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How do I live if even my...
on.g.nutt,59texas,don,g,nutt.59.poem,steady deep as we creep nine ways sun up to sun down we creeping you still calling out...
Graduation came too soon.
It went right before my eyes.
That's when I got really blue.
I started to cry when I went back in...
Fond I am of restful thought during the wee hours of dark nights.
Closing lids of flesh to bring visions in to sights.
To no...
Tall and thick, her hair a magnificent shade
of orange, the same intensity as crisp fire.
A creation in which burns in us...
Do you feel my pain?
The pain that hurts, those who thought they knew me from my head to my feet
Overloading my body with...
Stone cold hands reach out
Me, hesitant to make the final choice:
To depend on a beateously stygian creature.
Unconsciously...
Education my education
Please help me rule and better the nation
To fix the government and build a successful foundation...
One Sunday night, I sat on a hill.
The air was warm, but the skies were chill.
The world trembled; the seas, they churned....
(Ode Poem)
Speech is Speechless
What’s a great way to start a change?
My favorite would be to debate,
Everyone, I bet, can...
Hope thins in the rain,
I see the reflection of pain in puddles.
Drenched in hate of what I see as a day-by-day struggle.
I...
Looking back to the me who listened only to her heart,
The me who turned off the voices from others,
The me who focused only...
Enjoying class, I don't see that happen often anymore.
All I hear is leactures, long lectures that are boring to the core....
What is success? This word everyone hopes to achieve, But!!! yet can't take the pre cautions. They talk of...
thank you for being there when I needed you
thank you for helping me get through
thank you for all of the support you've...
i let my mind disperse, so i can find a verse to hit your vital nerves, i fight the worse with minor herds so how they going...
It’s all up to you—
I remember a day when I was eleven,
My folks bought me and the bro some presents,
R.I.P. My momma now in...
I'm cut from a different sleeve, hey its a Cole World so the wrist'll freeze Hurry up with your pictures please I gotta...
I want to feel how i did that day.
in the late nights of may.
I striped of the meat of chickens.
to barbque the meats.
Then...
How can I live in a world full of hate,
When all I desire is to be loved?
How can I live in a world that is blind,
When all...
My father leaves my mom.
Why me?
My mom abuses me as a child.
Why me?
Life gets harder every year
Why me?
My mom never hears...
Daddy always said education is important.
Growing up he constantly reminded me the importance of a college degree.
Ambition...
I want to sleep but I can’t.
Because every night a lingering thought overwhelms my big head.
My dream. My goals. My...
Poetry’s the motivation
Poetry’s the conversation
Poetry’s the words that you can’t express
Poetry’s the friend that spills...
The world is eager to nurture
This young mind of mine.
Access and ability tingle all at once on my fingertips.
Books,...
I cannot control any emotion
that floods through my head
It suddenly became a devotion
And the hunger was well fed
When my...
The dark pigment of my skin does not determine who I am with in or what I can grow to be I refuse to follow the roots of my...
Your hair is like the January Embers
My heart burns there too
YOUR eyes so dark
Like the deepest corner of the ocean
I’ve...
Waking up to go to a job with no end,
drowning my self with memories with no end.
Stuggling to find happiness in my self,...
I open my eyes and lift up my head;
my goal feels so close yet it is so far ahead.
For I’ve been inching my way for hours...
Who are you? Do you know who you are? I know who I am, now knowing who you are as to be the most craziest thing ever. That's...
Nobody is perfect,
I hear it every day,
"Flawless just doesn't exist",
But who cares what people say.
Beautiful, confident...
I hide behind a shade of blue
In front of the grey
No hope I tell myself
but wrong
Everything is okay
Optimism is the key
To...
My Dream
To many it may be crazy
But to me
Its something I want to achieve
My Dream
To many it may be hard to believe
But to...
You'll say what has changed?I'll say nothing but time.We'll well water our wondering thoughtsAnd wait till they collide ...
I want to run and dance in the rain
With you holding my hand.
And at that moment,
I will know everything will be okay.
With...
Unlike the sun I may not be so bright, but I always try to keep love in my sight, this is why I write. I run to the light,...
The oceans swallowed existence
The stars fell from the sky
Yet hovering aglow with much persistence,
And the world swam by...
Just because I imagine
Doesn't mean I don't live reality
Doesn't mean I. hide from my problems
And doesn't mean I'm crazy...
"Study" says Mother
"Study" says Father
"Study" says the brother and the sister
And the others
She studies
And studies ...
My reflection stares at me, it reminds me of all the things I've done to be where I'm at today. All it takes is one daily...
Who am i?
I am the one who was that girl no beauty.
The one who was lost in the crowd
with no soud
no smile.
I am the one...
Engineering is all around us, and even in our brains.
Average people may see nothing, but….
Chemical Engineers see...
Tell the poets to speaklet their inks be heardfor they arent beautitul lharswho's words are pregnantbut the voice to the...
Strolling down the street,10:30 PM at night,Seeing her face,Hearing her voice.
Turned left.
Smelling her perfume,That smile,...
Sucess one day
By a leap of faith
For this day is worth the wait
No matter how long it takes
There will be a sun shine to...
Slippery slimy wet
Oh i wish i had one as a pet
Waddling in the snow
Just exploring as they go
In there best dress every day...
I dream of building pyramids
of solid stone that
will live forever
gleaming bright and golden
in the desert sun
by the banks...
Writing a poem about how everything is awesome
but my possum it ain't the truth.
Sometimes I think I should get my...
Days like Rose's are not red to the color blind
I fear the long drive will end in tarnation and mess,
But why can't we speak...
On the great date of december 8 a future rap star was born and there was no time to waste,
I used to play cards with my...
I won't tell you that I am perfect or that I don't need practice.
I am one of those who try and try.
My motivation you might...
Lost in a world
A guided eye to strengthen weakness
Throat in noose pain
she says tie it tight
its already done
Feel it...
I have spent almost four years of my life
that is 1,460 days
in the same worn down cafeteria seat
in the same white brick...
Dreams are an escape from reality,
A reality that we wish not to see,
For with open eyes things become very clear,
We see...
Listening to his monotonic base with empathy.
As he expresses to me that he hasn't feasted In approximately a Week!
& I...
I gotta get out of here!
This place,
This room,
20 years of nowhere.
I am so happy to drive an hour
to society.
There is...
Days like Rose's are not red to the color blind
I fear the long drive will end in tarnation and mess,
But why can't we speak...
Thinking of others
Instead of just myself
Helping those in need
For the sake of their mental health
Is not just my dream...
What is something you can't say to your teacher?
Is it a thing or an action?
A place or person?
A problem or an obstacle?
A...
One Day
Why do we yearn affection from the ones that hate us the most.
Big nose, big lips, they stank
Slaves, coons...ok....
I am music that helps escape for a moment.
I am Batman, Wonder Woman, and Joker.
I am super smash brothers, mortal kombat,...
Death death closes in,
shadows get darker,
my life is filled with confusion,
when I’m waiting for you,
my family has turned...
What will I be
when I grow up
I've been asked so many times
Do I have an answer yet?
They want to know
I want to know
I...
How cruel our minds are to make us dream of something we'll never have.
I dreamt of holding someone dear to me, but when I...
I've found the place that I belong.
Looking back I looked so strong,
I really tried to be myself.
But it always seemed to...
I have a full body of working limbs
A mind, that thoughts flow out and in
I have a heart that has not yet fell in love, but...
Courage.... The ability to be daring, caring, protective, opened-minded and many more. A lost soul without Courage, Love and...
shaunsterXXX legends rap emonal
im a legend all the legends are awsome
i becoming a legend i love all my friends
haters are...
Genie If I had a genie I would wish that money didn't existSo that everything would be freeAnd so many wouldn't have to...
An uncontrolable urge
A mourning desire
Placed in my four chambers
Burning with intensity of candle fire
It's a mystery to...
A child cries loud hunger pains
A mothers in childs pose baring the shame
My body is full of emptiness and mommy doesn't...
Where I’m From
By
Daniel Oyola
I am from the late breeze
when the sun hit my old bike
I am from the ocean water that...
I will continue to play
Until the end of the day
I might be late
But it is my fate
I have many deadlines
But i’m still gonna...
The touch of desperateness strikes me
The sensation of wanting to be free
The chains holding me back for so long
The...
Everything feel like a blur.
Nothing seemed so reals
Time has come to close my eyes.
To wish a peaceful dream.
To wish for...
A weary kiss lay youre head to rest,
Poison slips off youre lips as a test,
You try to stay awake you try youre best,
But...
Teacher of me.
Teacher of the class of one dozen and three
My school may not be Havard, but its the golden ticket to
a...
Everybody in the world would like to showcase their talents on the big stage,
Not knowing what they are getting themselves...
As my eyes close my mind is blown..the bounds I reach to let my mind create bridges between life and the unique...unique...
The time has come
For us to walk
Looking back
Memories flash
Friends remembered
Feelings adored
The good times and the bad...
The ash and dust has turned their faces black
Their backpacks are nothing more than a sack
The pencils are just sticks in...
I write to see the person I've become after a day's end
To see if the person now is better than the person from before.
I...
I love fashion because it is like an extension of my personality and what kind of mood I'm in. It can invite people in and...
Deplored, hated, despised and filled with rage
Emotional prowess, yet to be defined
Sugar more bitter now than sweet...
Life can change in just a minute,
One does not even imagine what destiny has prepared for you.
Leaving behind your parents...
(poems go here) That wave ,damn! that wave she came and those waves kiss me she stayed and those waves came swiftly as we...
Texas.don.g.nutt59.poem.trembeling so scared not afraid trembleing from head to toe shakeing an trembleing in an out from...
I dreamt of dandelions one night. I felt the fuzzy seeds that grow outwards from its core. They looked peaceful as they...
There she is, thy majestic siren whose allowing gaze drags the sea man forth. To thee does he fall in unparallel emotion...
I wish my mind could scramble for the words I am looking for
to tell you who I am
my struggles
my memories
but instead they...
Ambition is striving for success, ambition is looking forward to what is next
you need it to make your parents proud and...
My life has it's ups.
And downs.
And it's starting to
turn around.
My life is
creativity.
Reading, writing, school, and...
The Things I Carry
I carry the blankets that brought me home
Now barely recognizable
I carry the candle of my first...
A live without an education could be a disaster
Many work so hard to educate themselves while few are born with a silver...
My Last name is placed
in the prison system and the system not to graduate from middle school .
They predicted...
You give me laughter and joy
hope for a better tomorw
despite your ups and downs
I still and always will love you
...
They mock me with every step I take.
They take away my light.
They are the nightmares that keep me awake.
They keep me from...
A man was hiking in the woods,
He loved the smell of the crisp mountainous air.
Everywhere he looked, rays of sun were...
Growing up without a mother wasn't easy
She was never there for me
She was always looking dizzy
My dad was always there for...
This path they say I should take.A vet I should be they say every day.I think I should be a writer and create better days.I...
Thoughts shrouded in confusion running aimlessly to no end
not a bad person he just could use a friend
the journey hes taken...
Red rivers ran over cobble stone steps.
Gaston's charm decayed under the storm of LeFou's Love indcued drug.
Belle's ...
Teardrops running down my faceand life seems like a falling grace.I take my pencil and a pen and write down every step, and...
*Nervous, Handshaking,Sweaty
I can't bare high expectaions
That crushes a mans dream with fear of failure and emotions of...
LEADERSHIP......
A leader learn to serve that he may Lead to Stand. So the point at which you decide to Rise proves the time...
My mamma said I was full of piss and vinegar
there was no family pastor ,priest, or minister
to save me from my life of...
Once apon a time
When there was a thing called bedtime
Children would be in their beds before midnight
Their parents would...
A lost girl fearing her true selfAfraid to show her true colorsYet no one knows the real herEveryone see's her as someone...
Roaming the streets looking for a clue or just something to do
dont want to go home, when I do I'm always blue.
nothing to...
Capturing the essence of the natural world,
Quaint living on the water.
Beauty flowing from blossoming buds,
Glistening...
Waking up to my truths - even the flaws are gorgeous
I get obsessive and I get insecure. Sometimes I find myself unbalanced...
I’m sad and alone
I want people to be my friends again.
I want them to ask for my help
I want them to play with me again....
Six thousand years
Religion is still here
A god still questioned
A book full of lessons
The future is planned
By a very...
Im running searching down a endless path , I have no idea whats at the end but i continue to run with no...
Enough
Enough Enough
Looking through the window
I see nothing but sorrow
Kids, asking for a peso to borrow
Enough
It's time...
No matter how
No matter why
The stars will shine
Till the day we die
The Moon will glow
The Sun will shine
The world will...
your heart, dangerous it maybe but a tool nonetheless, a tool of pure, raw emotion that can tear a warrior into pieces from...
My dreams are scary but yet some are magical
Can one hide how they feel towards one another
Even if that person is only in...
Uncover the love with
sounds of music
Deliver the life with
mounds of love
Release the soul with
rivers of beauty
And...
Never stop dreaming
always be a dreamer
never stop believing
believing is a dreamer
make the dream become
true at least...
***WHEN YOU FEEL YOUR JOURNEY OF LIFE IS IN PAIN.
DON'T BE AFRAID OF THAT, THIS IS THE PATH THROUGH WHICH YOU GAIN***
***...
I wish I was a little bird
So that I could fly away.
I'd go to all the far off places
Where my daddy has to stay.
You see...
Who are you to say they're not watching?
Who are you to say they can not help?
Why do you have no faith in better days?
I...
(poems In class with nothing to do but for some reason my mind is full of thoughts. Thoughts that are complicated because...
(poems go here) its not black or white
its the ship of light
its whats right
goes day or night
its heavenly you know
go to...
De’Sean Knockum
As I Walk Away
Walking in a daze I am leaving behind a piece;
A piece which completes my puzzle.
I left...
There is no limit to the things we do,
we can go across the whole world,
but is you about bout it?
When your with your...
Waves pound against the tide like Greek gods shattering against the earth,Salt scents the air like perfume,As the wind blows...
What do you see?
Do you see almond shaped brown eyes? Or do you see the little girl that is crying on the inside because...
Close your eyes
dream
Open your eyes
live.
A dream,
it can be the start
of a life long adventure.
Some people dream
and just...
Ahhh ! I cant sleep. my eyes pry open, my mouth screams leave me be, ive been done wrong, done wrong and it's hard to be me...
Why?
Why your hate me so much?
I make my life easy,
So each and everyone of you can understand the purpose of it.
Why your...
Since A Young Age, I fished And Hooked, The Lyrics That I Spit, Little That I Learned I Dipped, It was A Dream, The breath...
The reason I try so strenuously
Is waiting at the end of this tunnel
Relief and Accomplishment is there.
To embrace me in...
throughout the hurt and pain I thought I loved you,throughout the good bad and worse I thought I was there for you. where...
I am that smile that no one sees upon my love's lips
When my love looks at the gem-filled sky, my love sees me
Darling, if I...
Looking into the night sky
Admiring the abundance of stars that shine brightly
All which makes up the beauty of the night...
She was only 14,
When he had collapsed into her lap.
Eyes filled with terror,
Hands shaken cold.
As he tried to remove the-...
The jaunty crop-haired graying
Women in grocery stores,
Their clothes boyish and neat,
New mittens or clean sneakers,
Clean...
Momma always used to say, “God laughs at the plans you make.”
But that was just a chance I had to be willing to take.
...
Living graffiti, crawling on walls
Hearts slow their beatings when standing in awe
It's not simply art, but a means of...
This is a story about a young girl growing up in a broken family. Her kingdom was infinitely wandering. This story takes you...
From hometown to the next city,
You can travel that quickly.
If you are a little spunky,
You can explore another country....
I want to be the one
people look up to see.
I want to show the world
what I can truly be.
I aspire to help those
who wish to...
When all your pieces have been shattered,
thrown away like you have never mattered.
When your voice has disintegrated, for...
I watch them leap and twirl and dance.
I listen to them talk and laugh and sing.
I wish I could join them.
To swim...
See that twinkle in her eye
There it is, a shooting star flying by
Make a wish from the heart
Filled inside with beautiful...
Still Silence-the single moment before
hearts are poured into these wordless starless
notes and keys and rhythms are our...
Is my love for the game, leading to fortune and fame
It will never die as far as I can tell
They are made for lasting
It'll...
What’s on your mind? Is it a person? Someone you wish you knew? A mime, trying to find the right words to express its inner...
Some see the success
never the stress
always the hugs and cheers
never the blood and tears
they know of your glory
but...
Darkness turns into dim light <br> This is the beginning of a new life <br> A boy on the 18th of September...
Listen, Observe, Learn, Be Above, you will discover things you love.
Listen, Observe, Learn, Be Above, know to stop...
Everyone thinks they are great
But no one is better than me
I can predict the future
I have a photographic memory
And I...
Sitting in class, extra bored dozing off,
"I am a woman, phenomenally; phenomenal woman."
Deep inside an uncensored mind of...
There have been wounds in my life.
I'm used to the pain.
I have been chasing love.
I'm invisible on this earth,
I'm always...
who am i to say what u have done for me. u gave me the skill to express. what i feel and when i do i get a thrill, but chill...
I wish you the happest of birthdays,
Instead of counting candles or tallying the years,
I will give you the gift of the...
Ever since I was young, I've had one dream
To hold up a gold ball with my team;
But now that I am older, I come torealize...
You were suppose to be the first man in my life.
You were suppose to tuck me in bed and wipe the tears that I shed.
You were...
Be the change you wish to see
Set trends and allow others to lead,
young and Black in America thats two strikes against me...
The walls of the apartment look miraculous, like an ever changing picture as the silhouette of sweet raindrops splash...
I love you
Three words
Eight words
And so many meanings
I love you...
There's was so much pain..
When you uttered such a...
I remembered once being there,
It felt so familiar.
The warmth of the lights,
Working against stage fright,
The round of...
Change my life make me a professor
Who do I pray to?
Who do I call on?
My life will never be the same
Don’t Let Athena...
Texas.don.g.nutt59.poem.longway longway ive come a longway i had to go to be just strictly an only me a long way to the path...
(poems go here)I dreamed of a world of peace and love,
Where the fighting stopped and there was a time for peace,
A time for...
Wake up, wipe eye Think of the guys I once despised For having eyes They saw the world For what it was Thinking of ...
I come from books
That give me a different outlook
In the crazy world were living
They teach us to start forgiving
Because...
This country is a beautiful place to grow up. Every boy and girl can become anything they want if they put their minds to it...
The Dream Flight
It's quite a sight
Watching that plane soar into the night.
It's quit amazing how she twists and turns,
But...
Sometimes life strays me away
I get caught up in this world of sin Then start looking for the airway
Asking God to take me...
What is happiness? What defines success?
Give me money, and I will spend it to the last penny.
Give me Jewelry and I will...
Sometimes I hope and pray
that before I die I help the world one way
I could slay world hunger by saving more food that we...
Call me Xas if I am the unknown variable that you are trying to get to know but just don't know how toCall me Irrational. ...
As your heart beats next to mines. I lay on my pillow and cry. How can a men so sweet cause so much pain. Our love will...
Patrice Mason
I recently met this person named ’’Estella Dominiquez’’ who was in a relationship for about seven years now...
As I stood there with my eyes closed,
My arms calmly spreads out willingly.
The strong cold wind blew pass by,
Making me...
Put this on.
No No try this.
You'll look more presentable they say.
I was born in a world to stand out,
But no one accepts...
Poetry is about imagining things you won't find
Writing thoughts that are on your mind
Expressing yourself like no one else...
The creations from within, are inner expressions of my core self, spilled onto the canvas & Paper.
The creations from...
The circumstances of your birth is irrelevant
finding purpose in life is what's important
going each day without a mission...
To keep a dream alive you must have determination, a reason, and passion to go forth to make the dream come true. One must...
Much like this journal, there's a Place I go 2unlike a book, it's in my mind's eye.There, jellyfish fly with butterfliesand...
Danz is my life in the
spring is a sunny day, when
sun is bright, and warm like
green feels like grass,
purple looks like...
Rain makes us think it drives away sun and sin
Sun is happiness, but happiness is just a feeling
Feelings can be deceitful...
My dream job is to be a Drug Representative and to have my own business where I hire women only with as much drive as myself...
My dreams are as far and distant as they could be
Im blind I don’t know where my life will lead
So many choices so many...
Life is a roller coaster that we all can't shake. It's hard to forget what we've been through, but I guess it's true what...
Gasping for air as I am being suffocated by the stupidity that surrounds me
I grab hold of a little string of hope that...
A Melodic Youth
Our childhood is like a melody
A melody of light
That is heard from within
We might
Hear the melodies of...
It sounds so easy, it's said so carelessly
Abused on social media and billboards endlessly
But how come we can't act it out...
We have trembled against men,
We have feared the rise of men
Yet we continue to shout
We shout our rights,
We shout our...
If life easy was not hard
then attempting is not available
If half of me is going insane
And point five has a vision blurred...
As so many others before me,
I dream of a day where there will be no more debris
Debris of the lost and lonely
Debris of the...
Growing from a young little girl seems harder to face the world. Waking up every morning questioning myself, " Does this...
For some of us it is a punishment;
Others consider it the most precious present;
However, only we know on the inside
How we...
If Dr. King Were Alive Today
(By Troie Seawood)
The question is, if Dr. King were alive today, what would he think of...
I will be an Engineer.
They are telling me it’s not affordable.
I should consider another career.
Who believes in me?
All I...
The stars made over the earth with shade.
They're steady eyes rest on her portrait.
She smiles as a queen holding a life in...
Success involves us
What would you do without us?
We always try our best throughout anything
Because tomorrow could mean...
I sit in the back of class just listening,
clock ticks as minutes and seconds pass by,
Teacher lessons on reviews and such...
We all dream to see those shinning lights
our name in mega watt signs
everyone knows who we are
we are no longer hidden in...
A world full of hatred
fire, bombs, and destruction,
no longer exists
in my mind’s construction.
What is a world?
but a...
Three words every girl dreams of hearing
Three syllables that can “make your heart skip a beat”
Nine letters that can create...
Conquering what is just
Saving those in need
Justifying their trust
To save them indeed
To research a cure
to save a...
Nangi, please go through this and tell me how is it.
BLOTTED LOVE
Painting brushes
Danced in rhythm
Rainbow colours
Added...
Lacrosse is my favorite sport
I love running and I love to score
Without lacrosse my life would be a bore
I never want to...
A woman tried to save her life from a man that believed the only way to love was to beat his wife
Patient x-rays displayed...
Once the power of a shooting star
Now in anguish does it sit
Driving eternally in its everlasting car
Does in sorrow begin...
Im running searching down a endless path , I have no idea whats at the end but i continue to run with no...
I was absolutely sure, my mind was set
that I wanted to be an architect yet
these mental barriers stand in my way
stress...
I am dreaming of a place.
Not an ordinary place.
A place that only lives in my dream.
A place where I am always happy.
A...
Aquí en esta mi soledad, pensando en el ayer que nunca volverá.
Aqui en mi soledad pensando en los momentos de felicidad,...
My love for you is past the realm of reality. My love for you is likely theorized as impossible, just almost at God’s door...
I’ve fallen
Into a cage too beautiful to leave
The very object that withholds from who till recently was free
Is the reason...
Where I’m From
I am from the blistering heat,
from towering trees and herbaceous breeze.
I am from homemade ice cream,...
I see wisdom
A freedom of belief
A shape of heart
A light fighting darkness
A path in arms journey
A nurture over fears
A...
I write because I can express my self on paper without hurting people.
I write because it helps me realize whats going on at...
For as long memory serves, animals have been an integral part of my life. On numerous occasions they presented...
I stand alone on this Pavement roda, not knowing what to expect, without being aware of the things I am going to encounter,...
Heroes aren't the ones with the capes or the suits. Heroes come in all shapes, sizes, and colors. Real heroes may not be...
If Earth was a boy,
what would he make?
If Earth was a girl.
what would she draw?
If Earth was a mother,
what would she love...
It all began when my dad killed my fish,
when I cried and said a new CD was my only wish
I was only three when he brought...
LIFE
Life is a beautiful thing.
We only have one chance at life
So we should appreciate the small things.
We may not...
(Our vision to move forward in our different paths is constantly fogged by doubt and uncertainty often spouted by the...
Here I Walk Alone On This Street,Not Knowing My Life Would Innocently Be Taken From Me,Why Do Us Children Have To Be So...
Riding on 1 with 39 bikes
The sky made lit neon stars bright.
The event,
uplifting
With cool artistry
He's different
He just...
This is me weaken bye love and happy things
but i am know where close to success why others
are fearless and unstressed. who...
She looked at me and asked,
"What will your change be?"
Will it be the power
Will it be the greed
Should I redeem the...
She was a worker from Primerica
The best company in America
Studies her way out to be a doctor
By the watchful eye of her...
It is her, the girl that is always seen. Though kind-hearted as she was, she was always considered a freak. Her hair was a...
Im running searching down a endless path , I have no idea whats at the end but i continue to run with no...
I cannot commitThe choices I have to makeare so unclearThe dreams I want the mostare so obscure
but I want youThe trace of...
There's no such thing as time,
time is simply a way to organize the human mind,
let me teach you a lesson,
the clock ticking...
One day i will be something. One day you will see me doing everything. The everthing im reffering to is making a difference...
It's the thrill of dinner rush.
The smell of baking chocolate cake.
The sizzle of onions and garlic as they it a skillet....
While growing up in a fast laneShe started these fast waysand she was missing her fatherMissing a love that could only be...
So I been alone, left out of this world, without knowing were to go but trying to consider what is left of this world. Bad...
I find myself at times not knowing how to say that
I’m angry or I’m mad
crying on the inside of my heart because
I don’t...
i was the guy sell you anything under the sky
i was that guy that if i didn't have it, id take it
i was that guy to fight...
To the poet who uses words to explore,
to you who thinks you know more,
you manipulate a bondage of words to stage,
I the...
She cant help but to feel,
every eye slithering up her spine
as she slowly takes her seat in the back row,
giggles cause...
Masked from all light, hidden in plain sight
His outside appearance is fake, with interference
From his brain, he hears it,...
In my bed I lay,
Looking at the ceiling
I see fathers arms covering us
I feel at ease
I listen to the silent night
I...
I am tired, I am hungry, and I am weak
I have looked high and low, but nothin has seeked
Every day many drop one by one
All...
Does a rose really symbolize love?They say love never dieHowever a rose dies Does a rose really symbolize love?A rose stays...
You’re not above me
you just judge me
in the direction you think I ought to go.
You don’t know me
so don’t show me
that you...
I'm brave, I'm strong, and I will fight
I will give it all my might
No matter the struggles in life
I will keep going and...
Black shadow, black shadow
What do you want?
Black shadow, black shadow
Why must you taunt?
Black shadow, black shadow
What...
Always Welcome 아니에요
A Poem by Ronald J Chapman
아니에요 This poem is written for the beautiful country of South Korea and it's...
I wanna be something.
I wanna see something.
I wanna hear nothing.
I wanna beer or something.
I wanna feel something.
I...
Rings and spirals fill my sight,
Coloring the empty space.
Everything is glowing with and eerie light.
Comets fly by in a...
I have a lot of plans for my future. I really want to make something of myself. I am currently trying to make it out of high...
We sang our songs and gave our token
to remember one single moment.
That our love is always true
and that we will never be...
I'm standing at a crossroads, not sure which route to take. Should i take the right road, of which so few chose. Or should i...
Adore all your acknowledgeable achievements
Be brave and boast your beauty
Condense all your clouds of concerns
Demonstrate...
With the endless slamming door
and you are barley scrapping the floor
the hustle and bustle to meet ends meet
God please...
Many of us choose
To pursue life's beaten path
To stay in focus
And go through the motions
But if we took the time
To stray...
I look up in the sky and the clouds reflect my heart why do i feel like this nobody seems to care, on the outside i look...
LIFE IS LIKE BURGER KING YOU CAN HAVE IT YOUR WAY!!!!!!!
LIFE CAN BE DETERMINED BY WHAT YOU DO IN YOUR TIME
LIFE...
My life has it's ups.
And downs.
And it's starting to
turn around.
My life is
creativity.
Reading, writing, school, and...
All these years I’ve been Trapped in My Mind.
Following orders, making my life miserable as days go by.
Putting a Fake smile...
Inspire
Inspire
Is that not your job
To show me my way.
Your heart only beats for the subject
beats for the paycheck
Not for...
Music is my only aspiration
Its what wake me up to keep dream chasin
Music is what make me feel good about myself
Like my...
I always thought that I could fly
But your words..and your punches kept me separated from the sky
Next stop, memory lane....
I never thought this day would come where I’d thought I’d want you back but as time keep moving on I just want you more and...
I'm not a size 3 but I would like to be,
My eyes aren't the color I want them to be,
But so what, Life Goes On.
I didn't go...
My complexion is dark
It sort of leaves a mark
I mean I stand out and I leave that spark
The spark that ignites and unfolds...
You poked my blurring eye,
Let me lift your mushy breast.
We aged onwards
While you stroked flaccidity –
Recalling decades...
(poems go here) I am in your presence
The air between us is so still yet the "once in a blue moon" breeze cuts through my...
What is your secret that you are hiding?
why i feel for you really hard?
Is it love or just a dream?
I know this feeling is...
Running
Always Running
Running somewhere, running nowhere
Sprinting, faster faster faster FASTER
Eyes set on a prize that...
My legs shiver
in intense confusion while
my eyes try a loop hole
to keep from showing signs
of weakness my soul
trembles...
Being flawless isn't always easy.
To achieve true beauty, you must believe
that you can do whatever you set your mind to.
I...
All we want is a better future,
not just for our self...
but for out families.
Why cant they let as accomplish our dreams,...
Dark Clouds all around me
Creeping up like raindrops on a humid day
No sunshine or bright sky is seen
No happiness sent my...
The Veldt
"To play out your life in the style you want is life's greatest gift - Discovering that style you optimize on...
Freedom is a word
Commonly used
Though sometimes absurd
It's nothing new
It's not a gift
Not something for few
But for...
The male judge sitting above the stands said into the microphone, “Is the unit ready?” I look at the crowd of people in the...
We had Phelps and Lochte on our Team,
We had Gabby Douglass on the beam.
They and others came to London and helped us win,...
Dreams:
What are dreams? They are visions. We as people create them. Dreams can come true. They are not fake. I have many...
Swinging from a tree in the sky,
Catching a star,
Holding it tight,
Kicking at the clouds,
Passing far below,
Swinging out,...
limit of limitations are limitless when i script dreams onto a blank page filled with ideas just awaiting to happen. The...
Waves pound against the tide like Greek gods shattering against the earth,Salt scents the air like perfume,As the wind blows...
The only people that can hear me
Are the ones that live in reality instead of thinking this world is a fantasy
Even though...
Over the Mexican Gulf I flew
above the water blue
I'm grateful to stand in the land of the free
a gift that my people...
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It's the weekend and I'm creeping with some friends.
When it hits 7 o'clock my fun has to always end.
I must come home...
I may not be seen but I am heard
I make sure that the nation knows the truth
I am the one who decides what is acceptable,...
Dare to motivate
Dare to acheive
Step outside of the box
In which you will recieve
Dare to be questioned
Dare to lose sight...
The morning comes and you're already on my mind.
From the moment I wake up, 'til i got o sleep at night.
You're so far, yet...
This weed got my consciousness tripping imagination hollousanation blurred vision was I put on this planet to Finnish a...
This is Gods gift,
God work, god love, and god's hell.
Dont forget that this Gods' gift!
Understanding the guility pleasures...
Walking in the black mist,
I feel an impending sense of doom.
I see nature on either side of me,
But I feel all alone....
We're all children, doesn't he know
Clouds pour his window open, cascading right back into mine
A kind gesture gone terribly...
Count your blessings
Not your problems
Your problems can be solved
Don't curse life for that
If you pay attention you will...
These thoughts bring only restlessness fear that is not brought to fragile minds and seen by soft eyes night we fear ...
Hello Teens, Im the next generation teacher
Im here to give you words like a preacher
Keep your head up because GOD is your...
Loneliness
When you feel alone its a feeling of emptinessFeeling that no ones thereI feeling of sadness As if your world...
From as far
well as far as I can remember
From the cold fronts of December
to the hot summers of July in everything
I've...
I dream of the glistening glare as I look up into the sun.
I dream of the limber grass bending as I touch.
I dream of my...
Finding myself
In the past, a cast was on my voice
In the past, I was harassed
In the past, I was glassed as an outcast....
Some plié their paved roads with desire
Leaping and thrusting, they attack their audience with their soulful might
Some...
Men or Women
Have the power to kill.
Though we blame objects
Like guns, knifes, swords, etc.
Why are we blaming these...
Started off on a road to success thanking God for everything and how im extremely blessed. Wondering why I can never spend...
the life of kavon is a cool one,
its filled with many ups and downs,
from school, family, friends, and just overall life
my...
Dear Future Husband,
How could I have known,
In dreaming of this day for so long,
It is never permanently sewn.
Never...
Mind wild black & Wild help me slow it down
cutting corners got me sitting in a court room now
aint nothin in frontin ...
The kids of the future
Havin fun, laughing away
Don't know a single damn thing in the world
Crys and have someone to hold...
You should know, bullying hurts.
It starts with one word, one word you blurt.
Fat, ugly, worthless. These are the words they...
A clear-cut diamond ring,
Fall, winter, summer, spring.
Seasons change,
The birds still sing.
Those lovely hazel eyes,
Lies...
As I sit there counting the stars, I think of you.
A smile appears on my face, as if by magic.
This time that we’ve spent...
Love is more than what we feel,
it actually more than what we know.
Its deep pureness is part of the human kind
no reason to...
Words of computer generated ink lay unmovable before your eager eyes.
Soundlessly and sadly absentmindedly telling a sad...
(poems go here) We gaze into each other’s eyes
Your laughter melts my heart
An attraction no one denies
Afraid of what it...
I come to you as the man that holds many promises
I want you to come with me and recieve comfort which can ease your soul
I...
We arrive at the fair and pay for our tickets at ten dollars a pop.
To me, it’s a hefty fee for a small amount of fun,
Which...
I’m trying to find something to base my life upon,Something in this strange world that goes on and on. As the years go by...
Good times always come to an end
High School memories fill my mind
Counting down the days until I walk that path and turn...
These words, never heard, never spoken aloud, never sung, only written
Only understood by those who are struggling to keep...
Under a tree, crying
Emotions come out
Someone who don’t care about me
Emotions go down
Dreams is like life
One chance to...
Pacing, but my legs are not moving. Speaking but no words come through my seeled mouth. I am screaming but no one hears me...
Let me in,
I am just outside your fence
Let me in,
I yearn to be in your presence
Let me in,
I will awake yo from your...
After working soo hard
everything seems so far
Now that this moment seems so close
I feel like everyone should know
It is...
We are more than we know, we are strong!
Like the sea current pulling you slow
Asking you to follow the sea, deep within...
Lots of work, lots of time
winning a scholarship, with a rhyme
dreams come true, with each passing second
life unfolds as it...
My dreams
My dreams to go pro.
To be the best player like,
Lebron, Jordan and magic.
My dreams to be an cop.
The honor,...
When you are scared, feeling small
When darkness falls, sinking you deeper into the ocean
You feel weary and frightened
You...
Words full of meanings, Expressing messages, emotions, and feelings,Messages, emotions, and feelingsAbout life, experiences...
The Firefighter Who Wore Ribbons
And here I am once again
Sitting in the fire department hall
Where I've once grown up...
Roses are red Violets are blue, I just want to tell you that I love you. I'll be here for you through thick and thin because...
life of the soul stretches more thenyour i could see
deep into love can be a deep sea
searching for the one can be hard to...
i have accomplished nothing
everything that i thought
everything that i know
means nothing
because. . .
because i myself...
I want to leave this place.
I wake up every morning with a feeling of
dissappointment, a seeking for adventure, and a...
WHEN THE GOOD LEELEE TRAVEL AROUND THE EARTH. LIVED IN THIS LITTLE WORLD BELOW THE GROUND. SHE WALKED ABOUT HERE PREACHING...
What many people think it just a piece of equipment involved in the sport of surfing
But it is so much more than what...
His girlfriend never picks up the phone,
Every day he comes home alone.
The bills greet him as he walks in the door,...
SHE'S A STAROnce a young girlFull of hopes and dreamsBig wants and desiresBut no one to encourage herOn how to make it a...
Continue my journey with art and song,
Keep it within me all lifelong.
The song of my dream will overcome,
The fears of...
I'm not a hero,
but i can save you from feeling worthless.
I'm not a hero,
but i have the power to make you feel important....
( As I look over my life; I see that I have went through many transitions.
From big to small, short to tall, but through it...
If I was to pick anything that mattered I would pick my family. My family means the world to me. I can tell my family but of...
My life feels void and full of darkness no matter how far I run to reach the light on the other end
I can never touch it....
Do you ever wonder?
Ever dream of doing other things you never thought possible ?
We call this a dream.
Dreams are a self...
Mirror image:
Reflection of appearence,
Outwardly tangiable,
Physical reality.
Imperfect, unreliable, fragile.
First...
friends, f is for friends r is for real i is for invintaions E is for endless N is for no where D is for doing S is so sorry
people stop and stare at her is she is different people mumble why am i different she say in her mind full of anger and hate...
I had a dream that one day little black girls were able to proudly wear their crowns. Crowns constructed of textured, kinky...
Its blinking button eyes
Lashes Plucked
Clean conscience lies
Demons of possess
Its ragged red dress
Hides in the shadows;...
I’m just a kid
Always have been, always will be.
From the creative spirit I display
To the tests that life has to offer
I...
The cheers, the applause, the cries
And I ask them to indulge in this moment
For it will fade
Like a distant memory
...
Life struggle pain happiness
gowning up to play by the rules to go to school
to provide a life
single in this struggle...
YOLO
Everyone says YOLO; why are they try'in to be so cool?
I am living right now, I don't need to act too cool for...
In silence and tears,
Hearing your words makes weak,
But yet I am so meek.
I don’t know why I am so gentle and loving.
Why...
Only equestrians can possibly understand,
the impossibly forgiving light,
that the eye of a horse suggests.
However, only...
You wish life was one happy ending, just like in films
having a nice family like the ones portrayed in telefilms
But you...
Not everyone is/was born with silver spoon...
Yes, I wasn't born with a silver spoon.
So I am trying to make one...we, the...
When people say you can't sing or dance or even act don't stop believing yourself because you can. When people say you can't...
The sky may get clouded for eternity.
The sea may dry in an instant. The world could blow up in a moment of seconds....
The search for money plagues the dream
Creates a goal of unachievable means
Of wanting more than the person above
Getting...
LET ME DREAMI've neglected and regrettedAll this pain.And today was filled withSo much shame.I'm exhausted now, From all my...
Yes the night can be eerie.
The night can be dark.
Yes the the night can be cold.
The night can be filled
with creatures...
Crossing the border, not being buried six feet below
Otherwise cover with dust is why I pick up the pencil & paper ...
Before I met her my life was a blur. traveling down that road I saw her. Miki the one who guides me, Miki she lives in Japan...
I just love how numbers create life through digits
Tackiling classes and life is a battle worth fighting
Knowing I am not...
Dear specific person,
I thought of you last night.
Of when you shared your most intimate thoughts.
Every night you’d smoke a...
Belief
My belief is that we all have a place in this world
And that no matter the obstacles that we may face
And the...
Once I dream a dream of me, I was a doctor, I create smiles by taking care others
I saw myself helping the ones with illness...
I love the color red
It reminds me of wanting to be dead
I've always wanted to be happy guy
But igorance came and shot it...
I have a rose for you.
It isn't perfect.
The stem is broken
and a few of the petals have wilted.
But its aroma is still...
Im so high like an astraunat,my flow hard like an igniouse rock,am i gold or diamond.drop it,then i guess im a star,because...
I look deep within the mirror at myself.
My mind sinks and wonders into a place of utter darkness.
How my pain intensifies...
Winter winds whip and wail,sending sneaky little flurries into every crook and cranny. Singing a song as it goes to its...
Just A Dream
by Shyerra Harris
Is It Fictious?
Imaging The Things I've Been Given...
I Was Always Taught That Dreams Come...
And then,
there was silence.
You were just a memory.
Your voice,
your words,
your face,
your smile.
They are forever gone...
To hear you breathe
To kiss your face
To see you sleep
To walk your pace
To be your need
To be your amazing grace
I'd give...
you left us treading for life at a crucial time
assuming our emminate doom.
you still walked away
but that is not who we...
I lay asleep in my bed or in my world in somewhere other then home
Always an indecisive person but somewhat I've always...
Jaw clenched, eyes shut, trapped in this nightmare
that’s very much my reality.
Everything that’s mine is no longer for me...
Dreams verses Reality!
We live in a Dream world!
Mommy loves Daddy and Daddy loves Mommy.
The perfect King and Queen kingdom...
This I had dreamed
future so bright
Or so it seemed
was it worth the fight
Loved ones claim they know best
forcing my soul...
So many struggles in my life
But there’s that on struggle ,
The one I face on a every day basis
For a better future, and to...
It is the way she could not say I had it
She could not look in my eyes
She knew I had it
But she didn't want to say it out...
What lies beyond the secret door?
Is it a garden, full of sweet blossoms?
Or perhaps, a deep dungeon full of bones?
Oh...
I am tired, I am hungry, and I am weak
I have looked high and low, but nothing have i seeked
Every day many drop one by one...
Teardrops running down my faceand life seems like a falling grace.I take my pencil and a pen and write down every step, and...
Our intentions are to find a better Life.
We come to this country to work that's all.
When we get here we are treated like...
The sky is alive
Clouds slowly dancing by me
birds and bee's wisping by
without a single sound
leafs of all colors
red,...
I am in a vast sea,
Looking at what I would like to be,
And yet I am drowning,
I am rising,
To be better than any problem...
Dear Future You,
Are you still breathing? Are you still fighting?
Do you still walk with flames in your soul?
The flame...
I would never refer to myself as a murderer
Silence, except for the thrust of fists
Nothing can calm either, not even a...
We know so little,so little, almost nothingand this is only truth,when and from where?from the fissure of infinityand the...
Lost within this cold world, no sound nor light to guide him, i remain hiding in plain sight thine fine eyes shall not find...
In 10 days more high school is behind me,
I'm 'Bama bound. that's where you'll find me.
We can hardly afford it, so my...
Sometimes it's hard to find the wordsto tell youjust how much you mean to me.
A lot of times,I don't say anything at all....
Human
Young.
Old.
Of how much life bestows.
Learn from the best.
Or the worst.
I thrive to do what's right.
To stare on...
Since My Journey First Began
Motivation wasn't hard to find just hard to understand
I must say when i understood
It was like...
Skyspace - Jack Kohler
the room erupted to noise, clatter and voices heard,
from morning talks before, only moments to go,...
(poems go here) 'O WORDS are lightly spoken,'
Said Pearse to Connolly,
'Maybe a breath of politic words
Has withered our...
I Am Poem
I AM
I am Jone’t Finch considerate and passionate about my family, people and God
I wonder if I am going to be...
Dear Julia,
Here is a poem for inspiration when writing one of your own.
Your poems linger behind murky corners,
Just...
I was waiting for you every day
I was curious and young.
Sometimes I cried when I imagine my life destroyed
But in this life...
Everyday I get to spend time with friends, family, or my love makes me happy because I enjoy the time i get because i never...
Every night in sleep,
I journey to the Land of Nod.
Where strangely, my senses suspend about—
exists separately, yet a part...
Do My Pierecing Howls Make Your Ears Ring?,Am I Your Shooting Star In Your Night Blank Sky?,Am I The Wolf Howling At Your...
REAL NIGGAS, define as a man who pack heat, but then dead on the street.
REAL NIGGAS, make love to a women and leave with no...
It burns
To know so little now
it burns
to see so little now
it burns
to feel to little now
but then how can i burn?
All my life, it's been a journey. A constant struggle up hill, against the constant tide that only seems to bring me further...
From the inner depths of our mind
A refuge from the darkness
A world where we can unwind
We lay unconscious
With desire...
I remember one day in class my friend said i do poetry. Poetry to me sounded wack so of course my response was eehh. I...
Sitting here thinking,where my mind is exploding into bits and bits of pieces of dust.My mind expands into a flower which i...
Some people search there whole lives to find what I've found in you. And maybe am scared because you mean too much to me...
High school was a specific place of uncertainty.
Not knowing what I wanted to do, or who I wanted to be.
Eyes everywhere…...
I am terrified
of those things
under my bed
The monsters
that run wild in my head
One night a man came
He stood in my...
the girl you found
Have you seen the girl that shines?
The one that thought she could only shimmer.
She holds her head up to...
I see his shadow rising
I feel like going down
Once I feel my dreams
I can't understand how I feel
About this mystery love...
I was never a poet
But why some part of heart wanted to give it a shot ?
Through my poems , I was able to Express myself
I...
Its only a matter of time before I can get the time to see your face
Everyday I wake up and stay up until two in the morning...
6 Pounds 13 oz, Body as small as the palm of her daddy’s hand.
Her Mother gasps for air there all the pain she just went...
Consistentcy of my heart beat, fastens without knowledge
Often triggers my blood flow through life
Blood flow, is like...
Theres a point to poetry.
Theres a point to the words people say that create images in our heads and fule our intentions....
Horses galloping through the open plains
The grass cruntching beneath them as they run
The wind blowing back their long...
IT STARTED WITH THE WAVE OF GODS RIGHT HAND HE CREATED THE HEAVENS STARS AND THE LAND HE GAVE US A NAMED MAN THE START OF A...
What I've learned about success
It takes more than just fate
Your destiny calls to you
But always ignore the hate
Dreams...
I'm not a size 3 but I would like to be,
My eyes aren't the color I want them to be,
But so what, Life Goes On.
I didn't go...
The touch of desperateness strikes me
The sensation of wanting to be free
The chains holding me back for so long
The...
Dream.
Let your mind soar
on wings of eagles.
Dream.
Free yourself
from the world.
Dream.
Be the person
you have always...
The World looks at me and see what the media betrays on TV. I am as dark as under a child's bed when the parents turn off...
Human Natrure is complicated Its complicatied to explain the heart most yearing desires or abititions.
But what I want to...
One who helps and makes others feel
better
One who talks and makes you feel at
home
One who can travel or stay in the
city...
I dont know if I should cry,
or just kill myself.
But Im not going to talk like that,
because Im not that crazy.
But now...
Life is too short,
grudges are a waste of perfect happiness.
Life is too short,
laugh when you can, it's a bonus.
Life is...
She's happy as a clam laughing,
Walking like watching grass grow to the bus stop,
She's waiting for friends.
They take too...
I am Marlene. And this is my poem.
My inspiration was my representation.
Living dyslexic was pretty hectic.
Living...
been writing since the age of 10, because i had no friend, had an urge to express how i feel through words and emotions....
At night I close my eyes,
And I see this wonderful life.
A life where no one cries.
No one has to worry about other people...
Texas.don.g.nutt59.poem.tha.life the life i live so real never ill no foul to the play sunrise sunshine each way any day tha...
A wine bottle
Gently held in wrinkled hands;
Filled long ago with ripped papers
All about a lost love…
Or was it…
a...
I can't tell you why
Mother Earth lulls the days sky light to a sleep
I can't tell you why
The moons radiant yet delicate...
The sky is the limit to the life I'm trying to design, I'm steady writing out the steps with this rhythm and this...
I need a pencil
I need some paper
I need one on one time after school
I need a place where I know I'll be safe to gain an...
As the tears rolled down my face one by one, that's when I realized I don't cry like I used to.
It's easier to hold back...
There is another sky. It will always be around. It can be as blue as your imagination runs wild. There is sunshine...
It’s always fun when something totally consumes you.
When your mind goes blank and feeling lost becomes fun.
The line...
MY I say that love is one hell of a word to say , MY I sit next to so we can become friends ,MY I ask you out on a date...
Death and lose all around.
Thirteen years have passed and still he is gone,
nothing can bring him back.
Nothing.
I need to...
Felt as if my skin was burning
seeing those fiery pits of dark holes
Shivers running up and down the core of my spine
felt...
The morning rose, blossoms so gentlyThe yellow sun rises bright and clearMy butterfly, my butterfly, lay hereThe smell of...
If only I knew what I know today
I would forgive all my mistakes
I would love myself better
Maybe my heart wouldn't ache
If...
I look around for myself. I see a blur.
"Where are you?" I scream as I cry to myself alone in my dark, cold room.
You see...
Some days I write Poetry to release my agressions
Some days I read Poetry to calm my inhibitions
Some days I write Poetry to...
Blue eyes, blond haired
Look at you will never be heard
I tell u will be loved and cared
But you fool i'll bring...
My dream job will create unknown possibilities for babies, children and adults who never thought past their barrier.
Riding...
Everything goes cold as the moon rises in the sky
The devil comes to criticize as I sorely cry
My protector has left me...
A child looks out, but the walls go up.
Shut in for protection,
Not the soldiers on the street
With their shining boots,...
A family distracted by the capitalist economy,
A young babe with no attention except the nanny’s,
The nanny doing dishes now...
When you dream,
Remember that you’re
Usually asleep.
Reality reminds us
Of this state,
But if you hold the key
To the chains...
I have tendency to dwell on the past , i have a tendency to downgrade myself on my failures, i have a tendency to have a ...
What do you see when you look at her Most would say a soldier indeed But behind every smile is a story She writes her book...
Lovely beyond human capacity but yet some how I see I know most don't see....
But I see at a glance you inspire me......
Writing is a necessity in my life
Without writing, I wouldn't know how will I be able to speak up for myself
Since I can't...
Striving for victory,
You find the truth.
The only thing that matters,
the maker of the universe.
So, why give in,
why give...
The once was a girl named Cran who lived in a world of hope's and dreams.
She was the one of the most beautiful girls in...
Standing Tall, Proud, Black and Strong
Proving this stereotypical society wrong.
they ask me who I' am and where am I going...
The Angel of Death is upon me.
Him I need to fear.
He moves beneath the shadows.
Is he friend or is he foe?
Most people will...
I cover my eyes with a blanket,
As I hear horror screams,
I turn my head as mom fainted,
As if we were a losing team,...
Your Core is what gets you going, what is your core? Or do you live a life in bore?
With every sun and moon, you stay...
Not all sports were for me, only Basketball was their for me.
Basketball was the sport that I was good at.
Basketball is a...
Today memories are made, vulnerable emotions blossom and expectations are at it's highest peak, Today I riven out of failure...
I have dreamed about working in a city council in the state of Texas for quite a while. I became interested in government...
We need a school that is more than cool
A school that teaches us all material
We dont need a teacher who is a fool
And...
Little by little, the table breaks
We put more on it to see how much it can take
It has broken before, just like the vanity...
I wish I could take this
when I can no longer take
what I am taking.
A very special magic
An invisible energy,
in existence...
(poems go here) am corlor blind
love everyone to shine
this is hard to say
this is a new day
your soul has to be you see...
Math class was boring.
History seemed irrelevant.
Chemistry was just dangerous.
But Literature...
She was different.
She had...
Dear mister professor,
I take notes in your lecture
But once I pass my test those notes are useless like this classroom.
My...
I choose who I want to be in life,
Just how you chose to be who you are,
I dont want to be the person everyone expects me...
I woke up like this
but still it took some work
I made myself like this
Breaking through the struggles and things that...
(poems go here)
“WHY”
By Daniel E. Walker
Why does a little boy with hopes and dreams feel so alone?
And, when that little...
As a high handicapper i am
with no hope of going pro
how does one make the ball go?
This is just like life!
So many...
I was on my computer talking to some chick I barely knew. I can't remember the conversation, but it was a nice chat. She was...
A life of expectations...
but not what you my think;
expectations of failure,
In my world, our youth
are put on a path, an...
You were suppose to be the first man in my life.
You were suppose to tuck me in bed and wipe the tears that I shed.
You were...
Two hands build a home.
Two states' lips talk days of peace,
ironically peace dies.
Two hands shoot guns and make bombs,
as...
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Our life's journey is richer when we shared it with others.
As we build deep, lasting relationships with those around us,
We...
A perfect world is a place where we can share our stories
Share our voices
Share our deepest, darkest secrets
A feeling of...
Hmmm, lets see "what makes me happy?"
I would say the typical money answer
However, feeling accomplished makes me happy
I...
I need to sleep in peace
I need to be loved by friends and family
I am stronger than yesterday
I made peace with God in...
Said the Youth,
"We seek you, meek old barn, dear friend,
Your oaken walls which bar the rain.
Quiet giant, stiff, reliant,...
I look to the sky as the night looms over me
I stare back at the computer trying to get inspired
I look at the paper next to...
As a little boy, I never thought of dreams,
I guess I knew my life would magically beam.
I never thought I was smart...
What do you tell a kid tryna make it?
That they have to fake it in algebra because they can't take it?
What do you tell a...
Out the window a thousand bright lights
Shimmer and shine with divergent size.
On a bristle land patch I stand to close my...
Magic is everywhere.
Found in dust between pages
Between brains and lips
Imbedded like crystalized wings in amber...
I write to tell my readers:
my feeling,
my life,
my heart,
the reason I write to to express MYSELF!!!!
Cried so many tears within a year and don't anyone to run to.
Been seeking for an angel to wrap its angelic wings around me...
Respect is a way to connect.
Respect is a way to reset.
Respect is something people should all do.
Don't be unrespectful....
I watch my fan revolve repetitively in senseof inffinity Is that how our world is. Keep turning forever, Will the sun rise...
Although I Beeen Through Alot Of Pain. I Know Through It All A Stronger Love I'll Gain, Where Is The Love? I Set And I...
Poetry is as sweet as honey to my soul. I remember being youthful, unable to follow the ability of the world. I was in whole...
Life without you
wasn't easy
wasnt hard
wasnt what I wanted
But I had no choice
But to live with it
But to adapt to it
But...
The blazing sun piercing through my sleep deprived eyes
My blanket clutching me tight serving as my barrier to my future...
Expressive emotions find me
I’m afraid to know
Which makes me frighten to feel
Yet I cant help the keyboard browsing for me...
I dreamed of lands far and wide. Where animals small and large roamed with pride.
Some lived in groups some on their own....
Engineer, mathematician
Computer programmer, statistician
A job that makes money
I can't put my knowledge to waste
I wanted...
Life, Light
Looking upon the pane of the window.
Living for tomorrow,
but remembering yesterday.
A dream to keep my mind...
He stares, with baby eyes at the star filled sky above him,
His paint, like his clothes, is old and worn.
A lonely shack is...
Formality all for what?
to hold an identity to oneself,
to say I am an American,
but who's to say your really an American, ...
Like a thousand splendid sunsis the light of you smile that lights my heart,And like the forever changing shadows of the...
Cinderella had her slipper, which was made of glass. Something so small, yet
so delicate. And I, much like cinderella, have...
I close my eyes and scream,Wishing all these negative things would stop!Homies killing homies enemies are closer to me then...
You want to be in a gang,
And shoot up everything with a bang,
You say they'll have your back,
But education is what you...
(every word that runs through my brain.
but will never show for myself for my action for every word.
but every moment i take...
words shattered as they flow through time
I don't remember you as I once loved you from other time
Words are fading away as...
Something dangerous lurks in the shadows
It’s gangling grotesque figure lets out an eerie cry of warnings
Night after night...
DETERMINED
By: Rashid Gladden
When you're willing to do anything despite the impossibilities that lies ahead of you...
Believe in me to bathe in lava.
Trust that I will do no wrong.
If you wish, I'll fly a kite to Mars.
I will give you love...
Come away with me
let's run into the night.
Chase the moon
tell her our wildest dreams
N' bask in the moonlight.
Watch the...
Shed thy light upon me,as the light triumphs and darkness weep.Hold me tight,as I lay my head upon my pillow to sleep....
In the darkest night
I look for a light.
It shows the path for me
I run towards but it leaves,
As I move faster I believe...
Our World,
twisting and turning everyday,
with a new surprise,
waiting each and every way.
My world,
surrounded by...
Who am I ?
Im a young black African American teen.
The one who always gets in trouble.
Always getting locked behind bars....
I want to do ballet.
NO. You’re not flexible enough.
I want to do beauty pageants.
NO. You’re not near attractive.
Ok.
I’...
All these DREAMS I am having.
They are all free, yet worthless.
Some seem sorrowful sometimes
And some seem serious...
If we would take time to comphrend the master plan of the man above.
In the days of Noah put mankind survival in the beak of...
As I walk this unknown path
The path that takes me to seven worlds,
The path like never before
The path not full of riches...
you were just laughing,
no, the both of us are laughing.
telling stories to each other,
like no one's ever shared a story.
i...
i can't remember how many day's it's been.
It all goes by in a blur.
Your face fades away from my memory.
Your voice softens...
After a long day nothing is better then sleep, only if the dreams you have, are completely sweet. Some people turn the other...
It all started with a little girl, angry, and upset at the world.
With no escape or way to express the problems she faced
Or...
When things go wrong as they sometimes will,
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
When funds are low and the...
What if I was the rose that grew from concrete.
Im just waiting on the day that I can bloom into a
beautiful world where I...
Why I Write?
I write to express myself , to express the voice of the unspoken.
to express the movement through the soft...
This girl who is she?
What is her means ?
She has been throrugh alot
Alot of things you have never seen.
They say she's...
Waiting, waiting, waiting is what I did
Thinking I was never good at anything even as a kid.
I always wanted to find my...
Black feathers drift from the skies
Soft as silk and reminds me of sweet lullabies
I lift my hands to reach the sky then I...
Our soulless
actions are bloodless
Our eyes are
suprised but not
opened
While escaping
your fate, we
always make ...
Go deeper,Shallow into the depths of your soul. Find your inner song.
There's things about you that I want to know. What...
Why I want to become famous
I would want to be famous because, I can sing the birds away, what a talent something I never...
Breathe.
Allow the pain to wash free over the waves of forgotten dreams.
Don't let him break you to shreds of...
Dear Sleep,
“Sleep,” They told me once
But there’s the endless nightmares of my dreams
“But it has already been months.”
I...
We go to school every day and see the friends we've made,
As time runs the marathon we begin moving on
Youre18 now,...
Small teeth and small lips '
But a heart as loud as the batman signal in gotham
Her voice never herd by others
She holds the...
What is your job?
Is it something you dread?
Fear? Hate?
It shouldn't be.
What should your job be?
Your job should be...
The dreamer of dreams sleeps
and dreams for what is true,
It never changes your mind
it changes yourself.
That the lips...
This: a whirling vicious cycle underneath
constant strength, beginning to end.
Calm yet perfect indents with every ripple...
I guess I finally realized, everything became so clear, that everything I want in life, is everything I fear every tear I've...
To Angela,
Where do I even start… You will grow into a beautiful young black queen even if you don't see it right now....
Dear Crush,
I Adore You,
because you're not afraid to be yourself.
I Miss You,
every second you're not with me.
I Hate...
somtimes I feel mom should have never had me if she wasnt going to raise this baby.
Now I feel trapped in this evil world...
One year later I am no longer in the wings of her nest.
I have learned how to fly, and currently on my own doing my best....
I feel down from the clouds into this planet called earth there were These little creatures swaying to the wind with some...
They look at me with eyes of animosity,Trying to make sense of my feelings,I refuse hugs, kisses, and smiles,Why can’t I...
My wishes
It takes one who is strong to survive on Earth
It takes one who is brave to withstand the stress of this unfair...
I could see the light I the distance.
I couldn't believe my eyes.
I had never witnessed such a spectacle.
My shouts were...
When I Succeed
That means I have conquer the
odds to feed my mind,body, and soul
When I succeed
A seed has been planted,...
How cruel our minds are to make us dream of something we'll never have.
I dreamt of holding someone dear to me, but when I...
Countries are sovereign
They come in different sizes and shapes
Some are well off while others are not
Countries vary in...
Many people claim to be one's best friend,
but the enemies lurk:
Best friends do not tell your secrets.
Best friends keep...
If I were all alone
No one around or a home
All I would need is knowledge.
To help me understand life and get me through...
Oh what a great world in which we now live. A world where we no longer have the time to raise our own kids.
A world where...
Growing Up from Oriental displacement,
The American Dream became a long journey.
Being the eldest of Three,
Made me became...
Society is forever corrupt, nothing but ngativity to feed the youth.In God we trust but the money is getting worshipped for...
I believe that I should be awarded this scholarship to pursue my passion of becoming a fashion journalist. My muses are...
A Safer Place
By Carley Lovito
I dream about a safer place
Where we can go to stay
I dream about a place where I can raise...
I think it's crazy how life is right now
don't pay your bills you will be shut down
as a college student I'm doing my best ...
Missing you
Is like a day without the sun
A night without the moon
The moon without the stars
A book without pages...
Every year is something new
but yet nothing has changed.
I was suppose to learn it last year
but last year they told me I...
Up ahead, amid the dirt lies the fence.
Tall and wide, black and tied
it stands. It's forbidden, it's inhumane.
For it...
How I love to sing
It's how I use my voice
The way I get my words out
It brings me great joy
Music is my everything
It's...
Life is like dominoes,
each one has an effect,
wherever the first one falls
has an influence on the next.
When I was a kid I...
Great soul eater rides within the night looking for a soul that glows bright.
The abyss of the darkness welcomes him oh so...
You saw me when I didn't see myself.
When I couldn't bare to look in the mirror,
you held it up to my face depicting a...
Bullets born from our sorrowful tears,
cold as ice and clear as crystal
Fire through the dense barricade of the emerald-...