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  LIFE Poem: Sticks and Stones, by Rick...

  LIFE Poem: Sticks and Stones, by Rick...

  Performed by Val Cole

  Get to know the poet:

  1) What is the theme of your poem?
  Sticks and Stones explores memory, guilt, and the way childhood experiences
  shape how we understand ourselves. It's also about how coping is varied and
  deeply individual — how different minds, different bodies, and ...

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  01:10

  LOVE Poem: Loving in a Constellation,...

  LOVE Poem: Loving in a Constellation,...

  Performed by Val Cole

  POEM:

  Loving in a Constellation

  The realization came at the end of high school,
  the time you or I begin to question our beliefs,
  or at least start trying.

  Her romantic love and energy
  could extend to more than one person,
  within and past state borders, across time zones...

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  04:43

  GRIEF Poem: Grief For The One Under T...

  GRIEF Poem: Grief For The One Under T...

  Performed by Val Cole