Women's History Month - Page 2
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Remember
Famous Poem
Remember me when I am gone away,
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Gone far away into the silent land;
When you can no more hold me by the hand,
Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.Featured Shared StoryIn 2022, my 2-year-old cousin passed of covid, and I'm only 13, so it's hard to go through that, so this really hits home.
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If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking
Famous Poem
If I can stop one heart from breaking,
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I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,Featured Shared StoryThe poem transmits the meaning of helping from the heart, reaching out to those in need and soothing the pain felt by others. It doesn't need a hero to work wonders, only need a heart to...
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Don't Quit
When times are hard, you might stop for a bit,
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But it's not over until the moment you quit.
On a river's bridge, failures are the planks;
Take one step at a time until you reach its banks.Featured Shared StoryNo Stories yet, You can be the first!
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As You Go Through Life
Famous Poem
Don't look for the flaws as you go through life;
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And even when you find them,
It is wise and kind to be somewhat blind
And look for the virtue behind them.Featured Shared StorySometimes life goes up and down between hills and rivers, but with even the least courage and a sign of faith in the turn we make at the sharp curve, it all levels up to positivity no matter...
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Caged Bird
Famous Poem
Analysis of Form and Technique
The free bird leaps
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on the back of the wind
and floats downstream
till the current endsFeatured Shared StoryI remember this poem from my guided reading class in 5th grade. I remember it well. This poem really touched me, and reading it again just made my day. This poem, I remember it being about...
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Great-Grandmother, A Beautiful Woman
Strong, beautiful black woman, so peaceful and serene,
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You deserve to live in Paradise and shown the finer things.
Life has dealt you plenty of cards, some winning, others bad,
And tides have brought in waves of memories: both happy and sad.Featured Shared StoryI hope you don't mind that I shared this poem with a Great Grandmother in our church, she has custody of her two great grandchildren, one of them is 8 and the other is just born 3 months...
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In The Orchard
Famous Poem
"I thought you loved me." "No, it was only fun."
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"When we stood there, closer than all?" "Well, the harvest moon
"Was shining and queer in your hair, and it turned my head."
"That made you?" "Yes." "Just the moon and the light it madeFeatured Shared StoryNo Stories yet, You can be the first!
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Hope Is The Thing With Feathers
Famous Poem
"Hope" is the thing with feathers -
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That perches in the soul -
And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -Featured Shared StoryI recited this poem in grade six and it has been an inspiration for me ever since. Wonderful work!
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Barter
Famous Poem
Life has loveliness to sell,
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All beautiful and splendid things,
Blue waves whitened on a cliff,
Soaring fire that sways and sings,Featured Shared StoryHow wonderful to stop, really see, and appreciate what nature gives us. I too love the crashing waves, the dancing flames and beautiful smells around us, we need to be mindful of every moment...
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Mirror
Famous Poem
I am silver and exact. I have no preconceptions.
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Whatever I see I swallow immediately
Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike.
I am not cruel, only truthful,Featured Shared StoryA mirror never lies. It shows what is what exactly. Just as Plath writes: "I am silver and exact". The truth of our mortality is what we keep on negating and the speaker too finds it hard to...
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The Seed-Shop
Famous Poem
HERE in a quiet and dusty room they lie,
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Faded as crumbled stone and shifting sand,
Forlorn as ashes, shrivelled, scentless, dry -
Meadows and gardens running through my hand.Featured Shared StoryNo Stories yet, You can be the first!
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The Little White Hearse
Famous Poem
Somebody's baby was buried to-day--
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The empty white hearse from the grave rumbled back,
And the morning somehow seemed less smiling and gay
As I paused on the walk while it crossed on its way,Featured Shared StoryOne cannot relate to the loss of a child unless they have gone through it. One can only feel the same pain of another if they have. This poem beautifully speaks of and shares this pain.
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I Am Beautiful
in Inspirational Poems by Teens
I am beautiful,
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I am powerful,
I am desireable,
Boys love me,Featured Shared StoryNo Stories yet, You can be the first!
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Peace
Famous Poem
THE steadfast coursing of the stars,
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The waves that ripple to the shore,
The vigorous trees which year by year
Spread upwards more and more;Featured Shared StoryA beautiful and inspired poem about a sometimes elusive quality that we all so much need to permeate our hearts. Maybe it has something to do with understanding and being understood and...
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Advice To A Girl
Famous Poem
No one worth possessing
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Can be quite possessed;
Lay that on your heart,
My young angry dear;Featured Shared StoryNo Stories yet, You can be the first!
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I, Being Born A Woman And Distressed
Famous Poem
I, being born a woman and distressed
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By all the needs and notions of my kind,
Am urged by your propinquity to find
Your person fair, and feel a certain zestFeatured Shared StoryNo Stories yet, You can be the first!
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The Spider And The Fly
Famous Poem
"Will you walk into my parlor?" said the spider to the fly;
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"'Tis the prettiest little parlor that ever you may spy.
The way into my parlor is up a winding stair,
And I have many curious things to show when you are there."Featured Shared StoryThis is a beautiful poem, very beautiful! It can as well be a warning to school girls who are prone to dating those men out there. Symbolically, the spider in the poem is a male and the fly...
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Your Brilliance And Grace
in Short Poems
Beautiful Girl,
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you don’t even realize
that some people
look at your madnessFeatured Shared StoryNo Stories yet, You can be the first!
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It Might Have Been
Famous Poem
We will be what we could be. Do not say,
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"It might have been, had not or that, or this."
No fate can keep us from the chosen way;
He only might who is.Featured Shared StoryNo Stories yet, You can be the first!
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Miss Rosie
Famous Poem
when I watch you
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wrapped up like garbage
sitting, surrounded by the smell
of too old potato peelsFeatured Shared StoryNo Stories yet, You can be the first!
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