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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.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Schoolboys With Dog, Winter
This non-prose piece expresses the happiness of a boy and his dog during the winter.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Entrance
In this poem, the reader is encouraged to take the chance of entering into a room of the unknown.
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Loc: Poetry 180: How to Listen
In this non-prose piece, the poet shares how to listen carefully to others.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Gretel
In this poem, a female fairy tale stereotype from the story "Hansel and Gretel" is examined within twelve stanzas.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Eagle Plain
A poem about the eagle is shared within six, three-line stanzas. The poem allow the reader to look at the American symbol in a different way.
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Loc: Poetry 180: End of April
A poem about a baby bird, emerging from its shell, is shared within the five, three-line stanzas.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Break
This site shares a one-stanza poem about a family that is working on a puzzle together, taking a break from a world with problems.
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Loc: Poetry 180: The Summer I Was Sixteen
This five-stanza non-prose autobiographical piece shares what the poet reminsces about her sixteenth year in the early 1960's.
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Loc: Poetry 180: The Blue Bowl
This poem expresses the grief surrounding the burial of the poet's cat.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Fight
This two-stanza poem describes a couple's different opinions about their lives in Florida.
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Loc: Poetry 180: The Distances
This two-stanza poem describes a dark starry night in the beautiful outdoors.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Do You Have Any Advice for Those of Us Just Starting Out?
This seven-stanza poem gives advice to poets who are just starting out in their writing careers.
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Loc: Poetry 180: The Cord
The one-stanza poem compares the reach of a phone cord to the long reach of her mother.
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Loc: Poetry 180: At the Un National Monument Along the Canadian Border
This poem describes the land and sky along the Canadian border.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Did I Miss Anything?
This poem shares a teacher's response to a child who wants to know if he missed anything after a day's absence from class.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Neglect
This eight-stanza poem describes a neglected fruit tree that will not bear healthy fruit.
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Loc: Poetry 180: The Poet
This three-stanza gives non-complimentary characteristics about a poet.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Radio
This multi-stanza poem describes scenarios where a radio was stolen out of a car.
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Loc: Poetry 180: Bad Day
This single-stanza poem describes the bad day of an elf who has the job of a tailor.
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Loc: Poetry 180: The Partial Explanation
This poem describes the restaurant scene of a person sitting and waiting at a table.