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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"My Mother's Penmanship Lessons\"."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "My Mother's Penmanship Lessons\n\nIn her last notes, when her hand began\nto tremble, my mother tried to teach it\n\nthe penmanship she was known for,\nhow to make the sla... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"The Air Smelled Dirty\"."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The Air Smelled Dirty\n\nEveryone burned coal in our neighborhood,\nsoft coal they called it from the mountains\nof western Pennsylvania where my father\ngrew up and fled as soon a... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"[I would drive to your grave]\" about Living, Death, Sorrow & Grieving, Relationships, Family & Ancestors."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "[I would drive to your grave]\n\nI would drive to your grave but your grave is the crash\nthe frot... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"[Wilt thou play with him as with a bird]\" about Love, Heartache & Loss, Religion, Christianity, Faith & Doubt."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "[Wilt thou play with him as with a bird]\n\nFor I have loved the blade with all my crippled\n... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"[Stutter]\" about Love, Break-ups & Vexed Love, Relationships, Men & Women, Arts & Sciences, Language & Linguistics."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "[Stutter]\n\nI said love because it came closest said leave\nbecause you did we do this ... | null |
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"[That]\" about Living, Death, Sorrow & Grieving."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "[That]\n\nThat this is the morning in which nothing much\nthat the sky is still there and the water dresses\naccordingly that only at night does the water r... | null |
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Coquí\" about Nature, Animals."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Coquí\n\nOne tiny tree frog\nwith big eyes\nsings happily,\n“Kokee! Kokee!”\nHis brother comes to bother.\nCoquí doesn't push him.\nCoquí doesn't bite him.\nCoquí tells him,\... | null |
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"The Vanity of the Dragonfly\"."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The Vanity of the Dragonfly\n\nThe dragonfly at rest on the doorbell—\ntoo weak to ring and glad of it,\nbut well mannered and cautious,\nthinking it best to observe us quiet... | null |
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"God, God\"."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "God, God\n\nWe dressed for church. I had a white hat\nand white gloves when I was fifteen, no joke.\nYou had to do that to show God you cared.\n\nGod's eyes were stained glass, and his voice\n... | null |
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"For Elizabeth, Who Loved to Square Dance\"."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "For Elizabeth, Who Loved to Square Dance\n\nI wore Grandma Liz's pearls\nfor play, a plastic strand long\nenough to pool on the carpet\nover my stubbed toes. Whe... | null |
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Midnight Snow\"."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Midnight Snow\n\nOutside in the creek that feeds the lake\nand never freezes, an otter slaps the water\nwith his paw to feel the current's pulse—Slip in, lie back. Slip in, lie back. He sh... | null |
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Aquarium\"."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Aquarium\n\nThe fish are drifting calmly in their tank\nbetween the green reeds, lit by a white glow\nthat passes for the sun. Blindly, the blank\nglass that holds them in displays their slow\n... | null |
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"From where I stand\"."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "From where I stand\n\nat the third floor window of the tenement,\nthe street looks shiny.\nIt has been washed and rinsed by rain.\nBeyond the silver streaks of the streetcar tracks\na... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Monopoly\"."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Monopoly\n\nWe used to play, long before we bought real houses.\nA roll of the dice could send a girl to jail.\nThe money was pink, blue, gold, as well as green,\nand we could own a whole railr... | null |
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Final Shirt\"."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Final Shirt\n\nAfter my father died, my mother\nand my sisters picked the shirt, the tie;\nhe had just the one suit.\nI left them to it, I didn't\nwant to choose, I loved him\nall those year... | null |
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"The Day\"."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "The Day\n\nWe walked at the edge of the sea, the dog,\nstill young then, running ahead of us.\n\nFew people. Gulls. A flock of pelicans\ncircled beyond the swells, then closed\ntheir wings and... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"An After Hour\" about Living, Time & Brevity, Arts & Sciences, Poetry & Poets, Social Commentaries, History & Politics."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "An After Hour\n\nWhen one thing is becoming another, when writing is morphing, when t... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Relaxing or Voluntarily Having Dumb, Unpleasant Experiences\" about Activities, Social Commentaries, History & Politics."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Relaxing or Voluntarily Having Dumb, Unpleasant Experiences\n\nSome people like to r... | null |
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Graduation Day\" about Living, Coming of Age, Youth, Activities, School & Learning, Social Commentaries, History & Politics, Graduation."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Graduation Day\n\nDrawn by ceremonial obligation\nup from sleep I wo... | null |
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Picking up Your Spilled Pills off the Floor Is Briefly Humbling\" about Activities, Jobs & Working, Arts & Sciences, Poetry & Poets, Social Commentaries, Money & Economics."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Picking up Your Spilled Pills of... | null |
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Your Kingdom\" about Living, The Body, Relationships, Family & Ancestors, Nature, Animals, Trees & Flowers, Arts & Sciences, Sciences."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Your Kingdom\n\nif you like let the body feel\nall its own evolution\n... | null |
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"At the Other End of a Wire\" about Living, The Mind, Relationships, Men & Women."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "At the Other End of a Wire\n\nWhen he called, there were 261 emotions\nat play. I thought there were only wistfulness,\nhumi... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Amor Fati\" about Living, The Mind, Time & Brevity."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Amor Fati\n\nInside every world there is another world trying to get out,\nand there is something in you that would like to discount this world. \nThe st... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Certainty\" about Living, Coming of Age, Sorrow & Grieving, Relationships, Family & Ancestors."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Certainty\n\nPerhaps you can tell children that the world is always a more beautiful place than you can suppos... | null |
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{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"\"You hear the sun in the morning\"\"."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "\"You hear the sun in the morning\"\n\nYou hear the sun in the morning\nthrough closed shutters. As you sleep\nthe early sky is colored\nin fish scales, and you open ... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"\"A lamb blinking over a patch of earth\"\" about Nature, Animals, Religion, Christianity."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "\"A lamb blinking over a patch of earth\"\n\nA lamb blinking over a patch of earth\ndoes not know what you have do... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"\"Your husband is stretched out on the ground\"\" about Living, Marriage & Companionship."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "\"Your husband is stretched out on the ground\"\n\nYour husband is stretched out on the ground\nas if he were liste... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"We Are Not Responsible\" about Social Commentaries, Crime & Punishment, History & Politics."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "We Are Not Responsible\n\nWe are not responsible for your lost or stolen relatives. \nWe cannot guarantee your sa... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Promise\" about Living, Parenthood, Nature, Trees & Flowers."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Promise\n\nI try not to cast too much shade.\nSin would be\nto use the excuse\nof her growth in my womb,\nto imagine her as a limb of myself.\nS... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Unlegendary Heroes\" about Social Commentaries, Gender & Sexuality, History & Politics, Mythology & Folklore, Heroes & Patriotism."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Unlegendary Heroes\n\n'Life passes through places.'\n–P.J. Duffy, Landscap... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Present Tense IV\" about Living, Growing Old, Social Commentaries, Money & Economics."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Present Tense IV\n\nWe Had Stalked the Doe \n\n\n\nCommerce. Production. Consumption. Who makes? Who takes? \nIt's usel... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Notes: Coercive Counterintelligence Interrogation of Resistant Sources\" about Living, The Mind, Social Commentaries, Crime & Punishment."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Notes: Coercive Counterintelligence Interrogation of Resistant Sour... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Flores Woman\" about Living, The Body, Relationships, Family & Ancestors, Social Commentaries, History & Politics, Mythology & Folklore, Fairy-tales & Legends."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Flores Woman\n\nA species of tiny human has b... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Parturition\"."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Parturition\n\nI am the centre\nOf a circle of pain\nExceeding its boundaries in every direction\nThe business of the bland sun\nHas no affair with me\nIn my congested cosmos of agony\nFrom ... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Elegy\" about Living, Death, Health & Illness, Sorrow & Grieving, Relationships, Friends & Enemies, Nature, Weather."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Elegy\n\nI saw you fall to the ground.\nI saw the oaks fall. The clouds collapsed.\nI s... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Let Me Explain\" about Living, Death, Youth, Arts & Sciences, Poetry & Poets, Social Commentaries, War & Conflict."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Let Me Explain\n\nafter Neruda\n\nGo ahead, ask: where are\nthe pomegranates, the dates,\n... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"The Demon\" about Living, Death, Health & Illness, The Mind, Relationships, Family & Ancestors, Religion, The Spiritual, Arts & Sciences, Language & Linguistics."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "The Demon\n\nThis is a demon that can take ... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"No People in It\" about Living, Death, Sorrow & Grieving, Arts & Sciences, Poetry & Poets."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "No People in It\n\nfor JA\n\nI flutter in order\nto enter\nthe phrase’s silver.\nJackdaws have launched nearby\nth... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"The Thin Man Goes Home\" about Living, The Mind, Time & Brevity, Relationships, Family & Ancestors."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "The Thin Man Goes Home\n\nYou are as even tempered as a frying pan\nIn a sudden downpour
\nA campsite in ... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Man In Boat, 1998\" about Living, Death, The Body, Activities, Travels & Journeys, Arts & Sciences, Painting & Sculpture."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Man In Boat, 1998\n\nIt’s unbearable to shadowdrift along the\nseabed. It’s unbeara... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"[I have become wealthy in a foreign land]\" about Living, The Body, Activities, Travels & Journeys, Nature, Summer, Religion, The Spiritual."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "[I have become wealthy in a foreign land]\n\nI have become wealt... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"One Bite\" about Activities, Eating & Drinking."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "One Bite\n\nMiracle fruit changes the tongue. One bite, \nand for hours all you eat is sweet. Placed\nalone on a saucer, it quivers like it's cold \nfrom the... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"The Woman Who Turned Down a Date with a Cherry Farmer\" about Living, Disappointment & Failure, Desire, Nature, Summer."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "The Woman Who Turned Down a Date with a Cherry Farmer\n\nFredonia, NY\n\n\n\nOf cours... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Hell Pig\" about Living, Coming of Age, Love, Desire, Nature, Animals, Mythology & Folklore, Ghosts & the Supernatural."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Hell Pig\n\nTo keep me from staying out late at night, \nmy mother warned of the Hell... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Baked Goods\" about Love, Realistic & Complicated, Activities, Eating & Drinking."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Baked Goods\n\nFlour on the floor makes my sandals \nslip and I tumble into your arms. \nToo hot to bake this morning but\n... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"from Aurora Leigh, First Book\" about Relationships, Men & Women, Social Commentaries, Gender & Sexuality."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "from Aurora Leigh, First Book\n\nIn those days, though, I never analysed\nMyself even. All analysi... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"from Aurora Leigh, Second Book\" about Relationships, Men & Women, Social Commentaries, Gender & Sexuality."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "from Aurora Leigh, Second Book\n\n'There it is!–\nYou play beside a death-bed like a child,\nYet ... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"from Aurora Leigh, Third Book\" about Relationships, Men & Women, Social Commentaries, Gender & Sexuality."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "from Aurora Leigh, Third Book\n\nWhy what a pettish, petty thing I grow,–\nA mere, mere woman,–a m... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"down like a shot\" about Love, Desire, Realistic & Complicated."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "down like a shot\n\nfalling into unearthed light or something like that is who I was last night. you brought\nme a drink you didn’t know the ... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"alleyway\" about Love, Desire, Realistic & Complicated."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "alleyway\n\nAs fresh garbage is. As dirt sucked out of a fingernail. As a wall clean of prostitutes. When I am this I am at the mercy of my nakedness... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"my dad asks, \"how come black folk can't just write about flowers?\"\" about Social Commentaries, Crime & Punishment, Race & Ethnicity."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "my dad asks, \"how come black folk can't just write about flowers?\"\... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"The Poet Contemplates the Nature of Reality\" about Living, Parenthood, Nature, Animals, Arts & Sciences, Music."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "The Poet Contemplates the Nature of Reality\n\nOn the side of the road a deer, frozen, frigi... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"In Syrup\"."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "In Syrup\n\nIn syrup, in syrup,\nIn syrup we drown,\n\nWho sell ourselves\nWith a sparkling smile.\n\nPadded with pathos\nOur winding sheet.\n\nThe bomb bounded\nBy buxom beauties.\n\nHorror ge... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Ring Song\" about Living, Time & Brevity."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Ring Song\n\n…When that joy is gone for good\nI move the arms beneath the blood.\n\nWhen my blood is running wild\nI sew the clothing of a child.\n\nWhen that chil... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Wind in a Box\" about Love, Desire, Religion, The Spiritual."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Wind in a Box\n\n—after Lorca\n\n\n\nI want to always sleep beneath a bright red blanket\nof leaves. I want to never wear a coat of ice.\nI want... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"The Blue Terrance\" about Living, Coming of Age, Disappointment & Failure."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The Blue Terrance\n\nIf you subtract the minor losses,\nyou can return to your childhood too:\nthe blackboard chalked with crosses... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"For Robert Hayden\" about Relationships, Family & Ancestors, Social Commentaries, Class, Race & Ethnicity."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "For Robert Hayden\n\nDid your father come home after fighting\nthrough the week at work? Did the s... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Jumping Jack: The M16 Mines\" about Social Commentaries, History & Politics, War & Conflict."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Jumping Jack: The M16 Mines\n\nIn standing position\nwith arms to the side,\n\njump while\nspreading the legs\na... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Pencil\" about Social Commentaries, War & Conflict."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Pencil\n\n\"In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with ... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Rainforest\" about Nature, Trees & Flowers."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Rainforest\n\nI close my eyes so that I can see it.\nWhat we so freely eliminate. Who is\n\nnot guilty of it? We reek of paper.\nEverywhere we go is paper. Our\n... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Names\" about Living, Life Choices."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Names\n\nI am tired of having five different names; -\nHaving to change them when I enter\n\nA new country or take on a new life. My\nFirst name is ... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Hoping to Hear from a Former Friend\" about Living, Sorrow & Grieving, Relationships, Friends & Enemies."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Hoping to Hear from a Former Friend\n\nIs it you on the other end of the line\nhesitant to speak to ... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Come Home, Our Sons\" about Living, Parenthood, Social Commentaries, Crime & Punishment, Race & Ethnicity."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Come Home, Our Sons\n\nCome home, our sons, young drivers,\ntell us you’re safe, not detained agai... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Day after Daylight Savings\" about Living, Time & Brevity."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Day after Daylight Savings\n\nBlue numbers on my bedside clock\ntell I forgot to change the hour.\nThis sets routines on haywire.\n\nLike a domest... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"After His Diagnosis\" about Living, Health & Illness, Love, Heartache & Loss."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "After His Diagnosis\n\nWeeks after ice-out,\nlast fall’s leaves\nmake a pathway\nto the lake, radiant blue\nand still deathly c... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Be More Like Sputnik Monroe\" about Love, Realistic & Complicated, Relationships, Family & Ancestors, Men & Women."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Be More Like Sputnik Monroe\n\nIt's hard to be humble when you're 235 pounds of twisted st... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Selected Legends of Andre the Giant\" about Mythology & Folklore, Fairy-tales & Legends."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Selected Legends of Andre the Giant\n\n13.\nAfter the dinosaurs fell\nasleep, after those terrible lizards\nbegan th... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"You Cannot Stand Against Giant Baba\" about Relationships, Family & Ancestors, Men & Women, Mythology & Folklore, Fairy-tales & Legends."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "You Cannot Stand Against Giant Baba\n\n1.\nA man can stand with both... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Returning\"."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Returning\n\nWhen I open the door\nand reach to the light switch\nthe world opens as it did each time.\n\nThe garlic jar on the ledge,\nthe ceramic cup holding\ncheese cutters and paring knive... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Laundress\"."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Laundress\n\nGiven over to love,\nshe un-balls the socks,\n\nlets fall debris of days,\nleaf litter, sand grain,\n\nslub of some sticky substance,\npicks it all for the sake\n\nof the stainles... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Naming the Heartbeats\"."
},
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"role": "assistant",
"content": "Naming the Heartbeats\n\nI've become the person who says Darling, who says Sugarpie, Honeybunch, Snugglebear—and that’s just for my children. What I call my husband is unpr... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"When Lucille Bogan Sings \"Shave 'Em Dry\"\" about Love, Romantic Love, Arts & Sciences, Music."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "When Lucille Bogan Sings \"Shave 'Em Dry\"\n\nI blush quicker than a school of blue jack mackerel\narranging ... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"On Listening to Your Teacher Take Attendance\" about Activities, School & Learning."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "On Listening to Your Teacher Take Attendance\n\nBreathe deep even if it means you wrinkle your nose from the fake-lem... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Cardinal Sin\" about Living, Death, Parenthood, Nature, Animals."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Cardinal Sin\n\nI don't love my son\nthe way I thought\nmy mother should love me\nso I handed him a shoe box\nto put the dead bird in\nand s... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Glossary of Selected Terms\" about Living, The Body, Religion, The Spiritual."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Glossary of Selected Terms\n\nWhat is skin,\nif not a taut swaddle\nloosening, body\nif not a warm swaddle\ncooling, blood\nif ... | null |
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"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Girl, 11\" about Living, Coming of Age, Relationships, Family & Ancestors."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Girl, 11\n\nA mouth is a sideways woman,\nher curves and dips, the way she opens,\nhow her hollow center can sing.\nMother, your m... | null |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Patricide Epistle\" about Living, Sorrow & Grieving, Relationships, Family & Ancestors."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Patricide Epistle\n\nII. \nThe first time I had you killed\nI made you a hero of the Vietnam War. \nThe third grade s... | null |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"The Bomb Shelter\" about Relationships, Family & Ancestors, Social Commentaries, War & Conflict."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The Bomb Shelter\n\nWhen bombs are exploding outside, \nit means that there are implosions. \nVibrations tra... | null |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Not Worth a Bullet\" about Social Commentaries, Money & Economics, War & Conflict."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Not Worth a Bullet\n\nA bullet is made of\ncopper or lead. \nGunpowder is\npoured into the case. \nThe firing pin hits the... | null |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Chinese Female Kung-Fu Superheroes\" about Mythology & Folklore, Heroes & Patriotism."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Chinese Female Kung-Fu Superheroes\n\nare real. They jump from roof-top\nto roof-top, do a backward flip\ndown to the c... | null |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"My Doggy Ate My Essay\" about Living, Youth, Activities, School & Learning, Relationships, Pets."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "My Doggy Ate My Essay\n\nMy doggy ate my essay.\nHe picked up all my mail.\nHe cleaned my dirty closet\nand ... | null |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"The Letter A\"."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The Letter A\n\nThe letter A is awesome!\nIt simply is the best.\nWithout an A, you could not get\nan A+ on a test.\nYou’d never see an acrobat\nor eat an apple pie.\nYou couldn’t be an ast... | null |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Recess! Oh, Recess!\" about Living, Youth, Activities, School & Learning."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Recess! Oh, Recess!\n\nRecess! Oh, Recess!\nWe love you! You rule!\nYou keep us away\nfrom the teachers in school.\nYour swings are... | null |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Our Grandma Kissed a Pumpkin\" about Halloween."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Our Grandma Kissed a Pumpkin\n\nOur grandma kissed a pumpkin\non a Friday afternoon.\nShe also kissed a crayon\nand a giant red balloon.\nI saw her kiss a ch... | null |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"The Silliest Teacher in School\" about Living, Youth, Activities, School & Learning."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "The Silliest Teacher in School\n\nOur teacher gave detention\nto the fountains in the hall.\nShe handed extra homework\n... | null |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Saving Nails\"."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Saving Nails\n\nI strip the porch roof, pick out the used\nnails, and toss the shingles down onto\n\na drop cloth, remembering when I shingled\nmy grandmother's roof fifty years ago:\n\nthe... | null |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Bird\"."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Bird\n\nFor days now a red-breasted bird\nhas been trying to break in.\nShe tests a low branch, violet blossoms\nswaying beside her, leaps into the air and flies\nstraight at my window, beak and br... | null |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Fund Drive\"."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Fund Drive\n\nShe could be a Norman Rockwell painting,\nthe small girl on my front porch with her eager\nface, her wind-burned cheeks red as cherries.\nHer father waits by the curb, ready to ... | null |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"from Rider: [\"The boy's name was Warren. He was an orphan.\"]\" about Love, Realistic & Complicated, Relationships, Family & Ancestors."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "from Rider: [\"The boy's name was Warren. He was an orphan.\"]\n\n4B... | null |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"from Rider: [8. Dropouts]\" about Living, Coming of Age, Activities, School & Learning, Relationships, Friends & Enemies."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "from Rider: [8. Dropouts]\n\nDropouts\n\nMace had the kind of courage you could eas... | null |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"On Reflection\" about Living, Life Choices, The Mind, Social Commentaries, Race & Ethnicity."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "On Reflection\n\nbecause a box is a box: humans are cultivated\ninto said box without choice or clarification, s... | null |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Dear Margaret Cho [korea might be gay but I do not think you are.]\" about Relationships, Gay, Lesbian, Queer, Social Commentaries, Race & Ethnicity."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Dear Margaret Cho [korea might be gay but I do not thin... | null |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Daniel Dae Kim\" about Social Commentaries, Race & Ethnicity."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Daniel Dae Kim\n\na perfect symmetry\nof both parts animal, feline and quizzical, and man,\nmade\n(undone) sworn in stormed again\nelectric, tr... | null |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Dear Margaret Cho [we aren't differentiable with bangs and hooded lids.]\" about Love, Desire."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Dear Margaret Cho [we aren't differentiable with bangs and hooded lids.]\n\nwe aren't differentiable with bang... | null |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"from Rider [II]\" about Living, Life Choices, Love, Desire, Realistic & Complicated, Activities, Sports & Outdoor Activities, Religion, Judaism."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "from Rider [II]\n\nAnd yesterday something shattering happen... | null |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"poem for bruce\" about Relationships, Friends & Enemies, Arts & Sciences, Language & Linguistics, Reading & Books."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "poem for bruce\n\nUnder the roof is the empty room\npapered in requiem blue.\n\nPartiers c... | null |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Carpet Bomb\" about Social Commentaries, History & Politics, War & Conflict."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Carpet Bomb\n\nI can’t get rid of useful things\nand nobody wants to pick them up,\nI keep forgetting where I lay my umbrella.\n... | null |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Antarctica\" about Living, Coming of Age, Life Choices, Religion, God & the Divine."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Antarctica\n\nLike nights we knelt on the dirt floor\nof a dugout, leaned our heads back,\neyes twitching gone, and poppe... | null |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Teenage Riot\" about Living, Coming of Age, Youth, Relationships, Friends & Enemies."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Teenage Riot\n\nAll of us were boys only some were taller or already in high school, and almost\nnothing else\nmattered ... | null |
[
{
"role": "user",
"content": "Write a poem titled \"Minimum Wage\" about Love, Realistic & Complicated, Activities, Jobs & Working, Relationships, Family & Ancestors."
},
{
"role": "assistant",
"content": "Minimum Wage\n\nMy mother and I are on the front porch lighting each other's cigarettes\na... | null |
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