Poems from learningtobefree

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Meghedi Tamazian is a seventeen year old girl who resides in a Chicago suburb. She is a member of her school's speech team and competes in the individual event of "Poetry Reading." She has represented her school in numerous literary conferences, festivals, and magazines, and has been mentored by renowned poets such as Kevin Coval and Roger Bonair-Agard. Approximately three years ago, she began working with a Philadelphia-based spoken word artist, with whom she continues to collaborate, to produce spoken word tracks of her poetry. She aspires to be an involved educator of English at the collegiate level and has a firm belief in engaging youth in meaningful social discussion with a concentration in poetry. Too often, she pretends not to notice when someone is trying to hold her hand. Don't ask her why.
we fall in love in those in-between moments, like when the sun is buried right at the brink of that fine line and if you want to know the...
my best friend and i have matching smiles like the insides of oysters and the same amount of melanin in our skin. it’s magical, really, ...
i heard a child scream once, only once, and it was the sound of Algebra, the Cold War, global warming,   but also a mango seed scraping...
the first time a boy smoked too many cigarettes because of me, he became a man. he coughed my blood into his palms, tasted my iron &...
I. i have this tendency to hide behind tall buildings. skyscrapers are home, but your lap is the most familiar place i will ever know...

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