Poems from Jfernandes16
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Jack Jorge Fernandes, “Gratitude for Broken English”
(Please note, I deleted my first submission after my friends coaxed me into taking a...
when i say you are beautiful
i am not forgetting.
perhaps in beauty nature boasts
the pain of life
and within you
uncorrupted
lays a...
I was formed by broken words.
“Broken English,” my mother called it.
But to me, it was just how Dad spoke.
He’d come home from hours at...
I miss my family every day.
I think about each passing grain in the hourglass.
I think about how desperately I’d rather be free than be...
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I’m going to tell you something, a story of when I was just an adolescent
Not quite a child, nor a man, but the desire to be one was...