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      <title>1st Period Poems 2021 AP by Matt Coonan</title>
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      <description>Magnificent Metaphors, &amp; Sublime Similes </description>
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      <pubDate>2021-10-08 11:31:28 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>A Bore</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>My life has been&nbsp;</div><div>A bore&nbsp;</div><div>Not bad not good just&nbsp;</div><div>A bore</div><div><br></div><div>I’m but a hatchling waiting to soar</div><div>Waiting for the wind to come</div><div>I need to find new heights</div><div>But a breeze has yet to come</div><div><br></div><div>I’m a blank canvas&nbsp;</div><div>Waiting for colors</div><div>Waiting for a picture&nbsp;</div><div>Waiting for an image that’s unequivocally me</div><div><br></div><div>My life has been like milk and toast</div><div>My life has been as boring as grass</div><div>My life has been a bore, and yet&nbsp;</div><div>It has only just begun.</div>]]></description>
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         <title>Dancing fairytale </title>
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         <title>Introverted Homebody</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>All alone in my room.</div><div><br></div><div>By myself</div><div><br></div><div>the way I like it.</div><div><br></div><div>The darkness comforting like a mother to a child</div><div>engulfing me whole after tiring days on end.</div><div>The AC roaring, silencing all reality outside my door</div><div>Chills piercing my body</div><div>shaking like a vibrating phone.</div><div>A candle is always lit as I get drunk off the scent</div><div>all stress and worries lifted.</div><div>My vision slowly going in and out</div><div>my eyes heavy.</div><div>I lay in bed staring blankly at my ceiling&nbsp;</div><div>Pondering today, the present, and the future to come.</div><div><br></div><div>This is my ideal evening</div><div>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><strong>When I was a child</strong></div><div><strong>I noticed I was different</strong></div><div><strong>But like the tide, I swallowed the feeling completely.</strong></div><div><strong>sunk it to the deep abyss that is my mind</strong></div><div><strong>And so I carried on,</strong></div><div><strong>Forgot with time</strong></div><div><strong>I deserve this peace at least.</strong></div><div><br></div><div><strong>I never expected this thought to resurface</strong></div><div><strong>A perfectly preserved specimen&nbsp;</strong></div><div><strong>Now more potent than ever before</strong></div><div><strong>If you look closely you may see</strong></div><div><strong>The truth that is the real me</strong></div><div><strong>Floating just above my eyes.</strong></div><div><br></div><div><strong>My truth is my temptress</strong></div><div><strong>A sound like a siren’s cry</strong></div><div><strong>I couldn’t ignore it if I tried.</strong></div><div><strong>My truth is my captor</strong></div><div><strong>And I’ve developed a liking to our secret crime</strong></div><div><strong>A dangerous game, a sinking ship</strong></div><div><strong>And it wont let up this time.</strong></div><div><br></div><div><strong>Someday, down the road</strong></div><div><strong>I will give in to its call</strong></div><div><strong>Swim across the mote</strong></div><div><strong>And climb the stone wall,</strong></div><div><strong>But&nbsp;</strong></div><div><strong>Up until then&nbsp;</strong></div><div><strong>I’ll let the feeling sink</strong></div><div><strong>Until it rises once again</strong></div><div>
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         <title>Lifelong Crucible</title>
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         <title>Page 1</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div>Wake up, do it all on repeat&nbsp;<br>Cannot trade my thoughts for widespread gloom&nbsp;<br>Overthink from the morning 'till the sheets&nbsp;<br>Used to feel like a burden compared to our heirloom<br><br>Pure ignorance will keep the weak wired&nbsp;<br>The criteria is shouldn't be hard to meet&nbsp;<br>Is the constant burnout not keeping you tired?&nbsp;<br>Come along and get educated, take a seat<br><br>There are many that require a reality check&nbsp;<br>You do not have the power to have my mental annexed&nbsp;<br>Time may be able to heal, but it can lead to a wreck&nbsp;<br>The stress causes me to become more and more vexed<br><br>Is it a dream or am I one of one?&nbsp;<br>May I succeed or become a deadbeat?&nbsp;<br>My mind spins in circles like the barrels of a gatling gun&nbsp;<br>Then I wake up and do it all over again on repeat</div>]]></description>
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         <title>Page 2</title>
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         <pubDate>2021-10-08 11:56:00 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>Only You Understand You</title>
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         <description><![CDATA[<div><br></div><div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<br>She chuckles, she laughs, she smiles.</div><div>Does that mean she has no troubles?</div><div>Yeah, her sky may not always be blue.&nbsp;</div><div>Yet, His word always remains true.</div><div><br></div><div>Her heart is like a heavy bucket of water.&nbsp;</div><div>She goes through her storm willingly,&nbsp;</div><div>knowing that the most High God is the Umbrella.</div><div><br></div><div>Friends? Ha</div><div>“ A Fountain.” She declares she is to them.</div><div>When all she knows is being used.</div><div>They don’t understand her.</div><div>Her intelligence is like a stray dog</div><div>You’ll never know where she’ll end up</div><div>She’s worth more than the priciest price tag</div><div>She’s bigger than a bear,</div><div>See, she chooses to be a servant until her storm is over.</div><div><br></div><div>She’s waiting for the trumpets to sing.</div><div>The knock on the door to ring.&nbsp;</div><div>Only Yahweh will declare when it’s time for her to reign.</div>]]></description>
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         <title>Everything has changed </title>
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</div><div><br></div><div>Everything had changed&nbsp;</div><div>The moon is a little farther&nbsp;</div><div>Thee catapiller turned into a butterfly</div><div>Everything has changed,&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>My hair is a few inches longer&nbsp;</div><div>I’ve grown a bit taller&nbsp;</div><div>I even got a little stronger</div><div>Everything has changed&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Nights are colder&nbsp;</div><div>Days are shorter&nbsp;</div><div>Everything has changed,</div><div><br></div><div>Time goes on</div><div>Everything may change</div><div>But missing you&nbsp;</div><div>Always stays the same&nbsp;</div>]]></description>
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         <title>Just be happy </title>
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</div><div>Lost in her own little world&nbsp;</div><div>Speaking to a voice that never&nbsp;</div><div>wants to let go , battles get harder</div><div>and harder as I go, while I’m&nbsp; running through the storm</div><div>She is a warrior with weary eyes&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>Just be happy, they said</div><div><br></div><div>Stress overriding her body&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp; like a puppet on some strings ,&nbsp;</div><div>life spinning out of control</div><div>This is the sign you have been waiting for&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>Just be happy, they said</div><div>&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;She looks for those signs of relief and&nbsp;</div><div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;reassurance but finds herself worse than she&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;thought , as abandoned as an unloved pet <strong>.</strong>
</div><div>Tears constantly dripping , bloop , bloop , bloop</div><div><br></div><div>Just be happy , they said</div><div><br></div><div>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Found a sweet sweet love , someone i&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; would’ve never thought before , fell in love</div><div>with myself a little more, currently striving&nbsp;</div><div>for that happiness i absolutely adore&nbsp;</div><div>She is a conqueror smiling eye to eye&nbsp;</div><div>
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