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She is a determined young lady.
Her efforts are prodigious daily.
She walks with her head high,
because it is better to...
I Am Me...
Brianna is who I am
That means I'm helpful and loving
Determined and hard-working
Frank and honest
Brave and...
no where to run
no where to hide
all is seen
all is known
secretes fly like bir ds in the sky
Religious freedom you ask?
You must've heard it from the settlers.
Who dares question my right to believe?
We must've fought...
Daughter, student, peanut butter enthusiast.
The list goes on and on.
I am many things: a different person every hour of the...
There is a river inside of me,
It always flows, impossibly deep
As it holds all I can be
My dreams, my passions, memories...
You're so sweet, Always having so much to say
Your smile could brighten everyone's day
Your coffee loving,
They say your...
The van rolled out of the driveway, down the road.
There they go. I’m free now.
My family in Chicago for the weekend
me at...
A politician would say, “The people and what is right!”
A scientist would say, “The collaboration between all of the organ...
Your beauty isn't your face and it's not your smile
Your beauty isn't your waist and it's not your style
Beauty is the women...
Soon they’ll be sitting me down in cold metal chairs, wearing their sanitized hazmat suits.
They keep a layer of protection...
There's a moment, you see, as the sun goes down
Where everything is flawless from sky to ground.
In instances like these...
Poetry In Picture
Staring at a white page
Pencil hovering over the blank expanse
But it cannot move
It cannot write what...
I was 12 years old, sitting on the front porch.
Parents arguing inside, about money of course.
When I grow up, none of this...
My future calls my name
I don't know where I should aim
My interest for nursing may be spendy
It also may be trendy
But if...
SlaveryFor centuries and backSlavery's been at treatIf you had servants and slavesThen you would be considered richNow we...
Nice.
The chameleon of a word, shedding connotations like a snake sheds his skin,
the word that haunts me, defines me, good...
Why can't we all get along and sing a song
why must bullying occur everywhere and on the web
Why can't these men be a father...
I know pain is eating you from the inside,
and you feel as if its spreading worldwide.
So you develop into a serpent,
the...
I used to fear big waves, perhaps I still do.
But this story is about adversity, so I'll share my time in the blue.
It was a...
O Great America
With the Racial Diversity
Don't you think the hat has tipped
And tumbled. Buy another one
O Great America...
soft kitten fur against my baby cheek
puppies run to catch me by diaper
up high on horseback with mom behind me
kids and...
I might be the loud one in the class
I might be the one you has you laughing
I might be the smart one
I might be the...
Chocolates, roses, all around,
The smell of lovely charity.
Masses unknowingly drowned
In love that lacks all clarity.
...
It dosnt matter
one worth more shot one worth less
see it dosnt matter
if their hearts were to be wighed by Osiruses scales...
Every morning,
My alarm rings,
I hit snooze,
It rings again.
My feet hit the floor,
The sun is yet to rise,
I stumble to get...
This sand is no longer paradise,
There's hopelessness in the sea.
But I am not alone here, there’s
Feet that don't belong...
One thing I can't live without is music,
Music is like ballet it tells a story,
Music is my Cupid I instantly fell in...
I am not my chronic illness.
I am not hospitals
Or handfuls of prescription medicine.
I am not my monthly dose of Remicade...
Oh! Wow...I thought we were you know just friends he says.Another devastating announcement . One of agony pain and...
The Earth looked at him
And asked, "Did you have fun?"
He looked to the ground, and
said, "What have I done?"
The clouds...
I see me
Not a me I want to see...
but a me that I can't unseen
A me that is viewed as incadescant in the eyes of the...
Happy life?
You call living in a shelter a happy life?
Three kids and one parent, a mother.
Where's the father?
Being put...
It's not fair
I'm not this quiet but they don't know
I'm putting on quite the show
This is the way to make friends right?
No...
I Am
I am strong and will powered-
through many a trial I have perserved
Never giving up, but moving forward.
I am a leader...
Poetry has taught my skill, rhyming, romance, and much more. Rhyming is cool just like the color blue but not when it come...
I’ll take you on this journey;
across warm bars of sand,
over regal mountains resting in the verdant pastures.
Embrace the...
Sweetly sing a lullaby,
With tender words and ardent sighs,
As tears do spill,
And hearts do break,
And love eludes
And...
Here I stand
Waiting, Hoping, Praying,
Hours, days, weeks go by.
Few words and short calls;
Long nights with silent tears...
At my high school, I was a guy that everybody knew.
Everybody would dap me up and say "That Boy Rube."
They could easliy...
So much has transpired in under
365 days.
My life seemed to change every
24 hours.
On the third month, I grew in age...
I am that I am with a mask on
My mask is seen around in public
It blends with the crowd
I am that I am with a mask on
My...
Gatorade is greatness in a bottle
and it makes your body waddle.
You can freeze it to a pop
or you can just drink it until...
Maybe it's the way the sun rises in the East
The beaches and sun-tanned people in the West
Sweet Tea and Peach Cobbler in...
"Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair
As blonde and as pale as your skin, so fair
The young quiet child obediently obeys...
Started my day before sunrise
Started my day after noontide
Started my day at witching hour
16 or 12 hours, all shifts I...
I am right in front of you.
how many of you are actually listening?
I can hear their cry.
Their cry gets louder as more and...
I am a little young manI am from the natives in CaliforniaI am from the ecstatic life of footballfrom National to College
I...
They die young because they live fast running away from the past at a fast pace ending up in last place chasing the all...
Where can i start? How about when teen preganacy was uprising. Yes, she is 15 and yes she got pregnant, so what? Just...
Hot and sandy, “not pop but soda.”
Swimming and sweating, I am from Arizona.
At the age of three being me.
I laughed and...
This is the poem for the person who wakes up early morning and come home late
This is the poem for the person who takes care...
I'm pretty simple
No flare here
Im not politically correct or incorrect
I don't go places that stiffen my chin
I have...
Patient
Kind
You never stop pursuing
You do not wear out of forgiveness
You do not keep count of wrong
Pure and equal...
The days of my youth are so hard, but in a way kind.I can do anything I set my mind To. WIthout Knowing this, I would be...
Working hard every day
in hopes of bringing home some pay.
All the bills keep piling up
Will there ever be enough?...
Restrained by society’s chains,
I’m dying to break free of its suffocating shame.
Shy, meek, and weak is all I see,
And big...
Because I love you, I tell you what you can and can’t do
Because I love you, I tell you what you can and can’t wear
Because...
Pluck. Pluck. Pluck, into the sink.
Loud Whispers.
Focus, it's time for homework.
Chairs scraping the ground.
In a...
It's not just words scribbled on paper
It's more of a feeling from the inside...
Boiling so far down inside you waiting to...
I am Evolving.
I am relentlessly surprised on how distressed I am over such little things,
Because I have killed myself many...
What do you see when you look into the mirror
Is it really a reflection of yourself
or is it something deeper
that your eyes...
It's a cold world that we all live in.
I still can't believe that I'm still here breathing.
The devils is savage in...
I had never really thought about poetry until 8th grade. As a class we needed to read a poem called "Stardust". It was...
Nobody ever protected me ,so I built a fence.
Couldn’t look at no man after what he did to me.
Laying in my bed trying...
In the night I hear the ocean crashing against the shore,
In the night I see the stars dancing across the sky,
In the night...
I was taught since birth,Trained like a circus animal,To focus only on my flaws,Ache over every splintered quality,And...
All of my friends tell me how "lucky" I am, because I'm so "smart"They think that because my grades are better than theirs...
It isn't just 26 letters
put together
to form constructed lines
of words.
It's a glimpse
of a first, a last,
of a...
Look at me, a black young man with dreams
Doing my best , and though it seams,
My best is not enough, in the world I live...
She's a smiler so they say
She holds a smile every day,
But if they really knew her pain
They'd comprehend her smile is...
Wish we could go back to the good ole days
Layin' back thinkin' how to make you smile in the best ways
But you can't get...
words buzz and spin in clouds of confused formation
wheeling and turning, penetrating all corners and crannies with all of...
As I sit in my darken room, looking up at a familiar shade of grey above,
My views smeared of what it means to be truthful,...
I was once just the girl just keeping to herself.
Now I’m reaching for the highest shelf.
I am no longer satisfied,
with...
I sit by myself and think
Who am I?
It should be easy to define.
A solid definition that is mine
but the honest truth is...
Perhaps the window throws the view.
Do you see me here, see right through?
Does this window, a stained-glass face, keep it...
I am not the only one in the White Room.
Sheer fabric whispers from the windows
Goblet in hand, I drink to the Grecian lady...
What makes us move?
The move to become successful
Is it money, comfort, and satisfaction?
With smiles ever so gentle
My tick...
I am not the darkness of my skin
I am not the clothes i am in
I am not the nappieness of my hair
I am not the shoe size I...
I see a reflection in the mirror.
Is it me?
The girl looks lost and confused, timid and small.
I hide behind this...
Ooh, Ooh, For you I had a change of heart, Don't know where to start, What I'm about to say may surprise you, But now I see...
Anxious , grief , and inconsolable .
Repentant, torn and imperfect .
She didn't perceive herself well.
A glance into...
During junior year, my struggles were hard but inspiring in a way.My parents were thinking about a divorce, so they...
Senior Year sucked.Broken spirits and broken exesCutthroat academics and cutthroat schoolmatesMistakenly jealous and...
When in the dark,
there is no light.
When in the dark,
there is no sight.
I am as happy as can be when in the dark,
but...
Have you ever seen God cryHaving a birds eye on your children,And your children’s, children Not knowing who to choose from...
Our hearts have been carved with silver spoons
Slice, slice, carve away as they laugh, the goons
They cheese as they prosper...
Holding my wooden basket,
Fingers splintering,
Walking through the apple orchard,
Feet blistering.
Birds echo their...
The sun is out and shining
The world holds so many dreams
I thought my decision was binding
To attend college down the...
As humans, we desire to feel like we belong,
To be with people who make us feel strong,
As humans, we desire to feel...
My right-sided brain
Never slow, never plain
Ideas zooming at fast speeds
My right-sided brain buzzing like a bee
Oh, I...
Catch, shoot, swish
Catch, shoot, swish
Everything in slow motion
As I give myself to my devotion
My mind is free
As I...
See I have no filter, because I declare to be remembered,
I don't need a color of lenz to define myself within.
Certain...
I swallowed air into my lungs.
The time we ran away in violet skies.
When the sun rised and numbed our eyes.
The love ...
I went to a new school
Where they were all different.
They were not the heard of sheep I had come to know
To expect. Not the...
Earth, the only place that we can call home
Everything we have started with a dream
we can't even protect it with a dome...
“Where do you see yourself in five years?”It is almost a cruel question to ask a young person who is so hopeful and...
Crooked minds, and restless eyes
The world way to bent and far beyond
Cruel, deep, dark words taunting thee
Bringing much...
Why do this?
Hositlity does not disperse,
it does not soar away.
It sits in the depths of the soal
weighing it down like...
34” Bust
23” Waist
Colored Eyes
Smooth Skin
Healthy Hair
Healthy Look
Size Zero
Photoshop
Airbrush
Barbie
Victoria Secret...
Could it really be true
I am now truly lost and without you
So this nightmare becomes a reality
To which not even you can...
Lord
All I need is guidance
More signs
Less crying
Trying to hit the road and visit Mount Zion
R.I.P to the 105 that dies...
The skies are grey like ashes
Foggy like smoke
The clouds water the earth beastily
Washing away the green grass, the dirt-...
I could go without
Air to breath
The food I need
But without you I am dying
I could spend my lonely days
Underground
And...
I am little but big. I am 4’10” tall but my personality says it all
I’m not boisterous but loud
My cheerleader voice sails...
Often times you'll feel down
Put out with your own life
Trying just to hang around
Impaired with all the strife
Midnight...
To be Heard.
To be Understood.
To be Wordless.
To be Unstated.
To be Expressed.
What is communication?
...Communication...
Sometimes I wake up and I don't see the desire to hear or see
Sometimes I see dissapoint and tears
Sometimes I feel like I'...
The feeling of winning 1000 dollars makes me wanna holler like a scholar
Now that’s what I call livin’ because that reduces...
Why only call on him at midnight?
When your mind feels weak not right
Why not call on him throughout the day?
Like before...
The kinks in my curls
The swerve in my curves
My perfecly sun-kissed bronze skin
My magnificant unequalled marks &...
Lovely. No, its fine I’ll start.
With the Stars.
You start war’s and play war cards.
All night long connect collaborated...
poetry, poetry, poetry
beyond my wildest dreams
there you stand
gracefully
when I am drowning in a sea of pain
you save me...
Wow that girl is loud.
Pardon me. I happen to speak to others with such a passion.
And yes, I have just met them. I...
Just because I am a woman
does not mean I will not fight.
The inside of my thighs are curved
and speckled with little...
The image of perfection
is engraved into my mind like a splinter
makeup, contacts, filters.
Diets, brands, all artificial.
I...
I am from Tsing dao to Manhattan, Puerto Rico, and back.
I am from the golden road leading to the sixth house on the...
When I step onto the field,
I forget about my problems...
I forget about my stress...
Because right now my team needs me.
I...
The white frosted snowflakes fall,
through the glistening winter night,
which leaves a dimming light.
It may just seem...
If we all lived life the easy way
And always listened to others
We all would be different today
And we would all be sisters...
weird thing about astrology signs is that some people say they don't matter
some are believers in just making the right move...
Never any use trying to sleep.Too much went wrong, too many lost.Anxiety over how you could have saved her,or him, or...
Unblemished
Perfect
Unmarked
Pristine
Unimpaired
Flawless
The world tells us to be all these things
If you aren't then you...
Dinner on the table
Dont eat just wait
we got to pray
I eat
mom slaps
dad cracks
Sister mad
gets up
bathroom break
I still...
It's clear and empty inside from what I can see
Lifting my fingers out in front of me
Smooth, cold glass greets my finger...
FEAR IS BITTER, IT IS RAW.
Fear causes your taste buds to be afraid of ever tasting another word ever again.
Fear sounds...
I once saw a kind of kindness
Its species encompasses countless creatures,
Some are rigid, and others are spineless.
This...
#nofilter, cowarding at the bottom of some random girl's pic, yet the image itself speaks otherwise, producing something...
My giant freckles are flawless.
Now that I think about it, so are my huge feet.
Hey, what's so bad about it? It makes me...
Who am I really?
I don’t really know.
I do put up a façade, because I do what I am told
Slowly and surely, I’ve come to...
I look in the mirror and see the girl who is me.
I see her eyes, her mouth, and her almost perfect nose.
My eyes examine...
Here I stand.
Only to be moved by a sturdy hand.
A force, a revolution.
Making us change, evolution.
Here I stand with...
Tattered veterans yet wave “Work 4 Food” signs.Temporary flagpoles unto themselves.Whilst banners to our double-...
Lost in the depths of despair
Where I cannot find any purpose in life.
I look around my surroundings and observe,
People are...
Why is education so easy to bash on?
Are we not, feeling classes arms long?
Why is it so hard to get funds for school?
Dont...
Who is the true you?
I am just one person trying to make a difference; the earth we use is not ours to destroy.
We must...
My heart wants to speak.My eyes want to smile.My mouth remains shutBut there’s a bad feeling in my gut.I miss you mom.But...
kicking up whitegold dust as the soon-gone-storm passes,
forcing scaled lizards from their rocks and waking...
"Silhouette Subtlety"
I didn't even recognize my own silhouette.
At first glance,
I hadn't the slightest notion there ...
I used to fear big waves, perhaps I still do.
But this story is about adversity, so I'll share my time in the blue.
It was a...
The little good luck charm
Small and Cute
Loud and Annoying
Funny and Wild
Scary and Demanding
Caring and Loving
I...
I hope they like it.
I hope they see it.
But why can I not believe it?
That girl inside
that picture you see
is someone you...
I am Jada
I am Strong, and Beautiful
I am not just an Ordinary Jada
I am One of A Kind
I am Talented
I am A Beautiful Black...
the words you say.
whisper. force. laugh. scream. conceal. weaponize.
are your metaphors and repetition meant to cause...
"Push... That's it... Keep going... I see the baby's head... Push... Once more... Say hello to your new baby."
The beautiful...
Held between fingers
On this forsaken bleached sand,
To skin or paper
Your markings will not desist.
For you fulfill me,
And...
For my heart is aces in agony, for love is merely broken
yet no cares to spair me empathy, as I recieve no sympathy
stranded...
You are not malicious but kind.
You are not manipulative but respectful.
You are priceless.
You are accepting.
You are...
Crying doesn’t solve problems
But it will make you feel better
That’s why we cry on others’ shoulders
That’s why our pillow...
A heart,
Broken by all the lies; all the black thoughts that lie in the mind.
The mind,
That composes images and plays...
Dear Middle School Me,
There is often a time where a crosswalk will appear.
It is never in the same location, but it leads...
Artemis, that huntress lass,
Has perfect aim and near perfect class.
Through every age, each mark's on point,
Her arrows...
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to say whatever you want without ridicule?
Or maybe you want to do physical...
Your dear eyes reflect the beaches on which we could walk
A future that is glowing in your smile
I breathed in your...
My blood black and Trinity
My momma's black
My daddy's Trinidadian
I guess you can me
a Black,Trinidadian beauty
Curvy...
Words;
Escape this engaging chasm, drifting frivolously on by,
And through, such implicative yet, blissful a ...
Real smooth, aren't I?
At least that's what my friends say.
I'll attempt my best staying on topic
Poetry is a second...
This world seems to be a place of hurt;
Things aren't ever much help.
The pain we endure and go through hurts so much,
To...
Dear Shel,
Oh Shel.
I like to call you a friend.
Because you and I,
Yes you and I,
Know where the sidewalk ends.
It ends...
It's not yet over
The night covers
the beginnings
That are the most surprising
Glorious sunrises
always surprises
those who...
If this is the land of the free
where is the equality?
that was supposedly promised to me
when the 13th, 14th, and the 19th...
So here I am. I’ve found my soap box.
See, that’s the hard thing about being different,
it’s tough to find a place to...
Why is it that the female population is belittled with no repercussions?
Why is it that women as sex symbols is usually the...
Moon Phases Poem
The moon goes through phases
As we, on Earth rotates
If we are at a different location
We can see the...
Whether Its Instruments, Acapella, or Acoustic,
A Very Important Piece I Can't Live Without Is Music.
Qui suis-Je? (Who am I?)
by Keith Skinner
Who am I?
I am a human being, a man, but most of all a brother and a son.
A...
I walk the halls among 3,000 students flaunting my hazel colored hair.
Hidden in the shadows as if I magically disappeared...
Keeper of secrets, once I had
Of emotion, art, arrogance; Atlantis
Songs of rage, despair, and bliss; Atlantis
So bitter...
On the outside,
People around me can see a large smile,
Which is planted on the "mask" I wear.
Those people are smiling as...
I write to disappear.
I write to relapse.
But I also write to convalesce.
I write to drown my demons, we don't get along.
I...
our hills valleys
rivers lakes
bays subways
keep tunning a chorus
when the wind quivers
a narrative song of clay mens...
I have some talent
Sometimes I will show it off,
I only want
To be heard by all
I suppose it's no secret
That I have some...
I am the "unborn"
I wonder if I will ever see light.
I wonder if I will ever see the face of my mom and dad.
I wonder if...
Because I love you,
I put isolation within your heart
I ensure pain rests in your soul
I do it for the future, for the...
I saw a red bird, a sign of love
I passed by its nest yet he held her close
But if this is love, how could it be, that he...
My future calls my name
I don't know where I should aim
My interest for nursing may be spendy
It also may be trendy
But if...
Hidden under a camera filterto show the world how beautiful I am how I look when I wear makeupand hid how empty I feel ....
My personality is quiet,
But my wild mane says that’s lame,
I used to try to hide it,
And learned it cannot be tamed,...
“Fine.”
A four letter word
That can answer any question.
“How’s your coffee?”
“Fine.”
“How do you think you did on...
The fireflies dance in unison tonight,
as the sun plays hide and seek with the peaks
One could not ask for a more perfect...
As I begin to reflect upon life,
I look at things a cannot do without.
My head tumbles as I do look about,
There is someone...
I am from a place where my roots run deep
Like a “Virginia live oak” that’s iconic of the old South
Stretching from the...
The feel of music in my ears
bring me life that only I can hear
The adrenaline pumping
keep my feet thumping on the...
Behind the makeup
Behind the clothes
Without any filters
Let the story unfold
Idaho is the home I know,
Small-town living...
I grew up with a mother as my father who never knew her own but she loved me and my sisters with fists and kisses so our...
What is poetry?
Is it the art of elegantly knitting words together,
for the purpose to intice or seduce.
Or is it a way to...
To Be Me
Word that describes me
Would have to be
Blunt, which means to be true
I give it straight forward to you
To have...
POeTRY seems to follow a RYTHM,
yet may be called a FREE-FLOWING, -FORM STYLE.
SYLLABLES must be counted for each line
and...
Aloneim alone is anyone home.standing by time is passing by. i am scared no one is there.falling from my eyes wishing that i...
February 5th 2009…6am
Daddy? Daddy where are you? Dad?!
The house moaned and whimpers echoed throughout the walls....
Smile.
Don't ask questions, don't wonder why, just smile.
I plaster the grin on my face, it doesn't meet my eyes....
Tattered veterans yet wave “Work 4 Food” signs.Temporary flagpoles unto themselves.Whilst banners to our double-...
Let the rain pour down on me.
Let it was away my shame
Cause I can't stand to look down
at myself and see my mistakes laid...
As Snow White finished baking the pie
She noticed the old woman who did spy
Snow felt to invite the woman in for a bite...
Most people are like broken mirrors:
with cracks, fissures and cheap silvering.
Soulless and dreamless,
they reflect day-...
Why do I love you so?I see that question in your eyes.Sometimes I wonder the same.Why to me are you an angel, a saint?...
I’ve seen the promising become promise-less, helpless, useless
A straight A student taking a straight edge razor to...
The heavenly tide unleashes its spacial dreamscape
A subconscious form of icy crystal
Translucent near spectral appearance...
Maybe if I dye my hair or straighten my teeth,
I'll look just like the glamour girls you see on t.v.
Wonder if that'll catch...
When I was a little girl
Pain was like a friend of mine.
It played with me on merry-go-rounds.
It slid with me on slides.
It...
I walk through the hallways.
People notice it always.
They snicker and sneer,
whenever I come near.
"Why don't you shave it...
This is a poem that represents by struggle with depression for years and how i have begun to overcome it. I have used my...
I am street lights and gun fights,
dark shadows that creep along the pavement.
The bang bang and authoritative officers.
I...
I hide behind the smile
while my heart silently weeps
thinking of all the disappointment
Fear
It takes over me
Tears
like a...
"My Heart"
Is a foolish,
Weeping entity,
Bound to amaranthine perquisition,
Compelled to befoul my consciousness...
I hear a voice, far away and muffled. A sweet voice that I strive to find the source of.
One day, I finally see the face...
Stranded on an island; isolated from society.
I wonder why this would happen to me, what act has brought this misfortune...
i can not be careless.
i have to show awareness.
i am not a person who disowns.
i am a person who is known .....
to love, to...
Strings attached
Playing puppeteer with nimble fingers and old, vivid nightmares
I'm your puppet darling
Strings...
Will you ask me to stay?
I don't know what went wrong,
We were supposed to last long.
I tried my very best,
But you ended...
It's finally been a year
See it clearly now as I stand here
So hard to get over this fear
See it clearly like looking in a...
Provoking gives you pleasure
It only infuriates my mind.
Bashing on my purity
Pushing down my fortes
Life is now defined....
The smile on my face,
brought by warm, fuzzy creatures.
The smile on my face,
brought by the excitement of meeting new...
Artemis, that huntress lass,
Has perfect aim and near perfect class.
Through every age, each mark's on point,
Her arrows...
Hungry on the streets
All around the town
Holding out their cups
To catch money thrown down
Men and women of valor
Heroes...
What can be different?What could have been?Why is there You and MeBut I can't seem to find an Us?Every where I turn thereIs...
We didn't think it would happen to us,
We thought we had it all under control,
yet we knew it was a possibilty...
Oh! how...
Me.
I am here.
And no one knows
because I don't show
I, stash away myself
I pace fast, I pace slow
Around the room that is...
The close people are the ones who cause the most pain
Stabbed in the back like Caesar, “Et tù brute”
It's hard to be pierced...
Emotions backlash into submission
Unevenly balanced between reality and illusion
Controlled by a nonexistent force
Hung by...
I was once me,
the plain simple rice,
that lives in a warm bowl protected by other grains.
sometimes cooked, sometimes...
We sing America the Great
but really, how great is America right now?
We say we stand together
but why do we fight and argue...
Uh in this world
We listen to the public
To things society says
Speak something of it
Searching for the person to be
Sit...
The world has left me to be lonely
As if I am the one and only
I need to find a way back into reality
I flunked out of...
When I was a little girl
Pain was like a friend of mine.
It played with me on merry-go-rounds.
It slid with me on slides.
It...
beat beat beating
pound pound pounding
Is it a heart?
A fist?
A drum?
A speaker?
Is it all not the same?
Isn't everything...
Up the road's your future
Down the lane's your past
A decision must be made
Hurry up and make it fast
Up ahead are storm...
He's not around.
I feel empy.
Its cold without him.
He kept me warm. Warmer than jackets and hats and scarves and sweaters...
When life gets hard
And my world is no longer bright
I simply put up my guard
Because I no longer feel right
I put my...
When I step onto the field,
I forget about my problems...
I forget about my stress...
Because right now my team needs me.
I...
What does it mean to be?
Always ready to face the war?
Or maybe signing a decree
To go somewhere afar.
Intelligent,...
Believe in me darling, for i am your sanity
A piece of tranquality in a world full of ability
The hope of a nation to become...
You taught me how to walk and you taught me how to talk
You loved me when I didn't love myself, you taught me how to keep my...
i hide behind a mask
So I could hide my tear
Soo that peole can't see my emotions
I make sure that no one can jude me
My...
Ah ... Peace. In mind and in nature.
There is no distressful ...
"Tap!" "Tap!" "Tap!"
I rustle to apprehend...
The summer days, full of laughter and play.
The splashing and playing in the cool water,
The beams of sun above, tanning...
Essential to life I will wait, wait for time, for money, for a fools paradise
But what if to wait was lost and adrenaline...
My misery pours out of my eyes, as I drown in my sorrow. With a face of an angel, it hides the pain that lies behind my...
With each kiss of rain,
each caress of wind, and
each lick of snow,
I find peace in my existence.
With each ring of...
I feel like a fish out of water
I can't breathe
I can't breathe when you touch me like that
Scars that bone deep ...
I am the scars my parents put on me as a child. From the abuse mentally and physically. Little did they know they scarred me...
F-is for the fire that burns in my soul
L-is for the love of the game
A-is for awesomeness i can't help but gain
W-is for...
Dear Future Self,
Now you're in your teen days
Which causes you to act many different ways
Many expressed emotions
Lost...
I'm left behind, madness seeping in my mind
I can't think of anything, I'm trying to solve everything
Fix this problem and...
On midday, after school,
a boy picked up a beautiful guitar the color of sunset;
He tuned it and proceeded it play it,
to...
I am me and you are you.
Who are you to tell me who to love or what to love?
Because I can love whoever or whatever I...
I am tired of this façade
Men shouldn't have to treat the opposite sex with disrespect in order to retain their...
Bye-Bye Time
I am nervous as I walk through those glass doors
The butterflies tickling the inside of my core
Strangers all...
help your sons and daughters
fill up our hearts with honor
cover our souls with humility
help us honor the older
bring us...
a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past
i.e.
let me kno when the compressed fog has evaporated off of
the...
A mechanical pencil is all I need.
To draw out what's floating in my mind.
So go out there and get me tons of them.
Because...
Without me knowing Jesus is my lord, I am lost in this world with my sins sharp as a sword. Without me knowing Jesus is my...
You have a Choice
Maybe choose to care
Maybe ask to help
Maybe express happiness
Maybe spread positivity
Maybe see equality...
i cant live without the desire to be better,
the urge to constantly keep improving in all avenues. whether its baseball,...
Did I hear you say?
Did I hear you say your fat again, with teardrops in your eyes?
Lamenting over every extra inch upon...
I am who i am
so why shoud do ifeel the need to change?
but i do, i do
an it is truely lame.
i spend countless hours...
JoyellA best friend, happiness, and other halfShe is beautiful, classy, and smartShe keeps me laughing and always has my...
Growing up very influential, I didnt have an original thought
I listened to the ideas of others and like them I believed...
Thunder and lightning split the open sky.
I stand there watching.
As the rain drops pour down my face.
Like little...
I went running
I have to stop, breathe and breathe
When I tilt my chin for air, I see the sky
I start to weep because I know...
My love,
I loved u then,
I love u now,
It just happened,
I dont know how.
But, now to say I cant live,
Without you,
Would...
What do you do when your world falls apartWhen your secrets rip and tear at your heart?What happens when the truth becomes a...
Carry your mind with curiousity.
Indulge in every wonder within sight,
Keep your senses open.
Something grand is just beyond...
The stars sparkle in the sky,
As a bright moon shines upon me.
A shooting star flashes by,
With a wish now made and hope it...
Thinking about my goals,I feel very oriented to think about my soulAl l I know is I can’t be homeFor a reason butSomeone...
Video Games are AWESOM3
Power On
Worn Controller
Charged?
Full batteries
Awesome
Continue, Load, or Start a New Game
New...
Intelligent. I like to feel accomplished, an A+ student…
Even though I haven’t won any awards.
Powerful. I like to feel...
The peaking of a summer sun
over the mountain tops
The grand music played
on a majestic instrument
A piece of writing
that...
It's captured the best of me,Yet only I hold the key.
Speeding thoughts that I can't focus on,Nonstop from dusk to dawn....
I would take the love that you saw
When Flynn looked at Rapunzel
When you saw pure love and passion
for this girl that he...
“Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming?
I see values...
The word “poetry” is so pretentious
It makes you think of that guy
You know the one
The guy who talked over everyone in your...
The river so tranquil
as birds chrip to the sound of their
heart beats
The river calls to me under the watchful eye of the...
I'm a frog prince and frankly - I love it.
Everybody gets the story wrong,
I actually went to a witch and asked to be turned...
If you look at me you'll guess that I'm a very kind hearted southern gentleman who was raised right. A type of person who...
Nothing more lonesome than Top Ramen,
Nothing more nutritious
It's a dish served alone, eaten alone;
Enjoyed the same no...
A pleasant day, nice and sunny
Warm air in my cheeks
Warm air on the runners
running to see who can get there first...
No one here could heal this hurt because this hurt burns deep like the earth's core, boiling up inside of me. The rage in...
Although it seems trivial,
It means a lot to me.
What makes me tick
Is the lack of effort made by others.
My biggest pet...
I Am... Scholarship Slam
If my name were a definition
The word being described would be creative
working with my mind is...
The idea came like a whisper in the back of my mind.
Hello, it said warmly.
I had never felt anything like this tickle in my...
What I Am
by Jadon Brown
What more do I have than what I am?
An incomplete vessel in the hands of the potter,
Struggling...
Mother America
I am did feed thy milketh
Her breasts were consumed with youth.
A preliminary smile that inspired a nation...
I am who I am and not who anyone wants me to be. God has thought me up to a young woman and not just a lady. The way I look...
The melanin of my chocolate skin
Differs from the vanilla of my classmates
I live in a land of imagination
With the...
Who else can I be besides me ?
As I walk upon thee,
Why so shy they ask me ?
But I smile moving along so they remember me...
Some say ridiculous,
but it phases me not.
Sometimes acting frivolous,
but only when I am distraught.
Most of the time,...
To express myself into words cannot fulfill the true definition of me But possibly...
My coach is someone who cares
Someone who works hard, despite his gray hairs
During the tough times or the relaxed days
I...
I don’t expect nothing
but the greatest.
No bs,
No nothing.
Nothing but high expectations.
No I’m not saying getting
high,
I...
My lips are a vessel for very few thoughts
For many never leave my skull.
They swirl around and drive me mad,
Their very...
Germs and me don't get along for some reason. Shaking of the hands and feet, wondering eyes, beady sweatdrops and...
I write for myself
For you
For them
To the children who can't help it when
The screaming outside is happening again
And...
I am me... I have my own walk, I talk my own talk. That's just me. I am me... I laugh, I sing, I have my own zing which also...
Water is pure and sparkling. Water is the fluid for your sole. The ocean's waves are water in it's most strongest point....
Is it mine to keep? I wonder and weep. Should I change my ways? I do not wish to disobey. Shackled is my heart in this...
Finding a purpose was hard
I could see no path, no place where I belonged
Unbalanced in athletics, mediocre in academics
I...
Me, a poet? I never would've thoughtBut by always shoving all these thoughts in the back of my headBy tossing all these...
The Sky is a reflection
She speaks from far away
The Sky's oneness is perfection
She changes her mood with color according...
I used to have a heart
Full of love for you
But then it was ripped apart
I've broken in two
I will get better I'm sure
Reach...
The way I see it we all have troubles in school
The problems I have may vary from yours
But you always must have something...
A gust of heartless air escaped the cracked door
I arrived just in time to inhale the aftermath of decayed black crows,
Only...
Sometimes I wonder;
Life doesn't make sense.
Where am I going?
It's all just nonsense.
Today I was looking
For something...
My dad is cooking dinner tonight
i'd rather not ask why
everytime I try to look the radish burns my eye
my sister walked...
Grief is a war.
It is someone who never wanted to fight.
You try to protect yourself from the inevitable deaths,
By...
why do i have to be different? why do i have to be so vulnerable? I wish people would see me as a reason not a joke. I wish...
There is no so such thing as bad.
Only Awesome.
Arguments are awesome,
they make us stand up for what we believe.
Stress...
How was I supposed to know it was so bad to be educated and black?
Do I really intimidate you to the point of you trying to...
I know someone who loves me
Who will never leave my side
Who will always have my back
And He has nothing to really hide
He...
Who am I?
Once a hidden child,Now an "adult",Who still carries fearDespite all time's passing.
The one who wishes,With all...
The feeling of withdrawal kicksin and I'm desperate for a good high.The best selection is the company ofmy dad because it...
I reject all things with ease and slowly repair myself with nothing but lost hope.
Ive been over worked and used for granted...
Alone in the dark, yet brave
Given the power, you've adapted and slaved.
to the hateful men, and the judgemental stares. ...
Miss me like small wishes that never met the skys because hands were too small to deliver minds and hearts felt. Miss me...
Slipped away from existence
Wondering if they were ever true
Isolated from men
These women never saw the color blue
Against...
"Speak Your Mind"
my mind doesn't think in words
nor does it have a voice
yet it tells me things
stories
advice
warnings
it...
I am a lonely rose; an abandoned flower,
A gust of wind, oblivious to its power.
I am the worn out house on the end of the...
I am a canvas.
I wake in the morning, and I paint on a pretty picture
for the world to look at and judge.
Sometimes I...
I’ve never felt more in tune with a group till now
Where my skin color
My upbringing
My languages
Do not matter
Somewhere I...
My future calls my name
I don't know where I should aim
My interest for nursing may be spendy
It also may be trendy
But if...
I am not a fool
I'm only himan
And I'm bound to make mistakes
Understand I've always had what it takes
What it takes to love...
A Little piece of wood A little piece of wood that will create an chemical reaction holds my life in it...
Tell me poetry
Why would I write for you?
I stare hard at the blank lines, demanding
You're a wielder of words, they whisper...
Where were you?
The times i cried for help..
where were you?
When i need a shoulder to lay my head upon?
Where were you?...
Who do you think you are?
One minute you laugh and joke with me,
the next, I'm your joke.
Who do you think you are?
you...
Eyes roll as they see her post
Boys go crazy over the things they see
Is this what she wants most
Their words sting like...
I am hollow,
just as if I were a honeymelon
beautiful, and unique on the surface
yet hollow to the core once cut open
I am...
Hush and the room lies still
not a peep can be heard —
a fridge door open
or a blender cycle.
yet the utter peace lacks...
To you:
You left, I cried
I ate ice cream, you went out to drink
I went to school, you stayed at home
I got my degree, you...
Though her face shines like a diamond,
Her hands lust for gold.
Her heart is very cold,
And her cupid has naked bows.
She...
This world is amazing
So many things have been created
So many people are worth prasing
And so many things conquered
But...
I am you
I am the kindness you have shown to me
I am the love you have gave me
I am the care you have given me
I am every...
Fear, There’s plenty of it, it fills us all Paralyzes us, keeps cautious, wanting to avoid the fall Something we can’t...
The breeze that strokes the vibrant leaves,
The wind that struggles, blows, and heaves.
The light of the sun shining bright...
Purpose of life
By: Alondra Martinez-V
The Instructor said,
Go home and write a page tonight
And let that page come out of...
I’m tired
Tired of being told women are placed upon a Pedestal.
When the reality if we are upset we are told that we are...
One man,
One girl,
One beast,
Hoping to feast
Enters the beast.
The least to resent her,
Townspeople enter
At the center ...
When one sees me they see a girl
A girl who is happy
A girl who is determined
A girl with a dream
A girl with a bright...
Death, so kind, but so mean
Charon shall take your soul
Through the abyss of fiends
Where you find a role
To be done is to...
Sun beats down on soft green grass,
Wind whistles from far off, slowly moving you.
Who are they to judge?
Here in your...
We all know there comes a day,Where we must come to change our way,Where we know we cannot stay,For the cost is just too...
The power of poetry is incredible.
To pick up a tool and paper and decide,
I will change something,
with words...
is...
I said "no," but he heard "yes."
Harsh hands rip and scrape and tear at clothes and skin,
Teeth gnash and bite and sink into...
Because I Love You...
because i love you be with me FOREVER and never leave
because i love you we should tell our parents...
Because I love you,
I worry.
I worry
about if your day is going well,
and if you're doing okay.
I worry
about if I am doing...
What's the truth without a filter,
It is harsh, hurtful, and well it's a disaster,
Some people can't just tell the plain...
Since I've been in the world ive been everything other than me
not by chose but by judge you see nobody will ever know the...
A box full of cushions
A pillow for the head
Even though he can’t feel a thing
I only hope he’s comfy in there.
As flowers...
Its Thursday and I check my phone for the weather before I leave,
So it can decide whether
I'm wearing my rain boots or my...
This is the poem for the person who wakes up early morning and come home late
This is the poem for the person who takes...
What are you here for?
I know you're being supplied a check at the end of the month,
but who will have supplied my knowledge...
Maybe I'm a little to insecureMaybe your behavior is tough to endureI try my best to do right by youBut why is it so hard...
If you have never been erected, then what is resurrection?
A deep burning in my belly to succeed is giving me pains.
Again...
Thump thump thump thump,
the sounds of my heart,
of my feet hitting the floor.
I'm walking,
no!
I'm pacing.
I'm running...
Not only am I looking forward to throwing my cap up in the air on graduation day.I'm also looking forward to that special...
Child frightened
Mother without a clue
A well known stranger
Tragetting you
Adolescent girl quiet and afraid
Studying hard...
The wonder of the sunrise
and how the ocean never dies
The millions of stars that shine
and the moon that aligns
just the...
#lovely #me with no filter who can you see?
you see a shy quiet girl with a big personality
with no filter who am I?
I'm...
I looked up to you
You had always been there for me since the day we met
You protected me from the demons in the world
You...
To the woman who lived in the face of borders
The first a country whose language she did not know
To marry her love and only...
Stupid
Worthless
Whore, they say
And I of course belive
there is no end to the pain and darkness,
There is only salvation in...
A 5 year sentence of bad luck
I didnt know my life could run such a muck
from my cancer to the loss of my father
i started...
Once Upon a Twist of a Cinderella Story By Tayler Ferguson Hear thee, hear thee, here's a mother's tale,An untold tall tale...
You say that I am beautiful
But what does that mean?
I don't see that person you see
All I see is a person made of so many...
At first I didn't want you
Now you're all I can think about
About how you're gone
Like that over sung song
Not to be heard...
I was made from young, naiive, sin
Will history repeat itself?
I cannot wait 'til they see my grin
when I put my accolades...
Eyes.
The pathway to the mind.
The gateway to the soul.
The eyes never lie
When your heart has bullet holes.
Brown, blue,...
Stars and stripesbut still the fightsA crisis with democracya nation tall...now just strands0ur nation should be better than...
Two eggs, one body. Hold a bond.
A bond - so unbreakable, stronger than steel and beyond.
The bond of two twins is like...
Faintly they dream of grandeur's veil
Dream of dreamer's truest last field
Rosegardens purest where languors yield
Ecstasy...
It started at four years of age,
And immediately began to rage.
Crying when told to stop,
And never giving up.
Gliding along...
If I’m in denial, then why am I here?
Denial’s all the way in africa, and I’m all the way here.
But I’m drowning either way...
As I carried you
for 41 long weeks
You would kick with delight
to the sound of my heartbeat
When 38 hours of labor
continued...
my soul searches for something more than life
but what it comes to find is
the life we live in this
world is just
fleating...
I couldn't wait to go back
Seeing friends
Making new friends
Working hard, then hardly work afterwards
I couldn't wait to go...
Everlasting, it is.
To live, enjoy, laugh, and love.
My voice to be heard everywhere and no where at once.
A minute in...
I'm a message in a bottle
waiting to be read.
A bottled up person with feelings very hidden,
they mess with my head.
I need...
Ring-ding-dong
A man casts a shadow upon the lawn.
Ring-ding-dong
To her chamber he is drawn.
Ring-ding-dong
A kiss he...
I am the silence that you do not notice
When noise fills the room
I am the one who listens and watches
As where others would...
Do you hear that?
Me either.
The beauty of the silence that one rarely ever gets.
It's incredible as I just sit
here and...
Dark and cold,
A tale so old,
Coming home,
Waiting to unfold.
He sits on his bed,
Painting his wrists red...
A patient heart is well rewarded in time It understands the clock’s tick is a sign Each stroke a step to something so divine...
I find my smile in a round ball. I kick it and chase it throughout the halls. On game day my stomach churns but I know I...
I didn't grow up in a home,
I grew up in houses,
13 schools and a murder attempt and "Run as fast as you can, find the...
What makes me tick is numbers.
Are you high, or are you low?
What’s your class rank at this time?
Do you have a 4.0?
...
Poetry is a tuning fork,
it vibrates at an everlasting frequency.
Open the cork
allow the emotions to flow with leniency...
Just two weeks ago
I taped my phone to the mirror
(What a great use of an engineering education).
Conducted my own...
When the red sky comes,
Clouds form and heavy wind pushes me into confusion.
Wind grabs me by the hand,
Trying its best to...
You are dying so I LIVE, breathe
Alpha 1 antitrypsin deficiency
It has a fancy name
But I just call it
K
I
L
L
E
R
I get...
Of all the people in the world,
I feel most akin to the Truth-seekers.
Young or old, large or small,
Truth-seekers do not...
Only if you knew. Only if you knew what we had to endure, whipped as a slave as my knees hit the floor. Getting back on my...
What makes me happy, you say?
The bright sunshine on a refreshing summer day.
Going out on the weekend with money to spend...
In the United States Declaration of Independence
It is stated that "all men are created equal"
This one small part of a...
I view my speech at a different angle
my thoughts dangle from the tip of my tongue
I feel strangled as words clog up my...
2016:
Personally designated as the "move on" year,
Where I was to allow nothing to disturb me.
Though I found such a notion...
We tend to want to say the things we want to say
yet we can't at all
since in a way
the things we say gives us a call
a call...
A song I sing that would make no sense/As a song/Couldn't control the feelings inside/So a piece of paper I hoped would...
This overwhelming tension is so blissful.
How your soul is not resentful.
You're the definition of freedom, unique spirit...
It pulled me in and it trapped me day and night
It told me that it was my friend and that I was perfect
It made me feel...
Sweet as butterly smooth as a wing, the words I speak are never mean
Very goofy, l love to laugh, ill send off smiles like i...
Jumping over puddles
Crunching the leaves
Holding Mom’s hand, as she leads me
Piggy back rides from Dad, because I’m...
My future calls my name
I don't know where I should aim
My interest for nursing may be spendy
It also may be trendy
But if...
I am white girl
serial number 3044771
born fifteen minutes away from this
suburb fortress of a three car garage
my Sperrys...
America, the land of the free and the home of the brave,Where no one ever had to be afraid.America, the treasure trove of...
My words are written
in the book of life.
Whether it be that they
contain joy or strife.
I am what i proclaim
all myself to...
The scars are on my arms as I wash away fresh tears.
"How long?" She asks, "Way too long" I respond.
I am wearing a baggy...
On the waves 1.
Dank..Dark..Moldy..Crampt...
Squeezed together like cigars in a box they lie,
Rocking, and roiling.
Sweat...
Music is the Language
That everybody knows.
and though not many speak it,
it is the thing that makes us go.
Whether at the...
I find myself shedding tears for past shitWounds that never healed , scars that still hurtMy heart usually recovers faster...