PostPoems Be Artistic. Be Creative. Be Inspired!

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of my first, real research paper, gave me

a sense (then partial) of accomplishment.

I was a shy, clumsy, and awkward runt

and often bulied by the popular

(who thought and acted unilaterally,

some thirty, or so, in that company).

But, in a few days, I became more sure
surprised when spoken to by Terri P---,

an often shoeless senior, beautiful,

and one who had not shipwrecked her pure soul

to be accepted---who, with courtesy,

inquired about my paper.  That made whole

my joy.  I had researched Richard the Third

(an English King of whom she had not heard).

He, too, suffered unpopularity.

Starward

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