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I can almost hear
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That's my dream
That's my one moment
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a truth ,
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do not take it steady.
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never say a
word even
when I want to,
the words just
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my lips... The
words that say...
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i never seen me...
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on...
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Or one gig
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Change the man
I'd travel all across...
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I am from the heart of the world
from war and peace
I am from the dragons blood
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I am from the pines...
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They have achieved what most want to achieve.
I am not strong.
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Their...
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Someimes we all.
Somehow we are consumed
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Sometimes we are weak.
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Dulce
My name
Describes me
Almost perfectly
Telling people
who don't know me;
Who
And
How
I am
Sweet.
If only
my name
Meant...
Came from the dark side
It wasn’t what I expected
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They are our past
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And dreaming the life of prosper
We are the...
Parents tell us we have a great life.
But I want to tell them I hate this strife.
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Is a goal planned?
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- my father...
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You taught me to grow up as an independent daughter,
You didn...
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People trying to go against the Constitution
Somebody should do...
One place
One mind
One me
At one time.
No try
Just do
At this I call
My one school.
I've found a place that makes the break...
The breath of death left an bad taste in my mouth
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money can leave us as soon as it came
make sure you save every dime
if you dont youre the only...
Agape House
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That one place I went
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I've been searching for what I really want but i just cant find it,
As the shine in the diamonds leaving most of these...
18
Hooray!
Suuu baby now
Sukkie
Sukkie
Ouuu now
Can the chu’ch say A-men!?!
Oh lawd
Choir sang it
C’mon
Let them...
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In the East
And sets in the West
The cycle starts over again
Each 24hrs. we survive in
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Ever wondered why?
Why me?
Why not me?
So much potential, but not there yet.
Will I ever succeed? Probably but when?...
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I am the physical being of regret,From the day I was created,I was nothing more than a debt.A father which I hate to call...
I feel hopeless.
Dad's out of work.
I'm trying to get myself through school.
I cry.
Too much.
Trying to make ends meet.
It's...
The beginning of love is happiness
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My smile is not easily turned upside down into a frown
And when I frown don't show me to a crown
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Like bees on honeycomb
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People who scream and shout,
What the fuck is that shit all about
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Pulling the wrenches, breaking the bolts, sweating in the summer, freezing, while working through the rain and the snow....
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How strange
to think I could make a change
I think of you
and all the other people too
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I want it to...
I am from music, from the fragile keys of my nanna's ole grand, from the sticky marshmellows stretched finger to finger. I...
They say i'm way too young
To find the man that is the one
If i dont find him i'm going to burst
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I'm being so lazy
It's driving me crazy
I can't even describe this weird and boring vibe
I sit outside thinking to myself...
I am from the land of the lost Where people lose their lives to to irrelevant things I am from where everything has a cost...
Welcome to America
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And people care more about celebrities than being...
There's a burning fire
burning down my soul
where all the pain inside
is locked up in it's chains
although everyday's a...
The job of a poet
Is what I seek
But it doesn’t feel possible
Hoping for just a peek
A glimpse of what this job entails
As I...
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when we find ourselves looking for the dreams we once lost
i sing for...
This is my last performance for you my brothers
so i am glad to be wearing this uniform one last time
I'll drop and give you...
Everyone's a winner
No matter what they do.
Whether it be in sports,
Or simply just in school.
High school is ending
For me...
The Lights, the bulb, this street lame so cold, scattered and old.
These roads are cracked, hurt and black
Rocks that...
Break-ups, work, bike rides, and play.
Everyday I see through new glasses, new phases and new games.
I read, I write, I...
You attacked me with LOVE. Smooth Operator. Took my Heart and ran with it. Smooth Criminal. I thought FOREVER was in the...
A coder who shines in the light.
One who determines, what seems wrong and what seems right.
What he is doing, is his passion...
Life is too shortAnd so am II'm a manletPlease tell me why?Life is never fairIts what you make itNever try to be the bestDo...
My study of Economics may be micro
Yet my love for you continues to grow.
I know it's wrong, I've watched the news.
This...
Life without Faith
Is like walking home
Alone
In the dark
With no light
Life without faith
Is like a vision
With no sight...
It takes over $200,000 to make just one lawyerIt takes blood, sweat, and tears just to impress an employerAfter seven years...
Given the shot
To change the world...
To do anything with
The power given to me...
What Would I Do?
I'd like to say...
Like a crescent flower blooming in the distance
I stand alone, unnoticed
Fearing the idea of rejection
Hoping for attention...
It is not a person and it surly is not a thing.
Although, one way or another it has seen and touched you.
Grabbing its...
Always get laughed at,
Always get ignored,
And i often feel low, and keep my thoughts stored,
People can be cruel and very...
Today's tomorrow by Kalib Inman
Many ask me what would I change?
I would change the life of us.
The humans we are, the...
The one job that will change my life. That one and only job will be the one I have always dreamed of. Veterinarian...
We all cry, laugh, and love
We all are born with nothing, and we all leave this world with nothing.
If I were to change...
Each key crafted from ivory
Each separate, yet together they call for the touch of my finger
Each note, all play a different...
many dream
i have dreamt
dreaming makes us human
imagination makes us live
having a passion fills you with excitement and...
Wondering where I will be
In a few years from now
Whether I will succeed or not
And if I will ever accomplish the American...
As the sun rises andAnother day takes flight;The blessing is fulfilled again.As the dew begins to lite;My heart...
Gymnastics is coaches
That are strict and precise.
Gymnastics is warm ups
That make you drip with sweat.
...
Co-worker
I know you hate,
but guess what I really despite you too.
But we must put aside our differences,
for the sake...
Do onto others what would be you.
To change another would be to change oneself.
To change their actions,
their minds,
their...
When you try you're relieved, free, knowing they all believed.
To save our world from hurt, temptation,and lies.
Our...
Willpower
Who is she?
Her flawlessly sun-kissed complexion
Smooth to touch and wistful envy among her
Wide, deep-set eyes...
Dream, Create, Inspire
Envision your Dream, see it, feel it, be it, do it.
Create your Dream into reality, design it,...
The world is in shadow,
In darkness she waits,
She hides from these terrors,
She cries for her fate.
The voices starts...
many people dream, but no one have seem the thing's that my mind have, i don't talk and don't show my self, i became a us...
People have always hidden in plain sight,
Always afraid to show who they really are.
The mask that we all wear, to have the...
Dust is all around the settling desert...
A bleeding brain whooshes by unexpetedly.
A couple of broken dreams and mangled...
I lay here sleep and dreamy, he's up and apart from my world. I feel like these past yeasrs have been a awful dream...
Whats life? Chasing dreams or selling time for money. What do you want to be an employee or a dreamer. its hard chasing ...
Another city, another state, another place.
She doesn't recognize any face.
They dose her up to the point she can barely...
Sometimes you have to choose what is what you looking for
Not all the time you may want to get what is seen
Sometimes you...
I like you,
I like you alot,
Your such a great guy,
And your nice all the time,
You make me want to smile,
And it happens...
If this will make me forget even just for a second
Than I will smile even when I cry
To let the world know
I refuse to wear...
In a world of masks and hidden dreams,
I find myself buried in feeble lies.
A world held together with broken seams:
I...
It can happen to anyone
You finish freshman year and you fail the first time around
Your parents are not upset but...
Life is full of surprises
good ones and bad ones
but, the key to living live to its fullest
is to never ever let anyone or...
As I lay here writing what ever come to my mind. it may be good it may not. trying to figure out who I'm really am. ...
An obstacle down and another is raised. Fighting with effort to get an A. Though it may not be the outcome it keeps things...
You don't like me do you?
You wanna see me fail
And live payment to payment
Is that how money works?
You gotta spend money...
Show us what you mean.
Give us your true value.
Don't surpress us.
We instead need to rise up
We are the ones who are side...
See I am, the creator, I write the lives, and the lies, that I tell, to keep me alive, and well, a dream, could this really...
As the violent winter wind whips my chapped lips,
I can’t help but smile;
mouth cracking at the seams
at the sight of Pike...
Spring 2001
I hum the tunes of Spears
As I overcame my fears
And walked into a classroom
Full of artists waiting to bloom
...
Shine the light in front of meMake me believe that you existMake me believe that you’re still hereI wander the streets not...
ring sings the phone screaming for attention
silence then a greeting I assume is being expressed
what is she saying? I heard...
Sometimes...Right before I close my eyes
I go back to a time where I was free
Oh, to be 7 again
with my pad and pen
writing...
As I was born, i didnt know how my father or mothers past life had been torn
Poverty had strucken their lives and changed...
I wake up with a mission every day,
To make my dreams come true,
To try something new.
To accomplish my goals and avoid...
Black or White
We are all the same
Created by one creator
And are all equal
Accept who we are
Not what we are
Black or...
I am driving without gas and without a destination.
On a track without interpretation.
Seemingly moving forward striped of...
I have a motivation
A motivation to succeed
I will work just as my parents before me
Just as they have planted the seed
...
I come off as a person who has always known
But really I am continueslly thrown
From ideas from my imagination
Where after...
cracking
crawling
gnawing
always falling
step to step
fall in the right step
shudder and shrivel
reach and grab
pulling ...
I am...
I am Covenant
With contract, I have a retreat
With contract, I have a devotion of convenice
With Covenant, I have...
I will speak of truth,
Diminishing the amount of lies that continue to consume our world.
I will forgive and forget,...
I'm so sick of seeing us like this.
You know that we don't look the same like we used to, but its okay.
"Its okay" you keep...
I look in the mirror
My reflection cackles back at me
A smug grimace consumes its face
Pain fiercely burns throughout my...
School life has become a social endeavour:
walking through the halls more focused on friends than studying and in the end,...
As the April snow began to make its journey down from the sky and onto the Earth,
so did I,
bore in a sterile room with four...
We need a better approach,
We teach abstinence to avoid the young pregnancies,
We teach safe sex to avoid the STD's ,
But we...
A world where the very beings that dewll in it, only exist in a realm of inauthenticity. A filter.
Everywhere I glance, I...
I.
there are threads of ideas waiting to be tied together
there are stories de varios colores jugosos to be drawn out
there...
Your tired.... I get it
you just want to sleep,
to-do list completed
it was NO EASY FEAT.
Rest, nevermore deserved
its...
Silent Promises©
The best days of all never end. The best ways of all begin to end. Never heard aloudNever even noticed...
I used to dream of someone like you.
To hold me tight and see me through.
To love my eyes and love my smile.
When I am...
They pick up their swords
They say the pen is mightier than the sword
Of course the sword can break down my door
And stab me...
You wake up seeing where you from
seeing death and crime which makes you glum.
Yea I live in a environment where its one big...
Why do you?
Like me, I mean.
You are the second,
who told me
"I love you."
But you are the first,
whom I actually believe.
I...
They ask, they stair, questions fill the air. Gaspping, harrassing. They say the classes are forever lasting. in your brain...
They gon love me when I blow up, kamikaze /everyone gon know about me no need for microscopes just to find me/ I don’t need...
I'm writing this letter
To my unborn son, I hope you're much better
Than I ever was
If you're like me, you'll never, ever...
Gleaming grins of girls' guise,
Flooding my social media world,
Are they really content with their companions?
Or are they...
Without anything does my dream exist
Like the cold season, something is falling
Around me, only you and the white mist
Since...
Is it mathematical genius?
Or was it chemical madness?
A physical anomaly,
Life is not impossible,
But improbable.
It...
II as one personSee only one personI the keeper of my lifeThe key to my answers and questionsI live a dream or realityI die...
Since I began highschool, I couldn't figure out for the life of me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I had countless...
I am beautiful, though my mother never told me.I am strong, though my father made me feel weak.I am happy, even though my...
I rise from what I hear,see,and think, I rise from what i am told, I rise to help myself find me, I rse to bring truth to...
I call it a goal
because I know I will get there.
traveling the world...
creating digital biographies and producing shows...
Look around and think really hard,
and wonder why things are the way they are.
I would change the chaos,
and make things...
The music that flows through my ears
Flows through my veins
As I dream about the future
And all there is to gain
In the...
If I could change The World i Would change our generation from being Vanity slaves to Vanity owners of inspiration, the...
Anger issues
Anorexia
OCD
Anxiety
Bulimia
ADHD
Depression
it goes on forever.
When I walk through those doors thats the...
Who am I?
If I was to die today, how would my absence affect the world I once lived in?
My first name is common, my full...
fall in line.
Shh. Don't speak out child
mubled truths, breathing underwater
I'm drowning on soild ground
I'm...
slowly...
As a child I grasp the stars in my hand,
Autumn leaves mask the sky in crimson cloak,
My grip, loosens at my teacher’s...
I'm suppose to apply for scholarships, prudently.
But I'd rather lay here, drunkenly.
I need motivation, immediately.
I'm...
Fears, negative thoughts, these emotions that I feel, I can’t put it to words. It breaks me down inside. I feel...
In this prison cell
In its shackles
In its snake like chains
Coiling around me
Caressing me with cold fear
I have the...
Lo! And Behold! We Have The Will To Triumph!
On the mouths and heads of demons,
Are the thousand names of damnation.
...
No Canvas displayed, No Brush, No Crayons, But In a Matter of Second: the Whole World is Changed
into a Beautiful scenery:...
The room of life, a strange and thoughtful place,
Cobwebs streaking from corner to corner,
Dim windowlight appearing on my...
How can I say I love you?
Day by Day
When my heart is in pain
And you’re gone away.
How can I say I care?
When I know...
Who am I?
What am I here for?
What's my purpose?
are there even answers for this...
I sit back and watch the future fly. ...
Dreams; though they fly vicariously through my mind and soul daily..
Only one resides like residue deep within me..
It...
I went roaming
(Villanelle poem)
I went roaming in their territory,
They can break and bruise me,
I'll never stop...
Clean, white, and comfy;the safest place I can be.I stay in my white picket fence.O, Lord, I do plea,help me destroy the...
Every night i have dreams that my dreams will true
but when i wake up, i get all discouraged, i get all sad, and blue.
When...
I don't know where I'm going
or what I'm doing with my life
while others have everything planned
I still can't make up my...
You call this a classroom.
I call it a jail cell with cheesy posters.
You call it a grade.
I call it the key to my future...
Small is to bigQuiet is to loudDarkness is meant for brightnessOnce a phony and now a solid truthUnsure turns into...
Live your life like its your lastLet go of everything including the hate, the grudges, the lies, the tearsYour fears are...
Just because they are gay, we shouldn't take our right to get married away.
Walking down the road, hand-in-hand with their...
The roads are filled with youth
Tearful are the rays of the sun
For their voice reaches no voting booth
And actions are...
A few weeks ago, I saw a documentary
That changed life.
A girl was GIVING lemonade
To change life.
She saw children all...
I am nothing if I’m not loved,
loved by the one that sees beneath
me and pays me no mind at all.
But I am your backbone,...
Art is my occupation
By Kyle Solverson
Art is around us and within us
It is the fabric of our being,
For we were molded...
(poems go here) Bullies, people who are insecure
People who are depressed
People who live in regret
People who live in the...
To be lead by a divided mind will very well end in destruction, but what about the heart? Everyday i live to shower my love...
I'm on my way,
I have twelve weeks.
I count the days,
Success I seek.
As time passes
I reminisce,
picking classes,
I enjoy...
Praying,daydreamig, Studying, He doesn't care, he doesn't mind. what people think about him. He follows his ambition. He...
As we apply
We try not to cry
Not ready to fly
Or to say goodbye
Might be home for the Fourth of July
Going to miss mom’s...
All I need is a moment. Better yet, all I have is a moment.
This One Job may change my life!
For me, it's a matter of life...
As we grow older.
Life takes us to the battlefield
Where we have to combat to survive.
As we go through life
The harder the...
So I lie here thinking, not doing, just thinking
Of what is to come and how my life will turn out
Such a crazy weekend of...
A faceless class
With a username
What is this to you,
Some kind of game?
Interactions reduced to thread posts
Face-to-face a...
“The Fast Fifty”, the schools “greatest solution” to drug use and sale.
Yes, this is for a good cause.
However, the...
Playing with dolls in
her own room, she ran around
no worries at six.
She becomes a teen
severs immaturities,
joins...
As I walk across that stage,
when they call my name.
I want to be remembered
for the girl who changed.
The amount of hurt...
Abortion is legal
What a horrible thing
To take the life of the innocent
Should be banned from society
I wanna change...
There is another world with a strange government
Hidden behind dollars and cents
That no one dares to look into
To see if it...
One thing I would change
So I could make a defference
I would change the world
Our relationships
It need some extra care...
I've sprouted from the ground below,
to tower over my surroundings.
I've struggled, bled and gone the distance,
Finally...
When it began, no one could tell
How hard it was for me
I was just like the other boys and girls
Just with more energy
In...
I'm going to wing it
I'm going to say a little prayer
I'm going to wish on the first star I see
I'm going to wing it
I'm...
HOOK:
Obama wants a change. To have to world rearranged. Let's do this right. We can change during the day or night. We can...
You think you have your life planned out,
Think again.
Life hits you in the hardest point,
One minute your walking alone,...
Stories told as a child,
Of the dead walking a while.
Today a girl walks on the bus,
Surrounded by people, yet so alone....
Every day we are awakened by the alarming clock.
Every moment should be great.
Don't misuse love, because others don't get...
Why do Teachers not want to teach?
Is this a lazy habit?
Who is suppose to leave a good impression?
The students or the...
I dont understand why this can be, almost all alone in this journey.
No one seems to see anything from my point of view....
tick tock tick tock
rings through my ears
slobber runs from my mouth down to the table like the water flowing in Niagra...
I remember the day I graduated High School,
Thought of Senior Prom but to me it was not cool.
Well, that may be a lie...
I am a first generation student going to college.
All I want to do is further my knowledge.
Everyone doubts me because of my...
Hey High School Teachers, listen up.
You do realize that I am just as stressed as you, correct?
I mean I go to work...
"Hollywood" , She said.
That's my dream.
Lights, camera, action.
A part of the scene.
A comedy, a drama, a TV show.
How...
I know that I can breath
I know I can feel
I know that if I try hard enough I can succeed
I know that I can get through...
You may only have
Two Feet
but
A step at a time is All it Takes.
It may require
Blood, Sweat, and Tears
but
A Successful...
My life is a complicated tangle
With wants and needs of people
Who ask me to change for them
In ways that will help them...
I am that person You see five days a week for at least twelve years of Your life.
The reason why You will succeed, so don’...
The best memories we have, are the ones we've made here, they've helped us live life, and we need to keep them near.
We had...
Charm is deceptive, beauty's fleeting
So the story goes
Wrong direction, has my heart beating
And no one knows
The well worn...
Whether you live in a dream or reality, labeled by stigma that creates insanity, dweller in the empty spaces of the peace of...
The Fear of Failure
You can do it, they all said
No one can get in the way of your success, they assured
Here is a list of...
Grime and sweat of our days events
Cling to our skin like everlasting hints
Now it's time to end this day
With our last and...
Today was the day of chemo
felt that monster in my breast
heart beating sending waves of pain to my chest
asking my god why...
My reasons why are much deeper than the past
Looking to the future like
How the hell do I keep going?
My eyes stay blurry I...
For the past fives years I’ve kept a planner.
You can see them stacked together
On the lowest corner of my bookshelf.
Every...
Sometimes I worry where I'll be next year
Sometimes I wonder why people have that sort of fear
Sometimes I joke about how I'...
Why are cats not loved the same as humans?
Is it because they are small and furry?
They do not judge us based on our actions...
Passion
How one feels so strongly about something
Some one
Some aspiration
Some dream
Some idea
It opens the gateway to...
The cold woman caught my eye
It is strange though
I never once saw her cry
Or even heard her bellow
The words to a tune of a...
you left me with no goodbyes
you left me with no final words
will I see you again?
you left me to face this cruel world...
Oh Lion, oh lion who hunts discriminately
I always must wonder, why not hunt me
Oh lion, oh lion who is so majestic
I will...
She was keen, smart and witty
Uniquely created and exerted to be educated
She outwardly appeared to be timid
With a small...
When u look at me what do you see? It’ll be better if u picture me with your eyes closed. Without the accessories and nice...
I'll describe the light:
It is good,
For under my Sun,
I've built the earth
In my mind's vision,
And its inhabitants act
To...
As grand as Shakespeare
10 miles away I can still hear
A great crescendo of sound arises
Fingertips won't stop
So beautiful...
Someone asked me recently
What would be Mlk's dream if he lived today?
I thought for days on what his message would be
I...
By the people for the people is beginning to seem feeble for a reason typically simple, We the people are a weapon used by...
To find something to live for- good purpose for survival. A mind with priority of escape. Where everything is perfect and...
Long live those Chicago nights
When there was pick up games instead of fights
Long live those chicago days
Where the kids...
“ I am a little who smiles”
“I am a little girl who smiles,coming from a family with bitterness”
“I am a little...
Completely indescribable, the feeling of love.
Scarily unreliable and fickle, yet fun.
Falling right in, like a push, like a...
“Ambitious Girl”
I Applaud You Ms. Ambitious,
For Chasing your Dreams,
Instead of chasing those males : who chase these...
Why are they doing this? What did I do wrong? I can't tell anyone, they won't believe me? Maybe if I do better in school...
I’m not an exception
To the rule
Yet, I try so hard
I’m like one grain in the sand
A particle in the sky
I’m nothing but a...
I Am
I am a hopeful pessimist I wonder if ill ever succeed I hear the loud expectations of society I see struggling parents ...
And one day I hope you get to smile like you want to without getting knocked down.
Don’t try to hide the scars, I’ve seen...
so the time is finally here
the spotlight shines down on your hot face
your sweating
your stomach tight with anxiety
Oh My...
I dream of one day helping to save lives,
Not from an accident or through their struggles and strives,
I want to touch...
Some want to be doctors, some lawyers, and some teachers
But me, I want to be a mother,all of these occuations wraped into...
To help, to endure, and to care,
To make the world, noble and fair,
To be able to heal the child with grace,
To return them...
A blonde beauty Trapped by fearFeathers floating farther Falling from wingsThis beauty can no longer flyA blonde beauty ...
I'm familiar with the pain that comes from smiling for too long;
The repetitive aches have made my facial muscles strong.
I'...
My life is a complicated tangle
With wants and needs of people
Who ask me to change for them
In ways that will help them...
Never give up on your dreams, for they are your own.
People may judge you because their dreams and aspirations are still as...
Dreams fuel the fire
Dreams keep toughts entertained
Dreams of beng somebody someday is ideal
Dreams of thriving in the real...
Is my heart perfect towards thee
Is my soul longing for thee
My prayer for the day
But not a perfection Lord that makes me...
She stares..She stares at her reflection, studies her own face as a stranger. Almost as a new born child seeing her face for...
It doesn't matter what color we are
black, white, purple? green??
We need to come together as one and fight against these...
Experiences, they make us diverse
as we discover who we are
we are revealed to our
true soul
standing tall
I speak the...
Is there a reason why the wound covering my heart bleeds?
Do you know the reason?
People feel better when they hurt somebody...
What is life? I often asked my self. Sometime in the mist of everything it feel like God must not exist because in my...
Now that I found you, I feel at easeBecause to my heart, you are the missing piece The search has been long, and I now feel...
I used to wake up hoping to play this great game one day.
Now I wake up dying to make it each day.
Oh if things had gone my...
I walked today. Walked the land we used to play. You and me daddy. You and me. I walked over the dead grass and thought of...
If I were to change the world, then the little things would matter most.
I would have to change who I am to see the broken...
The Test
Tests to attend college,
tests in college
Tests in medical school,
skills tested as a resident
Tested to see...
Deciding what to do in life is hard, but not for me
I have a dream, a dream you have to see
To be a Marine Biologist, that's...
What the hell is it?
First, you want me to raise my hand in class
Then, you want me to particapate less
Now, you want me to...
Because all you have left when your family is gone
when your friend have gone away
when you enter in a new word a new land a...
When did the importance of learning go away? The impact of sports on society is here today. Sports' effect on education is...
I WALKED IN TO THAT CATHOLIC SCHOOL AT 4 YRS OLD. MY DAD HAD MADE UP HIS MIND AND HAD SET MY GOALS. MY MOM FELT IT WOULD...
Imagine what Icould be if I let my thoughts go,
Mind so planted on all these things I believe I know.
It's no wonder my...
Behind the curtain I question who I am as it doesn't get much more temporal than that.
A human at best, a figment at worst...
Our world is filled with so much crazy,
Nurses are always working, not being lazy.
Disease and pain are hard to appease,
But...
When I began to write it was to escape from a dark place.
To be joined to a rap group that expressed a substantial amount of...
The.change goes on
In life with no control
BANG! There's life knocking.
thump..thump
The sound of your heart
Beats fast as...
With power, comes control.
With power, comes anger.
With power, comes lack of integrity.
With power comes slavery and...
It is so real now
Sometimes it can be hard to explain
My heart has changed so dramatically
Almost never mad anymore
Keep a...
I first witnessed it on television.It could not be reality.I saw it in my own neighborhood.It was reality.I knew that there...
Life is not all black and white, yellow, orange and tan. It's blues. Crisp blues with green mixed in. It's pure pinks and...
My envy towards birds is uncontrollable for God gave them the ability to fly and soar with the season
I would lay on the...
Why oh why do you threaten me with a good time
just a slip of paper that all it seems to be
you take it out and wave it in...
Give me a kiss to build a Dream
A love of a lifetime we want to seek
Your heart you have given me
To trust and to hold ...
If I had the power to change one thing, it would be this:
I would change a characteristic many people have, and that is...
When you wake up what do you see? Do you see the world as a cruel unusual placeOr do you see that you were blessed with...
My life My struggles
As a high school graduate I said to myself my life is about to change, i am becoming an adult and I'm...
By the efforts of two and the stomach of one, you were given the gift of life
With expectations that your birth would...
I used to be here,
Didn't we all.
History shows,
Powerful nations,
Always fall.
But we never worry,
Never show fear.
Just...
I'm running
asfastasIcan.
I can smell them near...
and so it begins
My bones start breaking,
my claws begin to grow,
my...
It’s not about the fame,
It’s not about the money,
Well maybe just enough so I don’t go hungry.
It’s about making a game,
It...
I continue to live life with a burning ambition
Achieving success is my one and only requisition
The opportunity to assist...
I am so very close
My degree is almost completed
Although funds are gone
And my account is depleted
I must continue Unheeded
My dream job is to work somewhere in the tropical areas
like Africa or Australia
Sharing my heart to those wild animals
that...
DREAM BIG BECAUSE
THE SKY IS THE LIMIT;
LIVE TO THE FULLEST BECUASE
TIME IS YOUR LIMIT;
LOVE FROM WITHIN BECAUSE
THERE IS NO...
Why am I so ashamed to express myself?
Is it because, I was overweight?
Is it because, my parents are immigrants dragging...
Eat healthy. exercise daily
its the start of a new you
work hard, feel determined
don't let anyone bring you down
sweat more...
Every weekend I go back to Glencoe, to a house that has a back yard and stairs that I have to climb to get to my room. I can...
The job of my dreams doesnt pay alot
they do love what they do and i want to be like that to
they have a great sneses in...
What kind of person are you?
Are you Caucasian, African American, Hispanic or Asian?
Common people you see walking through...
Parageusia
I'm high off parageusia
Show me something I've never seen
Make me look twice and
Think constantly
Puff a sweet...
I write because it free's me, from all the pain and agony that's concealed deep inside of me. I write because that's how...
I believe
Do you believe?
Do you believe that you can fly?
Do you believe that you can cry
Tears of joy and success
Tears of...
Nothing else has ever come to my mind, but my wanting to become a nurse
i fell in love with the idea of everything in the...
A friendly smile, A loving pat, A firm grasp, and A happy conversation between two strangers is all it takes. All it takes...
Today, when you hold your head high we will certainly understand why
You've come such a long way to finally reach your...
Violence is the leading cause of death
As victims, we should put nonviolence to a test
We leave our families and friends...
Her dream can be seen
Quite some distance left to stretch
Her wisdom and knowledge put to the test
Overcome with emotions to...
The feeling within
Ignored by all
I AM SCREAMING
But nobody listens
I am dying
But nobody helps me...
Inside I know I have...
Education is power,
an amazing experience,
but how is it like
when it's a lonely time?
Having teachers
helping through
is...
How long has it been
since i opened the door
to another world,
and how long can i stay
till i have to go back to reality.
Magnificent is our existence, and eternal is our light.
We may sing and dance forever in our inherited Evergreen Might....
With power, comes control.
With power, comes anger.
With power, comes lack of integrity.
With power comes slavery and...
I had a dream last night
and in that dream i dreamed that all my dreams had come true
all of the dreams that i had ever...
Living in a crowded space as people move from place to place
I stare at the blurs of colors in my eyes and wonder were am I...
Change The World
What is the World?
The World is a whole, the world is a concoction, the world is US.
What is Us?
Us are...
A baby is born with a strange medical condition:
Instead of blood, it’s music that keeps
her heart pumping.
When she turns...
Teacher Teacher Teacher
Don't talk at me
Talk with me
Talk through me
Talk in me
Teacher Teacher Teacher
Don't be robotic
Be...
"You betta pick something betta to do with your life,"
they say.
"Girl, you'll be lucky to go far in life with that dream...
Shorter than a 6 foot tree, but arm length of a NBA players 3
Food can be a main part of this theme, but it takes a whole...
Failure.
My motivation and my biggest fear to date.
Do i have time or is it too late?
If i could rewind,
and go back in...
Walk to Success
Walking through a path that has not directions
Walking and wondering to where it will take you
In the way...
Life is hard,
I lay in the yard.
I wish I had the money,
To pay for some honey.
With this honey,
I would find.
The insight I...
Teachers complain about how we act
They give us warning and then detention
But if we keep acting the way we are
They make us...
Music is so beautiful
I think I fell in LOVE with Music
at a very young and naive age...
Music takes care of my PAIN
and of...
Sometimes I wish,People can go out and live their dreams,Sometimes I wish,Foolish people could stop plotting evil schemes....
Sometimes love grows in the twisted wounds of flesh,
Each beat in the heart tingling out a smile to show the beauty within...
The glistening sun shining on my face. The soothing wind that caresses me. I open my eyes to realize that I am discovering...
You still can't see past the t.v.Society and your parentsProbably going to tell you the same thing...Education is the keyIt...
I've been there before,
the mean mugs and sneers as
I walked up at the board,
it was a surprise to find a young
colored girl...
Numbers, books, words, they're all related in a way
It all relates through school I must say
Some things just don't make...
I just wanted to write one thing full of meaning.
I wanted to jot it out, get my feelings out without bleeding.
I only...
My mind is afloat with many ideas,
Thoughts are ignited inside the eye of things which cannot be erased.
Can this path of...
Tired of sitting in the dark, a silent chord, a forgotten voice lost in the abyss of my world.
I want to create and never...
The hero'S of USA
The hero'S of our country
The hero'S of our life's
They gave us hope .happiness , enjoyed ,heartbreaking...
I have a dream
To make dreams come true.
I want to be able to cure people with words
Cure more than just the Flu
I...
I am the truth that lies in honesty
I am politely rude in all modesty.
Within a compliment, criticism is quiet evident
and...
I am what I am
I am a shining star
Shining bright to see in the eyes of my family
I am what I am
I am a musical instrument...
Far from home they fight,
In a land that’s not their own.
Their enemy has no face,
Yet they fight on.
In a time of terror...
Breathe
Just In and Out
You can do it
This time you’ve got it
Every time I try to succeed
It's like I take one step forward...
I do not want to be bullied
I just want to make friends
I do not want to be distracted
I just want to learn
I do not want to...
I can tell about violence but you already know that. I can tell about crime but you already know that aswell.
What I can...
I have always desired to become a pharmacist,
Devoting my time helping others.
This career is definitely a good fit for me,...
You are resilient you say?
There are no moments in life you don't regret you say?
you say things happen for a reason?
no...
I childishly fell into your lies.Now wishing that we never had any ties coz all i have and feel are cries
You said that if i...
Underneath the glistening blue waters
The currents pull in every direction
Behind waves, the beauty never falters
The...
Sometimes life is tough,
and in my parks you have to be rough,
wondering how you are going to get by,
yelling and screaming...
(ok settle down settle down
take a look around take a look around
doesn't life feel like a movie and you're just an extra in...
Columbia College Chicago, what a true sight to see, for its glory of technology and artist performing their best to achieve...
Size, shape, and color don't matter.
Be grateful and smile.
Love them the way they are, please don't judge.
Look into their...
Life. Death. Inbetween.Things hurt more than they seem.Acceptance. rejection. Choice.Those things were never mine to have...
Father’s heart died in his briefcase
In a cubicle -
His graveyard.
But it fuels my dream,
My dream of working at a magazine...
(poems Over and over and over again these test kept being presented to them and they hesitated
He only knew how to handle...
(poems go here) Give a little bit back
Today you woke up, maybe tired but you're awake
Maybe you're half asleep, or looking...
The graphic world is what i need
its a deam that i will make a reality
In my world of graphic design all i need is my mind...
Love is nothing but a feeling. Or is it something worth seeing? How do we know, what we feel is true? I...
Dream. This is all about me?Yeess! Can you not seethat I have been waiting, waitingfor the job that tells me I can sing...
When they flew across the Atlantic with two kids at hand
When they only hoped to lift their kids up higher than themselves...
Senior year in high school is coming to an end.
Time to start college with all new friends.
Everyone around me seems to have...
Outside these walls there is a world
Full of crime, peace, intelligence, love, laughter
I may be no word crafter
but...
From point A to point B
Like a one way street
Our lives have been made
To walk the one way
From birth to end
We feed the...
What have done again?
My goodness you did that wrong.
Stop stop stop do it this way.
I swear men your killing me.
Is like...
Feel the fear running through your viens
Feel the fear breathing on your neck
Feel the fear confonting your mind
BUT DON'T...
Pass one pass two, near goal-line now.
While on the run, sweat drips from brow.
Legs sore and in need of some rest,
But...
you left me with no goodbyes
you left me with no final words
will I see you again?
you left me to face this cruel world...
The Finish Line is like my home
Nothing matters but the gold.
Every inch feels like a mile
But don't give up for all you...
I write to tell my story in the realest way
I write to get my education on some day
I write as a college sophomore with...
New Shoes
New Clothes
I have my own place.
Two hours And I'm threw
All I had to do was pose
Two hundred a day at this pace....
This will be it
This will be my life.
From now on I will be it, not me but it.
Life is hard as known since it will...
Stuck, as though you can't move or breathe. The moment of truth has arrived, what you prayed and begged for is here. You...
Your body much to young at the wise old age of five
Your heart and soul remain at large
Your spirit ripped from the hands...
A fine woman so strong and tall
With two hands that were much to small
She dreamed to pursue her career
But others...
My dream job is managing a restaurant
I love all the different types of smells that come out of a kitchen
sweet smell,...
If I could change one thing, it would be to have something more. To come home to a house with an open door. To have a place...
My mind seems to be a nonstop swirl of emotion.
Caused by societies fuss and commotion.
Why do we change ourselves for the...
Change is going to come for the mother who cries,
Who body is cramped up from the hunger pains deep down inside
And who...
Look into their hearts and you will feel.
Look into their eyes and you will see.
If you are willing you will find them
In...
The quick intake of breath,
Eyes opening wide,
Mouth tight in focus,
Then the fall.
Everyone has a moment to live for....
A young man with many dreams,
But lacking the courage to pursue.
It's all so hopeless, it seems.
Whatever should he do?
...
When I was a senior in high school
I took AP Literature
And I found a boyfriend
I know it sound pretty average
But hear me...
Flour, Sugar, Eggs and Butter
Batter in my Silver Mixer.
Flashbacks to my days of whisking
random items in my Nanny's...
If I was to express Confess My talent to you Would you judge me? Or love me? What would you do? If I was to express My...
Are any words required for a task like this,
A task inherent to us like the waves of black spirals atop our crown,
I mean...
All day long, I think about your class,
I think about quitting
I wonder how will I continue
When you don't believe in me?
...
The curriculum is based on the standards
No time to find yourself or to get passed them
The teachers have rules
That we...
From a trailer park to a nice condo?
How can that be?
From C's and D's to all A's and B's
How can that be?
A doctor that's...
What have done again?
My goodness you did that wrong.
Stop stop stop do it this way.
I swear men your killing me.
Is like...
Why cancer
Why why Lord
I wish one day
We find a cure for cancer
Why cancer
Why cancer got to take our beloved people away...
Blinngg!! blinnnggg!!!
My alarm pulls me out of my dream and exposes me to a cold shower.
I prepare breakfast then, check my...
How do I survive in a world full of pain?
Everyday my psyche inches closer and closer to becoming insane,
I analyze my...
I will succeed
I want to graduate high school
I want to further my education
I want to go to college
I will succeed
I want...
When I was young
You asked me what I wanted to be
I said famous
You asked why
I said to change the world
You asked how I’d...
It's so cold here, is this what it's like,
to know I'm done and through, imminent end in sight?
~
I can't see, feeling this...
Jobs, jobs are the topic
Though our contribution may seem microscopic
Are we helping those who need it
or just those with...
Cameras snapping pictures of me
People wanting to listen to what I say
The glitz
The glamour
The job I am talking about is a...
Please do not judge me on my face
My religion or my race
Don't judge me on my hair
Where I live or what I wear
Don't...
i am struggling on the road of life
started with a destroyed womb
being unwanted by the ones who made you
touch my a...
Is this the end?
Or just the end of the beginning,
The path in front of me seems infinite,
The more I run, the longer it...
Walk to Success
Walking through a path that has not directions
Walking and wondering to where it will take you
In the way...
Staring out my window
I think today is going to be the day
Listen to the wind blow
Alaska I am on my way
They all thought...
Sunshine in the Soul
Look forward to tomorrow,
For it will be a bright and sunny day;
Nothing nor no one shall get in your...
What is home when you lose all sense of trust? Coming from a teen, i get that trust is already a weakness that needs to be...
"OMG you too Ms. Imani?You see I... I thought I was the only"Thats what this young girl said to meas she glared at meno...
Boom! An explosion of pain comes across my face,
Tasting streams of blood, the taste of disgrace.
I want to close my eyes...
The Blue Ballet
By Bryce Long
1/14/2014
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emotion is truth
requiring no thought
no...
My tick consists of many features and fun facts,
From my morning routine to the way I act.
The most popular one of every...
Momma, momma I wanna dance
I want jump , and spin, and turn on a stage for the whole world to see
Momma, I'm gonna be the...
The Zone
The Zone
Mirros chaos and exertion
Emphasizes struggle and pain
Rids the body of subltelty and disdain
Requires...
Dear Future Me,You are here
The place you dreamed of
Standing here looking at everything you have been through
You are here...
From back home country roads
To learning everything mama knows
This small town is my life
But I got to leave tonight
To...
I'm in my zone like The Syracuse Defense,
You drivin' the lane just makes no sense.
KD crushing y'alls dreams is as real as...
I want to change everything:the crippled chairand the rug lolling its tongue across the tiles.I want to change the...
I'm here in class
Last one in the back
No one else can realize
That I have a voice that cannot be denied
You say that you...
Can we have an Eve and Adam love Or, is there even chance of love.
I just hope that I don’t choke to ask if you love the...
Right now, I am a junior at Ace Technical Charter High School on 5410 S. State Street. Soon I will be a...
All her life she had one dream.
The chance to be an inspiration,
Knowing that it will give her much relief.
She grasped onto...
Why I fight with my flesh?
Dem say it dead to di law
Maybe I should find another
The great one was raised up
This fight...
I am afraid of the dark
I am afraid of a dogs bark
I am afraid that i will lose my loved ones
I am afraid someone will die...
One job that can change face of the world is nothing you'd expect.
Not a civil rights activist, or a world peace advocate....
Through this pain I will succeed
Let’s make my life a tweet
For you don’t know that my heart will bleed
I will smile but my...
when i hit the field the crowd starts to scream. I sit here thinking this could only be a dream. no way, i never thought i...
If I could change one thing
I would give myself the face of a lion
A body of steal
Heart of molten lava
So no one could...
Edward Steven Hernandez
3/22/14
One job… May change my life
Technology is always evolving,
There are no limits...
My love, my other half the light soon to shine in my eyes and awaken me to an adventure of a lifetime, a ride of the...
The air she is forced to breath only burns inside her lungs;
As she trembles to fall down the wrong path she still runs. ...
Stress is avoidable. No such thing as impulsiveness. We will always look back and wish we had done it differently.
The tapping, the clicking, the snapping, the twisting
The sound of hard wood vibrating;
Through the flow of word that...
Having a dream and shooting for it.
It's not easy.
Most of us have dreams.
Horses are my dream.
Sounds so simple and easy,...
As the waves subdue a new shore is revealed
The winds calm down and past wounds are healed
Ahead is a blank slate, a new...
I want a partner that is so rooted in the bossom of GOD;
A partner that is in LOVE with GOD
Who places GODs Desire infront...
I write because without my words i am useless. It is as if i have no other purpose than to change politics, racism, and...
I remember I started out as a seed.
Being born in Dayton Ohio on a spring day
of March 29, 1994 at 6:09 in the morning.
As...
Dear Reader,
If I wrote a poem for you,
I'd be willing to bet,
I seem rather normal,
for a person you have not met.
If...
Life is what you make of it
Some fall weak as Victims,
Some build strength as Survivors,
You'll Stumble across your...
Im a senior this yearHeading out into the big worldJust as everyone has toldThe day is drawing nearAnd this fear I holdWill...
Life is like a freeway,
decisions, options, and sacrifices are made.
At the end of the day there are a little amount of cars...
As the night follows
The slim light that shines during dusk
I can't express the sorrows
I feel for us
I mean us as in the...
The Media is headlining COVID-19 to strike fear
I'm here to headline COVID-19 to strike Faith
with a different acronym...
Love
A four letter word that we say to one another.
We make it, give it, or take it from one another.
God's greatest...
In the blink of an eye,
it can all vanish,
it could all appear.
Where do I go from here?
Do I let go? Do I keep on?
At the...
In the world we live in today, people are not as grateful as they were in the past. The truth of the matter is, nobody cares...
See that red house on the hill?
To live there would be a thrill!
This appartment we live in now,
We pay for every month I...
How extraordinary is a flame. Born from nothing, it is a million vibrant reds, purples, and blues glowing with gold. It is...
Tonights the night we play
day by day we waited to play
the rivalries come together
the community of one
will now become...
The laptop is my canvas
And my fingers, my paintbrush.
With the keyboards as my colors,
I create a masterpiece with my words...
More people should choose to help others
Why have we lost the desire to help each other?
One would say, "I gotta look out...
The greatest mascot in Texas, Reveille
Proud to be in the SEC
Baptized in the colors of Maroon and White
Chants in Kyle...
My teachers are all the same, but are they really to blame? They train and learn to teach us: cool. But really, they're all...
Poka Dots and Stripes
T-shirts and Pj's
I love all these types
What time is my bed time?
Right hre are my socks
I want my...
On the daily walking out the door is a risk
number one thought on mind is rich
but distractions occupy so priorities switch...
A cave obscures unknown paths;
A tiny torch casts beauty on barren walls;
Futile flames fight undying darkness
Seeking a...
One job may change my life; I will hunt killers day and night. As an FBI behavioral analyst I'll get in their minds prove my...
Bottom Line Im in love with you, madly in love with you
and from the way things have been lately
i've been trying to tell...
There is an ailment to which one day I hope to revolt,
An ailment that spreads like wildfire,
That makes the small pox feel...
dispare, desperation is in our life form called a new creationit comes out like a fireball ready to explodethe devils...
You are frighten and unsure.
You feel weak and stupid.
As they all called you before.
“You can never do this
Because you are...
Dear teachers,
Do not frown
When some of your students are not honor bound
There is something that needs to be inferred
When...
I will someday get to meet her
As long as I am able to save money
There will be a day when I am able to happily meet her
It...
There's a girl all alone , cold ,hurt , and judged
A teenaged girl all alone , makeup all smudged
From crying and crying ,...
The First job I ever wanted was to be an Artist,
Ever since I held my first pencil,
Yet, social pressures crept into my head...
If I was a bird, I'd fly. I'd spread my wings, and I'd be free.
I'd make the sky my stream, and just as my soul, it would...
They say you only live once, but I don’t believe it
I get plenty of opportunities to live, to use my mind, to follow my...
Running away
With only the moon to show my way
Just don't realize
I been running since birth
Been hiding from the pain
Been...
Failure?
What is failure?
Is failure missing the FCAT by four points simply because you didn't study hard enough?
Is failure...
In every way I let my confidence show/I was able to remember every inch that I grow/Came from the ability to live up to this...
Today, I went to school to learn of new things in the world,
Entering there, I sat in a chair thinking of the world to be.
A...
I want you to see
I'm trying to make you proud.
It's harder than it seems.
Grades
money
family
all have been an issue
that...
Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to have peace with other countries?
Wouldn’t it be nice to not have thousands of soldiers...
I used to be strong.
I never fell down.
I tumbled
So close
But so far from the ground.
I held people up.
I’d say,
“You’ll...
You think it's easy living day to day in a world that is always growing and changing,
Well it is one of the hardest things...
Life,Simple, yet difficult.The everlasting struggle.No guide books are handed.No shortcuts are given.No answers are shown....
You go out there and you fly
You're tired of people making you feel small.
youre tired of feeling like you'll never amount...
Change
Change of society, people, pressures, power
Change of lifestyle that forces us to be different
Think different,...
I let the shadows speak
I let the mind grow
But never let it be weak,
To discover the things I need to know.
A beginning...
They say we get better with age
like a fine wine, we grow more divine
I have learned to control the stage
From the age of...
Helping others
It was always my heart's desire.
Loving, showing friendship,
It creates a life worth standing for.
Freedom of...
Some walk in all nervous
Some walk in all strong
I came here for a purpose
To show that I belong
The podium is mine to...
Love is beauty
love is pain
love is powerful
even still love is indefinable
no matter how one may search
Love does not fit...
If you look at me now, I'm a girl at a desk.
I seem normal, following directions like the rest.
You'd never seen the pain in...
As a Caribbean-American I am forever comitted to the hyphen,
Told that my kinds future may never heighten,
My story has...
We all have the power to make a change,
For ME.....it's the power to change PERCEPTION
I know this seems kind of strange
but...
I'm Not Ghetto
Even tho I am unfourtantly place here
I'm not ghetto
Even tho the girls around me act that way
I'm not...
What we haven’t learned-How to:buy a house,manage a check book,set up a budget,handle landlords.
How to:decide who to love,...
Once upon a dream,
A man let out a loud scream.
Over hills and streams,
His shout carried.
Like a caged bird...
Teacher, open your eyes!
You are feeding them all lies!
We are living in a society so enwrapped with gender,
I imagine...
If there was one thing I could change,
I would not change myself.
I'd reach completely out of range,
& let things fall...
Her Heart beat is rising, while her tears are shining, why is she so ……..afraid
The Obstacles are piling, her mind has...
Time seem to flying by,
I look at the blank paper,
Colors of the sky fills my mind,
Here I sit as an illustrator,
I see...
He’s always by my side when I need him to make me look elegant. He has a turquoise complexion, faux leather skin, a mouth...
I would love to say to my teacher how angry she makes me,But can't say to avoid hurting feelings,I would love to say to my...
We think that little things cannot change anything
But that is nothing
Compared to the reality
One thing my eyes have seen...
She stands tall as she has been taught
no worries go through the battle fought
her heart is full of gold
this game is one...
As a child i can remember hearing many of my family members talking about the education they did not receive.
Many of them...
It all begins with a smooth, ringing alarm.Anxiety, suspense, and wonder fills your heart.Could be a lonely someone calling...
Colorado. That is my last name. It is the immutable link to my Colombian heritage that follows me everywhere...
There is no need for judging
In this world it's all or nothing
For loving and hugging
Not cutting or fighting
Everyone'...
Deleted talent you should not have wentIn my heart that beats there are a few dentsThe dark will be there forever moreAnd my...
I only breathe twice a day,
As I fear the world
but yearn for it to tilt upon my finger tips
grazing the nerve endings
As...
I've been told i'd fail, That i could never be thin, That i wouldn't ever make it or ever fit in, But i am me, And I wouldn'...
This weekend I learned you get back what you put in. It was nine o’clock at night when my phone buzzed. I quickly pull it...
They call me Melody
Melody like a song
I stand alone as an independent individual
I stand out in the crowd of my school
I...
Education, a simple game we play
The power of knowledge is the power to grow.
English is to read and write,
Science is to...
Mutual feelings between her and her words—
They could not find life without her
Nor could she live without them.
In a...
The reason I breath is the determination to leave the circumstances I live in now, born in a country where...
All lined up almost ready to start,
after I stretch and pray, its time to part.
Still shaking from my nerves, I step up to...
Unsure on this uncertainty - looking for answers in this world - trying not to bamboozled like some little girl - gave into...
It starts out very little,
But can turn into something big.
A simple change can make a difference,
Small or sometimes big...
I’ve realized something about myself,
I’ve realized fear……
I swim because I’m afraid to drown,
Climb the tallest mountains...
I trying hard to live in this life
but this life is living in me
i dont know what more i can take
or who i can be
...
Books to pages
Pages to books
Words to letters
Letters to dots
Dots to ink
Why can do more?
Read every ink dot?
Every word...
I’ve trained to continue running when it hurts the most.
Never giving up on my goals.
Showing others that the impossible can...
What makes me tick, lasts long, isn't quick. To be persistant, to never give up, are just mere descriptions of actions...
My sister and I have never been close. When she was in high school, and I was in middle school, we barely talked at all,...
Magnificent is our existence, and eternal is our light We may sing and dance forever in our inherited Evergreen Might. ...
I’ve been regected and neglected with a silent anger,
That I know I shouldn’t feeel.
It’s an ownership I’d wish to tamper,...
Sit down, shut up
Sitting down, shutting up
Class has begun
Lecture, lecteur
Droning on, droning on
Notes, notes
...
Times in my life are crazy now, Years fly by like days
I remember being a little girl, I dreamed in different ways
As life...
It’s that final moment.
That moment when everything is in place
And the world around you finally feels--
Right.
When you...
Traveling
Meeting new people
Speaking a different language every week
This could be my reality
With my dream job
Always on...
We live in a world controlled by those who remain in secrecy. We don't know them but they know us. They watch us everyday....
To reach the dream I can achieve
The only support is I need to believe
Time is my only foe
Hoping one day write for a...
I write to encourage
I write to be free
I write to make love
To the words that I see
Inside my head
Time slowly ticks away...
I have always been a girl
who hid myself
who is afraid to be who I am
who is afraid to tell the world what I got to say...
I'm that weird girl that sits in the back
The quieter you are the less attention you attract
Though I'm not the only one who...
MY LITTLE TIN CANOE what a prize she was to own for she was my creation made by me alone,on a warm spring midmorning of the...
Several years ago I lost
A part of me, Long gone
Across the sea as her dust
Floats in the summer breeze,
Now who do I...
For The Love of the Game
For the love of the game
The people came
To see their hero
Prove he is not a zero
For the love...
Why do i write?
I write because the paper listens better than a loved one.
why do i write?
i write because the pen has the...
I don't know how to express the words to say that we as students need freedom,
freedom to say what we want...
Out of this wood do not desire to go.
For here everything is imperfectly perfect for me and you.
Where the simplest...
Exercise is good for you,
Blood, sweat, and tears,
will get you through the deepest blue
and fit throughout the years,
you...
I ask God to give me strength
I ask God to keep me focus
I asked God to guide me down the right path
In the end I will have...
People use the word "crazy" like it's a drug."Did you see that video? It was so crazy!" "That exam was crazy hard, I don't...
Tuesday night is writing night
Up at Saturday Night Live.
The cameras are off,
The lights are on,
And no one sleeps....
I want to go into the field of nursing
Since nurses make people feel better,
And that's what I enjoy doing.
I want to give...
Who knows what I can be but I myself
Who knows what I am to become but I myself
Once trembling with fear I now except my...
It started off the same way as everyone else’s lives start out,
Waking up to a shining, brightly, happy world,
Center of...
Everyday, I see people laughing and joking around town,but in reality, all I show is a frown.I never laugh anymore because...
Aforetime another wretched night
Many a tempest raged the Heavens
And One sat vacantly in that rocking chair
Her thoughts a...
A normal day begins in the dark night, with what appears as stars all around.
Do not get me wrong it is not stars, for it is...
Inhale, now exhale. Close yours eyes and tell yourself you wont fail.Sweat down my back, muscles weakening.fatigue is trying...
I want to see lightbulbs lite
Pencils moving
Passing notes to cease
Raised hands with glimmered eyes
From something a...
One Job
One day
two ways I say
Experience and Education are the ways
three things i must say to the people
who didnt...
Have you ever wondered why
Education was created
It was made for a spirit of knowledge
An intelligent mind of greatness
A...
to be inspired is a sense of hope
to not wallow of being a have not
but to look around and know
i will be better i CAN be...
I want to stand out
Without having to change
Voices telling me what to do
Enough
Ill walk my own path
Even at the pace of a...
Man school's a drag
Let's all go take nap,
Pick up those pencils and pens
It's time to go learn in my class.
Teachers expect...
Held back by the suppression of the mind one can only fall behind
We are succeeded by the past and without change our...
Stuff I can’t say to my Teacher poem
My Teacher stands watch, and does no such thing.
As the students blabber and argue,...
MY LITTLE TIN CANOE what a prize she was to own for she was my creation made by me alone,on a warm spring midmorning of the...
To Conquer: To acquire by force
Within side me I understand that I am strong
For with strength
And God on my side
I can, and...
Some Go Through A lifetime & At The end only have a false sense of imagination, daydreams & illusions to show......
Some conditions are to close the deals . Break the seals . Business like takes away my feels and i feel like i jumped down...
And this is why you are wrong
At what cost will this affect them?
Compared to what?
What hard evidence do you have?
I don't...
Its scenic sides of beauty,
cannot compare to the city,
as we hike up and down the mountain side,
all we can do is glide,...
She's forgotten where she came from and who loved her,
Those fairy tales and bedtime stories she can no longer recall.
Only...
I can see the golden yellow crown
Upon a woman whose skin shines black.
An eloquent white silk gown
That drapes down
From...
The era of school,
Invaded by the gaming.
Concentrate they say.
I try, day and night.
It is near impossible,
But I won't...
School Lunch
School Lunch to some kids is they only meal for the day
Schools decide to make people pay for school lunch...
Change is the change that rumbles within
Is it within me or the round ball which I live in?
It's me and the earth, we...
This achievement is not alone mineCredit goes to all who really felt fineOn learning about another feather in my capI...
As i sit in the library looking out the window into the beautiful summer day. Greenish brown grass bright sunlight...
A diamond in it's glory is just
For when found in the rough
It's only compared to the dust.
No one cares if it has one scuff...
I know about my past.
I think about the time that I clumsily tried to cut my own hair
With a pair of scissors meant to cut...
Why should i settle for less
when the one i love cares for the rest
dont really care about the way i feel
when at the end...
You have to believe to succeed keep determination an option to become someone better and do what you please wanting to go to...
How many years has it been?
Since I’ve known you
And watched you grow
How many months has it been?
Since you’ve been there...
(Why do we wake up in the morning? Why do we enjoy the sun on our faces and the sound of waves at the beach? <B> Apple...
It starts with...
One thing.
We don't know why,
We never really had a reason not to try.
We kept this inside,
but now is...
It seem's sometimes I am a stranger to myself, I often think of the things I want, the life I desire, but choose to walk a...
I've bled, I've sweat, and I've even cried tears.There used to be a time when I was mired in fear.I know what it is like to...
I am committed -no- destined to make a better life for myself
I work in the day, I don’t have time that is free
No, I don’...
Decisions... Decisions followed by unlimited choices! Who out there will hear high schoolers young voices! Dreams of success...
Death is the same for all people,
But all deaths are not created equal;
A few gunshots here raises a rally
And a bomb...
There's a road with more than one way
So choose carefully but don't delay
There are always different directions
So don't...
People all around me
Everything to lose
My being is not free
My soul is confused
Forever will I be stuck wasting away
Always...
Wake up early,
Uncertainty in mind
Demanding perfection,
In their eyes it's simple,
But we say "how would you know?" You'...
For hundreds of years blacks have died by whips and chains
Its' 2013 and blacks are still dying over whips and chains.
Our...
Don't let people get you down.
Don't let anger control you.
Don't let all hope be lost.
Don't let hard times make you bitter...
My feet take me wherever I go, my feet take me far.
I have Deep Deep pains, large bruises, and scars.
So wherever I go, I...
Wake up everyday to a the same say
"Right hand over your heart,begin..."
Then begins the complaining
Every night " I stay...
Expressing yourself is hard.
What you do, gets judge.
How are you suppose to be yourself,
When being yourself is looked down...
Aero.
Soaring.
I am unchained from the seemingly
infinite
claws of the binding Physics.
Astro.
Exploring.
Crushing the...
Success means having the courage, the determination, and the will to become the person you believe you were meant to be.
God,
A poor man's riches
A hungry man's bread
A changing soul switches
And old Jonah's shed
A lost man's salvation
A...
There is a story, that I dare not tell -
it often changes, still it never ends well
There was a boy, secretly in love;
but...
I began to write because I was unable to express myself clearly by speaking.
So I decided to express myself, my thoughts, my...
This drug has kept people alive, even killed people on the inside.
We see it everywhere we go, in movies, on TV, and even...
The ability to succeed is within you
Life is like the ocean too
It will move out of your way in two's
The flow mostly...
Not everything in life goes to plan
But you can only do the best you can
Lady luck has not been on your side
By her you are...
Wake up! Shine and rise! Wipe the dream goo from your eyes,
Scrape the slob streaks from your cheek, off to the mirror--take...
There is a line that defines us,
traps you, encloses you, and suffocates your spirit.
You need to cross that line.
Jump over...
I look back at my freshman year
Blind and as ignorant as can be
To believe there was nothing to fear
My mind was exposed as...
My life
My life has been easy
But it has been hard
I see how my parents struggle
They work so hard
To keep us happy
On...
The Carpinteria street gang took my child hood
Walking around town where locals knew I was up to no good
Hurting people...
Sometimes it seems like you just can't stand it,
Watching as some people take things for granted.
They think they have what...
Recycling Recycling that's what we all must do,
separate our trash, pick out boards and glass and find a way to reuse.
Don't...
It creeps up on me
Slowly and surely
I feel it grasping thee
Around my heart the feelings curly
Closing in I can't think...
I closed my eyes...And all my pain and sorrow went dark...All the burdens of last year seem to liftAnd a new me began to...
Do you ever think about the times you say that you wish or you hope?
Why is our hopes and wishes not yet a reality?
People...
Ferociously scribbling intellectual inscriptions draped in decorative diction upon negated pages
Negated pages, buried...
“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss
...
In this dark room, nothing but soul touching music and air blowing in the eardrums.
I see things that was supposed to be...
In the small room where I play
I start grinding mom's pills
And on the small bench I splay
The dirt from the medicine.
...
Losing hope is easy to do when it feels like no one is there for you
Many people will try to tear you down to make you stop...
Rejection
Move within the winds of doubt and uncertainty
Cast away, allow me to be your Tom Hanks
I am unknowingly biased...
I got introduced to this CREW
When I became a part of DRAMA
It was for my high school PLAY
Some day it feels like i live...
You’re just a girl.
Do you realize how much work that really is?
Do you really think you’ll make it that far?
Why don’t you...
As a teenager, we are taught to be an adult. But what is really an adult? They teach us about the Government, but nothing on...
I don’t agree with youProfessorIt goes against myPrinciplesWhy did youProvide a low gradeOn a paperI wasted sleep onWas it...
It is the beginning of college
So I can gain more knowledge,
And with all of the friendly faces
It is time for me to go...
Sitting sitting all day long, Listening listening on and on. Zoning out and getting by, not really learning how...
I still don't know myself.
I'm still trying to figure myself out.
I still don't know why I've made some decisions.
Good and...
What happened to America?
The land of the free, the home and the brave
Now it just feels like we're worshipping idols
Stuck...
Though I'm a woman I know that I am freeThe constitution is alive,a river flowing from sea to shining sea.and despite the...
It only becomes a constant remembrance that your life becomes an imprisonment;
Living yet dying each second but wasn't put...
With my ukulele guiding me down the pathway to good vibes.
With the breeze in my hair giving me a feeling of pure comfort....
I am a dreamer and a believer,
A student who strides to be the best.
Only willing to be an explorer,
Of a future filled with...
EDUCATION
There are so many dropouts in the world, It's harder on me because im an african american girl.
I want to fulfill...
Air, trees, and shelter
Hair, weed, and nectar
Material things versus Minor needs
which will benefit
the most when you...
The past is the past for a reason
That is where it is supposed to stay
But some cannot let it go
In their heads it eats away...
I'm looking for a girl that was once young. Someone very beautiful and oh so sweet. She had high hopes and wonderful...
I would change
If I could change
women’s volleyball shorts.
their function is fine,
They fit the way they were designed to
I...
Queens
By Mariah Michelle (Holden)
You little sly dog you
Well the jokes on you mister
My name isn’t actually Stacy
And...
I see a window of the past
It suffocates me
Doesn’t even have a voice
Yet I am hypnotized
I open this closed window
The...
“Ball! Ball! Ball!”
Its perfect.
Gracefully scooped by the foot,
Rolling and racing
Accelerated by the swing of the boot.
“...
I've been searching for what I really want but i just cant find it,
As the shine in the diamonds leaving most of these...
How did I come to be this person in my mind,
So many mistakes, more than I can count
These faults inevitably melting into...
One of the things I know to live upon this earth is to work hard with a good heart and great things will happen. I know that...
Opening my eyes slowly,
All I see is white,
Oh wait there might be a string, maybe black
Voices I hear, "Tell me where it is...
Caleb, the creative Californian,
Carefully contemplates over his life worthy of boast-age.
His awesome artistic ability...
If I could change something, it would be this world.
We think
We think not to better ourselves, but...
Why am I so shy ?
Try to speak but nothing comes out.
Sweaty palms , heart beating fast.
I have so many things to say .
But...
4 years waiting for one day
And it's almost here
We will hear our name be called for
Our time
Spent in these halls
As we...
A name is so pure, with no meaning behind it
The people and stories are what truly define it
No matter how long or confusing...
I bleed words into emply spaces.
They crawl onto pieces of paper.
They flow in conversation.
They reside on my digital...
The change shall come as people say hello.
People come together mellow,
& girls on the street wearing stilettos
While...
Do I hide?
Would you see?
I am not a cartoon
or I am not a mascot.
I have tattoos
and long braids.
I practice my traditions...
Spinning so fast goes the world,
life happens so swift it comes in a twirl.
Be still, my soul, be still right now.
It doesn'...
Why get insulted if I call you a girl?
It's something that you should embrace
With a flip of the hair, and a feminine twirl...
People who scream and shout,
What the fuck is that shit all about
Today you said I love you, I hate you, I wish you were...
Being the first person in my family to persue College is a blessing. Knowing that years ago many African-American...
Behind my smile is a story you will never understand. Growed up from having absolutely nothing to having alot. Mama...
I have a thought on my mind
and a hunger in my core,
I need to fill up my heart before it’s over.
I need to see the...
It starts with a thought
Then an idea
That becomes a dream
Then there's hope and maybe faith
Then comes the paper
And in...
the shifting of tides
has finally made up my mind
i raise my hand high above
far beneath the changing of sand
and embrace...
I'm a brunette. 5 somethin. 120 something pounds.
Some people look up to me, others not so much.
My role models...I don't...
I am discilpine and determined
I wonder how successful I'll be in life
I hear the beauitful birds singing along with me ...
IM falling for the worst... I use to think why me but i see you u the one that set my heart on fire. You say you love me but...
Being different from the rest is the best! I think and create while they keep staying in the same state. Once you have the...
Angry shadows creeping up behind me;
Grabbing my hair and hitting my face.
Once again, I've let down the ones that love me...
I write to express my courageous spirit
The way I fight to cling to life
The way I fight for my success in life
Even though...
If teachers only knew
The struggle I go through
Giving all this work
Like I have Nothing Else to do
I want accommodations
I...
We often ask ourselves how we can ease someone else’s pain
When our own hurt is too much to take
We often wonder if we are...
The winds of change have blown
They enveloped my restless heart
They gently whispered in my ears
"It's time for a brand new...
Its like my pen has a flow it needs to curve to,
no stopping its path, it's rude to stop what it has lived upto.
Up and down...
The shadow that covered me
Shattered windows glistening in the summer sun
Light that forms into shadow due to my father's...
Trotting daringly through the meadows of flowers
I feel the pulse beneath my feet
Frolicking with the whisp of the wind
I...
For a second everything stood muteEnemy standing next to youGun goes off BOOM !Clock starts tickingBreathing..BreathingFirst...
Hi my name is Mareisha Dreamma Brown
I appreciate my grandma giving me the middle name Dreamma because I am a dreamer and I...
How can I make a difference with God's love?I hurt when others hurt,I feel what others feel.
How can I, me, make a diffence...
“Her face was priceless!”
We collapsed into laughter.
“And remember that time at Wal-Mart?” I gasped, turning to look at her...
So I took a long breath, and relaxed
To catch up to the world for once
Enjoyed the beauty of the stillness of nature
And...
No God, No Peace
Know God, Know Peace
Know Knowlege, Know Power
No Failure, No Cowards
Know Love, Know Pain
No Pain, No Gain...
Waking up to the perfect view:
A field of horses just outside my room.
Realizing that they're my clients for the day,
I'm...
O hello there
teacher that always give me dirty looks
with your skimpy legs and nasty hairline above your lips
you digust me...
I'm alone no one to comfort me nor to help me
But forsake me like it's their god given right
But it is not. Why judge me...
Life isn't about how many people you know. Life isn't about how popular you are or how many boyfriends or girlfriends you...