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to you,
forgive me.
i've avoided writing this letter
for reasons adding to thousands
though i must admit that i hate...
Did you forget?
That all you have is a life left.
We manipulate ourselves to start,
The ending seems too far apart.
Don't...
I am one of many
Small branches of a broken tree
Always looking to the ones above
For guidance, strength and security.
One...
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Couldn't Stop
I had a choice
Didn't Look
Had to pay the price
I made a decision
And I took a life
Put down the phone
And...
Happyness is hard to bring
My happiness is just a being
A person whos there when im down
A person who has no frown
My...
i don't understand why
why it was easily hard
for our memories to stay
a shine and keep producing
it was easily hard for me...
Would you have remained,
had you known;
Would you have love me
if I was not your own?
I do not believe, though it...
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I cradled her when she blossomed red.
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November 20 2017
Goodbye brother
Though you are the one leaving for deployment,
I feel like I'm the one being taken away....
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my veins searched for it’s source of
life.
She was not there.
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Locked Up
Life in this prison ain’t really so easy for you
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NIGHT BECOMES DAY&
DAY BECOMES NIGHT
BECAUSE OF YOUR SMILE'S BRIGHT
THAT IS SHE
EVENTHOUGH WE ARE LIKE CAT AND RAT
SHE...
You will love me unconditional
Pure, without complication
You will understand my tears
And calms all my fears
You love me...
It's a fact we knows the sadness of this world,
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He is my ghost writer
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You say I am a disgrace
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I see you see my face misplaced
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Dear momma,
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although it...
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I put my own crown upon my head.
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now I am 16 years old
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Happy as a butterfly
Smart as a bee
The sugar to my tea
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You watched me grow
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As...
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Fear
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Without you who may I be?
Without your melody and tone,
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A - Aching
D - Demons
D - Dictate
I - Internal
C - Circulating
T - Turmoil
I - Intertwining
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N - Numb
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Whippoorwill, whippoorwill
Singing at my windowsill
Chirping out his nightly trill,
Whippoorwill, whippoorwill.
...
A time to stop and think
A time to behave and try again
A time to sit and relax
Of those negative attitudes of yours
A...
Blood formed in battle
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Likewise
You
A father formed through the battle of not
having...
A pain Overlooking
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Uniqueness of paddle in heart
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Oh...
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Relieve me when I have the chills
I appreciate everything you do,
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She spent years in a guarded...
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He lived long enough to see his toddlers grow,
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She is determined
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When I graduate,
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"Count your blessings"
My grandmother would always say
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the walls that fortfied your soul
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You were once everything to me
A crescendo in my symphony
Crashing like waves in the sea
You were once everything to me
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Mama
youve been my light
youve been my armor
through times where I wanted to give it all up.
Mama
without you I can not...
small to tall,
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never saw one flaw,
as my grandfather taught me the morals and wisdom of it all,
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They are, indeed, essential, you know?
Anyhow, once upon a time…
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she...
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U...understanding are not being told
N...not being able to live my life
T...tangled in a web of lies
O...over thinking my...
For all the raging seas,
For all the turbulent forces,
For all the doors that had no keys,
My mentors were there for me,
In...
I sit in the dark and listen to the sound of laughter and joy but more importantly
I hear the LOVE they have with each other...
Brush your teeth,
Comb you hair.
Ask me before you go anywhere.
Don't have too much fun.
Answer your phone.
Make sure your...
Dissapointment.
Nothing but regret.
One night stand,
Nothing but a sweat.
I was your seed,
You gave me no lead.
Feeling...
Dear Gums,
That's my nickname for you,
Cause babygirl you got no teeth
I write this with you next to me on the floor
When I...
Looking in the mirror,
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I see a person who hides behind their personality.
You “change” your hair, your...
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a plucked rose. thrown on the ground, removed from the bush. detatched from the roots, the red petals ceased to be crimson....
I used to get so mad at you
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How could I even talk to anyone? No one understood
But...
On the shelf, it stoically sits,
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to hear the stories of it.
Eager, the story...
O running shoes, infamous retrievers of my sanity
Conveyors of my downtrodden soul
Rapaciously, you wait in my repository
...
Surmise
Tomorrow ... will be changed all cases
More listening to birds
Investigate
What say?
Perhaps to grouse
Or was thrown...
Because I love you
My love for you never slips away
Making me special every day
Giving me life that I never knew
...
In dreams does porcreation begin. Few know the power of the unconscious mind. Things come into fruition when given the...
Just another word some may say,
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We started off united, as one whole
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We...
The symbol of my country
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A pelican flag is a symbol
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Our flags...
Every morning when I lay awake
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heart of mind is the key to this relationship
baby I...
The person who protects me from the monsters under my bed
The person who kisses me gently on the head
The person who...
The one who is always there for me
The one who taught me how to be
From giving me birth to watching me grow
You made it seem...
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As you struggle to shove everything
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No matter how many...
Gambling daily with my life
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The Life of me.
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It feels as...
You are the reason I am here
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Who Am I?
The girl with fiery temper and wild hair?
The extrovert everywhere? The bookworm?
Am I the one who finds the best...
My son you are extraordinary
My love for you has no bounds
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I know that you would’ve...
Even though we never have enough money, I tell you we do, all because
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Even though I despise going to my job, I...
Oh, i cant live without my mother,her mothering love warms me, deep in my soul. She brings light to my world like no one...
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They're censoring me
to young to speak?
They're censoring me
is my mind to weak?
They're censoring me
while I'm at my peak....
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Dear Mama, the beauty of your soul is wonderment to my wondering self.
When I was tender, I fall from walks.
I stumbled in...
Surrounded by darkness
The light always burns at night
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I see him standing...
One day I will feel you and It will be the happiest moment of my life.
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20 years, no stop.
You...
I.
I have been lovedBy a boy who made me feel like a queen.He ran his fingers through my hair and made me feel thatThe world...
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Snow White's red lips,
Prince Charming's kiss,
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Distruction
Informal Relationships
Never Lasting Loyalty
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She's the love
That I had hoped for
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I know that I am...
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Room 203
Room 203, English 10,
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Nerves rush
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A mother’s life
Author: Lateafa Davalos
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Dear my other three,
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Together we have...
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As I sit here,Pondering what I would take,On a deserted island,For my life's sake.I can think but of one necessity,For me to...
I was given a heart beat from love
I was born with a heart beat
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Dear Love of My Life,
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In your face there is rest.
In your eyes I glimpse a future,
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Man woke up with big and scary dream
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Mom,
the creator of my world and the caretaker of my life,
from a single mother to loving wife,
you have pushed and pushed...
You were young, but old enough
to remember it all.
Your eyes fillled with hope,
Ideal to take as their own.
They were ...
You're still pretty in the rain like sunflowers in the field
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For my love to the girl who saved my life,
For the love of a girl who made me thrive!
For that girl who stood proud and...
Click.
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The walls are...
We were young and in love
We were a fiery passion
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Nothing in the mind, blissful
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I scream for help
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Cant be explained
I...
prominence stands above
darkness surrounding now
starting in hushed whispers
praying no rocks on trail
upward upward we...
8 years ago It's has been
8 years since, assured I've become endured I became by the color green But I wonder When did the...
Dear Mom
The greatest thing that was created
Descriptions that don’t even match
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My Family, My Life
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My sister's will always be my rythem where...
I knew these girls, three born in one day
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Lianna, Kyla and me all three...
Thank you,
I have been wanting to say it for a long time.
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don't try My Darling
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Hasn’t aftertaste
Wind and rain stripped distance
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I was going to write a pretty little poem
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But now my pretty little words shall turn a phrase
about words that...
Just a young black male in this world of sin
Man versus man
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If the Lorax speaks for the trees,
who speaks for the teens?
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you know nothing about me.
It...
I'm 14 I was raised with my father dad left at 3 but its okay cause I have my mother . Sometimes it hurts when I think how...
When I was a child, time did not matter.
"Time with God mattered most," my Dad would say
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I know
What you're feeling.
Trust me
'Cause I feel it too.
And I know what
You're thinking.
It's just 'cause we are in tune...
THE MOTHERS HEART
She begins he journey,
At the days first night,
Scrabbling all morning,
For her wombs’ delight,
Through...
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Lips shiver, eyes...
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I feel the love you give to me
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The kind...
Blood formed in battle
Is thicker than the water of the womb
Likewise
You
A father formed through the battle of not
having...
How heavy was I for 9 months?
Was I a bothersome lodger?
Did I ruin your sleeping pattern?
Through my kicks and summersaults...
oh how the wind blows
how the trees bend in honor
how the sky cries out
screaming and Flashing love
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so...
Some people smoke weed to distract their mind how they feel,cause they don't wanna see the truth, but soon they'll notice it...
Our world today is a bitter place to be,
People getting shot up, just for walking down the street.
Officers see a different...
Go I say
Stay they say
I am now alone with my thoughts
Mom calls every night
I come home temporarily
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from the beginning, there were bright eyes
shirley temple dark oil curls,
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the fair skin...
My unique life
I am from the black T.V.
from the king size bed and the soft blankets
I am from the small rocks
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Oh guardian of mine,
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we your kin do our best to meet your expectations
some of us are better...
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The smell of wet due at the tip of my nose. How it felt when we walked in the mornings for fresh air. i can feel you...
a few mornings ago
i woke to realize that i could describe
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I was raised by the
Soul food cooking
long legged, short legged
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Type of Women
I...
This is not about me
As you and I can see
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It was either him or me
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“Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary, Bloody Mary”
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Typical dead beat dead is what you're labeled as,
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Many days i'd sit and...
It's dark. /I cannot rest. / No longer can I weep. / With eyes too dry and mind too weak. / My heart pumps fast, / I want to...
The line between right and wrong
is now a blurry one
We used to not do what's wrong
because it was right
Now we don't do...
As I sit here,Pondering what I would take,On a deserted island,For my life's sake.I can think but of one necessity,For me to...
And every time you wake up my love
You looked my body next to yours
And you wondered why I loved you
Why I love you
Why I...
The world sometimes becomes a cruel place.
One is which we may never wish to show our face.
People who hate us, and believe...
She is who she is
She a person full of smiles
She is a person who is goofy
She is a person who is never hostile
She is a...
Love is a crime,
It always has a victim to punish,
To torture,
To victimize.
Love is a vessel,
A vessel for all of...
Once upon a time a young kid was handed everything
he thought to himself I am the king
His mother came home one day tired ...
To be a wolf or a sheep?
Die of boredom,
Or die alone?
Many will choose boredom,
thinking they can find a task to do.
I...
Where I Am From
I am from Ben and Bills
Reaching for free gumballs
And rope swing accidents, having to buy new rope
I am...
To be heard is to be free and I am honored to be a part of power poetry, you see I appreciate writing down my thoughts...
I am the first generation to go for my dreams, not working and concentrating on school to get a career to make life easier....
To be stranded in your mind is one thing
as i seem to be but my family revives me
but to be stranded with at me family is...
4465 W 63rd Pl
Arvada, CO 80003
January 19, 2018
Sonora, Mexico
682 Av Cultura 83-85
Dear Jose,
I may have not met you,...
Keep Going So I Go Farther
The sun gleams over harsh clothes,
Heavy boots, feet sore of weariness.
He pushes and pulls...
Things before our sight
We did not realize true value
Shadow when realized us
Beam enters eye to continue
Say: Not salvation...
I never expected a wedding invite
Or a Father's day card
Not in repayment for the father I've been
But you ended up giving...
written February 2008
I am the spark you held in
your cupped hands. You marveled
at my brightness because there
was so...
It started in the beginning of May
When I first heard my mother say,
That my father would move away
To live in a different...
I am
the daughter of a mother who has an uncurable diease
no life long numbing agent that could
soothe and heal it.
It left...
Ive long walked away
From a faith of things unseen
Refused to stay
For the future I have foreseen
Shackled by these...
"Hey." "Hi." "I like those earrings." "Thank you, and I like your hair. Who did your hair?" "My mom." "Ah. She did great...
Frame To image painful
sorrows planted
Inside hearts
Awake Seeds of the fear
With hiding of horror fact
Capped...
wear...
Dear, God
It all started June first, two thousand seventeen.
Late that night she had gone missing.
My cousin Jamaari was...
Life starts with living, do you cherish the memories, the love, the friends. the family,
the fighting, the helping hands? Do...
Don’t believe everything you hear.
Things you do are not okay.
She couldn’t think and had this fear,
Her world becoming dark...
Every evening I lay awake on the floor.
As my master sits on that couch
with a fift of liquor in his hand.
He kicks me in...
Students
The leaders once ruled over men.
They took their time and vigor, then
In morning after all was done
They’d take it...
Brothers and sisters, cousins and friends,
Are the only ones who will truly stay till the end
Say what you want, and say...
You say pay attention to school.
You say stay out of trouble.
You say watch your Brother.
You say be yourself and don't...
You have a beauty that has no measure,
and the stubborness of a mule.
Your smile gives me such pleasure.
You will always be...
You take my cup and drink it free
there is none in my heart, for you to
take so liberally.
You stole my heart so many...
I am a US citizen
I love my country
I appreciate everything
I have a job
I love money
I am free
I am a US citizen
There is...
Emerging out of the rolling pastures and forests,
And marked by that old green sign, my small East Texas town begins
I am...
The gentle hugs you gave, the softness in your heart
The sugar on your cookies, and your ability to play all parts....
Jack Jorge Fernandes, “Gratitude for Broken English”
(Please note, I deleted my first submission after my friends coaxed me...
Please stop saying you’re the best father in the world,
because you’re not.
You’ll be another girl’s first father-daughter...
When the Sun shines,
And not a cloud plagues the skies,
The world is on my side.
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Everyone has dreams to make it for their familes get of the hood to live good well some people was born into this world with...
I've lived in a house full of groans,
and understood why my mom had problems getting loans,
she screamed and yelled and...
You are always there telling me not to fight,
Because its not helpful nor is it right.
I get bored and walk away,
But you...
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You are my crazy, my sane, my strength, my weakness
You are my law, my procalamtion, my truth, my forgiveness
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On a cold night my mother asked me, "What do you want to be if you're born again?"
I answered to myself, "I would want to be...
My family is everything, and this is true,
The've helped me over the years as I grew.
Alway there for me in my times of need...
For the love in my heart
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For the love in my heart
May it never tear us apart
It feels like it has...
I'm jealous of butterflies,
They fly and fly and fly,
Away from their problems and fears,
They're free and free and free,
I'...
When I was little
Up until the age of five
No one could tell me
That there was a daddy better than mine
Then one day you...
You’ve been there since the beginning,
The start of it all.
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And started to crawl.
You taught...
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It started when i was 5.
The feelings.
Now as a kid, a cute one at that,
i knew i couldn't be choosing between one parent or...
People say I look just like her,
I act and talk like her.
I have her chubby cheeks and smile.
I have a passion for being...
He is Helmsman.
There’s no way to tell
what’s real and what’s hell
A man, he says you fail.
without speaking a word
his...
I dont think words could simply express how much I want to thank you
Thank you for how you've taught me that I can't get...
Eighteen years old! Finally realizing that my life is not my own.
I wait until mama leaves the house, so that I can finally...
Mom,
You Are My Hero
The Most Influential Person In My Life
You Are The Sunlight In My Day
You Are The Moon I See Far Away...
Dear Mama, I sat surrounded by the whole family, presents piled highBut you weren't thereI would stare out the window,...
Enough.
It's a word that describes something we can never have. It doesn't matter what it is.
It could be friends, clothes,...
You may not have the ability to control other people but you have the ability to control yourself. With that being said, you...
Who are you?
The man i knew from distance you seem so cool.
Lips ought to clapp of your name and stature how strong you...
Sometimes I like to think in even numbers
because Prime numbers tend to lend a connotative tone
Sometimes when I close my...
WHY IS THE MOST QUESTION ASKED; BUT WHEN YOU REALLY THINK ABOUT IT BASICALLY IT BOILS DOWN TO A LIE. WHY IS A DIFFICULT...
The flow of happiness overfills my soul
The spread of happiness consumes my world
This joy
This feeling
This emotion
This...
In the world there are clever and foolish people,
There are virgins and prostitutes,
Rich, poor, middle class, and the clean...
As time goes on, so does age.
Appearance grows of greater importance — or less,
Makeup changes as one realizes how bad it...
Because I love you, you love me
I love you because you took me in
You took me in not because you had to
You wanted to take...
The orange orb rises from its slumber
My eyes are still shut tight
The loud noise rings on a particular number
I awake with...
the sorrow surrounds me everywhere i go, but at the end of my minds heart shines a very bright soul, a hope a will a reason...
Six beats draw out
What Life has woven in
Will focus on progressing what I've been given
The law of the Spirit
You know it's...
Here I am
A withering soul
Inside this carcass of skin and bones
Like a ragdoll being tossed and thrown
As I rip apart...
How did we grow apart?
Space between us far and wide
Like a valley, and empty void,
all becaue you lied, you lied to me
left...
Pain I can’t solve
Seeing the struggle of someone I love
Hopeful I can get through
I watch him in pain
Why is there...
What would you do when you are faced with life or death?
The first thing you need to do is take a breath.
I would quickly...
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My own worst enemy,
living a couple rooms away.
He wears my clothes as if it is his,
and believes I do not notice.
He cares...
Christian. Jesus had to renew me.
Amazed at what God has put in font of me.
Seriously hilarious all day everyday.
Special...
When I was just a little child
I began to see
I had a special family
Who is always there for me.
A family that stands by you...
Fear caused by
Sharing a father
Sharing blood
Sharing the same brokenness
But living completely separate lives
We don’t...
She said it wasn't easy
but also that it couldn't be done.
I felt like i didn't matter
but in this familial war i've won....
Cry for HelpI am talking to youcan you hear me?Look into my life and see what my eyes seeYes; I am a little angryBut do you...
The distance between us is long and far,
of which we have traveled many times.
For all the things I wish for, I get,
so long...
A father daughter bond, in my eyes that’s been long gone
You weren’t ever fully in my life, why?
Because you had other kids...
Resonance that seeps into my soft red skin,
like fallen ice on thin white sheets-
fingers that saunter on my spine
like...
Toys, candy, and gamesWere my niche those daysCare free fromJewelry, money , watchesI was content with bags of laysWhere I...
The man has superior citizenship amongst creations being earth's caretaker. He was created first and given a woman only when...
The path of a forest stream is
guided by the gentle branches of surrounding groves
meandering angles shaped by stoic roots...
Your daughter is not timid
I'll fight all the demons
No matter the outcome
You've been my armour from the day I was born
But...
“Blood is thicker than water”
I sputter as the taste of iron trickles down my throat,
And while my fatlip pours out with...
Dear Mama,
I know in life we've been through so much, but we have god on our side
and we have to just trust. I use to think...
I was birthed into this world
A hardworking clever woman
It started with my sweet mamaw
Who’s stubbornness and lovingness...
So to say I have been told that I am not
Im sure of it.
Since the incubator, I no longer can breathe with water upon my...
Papa,
You are a deity,
For our cross you carry on your shoulder,
Caring for us when we were toddlers
With grains, milk, like...
As I ruminate over everything my parents had done for me
I declare in my thought, before it slips, it gets caught
I will...
All my life I've lived for other people,
what they say about me, how I should act around them,
how I should change myself...
Percs and molly in my casket so I can roll in heavenGet a bad bitch up out of Magic, need a ho in heavenI need me a TEC and...
Any minute now,
I will be called to give back my instrument that has served me for four years,
I’ve been counting down the...
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Being 17 is not easy
Waking up in reality, wishing I was only dreaming
Trying to finish my last year with my...
What is family. To me, familly is all.
Family is what keeps you up and running,
Family is what supports you and loves you no...
Saudade
By: Sydney Johnson
A feeling
of melancholy,
longing or
nostalgia
It seeps into
the deep crevices
of your...
My friends always tell me they think I have split personalities.
Some days I’m a tiger orange --
Edgy and ready for...
people care,people fail
but most important people love and hate
when you do wrong ;
everyone expect you to do more
and...
A Kind and Terrific FriendBy Swagg babyA Christmas Song
Last Christmas, I gave you my carBut the very next day, you set it...
The first man a girl loves is her father,
the one that held her when she cried
from a bike accident at 6.
When she was...
Sit on the ground, head on the fish tank, in front of the space heater, but your feet are still cold. Above you are the...
I am not her
Don’t compare me
to the “oh so great things”
she has done
Don’t tell me
to walk, talk,and act
like her
I am...
They started together and she then end alone.
She gave birth to me and raised me alone.
But at first their agreements was to...
Dear Mom, Dad
I see it
I see the road
Twisting ahead of me
And I see you're scared too
I see the rain clouds
And the...
Burgeoning Awesome
Life is full of mysteries
Some cruel some sweet
It can feel like the...
If we could do it again
motor bike through roman cities
in the rain
watch the cats chase lizards in the forum
and drink...
Look at me
In hopes that you see the Afropunk in my vunerability
Every picture I would hold you close to me
No matter your...
Where I’m From
By Rebecca Cantrell
I am from Mother Nature,
From the sturdy trees that were my jungle gym and the rich earth...
this rage within me slowly dies,
I find myself in the fire, slowly depleting-
forging into a quiet night.
Beside He stands,...
when we startedit was a messno structureuntruthfulnessit was bound to unravelhit the truth lighton some hurtful levelit was...
There were so many messed up days.
There were days I thought we wouldn't make it.
But to say that you weren't my sunlight...
FreeFlow
Language runs through us all
the rushing water of the land
only if we stand tall
may it course through our soul...
I could taste the sadness in my mouth as I walked into my mother’s bedroom She started talking to me I could she her heart...
Are you ready to be fooled?
We break up, we make up and then everythings okay.
But now? nothing is right.
Where is the...
Who are you?
They asked me as if they didn't already know
I am a gifted gift from God
That and somewhat of a sarcastic, fun...
gender inequality you have been one our measure problem oh you decided to make our female children illitrates but we have...
Butterflies fly around chaos as we are best friends forever. We hold a tight bond as our three strands are not quickly...
IS IT FAIR.. that I was the last born in my family?
IS IT FAIR..that my parents can no longer afford to financially support...
Do you believe in me?
The child would ask its mother
Of course I do honey!
Well sometimes I just wonder.
Do you have faith...
Oh my my
What have you done wrong
What have you done to mankind
Oh my sweet lover
Look at your helpless body
How had I known...
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One decision, that's all it took.
Should she have chosen others' happiness and played by the book?
I am pleased to say that...
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i don't wanna be left in the dirt
i need to do something to change
can't stay the same
I...
As I grow the path continues to expand,
for me to continue learning, and improve in life.
Everyday I wake up, and I have the...
It is 4 o clock in the morning.
There is no filter in this dingy dorm bathroom,
just the flickering light of poorly...
Dear anxiety,
If I had to choose between you and me I would choose me
Because it takes a real woman to fight an illness that...
Dear you,
Dear best friend,
Dear soulmate,
Dear boy from art class my freshman year of high school,
Dear boy who made me...
When eyes come alive, from darken to light
My day began with you with comfort so tight
I'd look to the sky, to the air, to...
Her mind wanders off into a zone of its own.
Imagining how life could be different, yet tired of it all.
All the arguing,...
Inside the pain wriths
And has a curled up smile
My demons think they've won
But my battle is not done
I will continue to...
The grids
The line
The time
The home
The cost
The Animal
The lost
The smile
The frown
The money
The crown
The city
The state...
Ask me a question.
Who Am I?
Do you know me?
Would you like to know me?
My thoughts are you.
I am you .
Do you know me now...
I learned to walk, you didn't care.
I said my first words, yet you still didn't care.
Mom walked me into my first day of...
Even though we never have enough money, I tell you we do, all because
I love you,
Even though I despise going to my job, I...
Broken promises are promised to me,
I have no hope for gold at the end of a rainbow.
I have no hope for christmas presents...
I am "Weird"
I am weird in my own way
I am different
I am something that everybody doesn't like
I am "Unqiue"
I am always...
Dear One,
I miss your smile
I miss your laugh
I miss your spirit and your craft.
When I started this letter it was too late...
Oh, i cant live without my mother,her mothering love warms me, deep in my soul. She brings light to my world like no one...
It takes a gentleman to get her back onto her feet, but it takes a real man to help her shine to her fullest potential.
My sister you see, just turned 12.
Her life has only just begun.
And yet the world seems to smile on her, light comes from...
Blondish brown hair,
She only stands three feet tall,
She's the only one in this world,
That can make sure that I don't fall...
I have been taught to fake a smile, to fake a laugh, to fake a conversation
to fake me
Holden Caulfield calls them phonies...
DAD,
I love you more than words can explain.
Even tho you can't hear what im sayin.
I feel it in my heart and in my veins....
Because I Love you
I am only doing this because I love you
Please believe me like this is the truth
Never will I lie in vain...
Life. was said to be creative and a blessing
but later as you grow, youre told its real messy
Back in the golden years...
A cross-country runner she planned to be,but reminded so she had to bring Bing.A four-legged lad, a Beagle in breed.But Bing...
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Try to death experience
Although
You dead in a thousand of your poems
And each poem
Your soul is bleed
Again
Try to...
The rolling power of my tongue can be good our bad.
You can feel the vibrations of each word that descends of my lips.
It...
I hate
I hate how people can’t marry the ones they love
I believe they could spend their lives with the one they choose “...
I am a contradiction
I am the soft glow from a lit candle
I am a bomb
Tick Tick BOOM!
I am a weapon
My words, sharp like...
The veins in her hands crossed like letters. Or maybe it was a wishbone. It made me think of my own wishes. Did I have any?...
Breathing in the salty air I can feel the wind pushing through my hair,
I feel the warmth of the sun pressed against my skin...
It was my parents that gave me life.They nurtured me and showed me love;Taught me wrong from right.Cuddled me and hugged me...
"Get out"
they said to my mother. My mother who
was a facialist. My mother who
was a waitress. My mother who
was a student...
I close my eyes to see a pain that's rooted in my psyche
a pain that's like a vine choking out a tree.
Why, I ask, won't...
A mother's is understanding
She makes you feel so safe always
She inspires when you're lost
She smiles at you when you are...
"We're unbreakable," falls off his lips,
As she pushes her pants down off her hips,
Second guesses of the whispers she's...
Diego Vega
everybody wants me to be something i am not. well this might sound like a typical poem of "poor me""why me". Well...
Why? Why does it always have to be this way? Why can’t we have a normal relationship, the kind I’ve always wanted. When I...
Just come around,
So that I can be found.
You can't always cope,
But you will always find hope.
In sickness and death,
Every...
I feel as if there is no place for me. So it seems that everything I want is a falacy.
In this world we live in full of lies...
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A memoir of me and a memoir of you,
For them to see me and for them to see you.
Legacies shine bright, but also burn...
I am a Tropical Fruit,Born from the strangest of waysColorful yet nappyBorn from the strangest of ways
I have Tropical...
The pain and struggles of a single mother
From the past experiences, the present won't be able to recover
No way of...
all i need?
if it was just me on an island?
what would i need?
i would need my grandma
you might call yours something...
Summer Bucket List
By Justine M. Figueroa
Twelve years of school with no real story to tell.
It kind of makes me wonder...
Family:
The thing you live with all your life,
Who are always there for you.
Wether they are far away,
or very close.
...
Dear God,
I'm just a college student searching for a way in, not a way out. I'm heavily seeking out every opportunity out...
Born and raised in a glory-hungry west, where a mad king now lays
However, under the care of a beloved royal family, whom...
These are some of the things I miss,
Stuff I took for granted; like a good night kiss.
Or last May I wish you were here to...
You gave me a palace where I cannot even breathe.
A palace that is filled with anger, at risk.
You gave me a palace where I...
If All the Love in the World...
If all the love in the world could compare to the love
my parents show me,
then I wouldn't...
Always wanting more
claiming you're heart's sore
yet you pawn in my love
for something less
for something thats a complete...
Behind the mask
I have been stripped
Stripped away from all that was mine
I am just a plain face
Left out in the cold to...
Remembrance of great leaders
Are still fresh in our mind.
As they took the first step to keep us all in line.
Going back to...
For the record,
I am myself.
Even in the dark
with no mirrors, no clues,
I am myself.
I am not the feeling
of being buried...
When I look into your eyes, I expect to see regret, but instead I feel the pain, of the memories you forget
Dark nights no sleep,
Mornings tired, lost deep.
Was it forever?
I always wondered as the depressing years passed by.
Part...
When I was a child, time did not matter.
"Time with God mattered most," my Dad would say
But to me it was all just some...
My face, distorted in the sun
under my right eye a deep scar remembers
the pain of abuse, and the tears he has left me...
I know your brain is wired in a way that makes you think everybody
within a 3 mile radius hates you, is annoyed by you or...
You act so tough,
You act so brave.
But really,
you are the empty beer bottles
that you used to hide.
you couldn't face...
Label by others as a misfit,
oddly enough I warmly fit.
We're different in many ways,
you can't disturb our calm bay.
I'll...
That Certain Individual
There is a certain individual,
One whose name I will not say,
But the mere thought of their...
He works hard all day, and I can't blame you for your rays. I can't blame you for his lack of eduacation, nor his lack of or...
On sunny days and dark nights,
in troubled times and pointless fights,
you've been right there through it all,
you've stood...
Seeking completeness I've come so far.
Although, it has robbed myself out of me.
But here, I have crossed what seemed,
a...
The room is filled with happiness, love, and fear
Both the woman and man in charge of catching you when you fall
When you...
I walked on broken glass,
Each shard represented someone or something that caused me pain.
Physical or emotional.
Each shard...
Don't you just hate when history repeats itself over and over again?
I do! Even when I tell my family its gonna be the same...
When I was thirteen
I took a plane over the sea
Under the clouds
To my grandparent’s house
Even now, years later
I still...
Light shone on me in the earliest youth
I grew up and learned the truth,
Crazy enough life may laugh,
At the things you say...
I see you everyday-
Monday to Friday sharing eye contact every 3 minutes
but you like her.
She's anything anyone could...
Solid minded,
Confindment.
Come and find me. I get excited.
X out the rhyming and, Art.
The talented with the mindset,
Of a...
"I will abandon you in a second,"
was what my dad said to "teach me a lesson."
"You're a worthless piece of trash,"
was what...
FIGHTING, Seems like a big word that is always heard. It is heard, seen and always mean. Fighting is not...
When will I find True bliss?
I know what it feels like in passing, but I want to own it.
To make my home in it’s warm and...
If I could have my dream job, I’d be on my way to medical school because I wouldn’t have to worry about loans or tuitions....
My uncle is a lot like me
But prefers the sights of trees
Over computer screens and crystal-lined shoes
Berries and shrubs I...
One. Two. Clear.
One. Two. Clear.
The dark begins to fade.
Here it comes again.
One. Two. Clear.
I would like to go...
Rest your beating heart
I know that we shall part
But you'll always be right next to me
So rest your beating heart
Rest your...
Dear other half,
Half of me is in the ground covered in dirt as the other half of me is on earth feeling hopeless.
I...
REGRET is poison.
SAFETY is the spoon we drink it from.
We ask,
How do you live a full life?
A life without regret?
...
As snow warms the earth below,
Grass on earth, ceases to show.
Sadly on this cold Christmas day,
He never showed, to my...
She's lying on the floor, a thin blanket is her bed.
Who knew she would have back problems, after all it was only a cause...
You have mold me you have taught me
Now I am growing to who I want to be
I Have follow your steps
So my mind won't be...
Another Black Kippah
The trowel makes a swoosh sound,
as it enters the bucket....
You ask what makes me smile,
And I will say not much.
You ask what makes you happy,
And I will say his touch.
You ask what...
Every day my mother would look at me and smile
She would tell me to get dressed and eat
She would take me to school and tell...
Every night
Before I go to sleep,
I pray to the Lord
Even though, I feel ignored.
I can't afford to lose my dad even more...
I met a homeless man once, poor in wealth but rich in spirit. I asked him how he gets through his days, he told me himself...
I sit here dreaming of the far off stars
In thy water drops I touch thy sea
In distant winds I bring my hurtful wars
And...
You make me smile,
You make me laugh,
You make me blush,
You make me want to do better,
You...You are my love.
You are...
I think he don't love me
Cause he makes me suffer with her words.
Sometimes he says that I'm a bad girl.
Sometimes he says...
J'ai un jour tres bonne, when I see you smile
On this note,cher, I wish 'tis worth your while
Secretly I am, glancing from...
You.
I'm gonna write a poem for you,
I'm writing poems upon poems to release everything that I might think I have against...
I love the way you sleep.
Though, I can no longer see the beauty of the skylight blue enriched in your eyes.
I see your...
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Every night, the same old game,
Party, drink, smile, laugh, flirt.
As if this whole routine hasn't gotten lame.
The next day...
You know i’ve been up all night
Figuring out which way is easier.
I can promise it was a tough fight
Cause the thoughts made...
Roses are red violets are blue
i love you
you seem so happy
when I see you
cause you're just as beautiful
when you're you.
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Twirling in confusion and inert anger,my introverted self can't continue in this loophole,It was seemingly inevitable that...
You were always there.
Guiding me, leading me to victory.
Without you all would be history.
Your voice echoes in my...
God looked around His garden And He found an empty place. He then looked down upon this earth, and saw your tired face. He...
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I call her Momma But she's a Queen to me
A real example of Warrior
She gave birth to a...
everyone works hard to achieve their dreams, even me
living in a houe of 8 is hard, even for me
but i wake up and work...
I see a family someday whom despite the storm and quake stay together,
They stay together even I'm these harsh weather,...
Cry little girl.Run and hide.Huddle back into your trenchesWhere the voices lieAnd tell youThat it's safeTo sleep.
Drifting through wind, my eyes are closed
My mind's open to visions behold
Dancing with skies, space and cloud
Twirling the...
My favorite person, My guide, My mentor
How I've followed your footsteps
To seek what I truly need my life for
Underneath my...
This is not about me
As you and I can see
But about my dancing day by day dog Jellybean
Jellybean has lots of joy jumping up...
They hold hands,
looking deep into eachother's eyes,
the twinkle that only love can provide.
They disregard society,...
is even more fun than seeing the World of Coke in a bustling downtown Atlanta
and burping up bubbles of carbon for the...
Where I’m from, people work day to day to sustain their families and the daily food is always there, my dad...
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She went buy the name of Tiara
And because her name was Tiara she...
Wake up in the morning and stumble out of bed
You want to crawl back under the sheets but get it through your head
She...
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My legacy is my parents.
Undoubtedly and...
I AM A WOMAN!!! So what?I get into an argument with a man, he slaps me, I feel the pain, yet they tell me I provoked him...
The word forgiven is sign of letting go.It is the memory that you kill of what had happened.It is the shovel that you dig...
Saudade
By: Sydney Johnson
A feeling
of melancholy,
longing or
nostalgia
It seeps into
the deep crevices
of your...
You Left Me When I Was Young
Not Knowing What I Would Become
Let Me Tell You A Few Things About Me
I Am Not The Same Little...
Engines rumble, tires screech, hearts pump, eyes close, tears roll, breathing slows, hands grasp as I... I pick my eyes up...
Those who dont know us , feel we are outcasts.
They think we're odd, too abnormal to be around
They think we are below them...
You wake at dawn.
You dress; every piece by layer.
You move accordingly to what you only know.
20 years, no stop.
You...
One day but not today
Someday but not soon
Living my life and facing the moon
Caught in the light ready to say goodnight...
We constantly fight
We consantly love
Someone is always giving a warm hug
Anger and dispite is always near
But love never...
I hear shouting
They are screaming at me so insulting
but i dont listen
I stare blankly at them reminiscing
Bout all the...
Being adopted is a blessing.
Mom, I love it when you tuck me in at night.
Mama, I love it when you surprise me with gifts...
You blame me for every tear fallen,
You say I forced you to join the darkness,
You say I stole you from the light,
Yet you...
I am from flowing green fields of maize
and hard-working arms.
I am from chilled rural mountains
and steaming hot summers....
Dear Olivia,
Your name was the first to come to mind
but, mam, I wish it wasn't for this reason.
I was so confident that...
From the time I was born to the day that I am living now, I see nothing but potential. A young woman who strives to become...
M.O.M yes sweet they say .yes when I have a cold or yes to when my knee is scraped, yes to when I have a bruise on my arm...
You were just my brother
Every morning as I'd get out of bed
Mom and Dad in the kitchen holding coffee mugs as they shake...
America's is the best country in the world.
people come, people go in order to find hope.
Oppurtunity and liberty is what...
On December 2004 I became a big brotherTherefore, I had to start helping my mother.
Always changing diapers and making...
I dedicate this portfolio to my Mom and Dad.
Every day was a struggle like weather that was unpredictable bad.
But days...
When I see your name I blush, when I hear your name I smile, when I see your face I get cold, I just love you so much, I...
All I ever wanted is gone, down on the ground with the debris.
All is lost undrneath the dirt and rocks
Down with the worms...
Dady one more ride around the house Please dady one more ride around the house we go Ride high on your shoulders im on top...
I come from a hardworking family
my grandparents sacrificed everything just so i could write today
so i wear my insecurities...
Some Grandma's love to cook,
some Grandma's love to eat,
some Grandma's are mean,
and others very sweet,
but my Grandma was...
Though always takes bodily delight on you such as pleased my appetite; once to have knowledge of blissful life taking you is...
When it seems that no one is there for me,
And when ev’rything appears to go wrong,
They always come as the people to be
Who...
I am all alone down in the sand and nobody else is here to help.
We were all alone in a box cause all we had was love.
I...
We grew up on the countryside
My brother and I
We were just two kids
Who had a real tough life
We had to learn how to cope...
While it’s something I’ll often deny,
This is my family and it’s everything I pride.
You get exactly what you see
And it’s...
An angle from Heaven sent him for us.
So loving and caring there are no wants.
He cares for others and he doesn’t fuss.
So...
Imagine a world without filters
Where people see you for who you really are
Don't worry about hiding that scar
Because that...
i can never truly be me
adults say to be true to yourself
but who is that really?
should myself be what I know i am
or what...
The irony of cold
Yet leaves still grow
The eyes in the sky keep on starring deeply into your signs
What more can it be?...
She is what I aspire to be
gentle, loving, kind and free.
Soft and warm and close to my heart.
I loved her from the very...
I don't need any one thing in this world,
I don't need a what, or a where, or a how.
What I need is a who and who I need is...
When Life Brings You Down
Just Think positivity
And You'll Do Just Fine
Life is a Beautiful Masterpiece
Life,
Is this really what you see?
Would it fall under what you once imagined it to be?...
I am Manhattan where I was born and I am Puerto Rico where I was raised
I am two cultures that I am proud to be a part of...
My mother is she
She is the soul purpose
Shes the one with all might and the
She reminds me I'm never worthless
Shes the...
The grass is always greener
when you think of something that's sweeter
When you are dealing with rough times
think of...
There's a ring in the air
A whoosh of the wind breeze taking you away from your computer's' ting ting
and a reminder bell in...
Could this be,
My destiny,
Does he know what time will show?
The time had crept,
As I had slept,
never to awake,
This...
As we travel up the steep mountain,
There are trials and tribulations we face
That we overcome and proceed on
With the help...
The thing that gets me confused is when i see us being used
Not from our counterparts but from the things we do
Never good...
Suppose what n why I see
Suppose what n why I see inside me
what is it and why it picked me
the probem is its wicked to me...
breakout,
wont leave a message.
In the land of overlooked emotions,
Thousands work but some don't.
Guess which ones give...
My dad is the giggle I need when the
World seems to crumble
Who tells me
It’s my world, he’s just living in it
Who comes...
When you look into my eyes, do you see the pain?
Do you hear it in my voice that i've been standing in the rain?
I mean...
“Where I’m From” by Amaya Castillo
I am from inssence, from candles, and the warmth that they give off.
I am from the...
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they look at her with big bright eyes
little do they know she rages inside
they look at her like she's an angel sent from...
She always burns with fire in her soul
As she slips away from the horizon,
Gently on our pillows we rest our heads
But upon...
What if the stem is so bad What is your purpose when You know you'll make a bad leaf Are you been planted badly Is there not...
Look
And listen
And grown
And teach
And feel
And till
Be real
Just chill
Stay still
Don't deal
Be ill
And above all that......
since on monday
we were propose
on tuesday
we were called lovers
engage on wednessday
married on thursday
on friday
we have...
i promise to never let you go
do everything i can to never say no
i promise to always be by your side
no matter what happens...
You speak to me while you drink your poison
And inhale the chemicals of dust
Dying down like the sun
And hanging from a...
Fighting a mental illness is difficult.
It devoure your soul.
It control your mind.
It push you to do terrible things...
I'm always getting hurt
No matter who it is;
My brother,
My sister,
My father,
My mother....
I don't know what I did to...
A man with heart
A man so smart.
A man so bold
A man I can hold.
A man so nice
A man with advice.
A man with love
A man that...
Are you there?
I hope you see this one day
maybe then you'll realize how alone i really was
you claim you teach me
you...
A Father's dream
A friend once told me when his daughter was born,
Her little face and eyes did seem,
As fresh and glorious...
a woman who cant wait to get out
has a child, but she does it with no doubt
she wants to have fun with no child
so she packs...
A mirror stands before me
Whispers of hate and laughter surround me
They point out the outside flaws
So I put on a mask to...
Many times I see myself in a closet, being scared of the police
work in the black market, My parents
it's hard to...
The book welcomes the hand
letting it glide over its pages
running over the binding
even under its book jacket
All the way...
Heaven is here with me.
Heaven shall live in my heart eternally.
Heaven has big blue eyes.
Heaven was an elating surprise...
Her eyes lift gravity
created within her hands
I allow her to loop
Push me into reverse and the trail
continues with my...
There is no light skin vs dark skin. Only brown skin between us.
To be proud of what society deems unacceptable is a...
My father is a loving and caring man
As a young girl he always held my hand
One day everything changed for the worse
Though...
A flower pot ever so unique and beautiful to show its value
Belonged to two crossed lovers
It was not too long
Thin
Short
Or...
family should show love love from god above, family have to be real to each other and show the love that god taught us above...
Relationships
Are cultivated
Relationships
Are made
Relationships
Are real
When I was young I tried killing myself
I tried...
College is a dream
A dream that can only be accomplished by a dragon
A dragon that supports you throughout life
This dragon ...
Dear Idris, Dahlila or nothing at all
I haven't even seen a hand or pitter of a heart
Not even a twinkle of delight has come...
I stand on the cool sandy shoreline,in silence.I feel a salty tear drizzle down my face,and then a thousand more.The black...
Trouble i just can't not seem to dodge it thats how i knew i was growing up. In middle school to explosions and trouble...
texas.don.g.nutt.59.poem.the ghetto boy raised up from the hood from the streets the pro jects still on the grind gotta make...
Winter
Barren, dreary
Chilling, toasting, crackling
Bringer of fires and blankets
Comfy
I am from the Garden State.
From the city full of violence, gangs, and drugs;
Criminals competing to become frauds and thugs...
Standing in the cold
Doing what I'm told
But it's finally midnight
There's nobody in sight
I go into my own world
And leave...
My dream is life and life to the fullest.
A dream of challenge and success.
A dream to provide for my little one.
A dream...
Percs and molly in my casket so I can roll in heavenGet a bad bitch up out of Magic, need a ho in heavenI need me a TEC and...
I am only one
I can only do what I can.
I can only try to convince
or hold out my hand.
Sunshine reflects essence,
Shadows...
It is now another December
The last month of another year
Hoping to see you again
That l can gaze at your kindness and...
Abandoned yet hopeful,
still trying to be a little boastful. Imagine being left by your parents who had no other choice but...
To find something worth standing for,
To stand and and not give in,
Is to find something worth living for.
To find...
The wieght of life is bearable, only if you get ahead of it. The wieght of trying to make it somewhere in life is one of the...
What I wouldn't give to be heard. The people that surround me treat me like a bird.
Yes I can fly and chirp, but all that...
Granny I love you and you know that. You know what blink that. Granny my baby. Why when you smile its like I can see you for...
An aunt can be described in so many adjectives, in so many ways
She’s a counselor when going through tough times, a teacher...
One more night
One more day
One more time
That's all I ask
I don't know when
I don't know where
I don't know how
We'll spend...
A mother's love
whether throughout times of sorrow,
or times of glory, is all but shallow.
A mother's love is a...
To the Guardian of a Child, pay attention
Notice your child and show them
You see them and who they have become
And who...
I want a life..
without stress......
I know a place.......
It's uterus.........
As I open my eyes I see light a thousand times brighter than the light we see in the sky.
It feels as though heaven is...
My mom is my heroAnd one that is greatShe always taught me to loveAnd never to hate
My mom is my heroAnd one of the bestShe...
Many things that I can say ,
to tell you how my life has changed.
You help me up whenever i fall ,
also walked with me...
life is what you make it and if you make it nothing then you will get nothing out of life, so life is what you make it if...
Lord,
Can you hear the girl,
That prays to you every night,
Praying with all her might,
Asking for everything to be alright...
Oh guardian of mine,
what shall I do to please you
we your kin do our best to meet your expectations
some of us are better...
I am supposed to lov the number four
it is this very didget that i am forced to grittingly adore
I am supposed to be apart...
as i walked in the door
my heart skipped a beat
its somthing i cant ignore
but although it must be treat
Im not yet ready...
the mind is beautiful
the pictures it makes
the song it sings
the mess it creates
the thoughts that ring
the clock it hates...
Diversity is what makes america great
Each culture threaded in the american fabric like clockwork
Blood and sweat soaks the...
Funny how I imagined my life better if you were in it.
My letter to you I can't complete a single sentence.
I hope you're...
They mean the world to me
No matter what they support me
Mom, her love and care are magical
Doesn't matter when or where her...
I’m so..sad
All my life I’ve never been satisfied
With me
Abuse and control seizing my quiet soul
I couldn’t let go
Rest...
I am my mother's son
Someone who won't compare to none
A unique creation made by God, my savior
But since the age of six I'...
It was all so rapid
Like a flash of lighting
Not having any memory of it
You weren’t even trying
You thought I’d hate him...
how could she do this to me
why me
why does she always do this to me
why cn't she go do it to her other sisters
why does she...
Who knows, where we long, to be, in life?
Who knows, what, we are here, for?
Who knows?
Who knows?
Girls like to dress
They like to dance
They love it when boys are trying to impress
They love to shop
They love to hop
They...
I never understood why things were so negative while I was growing up,
I thought it was common but it really was just a way ...
Who Am I?
Well, that’s a very good question.
I’m not exactly sure how to answer that suggestion.
I am who I am.
A cliché...
Celestial being carrying feminine power
You share the light with the universe
you are a creator, a painter for this...
6 letters
1 word they say can shake the ground
and bring you down
to put it nicely they called me fatass
and its amazing...
I am not ashamed,
Nor am I confused,
About who I am and
Who I've become.
I am neither daughter nor son,
But somewhere in...
You are everything I hope to be in life. You are strong, caring and loving. even when things aren't right you don't show it...
W-Whole: Two halves make a whole
H-Happiness: Happiness is key to in any relationship
A- Acceptance: Accept each other for...
oh my child life could not be so perfect, perfect is a figure of our imagination, oh my child life is not perfect it's a...
the sorrow surrounds me everywhere i go, but at the end of my minds heart shines a very bright soul, a hope a will a reason...
His knee looked as if someone painted blood on him,
Gangly and nearly broken, Craig lifted his bad knee
And started down the...
Distinguishing whether this epidemic that courses through my life is a way to free myself or a way to conserve and avoid any...
DIVORCE
The legal dissolution of marriage
It may be as a result of misunderstanding after engage
Giving her your words is...
My family is a garden
Dad is the fertile soil,
That holds everything together
Sometimes cracked and broken below,
But...
All the time I wonder how she has the time.
Mama how did you sit and listen to me whine.
Long brown hair with whisps of grey...
A thousand words could not bring you back...
I know because I tried.
Not even a thousand tears could bring you back...
I...
Mind of its own
It thinks way to much
It expresses itself in crazy ways
Mind of its own
It sorts everything out
It views...
have courage to love yourself and to love other in the world because love is from god above, because the courage to love...
The Candle
I see the flicker of life before me.
The tainted flame burns brightly in my eyes.
Yet darkness keeps me from...
Fills me with pain this morning
Tears cry
until now, I'm with practice these rituals
And cracked my inside victories to...
An Ireland State of Mind (The Pineapple Hip Hop)By Swagg babyA Rap
Yeah, yeahAyo, my people, it's time.It's time, my people...
When I go to sleep It's magical,
I see dreams beyond dreams,
and funny things that are hilarious,
It helps me sleep the way...
I am, I am,
I am the leaky faucet of a bathroom sink, always being promised to be fixed
I am, I am,
I am a cold glass of...
Dear, Mom
There have been many times were i felt lifeless
Oxygen deprived
You tryed to help but didnt know how to
Ikeeped...
You'll hear them coming
Their voices of thunder rise
I hear the sound of sweet children cries
They are not fair
They are not...
Itty bitty Dean
So much younger than a teen
Mama cookin’ some peas and rice
Stomach growlin’
Mouth hungry
Can’t find a toy...
When i look up towards the sky, and i see all the stars,
i envision in my mind, the demons in the bars.
All the violent acts...
Everyday I wake up with a start,
because my son has my whole heart.
He won't sleep in his own bed,
to wake me up he kisses...
A cloud of sadness,That covers my happiness.It does not let me see the sun's rays,It does not let me breathe,Eyes following...
I've never been so incapacitated like I was when I found out you left.
And when I say left I'm not talking about for a...
You were my supportt system behind everything I did, In your shadow of safety is where I hid.
Every step you amde, I made...
The change came one by one,
there is no end for the fun.
The moments collected everyday,
sitting near the bundle of hay....
Once I was a little girl.
A little girl whose Daddy wound up on her bottom bunk.
A previously vacant bunk.
a bunk which now...
otexas,don.g.nutt,59.poem,holden still bill folden its me once again its on like h.town ghetto boys bring it on get it on im...
I was raised by
Milk and cookies
aunt was cookin’
with me lookin to see if i’d learn,
Kind of Aunt…
I was raised by ...
I present myself among this crowd to calmly sermonize my thoughts
As I speak tonight do not be alarmed
For I only speak...
life can be hard
so learn how to hack
or it will be a shard
Family will always have your back
Maria theres billions of marias but you make it rare and unique
Motherly
Acceptence
Rejoice
Impact
Amazing
you love...
She never saw it coming.
She lived life like any young girl would do.
Mom, is what we call her
Because then, there were two...
Aurora is the definition of beauty- skinny and p-r-e-t-t-y.
Who needs a personality when men will fall for your appearance...
I always wondered who you were
I always wondered why
Lost and confused
I was more than Hurt
nearly abused, dark and veiny...
Nothing lasts in this world forever,
Your existence is a mere speck of dust....
NEVER think that your life is not...
Sometimes I like to think in even numbers
because Prime numbers tend to lend a connotative tone
Sometimes when I close my...
You were my brother
We were supposed to look after one another
You shattered that trust
When you turned sibing love into...
My parents are LOVE. They argue, they fuss and downright disagree with each other, often. LOVE is not seeing eye to eye....
When I was younger
I use to be your everything
I was daddy’s little girl
I loved the way you always use to carry me
As...
If I could write a story, it would be the greatest ever told. I'd write about my daddy, For he had a heart of gold. My dad,...
An inner battle you can not win.
To feel the pain,
To see the end
Walking through not feeling anything.
Shattered...
Hey, best friend, it's time to wake,
for we have a big, fun day.
We'll have a breakfast too big for two,
and recall memories...
I was in Florida for winter break
A break from the sharp winds and rough roads
A break from the overall vibe of a Michigan...
texas.don.g.nutt59,poem,forsake,of me forsake of life forsake of the gods forsake of the people forsake of the love forsake...
Earlier in the twilight
I saw the beautiful light
The day has just begun
And long shall it be gone
Although its a...
Family
Without them I wouldn’t exist
They keep me laughing even when I’m down
I don’t know anyone else better to turn my...
Warm Arms
Loving Smile
Mom , you have always been my rock
Fragrance of love
Words of Wisdom
Mom you have always been my rock...
It was the end of 7th grade,
I felt like I was getting paid.
We were just a middle school couple at the time,
I thought my...
I love you because you love me.
I love you because care for me.
I love you because you are there for me.
I love you because...
Stuck on a phone that’s stuck to me
Bombarded by images of what we should be
Being told who I should follow
Leaving me...
Handfuls of them scattered around,
in liquid form there's no doubt that she'd drown.
Her warmth appears in the shape of a...
Dear Bestfriend,
I love you to the moon and back
Casue we will always have each others back.
We're so close like teeth snd...
with a clear mind
and open heart
I start
breathe in
then out
no reason to shout
the cool night
reminds me its alright
to let...
Oh what it is to fly, I do not know, How I yearn to gaze above the cool air. To feel the freedom of the grounding dirt and...
It started in the beginning of May
When I first heard my mother say,
That my father would move away
To live in a different...
A family that was never been together,
Everything was so other favor,Anger, sadness and pain altogether,In the heart of a...
These shoes are made out of cement.
I didn't know what that meant.
These shoes are heavy but hard to see.
They may never...
Friends are somtime the closes to you
when there is no one else around
Friends are always there when need them
even when...
Often, it feels like I speak into a void
People come and go because they get annoyed
Poetry focuses on my issue
And at times...
In so many ways we always walk and we keep walking but we do so while we are blind folded and the last thing we want is...
The never wanted child
With a bright future
Turned to darkness when kicked out
Striving to do her best
She turns to friends...
Because your skin is so fair it makes my life unfair.
You dare to take chances while I sit here with the consequences....
Being raised in a home , all alone but full of 5 .
I don't get much attention so sometimes I feel that I won't strive. No...
oh pornhub oh pornhub
dont u delight
as i fiddle my pickle every night
a shower time ritual
oh so much does it please
my pee...
Dear, Nephew
You are so full of life right know
so full of energy, joy, happiness, light.
You make my days brighter than...
The sadness comes
Here comes the madness
Her hair falls out
She is sick
Here comes the worry
But when it is all over
The...
The Fogged Mind
Cease the worried thoughts of the past, For the past cannot be rewritten and lessons have been taught.Need...
Where did you go?
Why did you leave?
Will you ever come back?
Were the times we had nothing?
Do you miss...
She yells to remind
me of the love she has
in her voice her own pain reflects
memories that I know
all to well
For I am...
A picture is a key to the past, it unlocks moments otherwise gone
A picture speaks words that are unknown, feelings that can...
The Power of a Family,
continuously have love by your side.
When life throws you curve balls
your family is there for the...
One little toy,
a blue stuffed dolphin.
It may not be real,
but the memories are.
The joys of swimming in the ocean,
the...
From various faces I see the same
The touch of a feather is all it takes
Makes me feel like I'm not real who am I here...
Thank you for
Proof of my fertility
That's about it
I will make him
My priority.
Not you through
You got no authority
You're...
Without any further ado
I'd like to explain who is who
In Odessa she dwells
She's annalee,my sis its true
As beautiful as...
One day shocked the world forever.
Smoke was in the air as cries echoed everywhere.
I was home that day, playing with dolls...
I love for the need to be loved
I love for the comfort you give me
I love for the way it feels
I love to be happy not only...
Roses are red
Violets are blue
I'm so pretty
What happened to you?
It's not like I woke up
Feeling this way.
Sometimes...
Once i had it dream
that dream became distance
as we move along i was
i was desperate for yor love
i couldn't find it no...
As a kid,
you take everything for granted
not knowing what you are doing.
You know,
that when you leave your house,
your...
Can you die already?
I’m so sorry.
I totally get why i might come off as a bitch
But let me explain myself, just let me...
Tick tock tick tock! Time is going, little shiny smiling
Beautiful skinny, her smile could kill the evil inside you
Oh the...
I wish,I wish
Or do I dream maybe daydream
Fantasize. Surely that it is
Superhero or pro athlete is my dream and wish. One...
Your uncle is dead, my father says late at night in my room. Is dead, and then as if he just heard the news himself,...
Dear Branches,
Gnarled and twisted.
Dear leavess,
Brown and rotting,
We give thanks to thee,
Dear tree
For through thee
Our...
I woke up, headaching
my mind was baking.
Wondering did I come here on my own bearfeet.
Trying to connect the dots, who did...
As Abuela ages, the stages of a heart break commence
My life is full of confusion with the exlcusion of you being by my side...
I'm only 16 trying to chase my dream
things are getting very ironic
they dont appear to what they seem
Soaking up a message...
Hello little bird,
Hello to you,
They tell me that I can't see you,
But I see your color,
It is blue.
Hello little bird,...
I sat on my bed alone and scared
I was a mother,,,
A mother to a new born at the age of 16.
My husband had died.....
Heart...
I am a flower
I have grown, starting at the roots, moving through the stems
I have been through rough patches that have...
I am grateful for all those years I had with you
For all those days I didn’t whine and cry
I was just five
I thought you...
We say we have it all planned out but do we really know
five years later will it be the way we thought it would
we both know...
Dear little boy who sleeps in my doorstepEvery day you see me with a smile when I on walk pass you the streetYou call me...
He is my ghost writer
The one who wants to see me ranked up higher.
Helps me put in the work so I don't stress later
No...
My Poem
by Andrew Stultz
“Andrew please get your work done…!”
He replied”NO, ahhhhhh!”
“I DO WHAT I WANT,” ANDREW SAYS”
“...
My House, Home, Building, Life
By : Genesis
My Home
My Home is warm
My Home is filled….
….with six people….
My Home is...
To look to the past
is to learn from your mistakes
Mindful experiences
But one-way vision
can be very...
How difficult would it be to be stranded to a deserted island?
But I imagine
It must be lonely and difficult.
I can't...
Colors..
colors of the ground
colors of the sky...colors
colors of you and colors of I
colors...
colors made by colors
and...
Murder she wrote, at least that's what the scars showed. A slap in the face and a lost of innocense all in a blink of an eye...
I live inside of a voidAnd I stand directly in the middleCountless faces take shape in the darknessAnd circle me, ever-...
Freedom to express your inner self
Emotions pouring out into the world
Anchoring yourself to any positive thing in the world...
Determination.
Self Will.
How they coincide.
Hand in hand like how I am when I am with you.
The force that your aura brings...
Do you see me?
I do not need the sun. I like the night.
Do you see them?
They do not need the sun. They like the stars.
One...
I grieve for him but will not let you know.
I pretend to be okay, so that it gives you hope.
Farewell, Farewell, Dad, we...
My mother told me that I would end up just like them, my aunties.
Lazy, jobless, and left-behind. That years from now, I...
dr j and micheal jorden was the best basketball players to ever play the game of basketball, they were great ball players...
I made a mistake I can't erase
My life a mess, myself a disgrace
My mind is spinning round and round
Six feet under, stuck...
The Begining
Flawless
The scares on my chest from the ones that I love
Flawless
Having only one person on my team while the...
My groovy sister
You are the most ravishing sister
I will find you a ravishing mister
Thankyou for for holding my back...
tear-stained paper
confusion and obscurity
waste no more time dwelling
on things that will never exist
i’m sorry,...
Nothing feels as good as love.
Giving love, receiving love,
Hugging, smiling, laughing
The warmth of love is real.
Nothing...
Oh love love love,
what does it really mean to love someone?
To take care of, to protect against, to take responsibly.
We as...
Stuck in a place where my thoughts are lost, trapped trying to escape. Seeking for something that I once had. Trecherous...
Once upon a time, like every other fairytale ...
There lived a shy, lovely , fifteen year old ...
She had 2 lovers...
One of...
A delirious soul I am,
Constantly yearning for the love I can never attain,
Why must my heart ache for those who it will...
Let them know that i said this
Let them know i do not fear them any more
Let them know i am ready to fight them.
Be him...
Little brown girl little black girl is what they called me never saw me the color of my skin is what always defined me I...
It goes up
It comes down.
Day in
and Day out.
Then it stopped.
It no longer moved.
Was it Broken? They asked
Stuck?...
Let's have a little talk about the way you speak,
And the perfect girl you think is me.
We barely ever talked but you still...
Oh guardian of mine,
what shall I do to please you
we your kin do our best to meet your expectations
some of us are better...
I dedicate this portfolio to my Mom and Dad.
Every day was a struggle like weather that was unpredictable bad.
But days...
It's been a rollercoaster ride, I seem to not be able to get off of.
From additions to the family to school stressing me....
What is Christmas ?
Christmas is joyous
What is Christmas ?
Christmas is families coming together
What is Christmas ?...
A ONE OF A KIND BLACK WOMAN
Beauty
Fondness
Kind heart
Sturdy, adventurous
Bold
That describes a black woman...
Lots of scholarships
Worth a lot of money
But really family
we live day by day and see no change
we cry, live and die
Nobody seems to have an idea in mind to change what they
see ...
…Upon a time, find in my story two boys three girls,
Five in number, with dream minds ‘set ablaze’
None had the chance to...
Education though,
it's awful.
I walk into school and want to turn around and go
School sucks and should be unlawful....
My sore feet walk over the cobblestone and all
I can see my dream ahead as I take one step at a time.
London's bridge came...
Hidden; hiding in the dawn of the day
Scared; locked away in the basement all night
Knowing that if you step out in the fray...
Everything is Awesome but My Mom Is Better
I find it funny how this is based off of a kid’s movie
You may find this poem...
Family
They are everything
To the outsider, we are perfect.
No rough edges. No problems. No imperfections.
No one sees the...
I love my family very much,
However, they can be a pain!
Some are nice and sweet like honey,
But some I just want to go...
The time you won your town race
We chaired you through the market place
Man and boy stood cheering by
And have we brought...
The flow of happiness overfills my soul
The spread of happiness consumes my world
This joy
This feeling
This emotion
This...
Father, i cant be without you
You the water to my flower
Without you my world would be blue
I can't have the taste of sour
I...
You are beautiful.
Yes, you are weird.
Yes, you are different.
But, you are beautiful.
Your presence is like
A sea of green...
You're supposed to be the smart one;
all the potential in the world.
But what good is the potential to get things done?
When...
Our memories will not be forgotten, your smile will always shine, God made you an angel, and we will soon see you in time....
TO MY RANGE I DO CHANGE (POEM) I want to correct all defectsI want to feel all...
I hope it was easy for you to cease
my tumoil
I hope it was easy for you to mend my
heart...
As 2013 is almost a memory
I am hopeful for what next year brings
Tis also the season for reflection
Of our family,...