Examples of Slam poems

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25+slam poems appropriate for middle school and high school

Answer:“Last Love” by Rachel McKibbens.

To my daughters I need to say:

Go with the one who loves you biblically.

The one whose love lifts its head to you

despite its broken neck. Whose body bursts

sixteen arms electric to carry you, gentle

the way old grief is gentle.

Love the love that is messy in all its too much,

The body that rides best your body, whose mouth

saddles the naked salt of your far gone hips,

whose tongue translates the rock language of

all your elegant scars.

Go with the one who cries out for her tragic sisters

as she chops the winter’s wood, the one whose skin

triggers your heart into a heaven of blood waltzes.

Go with the one who resembles most your father.

Not the father you can point out on a map,

but the father who is here, is your home,

is the key to your front door.

Know that your first love will only be the first.

And the second and third and even fourth

will unprepare you for the most important:

The Blessed. The Beast. The Last Love,

which is, of course, the most terrifying kind.

Because which of us wants to go with what can murder us?

Can reveal to us our true heart’s end and its thirty years

spent in poverty? Can mimic the sound of our bird-throated mothers,

replicate the warmth of our brothers’ tempers?

Can pull us out of ourselves until we are no longer sisters

or daughters or sword swallowers but, instead,

women who give and lead and take and want

and want and want and want,

because there is no shame in wanting.

And you will hear yourself say:

Last Love, I wish to die so I may come back to you

new and never tasted by any other mouth but yours.

And I want to be the hands that pull your children

out of you and tuck them deep inside myself until they are

ready to be the children of such a royal and staggering love.

Or you will say:

Last Love, I am old, and have spent myself on the courageless,

have wasted too many clocks on less-deserving men,

so I hurl myself at the throne of you and lie humbly at your feet.

Last Love, let me never roll out of this heavy dream of you,

let the day I was born mean my life will end

where you end. Let the man behind the church

do what he did if it brings me to you. Let the girls

in the locker room corner me again if it brings me to you.

Let this wild depression throw me beneath its hooves

if it brings me to you. Let me pronounce my hoarded joy

if it brings me to you. Let my father break me again

and again if it brings me to you.

Last love, I have let other men borrow your children. Forgive me.

Last love, I once vowed my heart to another. Forgive me.

Last Love, I have let my blind and anxious hands wander into a room

and come out empty. Forgive me.

Last Love, I have cursed the women you loved before me. Forgive me.

Last Love, I envy your mother’s body where you resided first. Forgive me.

Last Love, I am all that is left. Forgive me.

Last Love, I did not see you coming. Forgive me.

Last Love, every day without you was a life I crawled out of. Amen.

Last Love, you are my Last Love. Amen.

Last Love, I am all that is left. Amen.

I am all that is left.

Amen.

Explanation:

“you who have brought us forth, and fed us,”
what figurative language is it

Which of the following is not a characteristic of a strong thesis for a
persuasive essay?
A. It makes one argument, not several.
B. It makes a strong argument.
C. It states a fact.
D. It makes an argument on a debatable point.

if you had a classroom pet what would it be
if you don't want to answer don't answer and don't say anything just for points

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Write a sentence that combines two independent clauses with the conjunctive adverb “consequently.”

How is being creative helpful to you?

What is the purpose of rhetoric in persuasive writing?

Read the excerpt from "How the Whale Got His Throat.”

In the sea, once upon a time, O my Best Beloved, there was a Whale, and he ate fishes. He ate the starfish and the garfish, and the crab and the dab, and the plaice and the dace, and the skate and his mate, and the mackereel and the pickereel, and the really truly twirly-whirly eel. All the fishes he could find in all the sea he ate with his mouth—so! Till at last there was only one small fish left in all the sea, and he was a small 'Stute Fish, and he swam a little behind the Whale’s right ear, so as to be out of harm’s way. Then the Whale stood up on his tail and said, "I’m hungry.” And the small 'Stute Fish said in a small 'stute voice, "Noble and generous Cetacean, have you ever tasted Man?”

‘No,’ said the Whale. ‘What is it like?’

‘Nice,’ said the small 'Stute Fish. ‘Nice but nubbly.’

‘Then fetch me some,’ said the Whale, and he made the sea froth up with his tail.

‘One at a time is enough,’ said the 'Stute Fish. ‘If you swim to latitude Fifty North, longitude Forty West (that is magic), you will find, sitting on a raft, in the middle of the sea, with nothing on but a pair of blue canvas breeches, a pair of suspenders (you must not forget the suspenders, Best Beloved), and a jack-knife, one ship-wrecked Mariner, who, it is only fair to tell you, is a man of infinite-resource-and-sagacity.’

Which part of the excerpt best demonstrates that the author’s purpose is to entertain children with a humorous story?

"In the sea, once upon a time, O my Best Beloved, there was a Whale, and he ate fishes. He ate the starfish and the garfish, and the crab and the dab, and the plaice and the dace, and the skate and his mate, and the mackereel and the pickereel, and the really truly twirly-whirly eel. All the fishes he could find in all the sea he ate with his mouth—so!"
"Till at last there was only one small fish left in all the sea, and he was a small ‘Stute Fish, and he swam a little behind the Whale’s right ear, so as to be out of harm’s way. Then the Whale stood up on his tail and said, ‘I’m hungry.’"
"And the small 'Stute Fish said in a small 'stute voice, ‘Noble and generous Cetacean, have you ever tasted Man?’ ‘No,’ said the Whale. ‘What is it like?’ ‘Nice,’ said the small 'Stute Fish. ‘Nice but nubbly.’ ‘Then fetch me some,’ said the Whale, and he made the sea froth up with his tail. ‘One at a time is enough,’ said the 'Stute Fish."
“If you swim to latitude Fifty North, longitude Forty West (that is magic), you will find, sitting on a raft, in the middle of the sea, with nothing on but a pair of blue canvas breeches, a pair of suspenders (you must not forget the suspenders, Best Beloved), and a jack-knife, one ship-wrecked Mariner, who, it is only fair to tell you, is a man of infinite-resource-and-sagacity.”
Mark this and return

Which of the following conditions is often found in individuals that suffered trauma in infancy and early childhood as the brain's way to cope with fear?

hypochondria

body dysmorphic disorder


psychogenic non-epileptic seizures


factitious disorder

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give two types of feed for pigs​

Which phrases include sensory language? Check all that apply.

the breeze last night
the softly drifting snow
the bumpy, twisted tree
the newly bought car
the rabbit next door
the scarred, stained rug

Choose the source that would best defend the assertion.

Most employees at Maidenview Pharmaceuticals would prefer to work for a company that gives back to the community in the way of fundraisers and charitable events.

an interview with one employee at a single company
a company-wide survey that is given to every employee
an interview with past employees who were fired from the company
all of the above
none of the above

3. What is the proper noun in the following sentence? Thais entrance has four nouns.

A. Smile
B. My
C. Cindy
D. Class
E. Girl

write a letter to your house Master telling him about the concerns of the students in the house​

Which of the following best describes how well Student D responded overall to the task?

Does someone know how to give out a brainllest?

PLS GUYS PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME AND ILL MARK YOU AS BRAINLIEST I TRIED TO DO IT BUT I DIDN’T LIKE IT AND IHAVE TO SEND IT IN 3-4 HOURS words need 150-200

CAN SOMEONE PLS HELP ME PLSSS 25 POINTSSS ONLY IF U LIKE ZODIAC AND ALL THAT


so for my logo i picked to draw zodiac cricle i have to write a slogan and writing. the writing is why i pick it


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Read the excerpt from "A Computer Can Now Translate Languages as Well as a Human" by Vanessa Bates Ramirez. I remember standing on the platform at Tokyo Station watching my train to Nagano—the last train of the day—pulling away without me on it. What ensued was a frustrating hour of gestures, confused smiles, and head-shaking as I wandered the station looking for someone who spoke English (my Japanese is unfortunately nonexistent). It would have been really helpful to have a bilingual pal along with me to translate. Which dictionary entry defines the word ensued as used in the excerpt?

Your boss asks you to design a room to be as soundproof as possible and provides you with three samples of material. The only information on each samples label is the materials coefficient of absorption. The coefficient of absorption listed on sample A is 30%, on sample B is 47%, and on sample C is 62%. Which material do you recommend and why

Tell me something in your life that you took for granted that you will no longer overlook and you will appreciate more. It’s okay to put more than one thing in this paragraph. Please tell me what that thing or things are and why are you more focused on not ever taking them for granted ever again.

Type Paragraph Below This

is a good book 1000 or 200 pages​

From the Encyclopedia Britannica biography:
Benjamin Solomon Carson was born on Sept. 18, 1951, in Detroit, Mich. His parents divorced when he was eight, and he lived with his mother and brother first in Boston and then back in Detroit. He was a poor academic student in elementary school until his mother began to limit his television watching and had him read two books a week and write book reports.
In 2008, Pres. George W. Bush awarded Carson the Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2009 a movie about Carson's life, Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story premiered on television. Carson was the author of an autobiography, Gifted Hands (1990), written with Cecil Murphey, as well as several motivational books.
In 1983 Carson moved to Perth, Australia, to work as a chief neurosurgery resident at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital. After a year spent gaining experience, he returned to Johns Hopkins, where he was named director of pediatric neurosurgery. There he earned a reputation for dealing with difficult cases using advanced surgical methods. In 1985 he performed his first successful hemispherectomy, a procedure that removes part of the brain in order to control chronic seizures. He also became known for his work separating conjoined twins, in 1987 completing the first successful separation of craniopagus twins (joined at the head).
From the Academy of Achievement autobiographical interview:
We had to stay in the house and read these books and our friends were outside and they were playing and they knew we couldn't come out. It seems like they would be making just that much more noise to torment us. But, I hated it for the first several weeks, but then all of a sudden, I started to enjoy it because we had no money, but between the covers of those books, I could go anyplace, I could be anybody, I could do anything. And, I began to learn how to use my imagination more because it doesn't really require a lot of imagination to watch television, but it does to read. You've got to take those letters and make them into words, and those words into sentences, and those sentences into concepts, and the more you do that, the more vivid your imagination becomes. And, I believe that's probably one of the reasons that you see that creative people tend to be readers, because they're exercising their mind.
I was reading about people in laboratories, pouring chemicals from a beaker into a flask and watching the steam rise, and completing electrical circuits, and discovering galaxies, and looking at microcosms in the microscope, and I just acquired so much knowledge, and I had put myself into those settings and I saw myself differently than everybody else in my environment who just wanted to get out of school so they could get some cool clothes and a cool car. And, I was looking down the pike and seeing myself as a scientist or a physician or something of that nature, and that was one of the things that sort of carried me through much of the ridicule and some of the hardships that a person would have to go through coming from my environment and going to medical school.
The thing that I am probably the most proud of is not all the medical accomplishments or honorary degrees or various boards and societies. I'm most proud of the 100,000-plus letters that I have from young people, throughout America and around the world, whose lives have been changed by reading one of my books, or seeing me on television, or an interview in a magazine, and recognizing that they have the ability to define their own lives. If that's the legacy that I leave, I'll be very happy.
I was talking to a friend of mine, who was a cardiothoracic surgeon, who was the chief of the division, and I said, "You guys operate on the heart in babies, how do you keep them from exsanguinating" and he says, "Well, we put them in hypothermic arrest." I said, "Is there any reason that -- if we were doing a set of Siamese twins that were joined at the head -- that we couldn't put them into hypothermic arrest, at the appropriate time, when we're likely to lose a lot of blood?" and he said, "No." I said, "Wow, this is great." Then I said, "Why am I putting my time into this? I'm not going to see any Siamese twins." So I kind of forgot about it, and lo and behold, two months later, along came these doctors from Germany, presenting this case of Siamese twins. And, I was asked for my opinion, and I then began to explain the techniques that should be used, and how we would incorporate hypothermic arrest, and everybody said "Wow! That sounds like it might work." And, my colleagues and I, a few of us went over to Germany. We looked at the twins. We actually put in scalp expanders, and five months later we brought them over and did the operation, and lo and behold, it worked.

We can learn experience not only b study. Elaborate

Snow geese 1. Part a how do the speaker's thoughts in snow geese capture a central idea of the poem? A. by suggesting that life can be full of contradictions. B. by illustrating that time can be measured in many ways. C. by showing that life can be enriched by brief but meaningful experiences

Who does Shakespeare want us to sympathize with?

Thismphoto shows a young worker during the great depression. How could this photo be used to appeal to readers emotionally if it were included in years of dust

What is the meaning of the Latin suffix -ity?