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What it’s like to be rejected

Ready to start a brand new year she makes her way to school, with hopes that on the popularity list she’d be with the cool. She finds her class and walks inside to wish she’d never came. The way they talked and things they wore made her feel ashamed. She looked don at her tattered [...]

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RIDES NOT TAKEN

(1)If you’d found a way to hold your own against the playground bully, Would you go to school reunions now, and share old classroom tales? If you’d opened up, so counselors could understand you fully, Would the knowledge they’d acquired have taken more wind from your sales? (2)If you’d stood up to your father, when [...]

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Love Poem

I never desired To be a leader. leadership was not for me. I never wanted to be a follower because I had my own decree. I marched to a certain drum beat That suited me to a tee. I followed my own dictates Let no one dictate to me I tried treating everyone fairly And [...]

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For Jamyang Kyi

So many years, so much faith, Hu, such bounty in mankind, the sun shining through its lens to etch truth into books. I hold a mirror to my face, looking at my life from the world’s arched back. Steel rods fill the mandala of my dreams, bars that won’t let me leave like I should, [...]

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