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Loc: Poetry 180: Leaving the Island
This six-stanza poem shares the sadness in leaving an island home after a vacation of fun and relaxation.
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Loc: Poetry 180: The Summer Day
This single-stanza poem expresses that the act of paying attention to the little things in life is a form of prayer.
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Loc: Poetry 180: One Day a Woman
This single-stanza poem tells a story from the poet's imagined news story.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Who Burns for the Perfection of Paper
This single-stanza poem explains the painful process involved in making legal pads.
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Loc: Poetry 180: This Moment
This poem shares what it would be like to stop time and then take a picture of the frozen moment.
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Loc: Poetry 180: The End and the Beginning
In this non-prose piece, the poet describes the post-war area needs and the concerns of the traumatized area in the years after.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Locals
This multi-stanza poem describes people who seem to "belong" in their local setting.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Family Photo Around Xmas Tree
This poem describes the scene in a family's Christmas photo and how the poet hopes never to get another one.
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Loc: Poetry 180: The Yawn
This poem shares the observations of a person on a train who is awe-struck by a young lady and her yawn.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Blue Willow
In this non-prose piece, the poet reminisces about the willow and rushes near her childhood home.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Tuesday 9:00 Am
This non-prose piece shares the topic of disaster invading ordinary occurrences in city life.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Happiness
In this non-prose piece, the poet expresses the theme that true happiness cannot be found in material items.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Her Head
In this non-prose, five-stanza piece, the poet describes her amazement of a woman who is carrying water on her head in Natal, South Africa.
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Loc: Poetry 180: 96 Vandam
In this non-prose piece, the author shares sensory-filled images about a street in New York City where many homeless reside.
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Loc: Poetry 180: My Moral Life
This three-stanza poem shares a message about speaking out in support of issues to get people elected who will make a difference.
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Loc: Poetry 180: It Took All My Energy
In this non-prose piece, the author reminisces about catching a fish, a symbolic event in the poet's life.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Once Upon a Time There Was a Man
This single-stanza poem shares a poem in the form of a fairy tale.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Dandelion
This nine-stanza poem combines botany and an adolescent's view of home life into a greater statement.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Ox Cart Man
A five-stanza poem about a man who gathers potatoes, shears sheep, and makes products that he sells at market. Then he sells his cart and ox and returns home to spend the winter making a new harness and cart before repeating everything...
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Loc: Poetry 180: Forgotten Planet
This poet reminisces about childhood as he listens to his daughter's lack of undertanding about the names of the all of the planets.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Gone
A short poem about the emptiness of a house when someone has left.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Herd of Buffalo Crossing the Missouri on Ice
This poem s about a herd of buffalo who are crossing on a frozen river.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Unconditional Day
This non-prose piece shares a poem from a young adult reminiscing about past Halloween celebrations.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Kyrie
This two-stanza poem shares a message about an awakening to the world.