made by the government which by then a lot more people hide behind closets. The world is more ******* up than people may think, if we just stick together and except people as they are then there would be equality.

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A Child's Pledge of AllegianceI pledge allegiance / To the discourse / Of the divided states of mind

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The CoachYou're the counselor. / When certain players can't accept defeat. / You're a minister.

@jeffrey-conyers34

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Homework (by Allen Ginsberg)If I were doing my Laundry I'd wash my ***** Iran / I'd throw in my United States, and pour on the Ivory Soap, scrub up Africa, put all the birds and elephants back in the jungle, / I'd wash the Amazon river and clean the oily Carib & Gulf of Mexico,

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Let Me Make You HappyI've walked the beaten path / Sinned in the ways of every religion / But the only salvation I'm looking for

@robert-guerrero79

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