Poems from learningtobefree
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.
my father is a man of many colors.
on the nights when the moon stays asleep,
he lotions his palms with pomegranate juice.
the sugared...
my brother has broad shoulders and a straight back.
he is a pillar of stone and a slab of concrete,
the way he marches around the house...
I.
when the boy drawn to priesthood kissed me, his mouth burned.
with triple-layer onion skin and a crucifix tongue, he tumbled
down from...
the cracks in the walls of Istanbul purge
themselves of cowardice every full moon.
the apprehension seeps into the atmosphere
and into...
for as long as i can remember, my father has carried
the weight of the world on his shoulders. it’s not
bodybuilding because the diabetes...