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03/07/2024

Here's #2! It's entitled, "My Poetical Side". I wrote this poem when I was circa 15 or 16 years old. The illustration is by Ms. Taki Richards. Taki is an outstanding multimedia artist!

This is page 6 of my , entitled, "Stuff I Wrote From My Heart". For some reason, I'm finally ready to publish it.

Please give your honest criticism about my poem. And, comments like, "Well, I don't know because I don't really read poetry" DO NOT work. Just read it and tell me what you think.

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02/07/2024

So... I was supposed to this yesterday (which ended 17 minutes ago), but I had a late start. But, here's my poem that I wrote as a part of a daily poem writing in July 2024. Please feel free to leave your honest opinion and criticism. And, comments like "I don't really know how to read poetry" do not count because all you have to do is read the poem. Nothing fancy--- I promise. So, here's my poem that should have been published on July 1st, 2024:

"I am a poet"

I write words that people want to say
and don't want to say
Sometimes, I think about the ways the words make me/us/them feel:
sometimes, I don't

I try to put together just the right words, [and] the write words to say
And, other times, I write nothing and say what I say from my heart and not my mind

And, sometimes I say what I say from my mind and not my heart
Still, I say what I say with the meaning that I meant to say it with

In rhymes and pentameters and,
without metaphor and imagery:
But, sometimes, with them

No particular order, or structure (i.e., free form)
And, certainly, in ABA and ABC order
And as cinquains and Haikus
And, as traditional and as well-metered and well-structure verse.

Yes, I write poems and you may or might not like them/readthem/knowthem

I write poems because

I am a poet.

by Teyuna Darris

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02/07/2024

https://goodpoetry.org/2024/07/01/a-patriotic-creed/

Photo by Sharefaith on Pexels.com by Edgar Allen Guest (1881 – 1959) To serve my country day by day At any humble post I may; To honor and respect her Flag, To live the traits of which I brag…

02/07/2024

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26/09/2023

"The " from GoodPoetry. This first features my poet--- . Sharing about the extraordinary lives of some wonderful poets in 100 words, or less.

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Listen to 's Mini Bio Series featuring short biographies of poets from around the world and from different time periods in history. This episo...

04/07/2023

"I hear America Singing" by .

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by Walt Whitman I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear,Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and strong,The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or bea…

04/07/2023

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by Walt Whitman (1819 – 1892) Centre of equal daughters, equal sons,All, all alike endear’d, grown, ungrown, young or old,Strong, ample, fair, enduring, capable, rich,Perennial with the Earth…

04/07/2023

"Paul Revere's Ride" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.


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by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Listen, my children, and you shall hearOf the midnight ride of Paul Revere,On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five:Hardly a man is now aliveWho remembers that famo…

02/07/2023

Read "A Nation's Strength" by William Ralph Emerson at GoodPoetry.org!

by William Ralph Emerson What makes a nation’s pillars highAnd its foundations strong?What makes it mighty to defyThe foes that round it throng? It is not gold. Its kingdoms grandGo down in b…

01/01/2023

Happy New Year, Everyone🎉!

02/02/2022

01/02/2022

/ to " and Sing" by James Weldon Johnson.

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“God of our weary years, God of our silent tears, Thou who has brought us thus far on the way; Thou who has by Thy might Led us into the light,” — excerpt from “Lift Every V…

17/01/2022

In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, we're sharing his, poem, entitled, "The Streetsweeper".

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“Be a bush if you can’t be a tree. If you can’t be a highway, just be a trail. If you can’t be a sun, be a star. For it isn’t by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.& #8…

03/01/2022

Here's the latest of GoodPoetry! Listen to / Watch "Song" by --- https://youtu.be/FKU94GZKikM

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02/01/2022

Listen to / Read "On Quitting" by Edgar Albert Guest.


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02/01/2022

Enjoy this poem by Marianne Moore, entitled "Jelly Fish"--- https://wordpress.com/post/goodpoetry.org/1877

01/01/2022

Happy New Year!

26/11/2021

Listen to "Travel" by Edna St. Vincent Millay on the podcast.
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25/11/2021

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06/11/2021

and "My People" by Langston Hughes at GoodPoetry.org.

https://goodpoetry.org/2021/11/06/my-people-by-langston-hughes/

“The stars are beautiful, So the eyes of my people.”

04/11/2021

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03/11/2021

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01/11/2021

Listen to "Theme for English B" by , https://youtu.be/M1DQ3QQVkaw via


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31/10/2021

Listen to ' , entitled, "Theme for English B" at .org--- https://goodpoetry.org/2021/10/30/theme-for-english-b/
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Being me, it will not be white. But it will be a part of you, instructor. You are white— yet a part of me, as I am a part of you. That’s American. Sometimes perhaps you don’t want to be a part of m…

23/08/2021

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23/08/2021

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