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Posted on July 18, 2018May 31, 2020

Sightless Devastation- Presented at the NEA Big Read Event

Poem Transcribed As Performed. Do you see it? The invisible boundary between everything, between you and I, wrapped in years of tension. Some will choose to ignore it, climbing over…

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Posted on July 17, 2018May 31, 2020

Sally- 1st place SUHSD Poetry Competition

Poem Transcribed As Performed Warning this poem contains situations of sexual assault and post traumatic stress disorder. For the things, I left unsaid in my last poem and the chains…

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Posted on July 17, 2018May 31, 2020

Survival Skills 101- 1st place SUHSD Poetry Competition

Poem transcribed as performed. I can’t remember the last thing he ever said to me. I’m starting to forget what he looks like, maybe that’s why I decided to write…

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Posted on July 14, 2018May 31, 2020

Flowers, Bones, and Mothers.

An unnamed gentleman walks into an all-white room with nothing on his body except a dirty discarded robe, dirt underneath his fingernails, and his skin bruised as if his sins…

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Posted on September 18, 2017May 31, 2020

The Way I Was Made- 2nd place at NEA Big Read

“The worst injury is feeling you don’t belong so much / to you” I am 1 in 4. Not 1 in 4 to rebel against my parents and dye my…

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Posted on June 19, 2017May 31, 2020

Father’s Day to Little Ol’ Me

      “It doesn’t matter,” I tell myself, allowing my thoughts to overwhelm me. But there has to be the reason why I was left to scroll through the…

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Posted on May 1, 2017May 31, 2020

The Beauty In A Name

You probably do not remember who I am and even if my name means any significance, you probably do not remember the way I look, as it is a few…

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Posted on March 31, 2017May 31, 2020

My Street- SUHSD Poetry Competition 2016-2017 2nd Place

  I won second place at The Spoken Word contest with this piece. Poem Published As Performed. My skin color is one of discussion but my race is one of…

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