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I go to school to pursuit my dream
I am a student that is on a one man team
I have priorities
But which one...
i remember the daysyou told me you loved meand i just said 'i know',because i was mador upset
but i didn't know, youwere...
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A rose beauty flaws strenth. But theres so much beauty in one thing but it can cause pain
one sniff can change the view...
Alone with your thoughts?
Are you really alone?
When provoking memories rise
And hypertension is the prize,
You pay for your...
I was put on this earth to be somebody
not to please anything
nobodies perfect but I'm working to live what I dream
I got a...
all about me
my life is like poetry
so please dont define me
im something that IS gonna be
gonna be not wanna be
dont you...
Up late nite searching for awnsers ,Tring to get it right under certian circumstances.Looking for that light at the end of...
Live in the present not in the past, don't be concerned with the things that you never had.
There are so many things in this...
As I walk this path called life I have had many hills, mountains, and valleys.
Thru this walk of life I have learned many...
Spoken Word Poetry
Beautiful But Yet Faded Away
Smith Edasha
Too beautiful to fade away
But I guess it did
Thought it would...
Mr.nameless switch seats
with me, walk in my shoes
as a modern day urban student
whos odds have been stacked against him...
TIME, MY RESOURCE.
There is a great resource that has been inexistence since the inception of the earth.This resource is a...
What happened to those dreams we shared?
where did they go, i thought we cared,
i thought we sang "we will be together...
Actions will always speak louder then words but busy seems to be the new excuse nowadays. Why dont we just do it and check...
Acceptance is what I choose to need.
To get away from my misery.
I trust those who hurt and love those who use me.
Only its...
The pain of being bullied cuts deep
It’s a pain that millions know and don’t know all at the same time
Bullying can...
I ask myself, God can you hear me?
Crying, stressing,
but still happy because I’m a blessing.
At times, I don’t think I can...
We are all damaged thingsAt least that's what I learnedFrom such a young ageWell, if you call high school youngFor someone...
Sometimes I look at myself and Jesus, and I think about his great sacrifice so I; try to place myself in his shoes but the...
I have this cold feeling, as if I'm frozen from head to toeAll I feel is iceI want to cryBecause I believe this dark cold...
There were three of you that broke my heart: Uno, Dos, and Tre. Now Tre, you were the only band member to have an album...
You may not see what I see
I see good
I see beauty
I see with my eyes that truly move me
My eyes are flawless for they only...
The words that you spoke are now flowing in the wind.They sing to my heart and are deep in my skin.The words that were...
Poetry was my escape
It helped me get to second base
For the dreams that I have chased
Now my dreams and reality are face to...
Noon day inspiration
unrighteousness is sin all sin will be paid for
Here, in the text it plainly state that sin is...
I am 16 and loves to sing, I am a junior that has many struggles, I am a dancer that never gives up, I am a fighter fighting...
This woman told me that she would rather date a blind guy than to date me
Then I asked what does that mean
And she told me...
The Passion Of Music
Music. For me music is the passion to my soul, it speaks to me and it makes me feel loved because...
I should've let you known who I was from the beginning of this relationshipI should've let you known that I was nothing...
Be the messenger BM
Don’t be everything the nonbelievers are BM
Samosas , Ramandan , 30 days BM
Everyones Brother and...
What is it about Life that changes
Opening and closing like the sea
Each day the worldis fed a new
Ideas poking at me
...
Why blame society when society is made of you too? You argue about the wars but yet your voice isn't heard upon it...
I am mis-understood.
People know me as the quite one.
I'm not that person I was before.
If they kew who I turned out to be,...
Sometimes I just look at you wondering how the world treats you, and what's going on inside your head.Does it scream and...
Not knowing what to doit became apparentthat choices were the downfallof the status quo
Regain.
Wondering how I got to this levelThe anger buildingThe tears fallingThe fist cracking
Wondering how to calm an...
A smile on the face is my disguise...
the truth is hidden behind my eyes...
never was i good at emotional epression...
never...
you look into me
as if i wore a fundamental tool
it bleeds open as if i were cut by words
anything you swear beholds the...
Im me,
My Dark Skin, You Cant Change
Rough Hair, Cant Change
My Standard and Vanacular, Cant Change
Strong Walk, Wont Change...
Lil black children, y'all remind I of me,From ya lil black hopes, to ya lil black dreams, that lil black fro, or that lil...
I'm not hiding behind anything
I have no artificial colorant on me
Just the same current
I'm just current
No make-up to...
Italian
For a being closer to the ground
There is without a doubt in silence sound.
Vibrant waves absorbed before they...
Stop assuming you know everything. Why lie to me like I’m nothing
Do you even care of what I say and do? Don’t need me,...
I just wanna say something to ALL women .. You're beautiful & don't let anyone say different .. You're more fine than a...
I am the under ground king that hasn't been crowned. I am the diamond in the dirt that hasn't been found. I am the voice...
You know that he will never love you in the same way you love him, right?
He will never look at you with love in its purest...
You were born to recreate the lives of your ancestors.The life you choose to live is your personal life treasure.For myself...
Untukmu, aku akan tetap ada
hingga semua yang menjadikanku seolah tak ada
akhirnya tiada.
Jakarta, 21 Mei 2018.
You see the girl sitting in the corner all alone? Well thats me, but really you can't see me its just the feeling i feel in...
My mother is my everything. She my inspiration, the strength I need to woke up in the morning, the motivation to be a go...
The world may not know of you yet or may never know of you... But it doesn't means you don't have to work harder than...
I’d say we’re all grasping at straws
But “we” doesn’t really apply here
Jill’s used to watching Jack fall
But Jack no longer...
Pen and a paper forces words to come strong.
You wanted elevation now I'm forced to screen law.
Comin’ in like a sheep in...
Dear Samuel , I mean father Thankyou.. I'm writing you this letter becuz, see i could of started off rude but what would...
यो सन्सारमा खै कस्को बिश्वाश गरुँ ?
मेरा आफ्नै काकाबाट मेरो इज्जत लुटिदा
बलात्कृत म आफ्नै बुवाबाट कुटिदा
कस्ले सम्हाल्यो...
Brown faces, some white that see us .
your responsibilty does not begin at the door
tell her its ok not to be thin and that...
I keep talking to myself through day and night
I cry for what is not mine
I push my limit too hard
My heart get hurt each...
Everyone is blind
because at night you don't see anything or anybody by your side
You struggle on your own
therefore you...
Golden like a retriever he use to be an old yeller
until the eighth of September when they had to put the kid
kid not dog...
The Pen That Stab Me
1 “ Go to school! It’s the key!”
“ Pick up your pen!”
“ Let me teach you!”
“ This is the law!”
5...
Childhood is not not easy
When you want to be with the big kids.
At a young age excluded because you the baby.
Me yelling I...
I watched her cry. Many nights I tried Just to understand why these Tears fell from her eyes. Who hurt her so much, That...
I Am Against Racism
I am a believer, in the fact that racism is a major issue in the world
I wonder how life would have...
Hola! My name is Naomi Tillie Verdun, I am a very adventurous outgoing girl, I am not scared to speak my mind or defend my...
You taught me 1+1 = 2 , but never gave me the proper equation to solve problems in life
You warned me of things in stories...
Look at him.Ballin’ hard in the street but falling hard in school.Knockin’ girls up left and right without a care in the...
I don't care for men, women neither
Men walk around as if their genetials have swine flu fever
but then women are the beaver...
There's cities and blocks in his head at nightFilled with neighborhoods that don't look rightIt's like a party everyone else...
When you wanna quit and stop
Just never say never
When you wanna flop and slop
Just remember you're always clever
When you...
I hate
Legs
Thighs
Stomach
Stretch Marks
Arms
Back
Chin
Weight
Wrist
Ankles
Elbows
Knees
Shoulders
Feet
Hands...
"Patience", she said,
As she whispered in my ear.
All being's trials start here.
She drew me a map
And left me alone.
"If...
This Is What I’m Not
If I were a color,
I would be pink just as you like.
If I were a book,
I would pen the story of your...
“Depression is like this ongoing war,
That you don't know about who is fighting and who is struggling for all we know
It...
That extra mile I would run never stops the passion that I give each night and morning will never let my body fail....
To hurt, to love, to live.
It’s all part of life right?
But what is this so called thing “life”?
we all compare things and...
When life appears so boring and no one seems to care. No one notices your being but rather stomps on your head. Remember...
Behold quickly I come
Blessed is he that kept
Beautiful piety
Be strong but not rude.
Be kind but not weak.
Be humble but...
I wandered in the dark dreadful path
Shrinking at the sight of every creatures
My heart leaped as the path became darker...
Discretion
Throwing salt & telling nothing but truths
The harsh but real truth
About a dude with a girl
Someone who...
Do you remember the joy of hearing the ice cream man's truck jingle?
A man who provides a universal joy, and a line where...
The pragmatic discourse that discourages the dismay to disenfranchise from the disclaimers of disbelief that drudge upon...
I am the shade of brown.
No other color can top this beautiful “brown”.
No other feeling can be given when it is worn.
Worn...
Don't you think about doing commit suicide because you worth living for. And if you are being bully do something about it.if...
Asleep she lays in a bed of roses.
Lips as red as blood.
Hair as white as snow.
Skin as dark as ebony.
The fairest.
Who...
You can see it in puddle's and stream's in the dirt on the grass on the side walk's on the car's and roof's of them and the...
"peace be with you"
Those were Jesus last words for you
Think about this
Jesus died on the cross
Ndio me and you to make...
Love is not what it seems.
It kick you down and break you love is kind of mean.
But don't worry about love
Worry about the...
In HIS eyes you are PERFECT
You're BEAUTIFUL
You're more than ENOUGH
Who?
Your life is far more important
So much...
He did...
You've captured her, she's free no more. You've vanquished her, she lives no more. She's already dead but you dance on her...
So many times you hear the word change.
But can schools make an exchange?
Well, the school is just a system,
While, the...
Thank you for making my high school career a life of bullshit
Writing paper after paper, endless amounts of homework, and...
Tan AKA ECTS
Ripped heart
You are jus a girl driven to desperation by months ,and months ,of indifference...
So your ...
I was always inside. I didn't know what it was like outside. I was in my own world. I loved being inside. Or maybe thats...
Change?
Change is the thing we all desire
Too stubborn to require
a dream so easy to admire.
Change is everything we hope...
A mother with youth carries youth, forced with abuse
to love or to hate left in abortion clinics in terrible mental state....
I'll go ahead & poor Myself a Drink...
I Really couldn't Care Less what You Think...
I Don't want to Listen Now...
My World My world
Why is their so much turmoil
As I go along the way I wonder was it like this back in the day
So much...
Words always have more than one meaning
That, is their power
Scratches on stone
Rantings of a lunatic
Whispers on the wind...
they say that adaptation in its prime is simply
assimilation
or admiration .
but I see things as they are and not for how...
See I’ve always been told that patience is a virtue,
But one thing they never told me was too much of it can hurt you,
...
I saw a crowd in front of me
And their dreadful action
I had no voice
They were pressing me hard
They exploit me, Break me
I...
There are three types of people. Those who wish , those who want ,and those that do.Those who wish , dont perservere after...
The world is so weird now, I always ask myself the obvious things.
Why is this difficult? Or how could you be so sane?
It is...
Dreamers
By: Arion Hart
In America, California es el
Estado donde ‘se cumplen tus suenos’
‘Where your dreams come true.’
In...
The voices are talking.
Looking in the mirror all I could ask myself was how did I let this happen?
"How did you let your...
Let's just say
although I'm scared
we're here today
but my bodies snared.
Little by little
my mind adjust
I don't know...
Dont do it
Your life is at stake
Is it really that important to you
Does that text matter that much
You cant wait till you...
She is nothing but another body. She has no face. No smile or frown. Her eyes do not exist and her nose nothing that made...
You're my strength, My weakness, And everything in between. Your look, Your touch, Your kiss, Your gentle whisper. My...
My room is my sanctuary a place I can go to hideWhen im hiding from my demons because they know that im aliveMy room is my...
His fingers trace the outline of my delicate body
Drawing hearts around my cheeks down to my clavicle
Standing, I see...
From The Belly of an Artist
Society!
Make me want to puke!
They make me want to
Upchuck my emotion
And Untuck the...
I have the same routine when I wake up,
In the morning.
Put on my shirt and jeans
Go to work.
Typically I make coffee for...
Wonder how their leaves flow each times the wind blows
wonder how their bark is as strong as a rock
wonder how their shade...
YA SEE ..I’ been wifey materialI’ turned down a few DIAMONDSAND some whom claim to be KINGS Truly lacking their SPADES,...
Sea of greed, sea of truth
My vision, the naked vision of old and new
For which the present mocks the past and jeers at the...
I am from bored out bamboo,
from tinikling and hand-made entities.
I am from the bahay kubo
A small shelter, but a hunbling...
So I just did a spoken word poetry today during Sunday Service and guess what? It was bad, literally bad. Bad from the...
Feeling like a loser
My neighbor is a boozer
Been used alot of times
I feel like a user
People spittin out my name like they...
Mr Pride S. Dust
Self eulogy is an ill choice
Its a steep down the slope
The arrays of pride-scope
Kidnaps commonsense to a...
This balling is new to us.
Theres people cartooning us.
So many lies in the world, its like the air is polluting us.
Like...
shit happens that i know
friends come and go that for sure
people die then we cry
we suffer than we fly
we get hurt still...
I met a fanastic woman last year
A woman who cries no tears
A woman who has no fears
She does not cried or complain for...
I cried for you tears fell down my face,
you are gone but that's not the case.
It's the fact that your little girl will...
It could be a month
It could be a year
But he wouldn’t know
But he wouldn’t care
Because you see him there
Sitting alone...
Coming out of Florida we are the most athletic.
Coming out of Florida we are the worlds fastest.
Coming out of Florida we...
The Hate You Give by Angie Thomas serves a purpose through the pain
The pain you feel when the clouds of social injustices...
Here I am, sitting in a chair,
Running a pencil through my hair,
These words you say, I do not care,
Sitting in a daze,...
To Be Heard, That's what you want
Life is an alley that, like a hood, you haunt.
Get what you can, however man.
Let fists...
You ask me what happened, but I can't explain it
I got robbed of my love, and I can't obtain it back in my possession
Put it...
You see I was staring outside my window,
But I just couldn't see anything thing but my own tears
The blurry version is the...
They tell me Martin dreamed,
But I wonder was he ever able to sleep between his leaps to the mountaintop?
Was he ever able...
I will never be able to look in the mirror and think to myself "I am beautiful".
Or at least not today...
But tomorrow is...
To live, you must leave
The lines of time you must weave.
In all aspects, you proceed
To plant your world's seed.
yet as far...
I always laughed at my health.
Thought I had it all,
which was my wealth.
Now I'm sitting in rages,
cause I lost my swag....
Who am I?
Will i ever know?
I failed to find out.
I always fall short, and never look back.
Pain, pain is all i ever gain....
The radiant one who shines like he's flawless
Head held high manner was lawless
Born an expert others left seemed novice...
Silent, quiet, unable to be seen
I scream out and not a sound comes out
invisible to the eye, silent to the world
Not heard...
Let me tell you a story about a girl I once knew
She kept to herself afraid to speak the truth
Afraid to speak her...
How can I understand what you say behind the lines of those silent words of exclamations?
How can I understand what you are...
Am I myself?
Do I show who I am to others?
Who can I be to show other that I am me?
Shall I walk like others do? Or talk...
00:00 01/01/17
The new year has arrived; time for the past year in review.
Some are surprised we survived; “this was a year...
He told me my eyes tell stories and so does my heart. He told me my spirit is a
bandage but on the inside i'm a work of art...
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I am that Hellfire & Brimstone that humans heave when they call each other heathens
Word to the heavens...
An adolescent looking for a way out
In deep desperation to sprout
Choices made turns into doubt
An angel in the clothing of...
every woman got preganant by 21
No one decided to get a 4 year degree
I saw how they lived on welfare
and could not keep a...
I stand hand in hand with titans
I stand tall proud brightened
wearing a big fatty smile that say that i am enlightened
but...
When I wake up in the morning, “I tell myself that I am beautiful”.
When I wake up, “I look into the mirror and tell...
I used to be a believer,
I believed in myself and my abilities
Now I don't even know what that feels like
The person I see...
Special: Better, greater or otherwise different than what is usual.
By: Arion Hart
In elementary school,
We were taught...
Although you can clearly see my physical beauty; well most you…..some of you might.
But real gentlemen say my best features...
Dear Mr Eric.
Mr Eric!!
i am sorry for not informing you, though it happens sway and sudden, but i am sure i told you about...
School is where we come to learn and get an education and be successful. Teachers just assume we're just here to act silly,...
Pre-mature Insomniac; a resting heart rate of 87 beats per minute, breath after breath, she abruptly wakes up because she...
I know my name
i know my face
But who exactly am i?
Im trapped in this foreign body still searching for the real me.
To...
Feeling so lost
In a place full of roads
Everyone is on board
While she's stuck
Waiting on nothing
Yet She knows that her...
from birth it starts
life of joy and happiness
to grow into the person you'll be
its your childhood
where your suppoosed to...
My mistakes are me I can't change nor deny them but only accept and move on. I can't pretend life is perfect because it's...
Keep on failing you'll end up being a failure of life,
My mind views it from a angle-lized distance,
How my very own teacher...
I heard he wore a scarlet robeAnd his trail was marked with his blood, from Pilate’s court to the hill on Golgotha, the...
The Monster Behind Your Eyes
You wake up everyday day, but your day starts backwards. It's not you who wakes up, it's...
Fairytales are the biggest deceivers of them all,and these are the greatest liesthat we have been telling our daughtersfrom...
Darkness over flows your mindBringing all the best memories backKnowing that their gone forever,And never coming...
I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived...
At one with the sea, at war with the sand,
I all but watch racism unfold on the land.
And I crave to reach out, singing of...
My thoughts are not limited to my own mind.
They are exponential
exceeding the parameters of a tangent.
But I want them to...
The world of dreams is you creativity oh though it has become the right side of your brain
It will dissolve once you stir...
Look all around you and tell me what do you see?
Are people fighting for originality? Or hungry to be like you and me?
This...
why am i alone?
why am i hurting...aone
Dont pretend
to save me when
you were the one
to drown me.
Yesterday I was someone else
Today I am someoone new learning from mistakes from yesterday
Each day growing to being...
Coming in a country
Without family
Coming for searching
For a life better
For your future.
Coming without money ,
And...
I am born, but self consciously I always knew. You can't hide the truth , you can take away all the media, documentaries,...
I write to be free. A dream my ancestor had long ago. I'll use my words to let it all their emotions roam freely, like a...
I'm the G.O.A.T
Which means that I'm the Greatest Of All Time. I ain't lyin, when it comes to spittin these rhymes I'm a...
Legacy
They want to know about it
not just a word
not just an achievement
We wear our legacy beneath our skin
We strive to...
The thought of you makes me sick to my stomach
Unsure if thats anger or love
The sight of you kills me
And my heart is...
I was immature
I was in need of friends
I was a fighter
I was careless
I was ungrateful
I was an embarrasment
I was behind...
I had yearned for so long
I had waited for too long
I died inside for too long
no love no compaasion
no warm embrace
not...
Our youth seems to be caught up in a rapture, where Perfection is the bind
Daring to Be Flawless.
Outer beauty, wealth and...
Opportunity is the audacity of hope,
To tell you that you have the way to clench unto a chance once it comes along.
The...
In elementary school, recess was the most important time of the whole day to us.
It was the only time when we could molt the...
Labels
Its easy to lose all the meaning of who you really are
what is your true meaning of a superstar- Tori Kelly
We don'...
People everywhere
Talking for no reason.
Not even listening to the words coming out of their mouths,
The words coming out of...
Uncompleted
My hands began
to write but stop
My lips dry like the
native sand,it is forgien
to my tongue
I have a...
To You My Son
Every women is created with a special ability and feature ,not all are the same...
Im the first woman to love...
Why is it that I know my circumstances I still want more? I am at the surface preaching about the top. My subconscious knows...
Why are our minds always on what we could get and not what we can give?
Demanding every time but not ready to help those...
I remember you...
Down to the promises you played me with.
I remember loving you the way I never knew I was capable.
I...
Colour in disguise
All u think of is how beautiful a leopard is
But has forgotten it is a voracious creature
For do not...
RENDEZVOUS
He stood there watching away
like he just don't care
listening to the radio and whistling
along into the cold air...
RudeObnoxiousLoudAbrasiveOrneryDepressed
I thought.
"Love her Teach her Care for her Give her the skills ...
Your tommorow begins today
Don’t wait for any other day
Before you become gay
That’s why you should make hay
While the sun...
Like climbing up a hill that you'll never reach the peak of?. Every one takes this word lightly but it hard 4 me 2 speak of...
No Pain Is Wasted
My spirit was beckoned.
A savior called to me
his sweet voice said, "listen"
and I held my breath,...
"Actions planned are never completed"
was the constant whisper of the snow
the falling snow that reflects
the falling tears...
Spread yourself wide.
Like a crater on erosion, I spread you even wider.
Mentally and spiritually I desire to be the Moses...
I give mad props to those who are willing to get up every morning and go to work for a time of a low minimum paycheck to...
my heart
like a whole
empty and unresourceful and mistaken
for a hole
a pain of resentment that is betraded by it'd owner ...
I believe that this country is at war
Our children soldiers
Fighting on the frontlines
Since Junior High
While the...
I was 13.
My friend was depressed
And I told her to
“Get over it”
Because I didn’t understand the tortures of
Sadness
Of...
For her eyes, compassionate and full of energy,
send waves of creativity that linger a sense of healing, I feel, deep within...
A tear flowing through the pacific river and crosses the valleys of hearts Rowing through hurt, and pain arriving to peace...
I was the girl no one cared existed,
the girl alone, because I was the girl everyone resented.
The young black girl, so shy...
Your purpose in life was never important.
Your passions never were there
Your ambitious were never known
Your aspiration...
If only we could think beyond our own selves, together with the lives of other’s around us the cruelty in the world would...
As the people made their way through the hot 1976 summer sun a little boy walked up to the last lady getting off the bus her...
i love myself
not knowing what love is
to have and have not seems like shoestring in knots
apair of ...
will chase down faith when you won't believe
I will chase down love when you want to leave.
I will chase down the sun when...
They asked me where Im from But I didnt tell them
I am from the old down roads on that rocky hill “rolling on the river “...
We were very happy,
flying in the quiet night,
around the kindness moon,
our colors were our pride,
the pride that gave us...
Flawless? yes me!
The way I walk into a room. The way I carry myself. The way I talk. I'm not stuck up or rude.
I'm...
Senior swag
Being glad
Senior pics snapped
Cap and gown sized
Getting through the tests
ACT taken with a breeze
Making the...
Once upon a time … Yea those words ring a bell. The stories that start out bad then everything suddenly goes well. Where...
Do you hear me when I talk
When I'm speaking my mind
Telling you my thoughts
No, I didn't think so
you only listen...
My mind full of words, thoughts, and sounds
Feeling claustrophobic when no one's around.
Feel as if I am trap and can't...
What can seem forgettable
Was actually impossible
As our eyes rested upon each other
All I could think of was when...
I am an undefined nature, a creative heart that gives love.
I am a misunderstood human being with a beautiful mind.
I am a...
Darkness.
The absense of hope in life.
Darkness.
His thick, dark surypy hands slip fear into the heart of men.Darkness.
Who...
Do you remember the night that guy told you that you were the eighth wonder of the world? Why can’t you see yourself like...
I often Sonder when I walk the street.
All People I will never officaly meet.
All of them have lives as vivid and complex as...
Deathhow could you be so cruelwicked and indifferentto the tears in our eyesand the sores in our heart why did you take...
I am the creator of confusion
Challenging peoples beliefs
A mind as challenging as it is simplistic
Institutions
I have been...
Everyday I wake up, thanking the man above for another 24
Another day I get dressed, inspite of the storm
Many people see me...
look at her
extraordinary
living in a ordinary world
shaming naturality, it's scary.
if it wasn't for the fact
that she...
Anticipation is killing me
I start doing things nervously
Anticipation, Love slows me down
Our situation becomes diffent;...
I am... A girl who walks sluggishly to school to be harassed by teachers and students alike. I am.... A 17 year old girl who...
There's always ONE time a person can truly account for in a lifetime so elite, Full of pity, lies, humbleness, and DECEIT...
I look in the mirror each and everyday.
I take a minute.
I ask myself am I gonna make it?
Will I make it in this life?
Am I...
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Fortnite is the PubG lover of the centuery
Which walkway should we all try
Either way we are all gonna die
Well Easy is faster and Harder is slower
We all recommend...
We are Girls
Empowering, strong, open-minded
Girls
Liars, cheaters, sneaky, back-talking
Girls
Loving, caring, playful...
It’s time to sever ties with those who lie;
It’s Time to free myself from the toxicity of your superficiality, breaking...
Dressed in grey and black attire
Waiting at the ready
“Do you need help?”
“Have a nice day!”
Aged eyes and pursed lips ...
It's time to make your decision
nevermind those googly dull eyes
eyes front
tick-tock-tick-tick-drip
is it...
What is Education?
For my ancestors enslaved
It meant freedom for the next generation.
What is Education?
Is it different...
I was once that vain and bitter child
The one who wept because nothing went right.
Until I came to my senses one night
And...
Speakerboxxxx
Have you ever heard a song that expresses your self
Have you ever heard a song that
Expresses another person...
When you look at me, what do you see ? Evil ? Something real ? Maybe even beautiful ? Is it really possible ? Endless...
Oh my nature! you live no where,
trust me there is none for you to care.
You raised yourself as a disaster,
waiting for a...
SINCE I WAS CAPTURED IN THE WOMB, HELD FROM SPACE, I UNKNOWINGLY FORMED THE OUTLINING OF TIME, SHAPED INTO THIS BODY OF MINE...
The rooster rises
The start of a new
Regular routines are done unconsciously and effortlessly
Headphones are set in and the...
When i with you. you make my heart beat fast and my cheek turn pink. when we are apart we both are lonley.but when we are...
Things you can't say to your teacher
Like
"Why does my attendance matter? You aren't helpful to me anyway"
or, "this class...
Life can be overwhelming.
(No, let me restate that)
Life can be Condescendingly,
Overbearing with its Unrelenting,...
When the leaf is green I finish
The veins of the blues gives clues
Trees multiply and the rain provides
Innovation,...
Shut Up and sit the hell down and listen!!!!!
Isn't that what you tell us when you feel like we are not respecting you or we...
That moment when you become inspired,
Your brain is wired with that burning idea in your head,
So....
You decide to write...
I love you like I love a Sunny Saturday
I love you like a fat kid loves cake
I love you like I love a sweet sundae
What a...
I'm as pure as gold
I have a gift of pride
I am strong and ambitious
With dreams all across my mind
I am a soldier
I am a...
Awww man
I just dont understand
All these stereotypes
About a Jamaican man
People call me violent
They say i am worth...
What is Job, What is a Career
What is dissappointment , What dreams to I hold on to and others I let go of.
My Age gest...
Well I'm a Senior now
you say i need to work harder
study longer,talk less
and Sleep more
but for some reason we seem not...
I solemnly declared as alone in my planet of earth
So dull as I've been alone
So lonely even hearing the sounds of passing...
There are some days where I feel like a Woman,
Today being one of them.
It’s not from wearing a skirt, or powdering my face...
Who are you to tell me what I am and what I’m not
Where I come from, where I’ll go
What I have been through and what I’ve...
MY BEAUTIFUL BABY GIRL
Thanks for being the only one I can turn too
Got me doing this because I love you
When we meet in...
I love you
I do
I think I'm even in love with you
When I see your sweet side
It melts my heart completely
It scares me...
Cigarettes
...you know my first boyfriend smoked cigarettes.
Newports.
now here i am with lungs that don't work. can't...
"Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I shall fear no evil." (Psalm 23:4)
They seemed immortal...
I love the teachers that teach,
The teachers that write in scrawling letters that
Dance around the whiteboard with colors...
Mental illness is never taken as seriously as it is.
People critize and ridicule us with depression, saying
"Wow, you're...
I wish you would have told me that having sex would be this hard
Yea, you showed me the basic steps, but never the affects...
You should know bullying hurts,
With words fat, ugly, worthless,
It make me useless in my own tales
But wait, like paper,...
Beyond name
A wild passion, that couldn’t be tamed,
A relation, that couldn’t be named,
A stout man, and a lonely dame,
Fate...
Whenever someone gazed in her direction they saw rosy cheeks and wide smiles
She was a ray of sunshine who had it all
A...
I was afraid, I was amazed.
Amazed to breathe again, amazed to feel again, amazed to dream again. Dreams were halted by...
As I sit in class and think, endless words stare back at me
The black ink bleeds information that I read reluctantly
Todays...
My job, My job,My job
it’s everything I am but then everything I am not
It’s me because its all I do
It consumes my...
When being chase dowm by the issues
Issues which have caused many to bleed into
tissues. Blood being bled which causes many...
I am strong & African American.I want you to accept me for me just because I have more melanin soaked so heavily in my...
this is a story for the wise
the wonder of wise oh thou you shall smile worth today
oh thou you shall laugh today
the...
A past full of shame, guilt, pain, and trauma,
I was mistreated, misused,
hurt, confused,
in distraught,
I was lost,
in...
Dear America, please don't shoot
My whole life I pledge allegiance to the U.S.
Put my hand over to my heart and hope to...
What is poetry?
Poetry to me there is many routes that can be taken to create poetry,
one of them is cliche phrases that...
Its been a long journey
A long journey for me
A journey that's still going some of it i cannot see
Some is good
Some is bad...
I have found myself subject to the beneficial liar.
What is a beneficial liar?
A liar that tells their lies to benefit...
I come from a family that didn't have much
Seems like each day the road would get tough
The rain would never let up but...
I still dont understand why exactly you did it. I still hear something different from both of you each time. I still want to...
When Jody was just a little boy,
Kids around the block use to believe he was made out of clay
I use to make him sit between...
Poems are like stars from heaven
Never too close enough to touch
Somehow we all see a star, a repression
Memories cant...
Tiktok! Tiktok! Tiktok!
A watch on my wrist
Me breathin' uneasily
Seconds are counting
Minutes are under a swift
Time at a...
TIME, MY RESOURCE.
There is a great resource that has been inexistence since the inception of the earth.This resource is a...
What has peotry taught me ? Where could I start , it all starts with a song that flows from the heart.
We have all been...
I am "She".
She who is overflowed with the most soulful aura.
She who dares to walk this surface, with her ankh laying low...
To be honest, Im a little bored of being me
for a while, maybe we could wonder a perfect place that we stumbled upon
or...
Everyone has habits
good, bad, beautiful, ugly
Defining Failure vs Success
Which is best?
I have a habit that won’t seem...
What tempts a barman in the small hours?Nursing a drink that bores him,he rinses the dishes, glancingat the customers...
I now realize how everything can change
in the blink of my raged fillied eyes
The words people use or say in slang
A day...
While I'm steady trying to figure out my future,
girls and boys figuring out who's the fittest.
Love is just a word, till...
vanilla mixed with chocolate
what do you get
a lighter shade of brown
it seems like brown is the color to hate
pasty white...
Who Am I...
I am hopes and dreams
The visions of things
That people wish to see
But may never be
Because everyone wants, but...
I seek to be heard
My voice is one word
Opinions only go so far
They stick to some, like molten tar
Avoid what others have...
For the future generations
For the kids who will never experience Mr.Rogers
For the parents who give their children away
For...
It's 6:48 p.m., and I am everything.
I am last resorts, I am a life that is not mine, a mask that is yet to be taken off...
My girl
So calm like the dew of 'diaz'
Her eyes! Like the stars bedecking the skies like swinging lantern of eternity...
What I would change? Thats Cliche. Change cant be done if no action is meant to follow suit. This is tyrany, a question of...
No, I don't wanna go where everybody knows my name, I don't wanna go where everybody glad to see me, this isn't cheers, I...
Basketball, golf, hockey, tennis. You name it, I know it. A boy might be the most dominate in this field, but I'm...
The first time the light crosses the eyes of a new seed. A new breed that breathes the air of the diseased. Fall victum to...
From the moment you were planted, I felt our spirits touch one another.
Just like me, you are made of Moon, under the...
At any given moment you could ask me what's on my mind
and I could give you a categorized list with bullet points to...
There's nothing more perfect than love,
something that can't be found,
only accidently bestowed upon.
To have someone to...
What is love?
love is a powerful emotion.
God create love and created man.
When people say they can't love, I don't believe...
If you ask me of love
I will tell you that it is enigmatic
That you will feel it in the trenches of your soul
And in the...
It may be the only thing left to do
to ease your stress..... you just wanna
make it go away, all this mess
but ...
texas,don,g,nutt,59.poem.stormy storm weather twisted an bad a twirl of the wind a powerful spin the whirling an hollaing...
There is one thing
that can bring
joy to my life
bringing us to a strife
i cannot live my life
without a thing named anime...
So, why do you hide?
So, why is it that you cry with a smile covering your face?
For why, do you cover what's inside?
Let it...
At the age of 12 I start to cut myself with the blade thinking if I would cut deeper the pain of my crazy mind would all go...
why am i alone?
why am i hurting...aone
Dont pretend
to save me when
you were the one
to drown me.
Often we hear the word LIFE thrown around so swiftly
But in all reality what is LIFE
I’ve often heard just because you live...
SHAUNSTERXXX RIP JUICE WRLD UR THE BEST ARTIST IN THE WRLD
YOUR MY HOMIE YEAH YOUR HIGH YEAH YOURTHE BEST SINGER OUT THERE...
First class of the day, Heartache 101. Stepping into the room, today chairs are
moved into a circle. In capital letters on...
There is a time and place to be a princess, be be lady-like and to influence others with your charm, but there will never be...
You think that I’m playing
And just being Asian
Acting like you run the world
Pasteurizing this little girl
Well guess what...
I asked myself, what the FUCK is education? A nine letter noun that involves complete concentration... I ended up searching...
Acceptance is what I choose to need.
To get away from my misery.
I trust those who hurt and love those who use me.
Only its...
It is time to wakeup before mom and grandma
remember not up the volume to loud on the t.v. it is only Saturday
rush to get...
Have you ever wondered how bodybuilders get so strong, power just as I would take the power of God into a deserted island....
I felt your touch from the window
I remember the small fight that we had over us
Who will give each their surprise gift
You...
They don't tell us about the black soldiers. Sitting in history class you would've thought we had none of'em. Whipped,...
I sit and I hold your fire
I pause for the joy I get
When I grasp you
The way you sparkle in light
They see you as...
I dream of a life where media isn't idolized,
Where women can love their bodies the way they are
and society will no longer...
Today I was lost
Today I was afraid
Today I just cried
today i was sad
today I was alone
today my phone died
today I really...
We wake up every morning because they tell us to.
Throwing on clothes they see as proper.
Listening to the teacher's they...
Once upon a time, not long ago
Lived Antonia, a bright child
Who was pretty and never wild
Once upon a time, the sky was...
My Nib treats, each piece of paper like a peanut. . . it eatsMy nib does not Nibble on the Sheets. . .It fiends for food, to...
A smile is what you see
But it's what's insde is what you don't know about me.
You thouht you knew
NO! You have no clue.
I...
Since I have no place to go
No purpose
No intent
Since all I have are ideals
Great ideas
With modest executions
Since I am...
She looks in the mirror
all she see's is a reflection
she was rated a six
she started to believe it although her friends...
When our own homes become a battleground
It brings a new meaning to p.o.w.
When our stories are painted on whitewash...
We were driving back from a long night that consisted of frosted lips, too much eyeliner, beeping car alarms, and ran-thru...
300 years of slavery,
300 years in chains,
One hundred years of bravery,
This finally led to change.
Fifty years later...
Wake Up, Work, Repeat.
Everyone around us living on a schedule,
living without believing, only doing what they
trained...
You feel the same
You sound the same
But you don't look the same
Your like a man hiding in the shadows
Fearing no one but...
I am a man...
No...
I am THE man,
the man that my forefathers molded me to be,
I am the leader,
the silent leader,
guiding...
I believed it was good to care,
But I didn't know there was a limit,
Everytime there was bad, I tried to be strong like a...
Packers and movers gurgaon
EXACTLY HOW RELOCATION INDUSTRY IN INDIAN WILL BE READYING FOR A TREMENDOUS GROWTH?
Move...
Who am i? are we supposed to be judged by the color of our skin? maybe thats just the society we live. i know one thing for...
Black History. An idea of substance, of value, of culture.
But some prefer to see it upside down instead of right side up...
She lay across the couch as if posing for a cover shot.
Ms. December 1997?
The couch a pitch black; her dress a crimson red...
Yes, America is a great place to live
America is like the Hollywood of the world that everybody wants to visit
People...
It feels like I been here before I feel familar with this scene these words theses actions I feel like its on everyones...
Drowning in a deep dark tunnel, A tunnel of your fear, a tunnel of your confusion You are lost sitting in a puddle of pity ...
Here dead lie we because we did not choose
To live and shame the land from which we sprung.
Life, to be sure, is nothing...
Do you notice the destruction we bring to our world? Does it give you guilt about your ways? Stand up, start making a...
Let me....
I know you are the man in this,But Gender didn't bind us,love did...Your pains, our painsThe way you hold my hand...
To the girl who lives for the sounds and words of affirmation,
Here is a letter to you:
Although your body will become...
The greatest invention I can think of is the cassette player that goes into the radio of your car and plugs into your...
The Pacific Ocean. Her vast beauty will capture your attention but her welcoming personality will steal your soul. She’s...
How can a place so cold put on such a warm face?
Gemini’s would even be surprised by the two-facedness.
When will we come...
Life goes on and we all get older,
But while my classmates just laugh and enjoy their years, I had to face all my childhood...
examine him closely
no, closer
please he begs of you
his wrist show nothing
but his forearms ache
the elegant stroke of...
The Gift from education is the foudation to your dreams.
from further ideas you think it may seem.
Count your blessings and...
Seventeen
Somewhere between childhood
And standing alone.
Wreaking of confusion and
Rebellion.
Lost
Yet, not respected...
Get out of my way. I don’t need your help.
You think its okay? I can do it all by myself.
I am dangerous. This is glorious...
You hate me and my kind because of the color of our skin
You think it's okay to mistreat and use us because we're black...
Smile, cry, hide
Me, myself and I
2/4 cup of plastered smiles, oh I pull them off how
1/2 cup of tears without the pain, I...
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I liveUnderneath your tongue twisting telltale truthsYour tongue tapering tough...
Umm.. excuse me
Miss, ya, my hand was raised yet you ignored my gaze and choose your smart ass niece to give her praise.
I...
I am the product of a fucked up life,
where only God can judge me and i’ll have to pay the price.
I am the product of a...
It hurts to see the table empty with no foodAnd my little brother walking around with some fucked up shoesThe way I'm living...
I have always wanted to be the best..
I have always wanted not to be like the rest
I have always wanted to conquer the...
*Chapter1*I stood still,Never thought of being' shaken, taken for, coz love was granted.
Never was, never did,Coz ever since...
You think you know us,
But you don’t even understand chess.
So go ahead and please fall in front of a bus.
I think I would...
Thinly disguised misogyny
Thirteen-year old’s agony
A fallen angel
Born in the wrong cradle
Mistaken miracle.
Story of a...
Why do we need to do what the teacher tells us to draw?
Aslong as I put effort and make an art like creation,
I should get...
Im tired of saying Im fine
I Got all these thoughts on my mind
I need someone to have and hold
And constantly be told
I...
Do not take those tears as a weakness. Receive them as thy strength. That bitter water there cleanses the soul and the eye,...
LOUD
silent
dispersed
the clouds that rain shattered blood through you
distilled inside of you frozen
your disires for what...
The moon
By Colleen Slane
Maybe the wolf is in love with the moon.
Maybe when he howls at the moon,
He is telling her how...
Just say
Say it already
Why should we have to choose
You
Me
We are not a label
See You and me we are one
One as equality
We...
Holding on to your strengths and letting go of your weaknesses.
Remebering the positive and motivational moments of your...
Look into a mirror.
What do you see? Your eyes, your nose, your lips, arms, legs, thighs. You just see your body. You see...
Ignorance;
Ignorance has no preference
Has no color, no race, and no ethnicity
Ignorance, has no age group
No sex, no rest...
They say if you truly want to know yourself, look at your five closest friends.
Because you are a reflection of the people...
Gaga use to call me a bully
Although I'm the smallest one in the room often
I took it
I take it
Use to have sticky fingers,...
I am BOLD, I am BRAVE,
Who are YOU to tell me I'm not.
I may not be the fastest to understand, but I give what I've got.
My...
My ways are they wrong or right I can sit here and run game and get girls all night play games with they mind just like...
In today's society a young black male is considered a nobody they say we wont make it in this world we are just a...
Note after note turning to compositions
Hoping I don’t choke
The whole team about to figure it out
Seem like times...
You're dropping "I'm sorry" like I'm still around.I don't care how you feel. I don't care about your excuses.You took for...
When I was younger it didn't really get to me
But now i'm sitting here trying to rewrite history
And I swear I would do...
I should've let you known who I was from the beginning of this relationshipI should've let you known that I was nothing...
In the 3in by 2in picture
frame that hung in my
room showed the smile
The same smile that
I used to cover my pain
to hind...
I want to go deep in your thoughts and explore every inch of your mind
In the bedroom, bathroom, wash room I want to get...
O how you judge the things I do
I was not made by you
I am my own self
I don't change for you
Here I stand tall and proud...
"I'll take these lies to the bottom of the sea,where not even I could retrieve themAnd all of these emotions that run so...
Because I love you, you shouldn't have left.
I never asked for you to love me back,
I know that love is had, sometimes you...
I flip through the pages of my life like a diary,
I can finally see that what's inside of me is actually destined to change...
Why do people hate?
Hate is so irate
Hurt those who care about you
Why, why hate?
Turn your hate into love
Maybe then you...
This is just a list of some positive and negative names I have been called..I'll start with the negatives
Goody-two shoes...
Grownin' up on south side of LA
people didn't see you for the better
they could care less if you knew better.
They portrayed...
Darkness over flows your mindBringing all the best memories backKnowing that their gone forever,And never coming...
You smile at me like you know me. You have tried to understand me. You decided I was too complicated to comprehend and...
What does it mean to “act white”?
What does it mean to “act black”?
What does it mean to “act” any race?
Because from...
I grew up with little with dreams of gaining a lot.
I made friends with the best of them, trying to avoid the stereotypical...
When you look in the mirror, what do you see?
In the eyes of society, nobody is what they seem to be. The beautiful girl...
How do I define myself?I am a galaxy.
Do you know that part of a bookwhere you’re dragging throughhoping it’ll get better...
Even a 1,000 miles away,My closest impersonators, didn’t believe me.They poured out so quickly,Like a cloud with too much...
Do you ever get the feeling that maybe one person out of the many that surround you could understand you I feel that way...
Ever since elementary it's been the way
To change things, to obtain things, to let them hear what you have to say
Whatever...
Nobody gets me like you doMy only wish is that you stay trueYou found out about meyou found out what i use to doand ontop of...
thoughts that kill thoughts of being not worthy
voices saying “no love will ever come”
trying to not give in
the voices...
“You can be anything you want to be—a doctor or a lawyer.”My father was a math man, a mad man; definitely not a family man.I...
Big Brother is watching,
He never leaves me alone,
He always yells and shouts,
He throws temper tantrums almost every day,...
What are Words?
Are they used to communicate or to express our feelings or to affend us?
Words revolves around us, like the...
The rainThe wavesThe temporary feeling of blissThe cigarette pressed between his lips"I'll take you to a place with a view...
Behind the curtains
Never let them close
Keep your secrets concealed
So that no one should know
All the pain and the tears...
We are together through the rain;
Flying by the aching pain
I ask myself is she the one;
or is she just like the other ton...
In a country that prides itself on
“liberty and justice for all,”
there is one injustice that simply cannot be ignored.
In...
Who the fuck am I, you asked.
I think the real question is who the fuck are you?
What makes you think you have the right...
I try to fit in ,
But I'm nothing like the other's,
like laying in the cold with shorts on and no covers,
Trying to...
Assault With A Deadly WeaponYou're searchin' for Love & affection; Constant Protection. . .Hugs & Caressing the type...
Dear Love,
What’s been on my mind?
An eternal pain.
A constant pain.
It's a movement of anxiety and worry that slowly...
I dont want that life were everyone knows my business, I dont want to be famous
I have so many problems one wrong move...
They say black is the new black
Acting like they're bringing it back
But lack the fact that it never left
My black have...
Goodbye Mr.Funnyman.
You forgot to take your bow.
You left the stage in mid applause,
who do we laugh at now?
Was that the...
According to the Food and Drug Administration,
caffeine is a highly addictive substance
You may not see it that way because...
Once upon a time...
Not long ago...
In a land where problems don’t exist and everything...
it’s 11:42 at night
i finished the vodka under my bed
it burns of desperation and sorrow
as i take the last drink
yet i...
A new urge to resist and our desirable temptation, a world of many complections and complications.
Some day's ago a year for one this year for one as well i met two amazing people i met a heart of card's female and a knight...
I am not going to cry- So you can just let that mess die- I refuse to shed a tear- Cuase I have nothing to fear- From me,...
Baby come back home
But youre so far gone
I wish I could take you away
From that horrible place
Then I could see your...
sex is a drug that you use to get my attention
you seem to think sex is everything
just cause other couple are doing it...
The land I came
The place I live
Where there is peace
Which I can never replace.
I can see beautiful creations
Family I...
Stand Up
and let your voice be heard
Stand Up
for the rights you believe in
Stand Up
having a strong voice you will...
I just wanna say something to ALL women You're beautiful & don't let anyone say different You're more fine than a ticket...
Being alone and often watching the blissful life of others,
you often sit and contemplate,
why am I drowning in my sorrow?...
Required Learning
Learning is not the most fun
You have right to education
It creates one fate
It's a priority
Learning is...
A selfie should be a self portrait of the real you.
No need for a filter, it's just a glimpse of someone you wish you knew....
Life feels like a song
Lyrics start to flow through my brain with a feeling
Thinking about my life and who I chosed to be...
Compared to these snakes I'm a dragon,
A lyrical beast that spits flames while standing in a crowd of loud mouths
that...
Jan 29, 2013
"Mr. Coward"
You're Mr. coward!!!
If you can't look another man in his eyes and say How You Really...
Teachers can be cruel
Teachers can be nice
Teachers be fools
But can also give advice
Some are cool
Some are boring
Some...
Anticipation is killing me
I start doing things nervously
Anticipation, Love slows me down
Our situation becomes diffent;...
You ae more important,
then the names you get called
I promise,
you will someday understand that
you are meant for
amazing...
Life is too difficulty
Just wanted to
End with death.
Life is too darkness
Do not know where
To face.
Life is too evil no...
Silent, Sad, Mad,
What is wrong with me?
I am crying inside where you can not see.
Silent, but LOUD
Explain to me.
I have...
This is a process of engagement.. the mind, my mind and its strength,
I never thought to push it any further, to open the...
Weak, Worthless, Insignificant, Useless, Unwanted, Dejected.
That is what I felt inside, looking at me from the outside....
Sometimes if u with a dime you need to separate No magnets , no clamps, no bands , ain't no fish and bate I ain't no show...
I used to think that it was important that I immediately knew who I was.
What I found was that I still do not know. I know...