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By: Isabella Gates On: 07/06/2018
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he loves you
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By: Isabella Gates On: 07/06/2018
Poetry fills one with determination makes all that fills one with negativity all to be...
I love writing poems
it allows me to express myself,
i can write about foam
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Sweet Potato, Sweet Potato
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Sweet Potato, Sweet Potato
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progressing and progressing
all more the problems of the world
rather depressing......
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The monotone voice of the teacher knocks me out alright.
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Summers past,
under the blue sky
not long ago . . .
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long past
only here for a moment then
whisked away, and...
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I stop, I shutter or I move they wonder. What is the meaning of my stage. This brightness shall examine my life into a new...
Dear Beautiful:
From then until now
Your scars still show
Your tears are dried
and when people speak
it hurts.
Dear...
Lashes long, Apparel unclean.
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Fluffy black hair cut short and eyes like a does,
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In the midst - of used up feelings and stale emotions,
In the eye of the hurricane,
When all is deceptively calm,
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I am from the pen resting in my hand.
I am from the...
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He runs like Bullseye through the yard;
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He hops the stairs...
I am a whiskey princess
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I walk with my head held high
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I am the quiet music in the background
That none can hear
Unless they were listening for it
I am the single drop of rain...
Sometimes I feel like I just need to say things:
like yellow is my favorite color.
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She was the kindest friend I ever had, But one I wouldn't say to much aboutWe'd see eachother on occasion, but she never...
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Sky revolves as I view the clouds
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I Am
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There is nothing like an early quick run. The way the mist rolls off the cool ground. Running quickly to beat the...
A friend asked me how to be a writer.I wanted to say,lock yourself in a room,scream until you have a poem and no voice.Open...
I've known you since the beginning of time,
We were once so little and fragile.
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When I was a little girl my legs use to ache
My mother would call them growing pains
As I got older I noticed I stopped...
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Before...
She sits with me everyday
Follows me everywhere I go
Swaying her feet back and forth on the swings
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Outside the Window
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Changing from a deep blue to a violet...
Why are we ashamed to keep God in church on Sunday morning, maybe Sunday night or even a mid-week service? We do like to...
Why not draw a picture
That creates symbols of your life
Why not show how you made it
Even through tough times
It's like a...
Her feathers painted every hue of blue
and her beak sharp to chew even stew.
Though she may have been the size of a child's...
My LandOh! Land!Struck with drought, famine, and pestilence,When will you be restored it?No place to escape!No help is nigh!...
Do you see this?
This is what the last decade of my life will be worth if I fail.
A blank page.
A simple nothingness....
It starts at birth...The first stage of your life. In life there are many stages you will have to overcome. You live and...
I once knew a girl who was full of life,
Would go dancing in the moonlit night,
She use to believe in the power of fireflies...
Time is a powerful concept that we live our lives by.
Even before we are born we have our lives mapped out and have a...
Oh what I have become
growing from a child to becoming an adult
I remember all the things I have done
seeing all the...
When he said, "Write me your story,"
That girl only took one piece of paper
But he
He made sure to add an 's' at the end of...
Strongholds that she feels in her soul
Living in the midst of a painful life untold
Searching for love in strange places
But...
I don't know which is worse
To wait or let you go
Both just feel like torture
So painful and so slow
I'm dead from all the...
A freedom without freedom, a choice of abuse
We give away our lives with every password put to use
Theres little gain but...
I get all A's, you get so proud
I excel in sports, you jump aroud.
My report card comes and you notice a flaw
The A's I get...
"Hidden Identity"
by Valierose Bulosan
I am from the East and now I'm at the West
Searching for the best, not wanting to...
Time flies way too fast
There is no reverse
Youth is fleeting
My childhood is in pieces
Is this what reincarnation is for?...
I am not yet grown but i do have a mind
Like a canvas with a painter i am drawing my own picture
let me live as i believe...
Now back and better,
Stronger than then,
With the help of his knowledge,
And never wants a loop hole,
No more tensed air,...
Sometimes I stop myself and dowhat everyone find himself doing some time;I take a look at the life I’m livingand at all the...
Why do you have to go oh sunset
Thou is so beautiful
Thy hates to see doth leave
Oh sunset doth leave to soon
Oh thy wish...
Let me tell you a story,
And allow me some of your time,
As well as some of your heart.
Let me tell you a story about a...
Not Just Maria
Maria?
Am I the person who I dreamed to be?
Or am I just a vase full of others’ thoughts?
Or the flower,...
This is just the beginning, were far from the endtake your time to develope your a long way until you asendleave the truth...
Some of us were Volcanoes in a past life
Could’ve been something else
But had a mission way too hot to be anything human...
Days go by from that day
People were desperate each day
They would show their stuff off
They would even sleep in a loft
No...
There are times when you feel everything is lost,
And everything comes at a cost.
These thoughts they come to mind
Always...
Life
Birthday Presents
Living, Loving, Laughing
You Only Live Once
Sadness, Resting, Peacefully...
Speak
My life was like a loaded gun
Waiting for someone to use me
Waiting to be pointed in any direction
My reflection was...
Yuck! Gross! I won't eat thatthis food looks like a run over ratOur school lunch is from outer space,Endangering the...
(Read top to bottom)
I am part of a dysfuntional minority,
and I refuse to believe that
I can change people's views.
I...
I have a thought inside my head
I part my lips
But cannot speak
It seems my thought must go unsaid
I lift my pen
But cannot...
Why do I write? Why do I love? Why do I live? Why do I write about who and what I love? Why do I write about where I live?...
so many choices so many mistakes we stay together we take our own space
we do our own things we spread our owng wings
fly...
I feel alone, in the most populated places in the world
I feel sad that im misunderstood
I didnt know how bad it was to be...
Patience,
Dear child your turn will come.
Your mind is racing while time is still,
You wonder why your youth is gone.
Now is...
Place deprived of time, paused like a black and white movie
Heat, here, deep in my chest as the spider appears
Flashing,...
I am an emotional, fifteen years old girl;
Who feels like she is in her twentieth.
Worrying too much about things she...
If humans were animals and animals were humans,
Maybe then we would understand their pain.
Take a look into their eyes as...
My shoulders tense up; They shrivel, they crawl. I close my eyes and plaster them shut.They start to decay, As the rot of...
Dear “teacher” 146.
You know,
I’m more than just student 999006901
I’m more than a test score,
I’m more than just a number,...
The stars glimmer in the night sky
Millions of miles away
Their light, a relic of the past, a distant memory of a time...
Where yellow flowers bloom,
The sun sets below the trees
Winds blow a selfless tune
An awakening of light from the moon
But...
There are 7 billion people you will never know
Never know their names
More than 7 billion people
With stories as intricate...
The portal of heaven is uncovering its doors for my father,
I am destined to encounter him,
Admire his effect on my life,...
i write to let out the painthe darkness that fills my mind only at nightswarming my head and grasping it tightim at war...
If we close our eyes, we are all the same,
No battles or differences to be found there.
But we live with our eyes open,
Not...
The shallow and endless wind visits you from time to time
Giving you helpful advice that comes in rhymes.
Never fear the...
Was it the target painted on my back?
I know, it must have been my short skirt
Or maybe it was my too revealing top?
I know...
Strong minded and bold with determination for a better future. Evil testing my faith and mind. Family and friends surround...
They teach us how to add numbers
They teach us how to subtract numbers
They teach us how to divde numbers
They lack...
she's black and she's back with no place to go
She dropped out of colledge
because she fell in love
because she fell in...
Distant glazing eyes. Knotted esophagus. Dewy falling drops. Tight skin. Cold neck. Tense shoulders. Knocks out.
I am a woman
yes, a woman not a child nor a baby, but a woman!
I can cook, I can clean, and I can handle myself during hard...
The way he stares,
makes me turn lush,
for eyes he glares,at me turn
mush.
I see myself in his eyes,
the want in his glare...
Why do I feel as if I constantly need to meet society's needs?
I am seventeen, Hispanic, and born in the bustling city of...
The wind shook the house on that cold, cold night
You were yelling at me, I didn't want to fight.
You stumbled down the...
Reflection?
When you look in the mirror, is that truly you that you see?
Do you imagine your looks and make them come to...
Throw me some rope,
I’m coming loose.
I’m calling for you.
Give me some hope,
I can’t deduce,
why I can’t pull through.
How...
Upon dunes of sand
Where the ships do land
The farmers plow fields
To harvest its yields
The ocean churns
And the old castle...
I sit here and wonder about the one that tore me in half and left me asunder. Yet when they smile my heart starts to pound...
Dear Demon,
You know who you are.
You know what you have done to me.
Yet it does not bother you any,
but as for me...
My LandOh! Land!Struck with drought, famine, and pestilence,When will you be restored it?No place to escape!No help is nigh!...
IDK what this is about. IDK how to start a poem out. IDK if this is the scholarship for me. But IDK if that really matters...
Uncurling my fingers outstretch, in light of the future, in light of what can be.
They clench around something, pulling it...
I am the older of us three,
As I know they look up to me,
They try to be me in every way,
Things they hear they think they...
whats the meaning of man kind as many these men dying?
check the satistics every minute a man dying.
invisible souls...
I used to skate in circles
I was afraid the pond couldn't carry me
Others danced around me
Past my corner of the pond
Did...
what if the demons your fighting aren't just voices in your head. what if they're just you letting yourself down. hurting...
Led here by struggles, almost defeated, badly wounded
A weak scoundrel I was.
I remain afraid.
No sense of direction to...
Come in, come in!
And welcome to my home!
The cover is beaten and torn, yes, but inside it's wonderful.
Don't mind the porch...
Dear Old Friend,/ I Remember your crazy face / Especially when you made jokes about my hair / Walking in the shadow of the...
Go ahead, take a drink.
Wash your power down the sink,
Don't bother to stop,
and THINK.
Watch everything slip away in the...
When life knocks you down
When people disappoint you
When your money runs out
When friends become foes
When spiritual...
I got a dream,
Not a small one but a big one,
A dream that requires a lot of work but I won't stop till I’m done,
I got a...
When you're washing your face it's like you're scrubbing all your troubles away. Deep within you feel yourself gaining the...
We see him walking down the empty streets
He looks just like us, 2 hands and 2 feet.
Maybe he's strong, or, maybe he's weak...
i need to feel.
i need to see red.
i need to hurt.
i need to feel pain.
i need to see my red blood.
i need to feel the pain...
These dreams so near
But as I grasp, it withdraws
Runining into the darkness of the night.
I search the depths of this...
Sometimes i feels like i am an angel because you gave me the feeling 😇
You let me realize that i am very special
Yeah I'm...
It’s always war of the races,From school grounds to World WarsRace is here to instigate people to fight,What race is more...
To write, or not to write.
To be heard, or to be silent.
To feel or not to feel.
I could refrain from writing,
I could...
This country always says, "WE ARE THE LAND OF THE FREE"
And we can be who ever we want to be.
That this country is "THE LAND...
I've never been so worried or sad,
or angry or anxious or mad,
than when I first knew I loved you.
I had been hurt a lot...
How can something
Being broken can help you realize so many things like a bird who doesn't know it has wings till it fly...
If you walk away will I fall? I know you don't really care at all. If I fail will you feel bad? No one can never know the...
in every bodies life their are situations that people have to go through like a basket going through the hoop. some people's...
We are not made for the aesthetic affinities.
Your life is not a helicopter shot from a Planet Earth episode.
You are not...
Because I could not stop for Disappointment
He stop for me
He came knocking on my door
And hit me hard on the face
As soon...
O dandelions dancing in the sun,
You frolic and sway under the bright sky,
But only rise up once spring has begun.
I hope...
It's practically my second sight seeing things bright, To persistence of my senses making my mind free I write to keep my...
Mama,
growing up in a different world than you
leaves me, and you, unprepared for our vocal war.
transitioning into a lady,...
This is not how I imagined my teenage years to beI remember sitting in my room praying that the years would go bythat I can...
Pain
Mental
Physical
Emotional
Confined
By my own sadness
Lost
In my own desolation
Afraid
Of my own sentiment
Subdued...
I see them playing
So happy and free
Knowing that some of them
Have nowhere to be
But, they can be rescued
It's all up to us...
It all started in Mama Karima’s kindergarten class
It was a rainy day, so recess was canceled
Not a child could be seen...
I am no longer the declarative, so bold
Nor am I the forgotten recluse, so cold
Relinquish my orthodox views, so old
Do not...
I love wearing your old t-shirt,
At the end of the day when we were covered in dirt.
When we were kids and accidentally...
The world is dark with nowhere
to go. Insanity is rising, population is declining. Trust is lost among our people. ...
It wasn't the way in which HE tortured ME with hope,
nor was it the words HE said that angered me.
HE was so ignorant,
knew...
I don't like green things,
I like yellow things from cheese, to bananas
to even corn please.
I don't...
I have always wanted to go on an adventure
across Europe, carrying my life in a backpack.
Except, I’d be that person...
Good to see you all again
Glad to see everyone had a good spring break
Oh, Me?
I got lost in my head
and made an impression...
Empathy is better than sympathy, sympathy is the back bone in "common courtesy".
However, in this 2014 world, humans seem to...
"Oh Papa, I want to leave your house to be free.
this has nothing to do with you, only me. I want to explore
the deepest of...
Beautiful words
Pretty images
All surrounding me
Unfamiliar face
Though familiar voice
I don’t understand
Crinkling my...
It's all up to you
Forever It's true
Beyond the clouds
There is room for your dreams to come out
Behind your harwork ...
Once upon a time, in 2017,
Humpty Dumpty decided to go green.
Snow White and the seven dwarfs became YouTube stars
while...
When I love her,
she shines for me,
just me – a secret smile,
hiding tears darkening
her brown lashes,
until they make her...
Place deprived of time, paused like a black and white movie
Heat, here, deep in my chest as the spider appears
Flashing,...
Poetry is a glass of water
refreshing to the soul, mindful to the body and cold
yet crisp and clear, I wonder what would...
I AM ME
I am who I am
I am me
Made in His image and likeness
I am like no other
No other is like me
I am the apple of His...
Black august visitor
The thesaurus friend from the doom.
A friend that visits with a gift of loom.
A friend who silences the...
Three words, eight letters, still it’s hard to say
I love you anyway
I’m nervous as heck, trying to figure you out
What are...
Where did we go wrong?
In all the progress that has been going on
it seems as though we lost sight of what's important
Now...
Pages can flip about this
For some reason I'm not hung up
I write because it helps my ignorance become bliss
I would say...
Thinking, Thinking, and thinking
like I always think.
I have to do many things in life
good! the brain knows that
it is...
In midst of February’s holiday
Red rose and chocolates are everywhere
A group of Couples walking down the street
Where cupid...
Hate is H
C is compassion
I've lived, I've loved, I've learned
Seen the storm of others
While I had all the sunshine
All the...
Each and every day, gloomy or nice
In a room with four white walls
A new life is born into the light
To a mother the most...
The night fill with
Stars that illuminated the sky
brightness with every different colors
which compose you
the morning...
When I love,I care
When I care,I get hurt
When I get hurt,I become afraid
When I become afraid,I hide
When I hide,I stay...
Do this, do that
I walk these halls wondering what will become of me
Who am I and what was I meant for
My peers look up to...
The world was in shock on 9/11
So many souls wasted and moved into heaven
The worlds went crazy with tearing and crying
It...
The wind blew fiercely
shaking the enormous cherry blossom tree
wrestling with the cherry blossoms.
The comely tree saw its...
Meaning to Time
Why do I write? ….
It’s putting meaning to time
Revealing the struggles and the rebuttal’s that we feel...
I say One.
You say Fun.
I say Two.
You say "Who?"
I say Three.
You say Me.
I say Four.
You ask for More.
I say Five.
You...
today i was going to start
a diet, a plan, a new life, maybe open up my heart?
but as i left my bed i forgot it all
because...
Depth is in the thought,
Ideas always flow,
The times have been rough,
No one wants to fall below.
When we die,
We've walked...
"You Told Me to Write You a Poem"
It's nights like these
Where the starts themelves seem to mock me
Because I know we see...
The style of learning is nowhere to be,
In the 80's it was creative,
the 90's was fun,
the 00's became ingesting information...
Love: we met on a winter night so cold
It was a very hard day for us all
The trees were sad without their leaves to hold
The...
A golden shell a glistening
The arrow of modern day
How in this great world
Did you get thrown away?
A shimmer in the sand...
The Fro-Baby
I am the tossed and tangled being,
The loud wild child, I am Free, untamed
like the wind when I’m speeding...
When I grow up,I'd like to be a political doctor
And go down in history books for unveiling the mistry of helping this...
Running down my face
Tears, I see
In the reflection
I see me.
I know not to care what other people think,
But I just...
Twilight engulfs me.
I lose myself within its shadows.
I no longer exist.
I am part of the faceless dark.
I hate the night....
Since the beginning i've been speechless
Wondering while creeping
Figuring out who I really am
Nah I'm not sad
This is...
I met a boy on the first day of school
He had big brown eyes and a crooked smile
I scoffed at him at first
But then we...
Scary sounds when I'm alone-
the quietness of my house,
the leafs rustling in the wind,
the...
What is going on with you?
Why are you poisoning yourself with this endless overthinking?
Why are you constantly grumbling...
Here I stand, 17 years old and hungry
Hungry for success
Hungry for power
Desperate to prove them wrong
Them
They that...
Life; It is something to be cherished and treasured
Something to put your all into
Life is the blind assumption you are...
(poems go here) Your voice is what i remember
So gentle and soft and sweet
Your eyes is what i remember
That would melt me...
If a magic lamp ever fell
into my hands
the genie said three wishes still stand
others may wish for
power,fame,or money
but...
Don't you just wish you could
Let everyone know what you're thinking about
How you really feel
Or why you wear that pout.
...
God saw he was getting tired,
And a cure was not to be,
So he put his arms around him,
And whispered "Come with me",
With...
I learned from a deaf man
that society is beauty's flaw,
and empowerment its greatest fear.
I heard a Cherokee cry...
Halfway Outta High School
Frozen in time, lost in a drift
Preserved by strong resolve alone
As the wind blows you fail to...
I Love you with my Heart
I love you with my whole heart (I will always love you) I carry your heart in mine (I carry it in...
And let know: “I am–
Not the disciple, not the guru,
Neither the word, nor the message,
Neither the greeting, nor the...
Let Women be leaders
of the family and the community
Fight to make it right
to end the cycle of abuse and discrimination
Of...
I am a bubbly babbling blonde with banging big blue eyesCautious, careful, and caring with some cheerful, confused,...
Tell me all about this name that was formed
It was given to me the day I was born
I want to know about the stories of the...
What you can love, you can hurt,
What you can see, you can be,
Don't let your dreams hang like the dark clouds in...
A pen and paper don't make words on its own
It takes time, effort, determination,
Spit out anything that comes into mind...
Depression
Bringing back the pain from the lonely past,
I hope your life burns, but forever last.
The confusion, guilt and...
Living life is more than it seems
learning and contemplating on all your dreams
take it slow day by day
live life the...
Your smile
Every morning I wake up to see your smile
To hear you laugh and play
and jump my way
Your smile is the brightness...
You are not to question the orders of the queen,
that is just how it is. You do as your told
and work until you die, for it...
Can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em.
There are pros and cons to everything.
But siblings create a whole new meaning...
The poetry came to me like a strom
The topics and the words come to me and everythings just follow together like water and...
I don't need moneyI don't need fameI don't need perfection Or any other thing What I need is simple It cannot be grasped ...
To be successful
you must be careful,
try to allways be wise
so at the end you may get your prize.
Does successful mean...
In school, everyone wants to be equal.
Everyone wants to be the same.
I'm going to be diferent.
I'm not going to be the same...
Hello I say,
To the darkest part of my mind
As I'm hidden away from the world.
Consumed by depression
And taken over by...
I'm tall, im short. I'm high, I'm low. You couldn't beat my reflexes if you tried. You won't see me coming. I'll already...
(poems go here)12.14.12 , He took away their chance to grow old and wrinkle ,He took away their chance to have kids just as...
You gave me the strength,
You gave me the will,
You gave me the world-
And I gave myself the pills.
Believe me I’m sorry,...
It's because of your passionWith the art of music
It's when you speak with gentlenessWhen I am troubled
It's because you...
love yourself
kiss yourself
applaud yourself
hold your own hand
pick yourself up
do not put faith in people who will only...
Ever since I've started school,
I've learned many of their individual opinons,
Being carved in the the way they want,...
Who created the pretty flowers of the fields?
To whom I feel my soul begins to yield.
All around I see His creation,...
I am ready now,
I don’t want to wait,
I will not allow
The path to be straight,
Because the hills and valleys make me,
Wind...
I don't know where are you,I don't know what you do,Just one thing I knowthat my love will neverdie for you.I don't know if...
Chili
travels through the air
I follow it and walk to you
The screeching of your music
Shakes the room
You smash and cut...
Wrapped up in a blanket of truth;
snug, warm, happy.
Dowsed in fresh memories.
Longing for a friend
who cannot be found...
Monday through Friday, 8-5
"Young Lady," I hear
"Shh, while they talk"
Is my input not important?
"Young Lady," I hear
"...
"Flawless"
Wether Im "wakin' up like this" or "post up" Im always a cutie
My outer image doesn't dictate, my beauty
"...
When I stare at her,she dies a littleThe more erotic look I give,The more she suffersShe gives me a glance of suffering;I...
“Asian” used to be a thing of beauty,
But now there are images of labor—
Simply that is our soul duty.
But we, just like all...
Look at them, In the dirt, Playing til it hurt, I used to do that, Diving through the air to stop one...
It's who I am.
How you feel, how you love, what you stand for,
It's written in a symphony of words,
that explains what you...
I dance because of the beat
It touches my body like the sweat from the heat
It’s captivating and nurturing
Like a love to...
At a glance...
Years are
Engraved on the forehead
Eroded by concealer
Souls are
Peering from the eyes
Blocked by avoidance...
Chubby Will Not Be My Middle Name
A table set with perfection
Not a single article out of place
My family gathers around...
A girl is someone who respects her ambitions
And works towards it
A girl is someone who does what she is suppose to do
A...
i woke up in the moring with the sun in my eyes. i turned around to see if my lover was by my side. i kissed her goodbye,...
Since I first met you, I knew we were going to be the best of friends.
We have our inside jokes, our secret language and...
Fixation is my problem
Everything perfect
It needs to be
Stressing the small stuff
Not looking at the Big Picture
Was my...
you snatch
out of our open palms
with smiles that burn
knowing that we have no power to stop you
you take
out of our closed...
Like the breeze , air flows from my lungs wrapped up in what the world begs of me, takes from me, forces me to see their...
I love
I love poetry
Here I write my story
Writing is my half
Inside my heart,I have
That strong force to try
Keep my voice...
Music is the power
Music is like a dream that flows
It flows around your mind...
Laura Weidemann
November 30th 2017
18lweidemann@nfv.k12.ia.us
Prompt-Write a letter as your future self to yourself now.
To...
There is no light to light up my night,
I Live in darkness, There is no light.
My life is lonely, My life is tight
You are...
Entering the city bus
bodies and cultures collide
asking to sit
meets frowns
angry and shouting
spitting and gossiping
I...
Monday morning, a bright white day.
Tall pine trees, blue skies.
I saw him approaching all distressed, I don't know what he'...
My teardrops fall,
very much like the rain.
I put my all in,
but it always ends the same.
There's no happiness for me...
Daddy why did you leave me ?
I was the spitting image of you did the pink baby room or Winnie the pooh outfits mean nothing...
I am the human body
Your vehicle of transport and intellectual evolution
A mental arsenal of limitless capacity to house...
Who’s that girl huddled in the corner watching the passerby’s with a smile on her face?
Crying at night when she feels so...
I sit and watch as you watch her wishing it were me. Screaming on the inside because I just want to be acknowledged, want...
Every day as I look at my sorrow face in the mirror
I ask...Who am I? As my eyes begin to linger
Looking at my flaws,...
You can handle it
When God is on the throne, no one can keep you from your destiny.
When one door closes, God opens another...
The glowing red eyes are tempting.It's hard to hear what he's saying.His hair is black as night.His voice fills me with...
The question on the table is: do Americans live to work or work to live?
Heck! What table? No family eats dinner at the...
some people play this sport, either your tall or short, basketball is the game, up and down, round and round, shoot and wish...
I AM Olivia Stoops
I AM Smart. I AM Determined.
I WONDER what the future holds in store for me.
I HEAR the voices of my...
What do you think of when you see the sun?
I hope you think happiness.
I hope you think of your best memories.
I hope you...
Time passes me by
But one thing stayed by my side
A simple passion
More like a drug
A sport
No, Soccer is more than that...
My life is a Video Game
It all started with my parents
They decided to insert a coin into a slot,
And then pressed the...
Scarlet flames of fire
dance across my fingers.
The light cannot harm me,
for I am its master.
Fire bends to my will, ...
There's an island between two rivers
where horses pull wagons and people quiver
where breezes make plant life shiver
where...
Why do I feel as if I constantly need to meet society's needs?
I am seventeen, Hispanic, and born in the bustling city of...
the reality of high school
I sit in class all day long, i look at boards, teachers, and, walls.
people next to me i dont...
Why i write the words that rhym flows through my brain i wont deny . I cant think straight nor concentrate without stopping...
Walking, breathing, beating
Yes I'm alive.
You Think not of me,
I think of what could be.
Coincide the thoughts and fears of...
You talk and talk,
you voice monotone,
most of the students sleeping
or not even paying attention.
Tell me,
does that...
Your love will last for a lifetime
That's why I praise You
In the midst of a storm in my adolescence, you gave me comfort...
She washes away
I see her wasting away
I try to catch her,
But I know she's gone
It eats away at her body, day by day
I can'...
Every day I feel nothing but pain,
The pain I feel is hurting me inside,
It feels like it’s eating my soul alive,
This...
Despite being gallantYou are so flippantNow you have crumbledUnder the weight of your own bundleWhich is filled with...
I'm tired of pretending
I'm tired of wearing fake smile.
I'm tired of being numb
I'm tired of coping.
I'm tired of the...
I am the human body
Your vehicle of transport and intellectual evolution
A mental arsenal of limitless capacity to house...
I wake up and already being timed.
The clock is an atomic bomb that won’t stop.
Tick tock, tick tock.
I rush out of home....
America the Funeral –
It’s the land of the free because the slaves never last.
They aren’t made to last. Made is the correct...
Exhuberance, legitimacy to the word
that is what he is
He is my lord
it is you Brendon Urie who I adore
your voice like a...
I was suppose to call
I was suppose to call him that day
But I pushed it away
Pushed him away
Too busy to reply
Too busy...
It isn’t that I didn’t see it coming or wasn’t warned
It’s that I never imagine it happening so fast
As though I hopped into...
Before I step onto the floor,
My legs being to shake.
I hear the people roar,
My stomach starts to ache.
The music starts to...