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To be somebody
And Not just-anybody
For that someone
And Not just anyone.
Someone but not anyone
in someone else’s eyes
To be that somebody the one they can’t deny
To be “The One” they seek they find
commonbees, pollen-sifters
a poem by riley minteer
You can find me in the fields,
catching water bugs,
and small red beetles.
When trials come like furious wind to blow you down,
To tear your tender heart and have your tongue -- a pawn.
Be strong and fight for liberty and equity;
Not by your arms or guns but by your ink and words.
In cold and ignorance. I wept for its depart.
How cold! How cold! It did intend to break my heart.
And standing still, and seeing all last rays be gone;
That made all clouds to paint a crimson sketch aloft.
A clean and clear, white sheet of paper; messed by ink.
The world and me, the people here; we live that brink.
Just like this night -- a villain veiled -- and then I sigh.
This tyrant darkness shakes my shoulders. Solitude!
I gazed upon the darkest sky and then I saw --
The stars. They flash like fiery embers through and through --
To east, to west. They're everywhere. To north to south
Like precious jewel there, so distinct and rare.
There's nothing good as merry as mellow meadows.
An airfield of gentle buzzing breeze; mine shadows --
Doth smile and racing with my fingers; the grasses --
And theirs as if hands they reach on me, wanting me --
'Twas once in early misty in the cold forenoon;
And some still sleep, so till and tight; beneath the moon.
The door. There was a knock; with rapping and with tap.
The mote in these eyes have awoken. Heard my kin --
I sighted golds within the sun's coruscate beam,
And tiny drizzles are blessings that falls downstream.
The trees now rested in an open peacefulness.
The birds performs aloft, and in bliss with the wind.
The sinews of my soul have been messily dissected
By the unsteady, wavering hand of depression
Each tender nerve frays as it’s carelessly bisected
The flame has a life of its own
Mysteriously ignited by the fuel of existence and
Set ablaze by the quaintness of the world’s wonders,
Wee beginnings as a single spark in a pit of ember
My RAGE, with the degrees of a thousand Hiroshimas,
ERUPTS!
reverberates,
reverberates,
reverberates,
up and down the chords of my body.
Strummed by the unwarranted jab from
kid.
The smile so beautiful, so enchanting that no one sees the pain and the anger in the eyes
or the tears falling to the cheeks.
They're all busy looking at the smile.
"Be strong. Be happy."
I have a dream, that we would all set aside our differences and let each other be passionate about whatever we presume to have meaning,
I know that we all spend our lives wishing and dreaming,
In the eyes of the president, I’m a fucking rapist
In the eyes of the president, I don’t work for shit
In the eyes of the president, I’m a drug user
Going to the theater for all the world to see
People on the big screen who, for the first time, look like me
Giving many kids a chance to connect with character’s identity
O expectations, what a blessing in a curse
You taught me to want more from myself
Without you, I'd be feeling so much worse
No longer just a bland book on a shelf
time is like sand
it slips right through your fingers.
you can hold on
and squeeze as tight as you can
but in the end
it slips right through your fingers
time is like sand
it slips right through your fingers.
you can hold on
and squeeze as tight as you can
but in the end
it slips right through your fingers
Blossoming remorse
Sage scented lies
Blank minds begging to be divorced from themselves
Discouraged by the aroma of the room.
Declining souls mourn for deciphering
The Definition of perfection,
And yet I get to call you my own,
You're just so filled with affection,
I think I might explode!
I call you my Mother,
A word meaning so much more,
The art of writing cannot be done without first mastering the art of reading.
The art of writing cannot be done without first mastering the art of reading.
To have readers, one must have been and always be a reader.
To have readers, one must have been and always be a reader.
to my dearest,
i remember seeing you for the first time
i remember falling for you for the first time
it was like jumping off of a cliff
& not worrying about the fall
Perhaps I was wrong,
maybe my accusations
have been oversung.
You were, as far as I was sure,
the problem that made me fight.
But as I leave you in the dirt and move on,
it seems
Rezza B. Santos
5416 Tender Tulip Ave.
Las Vegas, NV 89139
(702) 738-5643
20th November 2017
Rusty
Healthy is to feel good,To be mentally, physically And emotionally stable A Relationship is a bond between two people Two people who share similar feelings towards each other A relationship offers trust, honesty and respect A healthy relationship
I'm drinking Sprite out of a coca cola cup
Am I bad enough for you?
you're my daddy but it's been real tough
Sorry to tell you that you're through
Cause you're too expensive
Halloween
A time to laugh
A time to scream
Takes up the entire month
If you’re enthusiastic
My favorite time of the year
79 pages
79 pages, I swam through your gray matter
79 pages, I surfed through your white matter
79 pages, rough me up with your waves
79 pages, do what you do to my body
The guy I'm thinking about is the pure essence of childhood, simple and caring, knowing that life is full of fleeting moments.
He has a heart of gold, far more valuable than any jewel in the world..
She feels like a ghost among the living
With no destination or purpose,
A mind so big deserves much more then
Be simply unnoticed by many.
One more step, and she falls on her feet
When I close my eyes
I Envision the deep waters of the ocean
Spreading it's arms across the sea
Holding hands with distant waters
From another country
Never to break apart
Brotherhood's one magistic bond
On sleepless nights
When I lie awake
I often stare
Before I break.
I stare at you,
Oh ceiling, friend.
I stare to make
The nightmares end.
She was darkness, she was light,
She was beauty in my sight.
She was mad and stressed,
She was sad and soon became depressed.
That girl is my rock, She is my raft,
Please don't dip your Chicken Nuggets in Ketchup
Just seeing it makes me red.
Nothing against your personal eating habits.
Just if you’re around me
Please don't dump your Chicken Nuggets in Ketchup.
The difference that love can make
Could shift tectonic platesThe difference between
Hot and cold
Fear and relieve
If I had a voice to sing
With every breath my voice would ring
Out into every starry night,
And at the dawn
When my words have gone
I will with them take flight.
It is from their heart
Hopeless, and I don't think that you noticed so i wrote this
Cause I want you to know this before I disappear,whether I'm dead or gone,far from here
Love my city although many mental wounds had to scar here
There's a warm group of pink pigs
roaming the unattended class rooms.
One little pink pig drifted off
due to the sweet aroma
of an unknown substance.
He then goes onto the kitchen
We have seen this countless times before
We fall for those who will never reciprocate
The feelings we have and show
Though we may care that much for someone
Precious child, you were put onto this world with ever lasting love.Like a dove,You
A world without color is a dreary world at best,
For I wouldn’t see the red dragons on Grandma’s vest,
I wouldn’t see the brown ochre of a bird’s new nest,
While the sun rises and sets with its comity,
We continue to make the same mistakes and break amity,
With no other person that ourselves.
Remember to yourself that circumstances and conditions lay upon you,
On the broken stairs of a trailer
My weary soul sat
On the broken edge of a rusted sink
My hands rested flat
They followed themselves up the mirror
A piece of the price of pain
Is hatred
And the price of a piece of hatred
Is pain
Highness, I bow to nobody
But I kneel to a body of water and blood
Every
Single
I am...
I am
one of a kind
someone original
someone so fine
different than others
different indeed
you will never find
someone like me
I am tall and corky
a day can be painful but, it can also be sweet
if you waste it away you’ll never get it back
but another will come right on time as if on beat
Accorfing to my makers, my mom and my dad,
I am a blessing,most beautifully made
They asked God for me and their dream came true.
A little girl that was all they wanted.
What I Am
by Jadon Brown
What more do I have than what I am?
An incomplete vessel in the hands of the potter,
Every day when i see you
my eyes sparkle when youre here
Every day when we are together
i see your inner beauty in a blink
You are honest and not afraid
to say the truth, and make me
I'm a leader.
But my value doesn't depend on how many followers I have.
Picturesque.
Pounds of makeup doesn't define beauty nor does 100+ likes on a photo.
Social Media.
My buck teeth are beautifulThey make me look like a bunnyMy one hidden dimple is gorgeousIt pops out when something's funnyMy pale skin radiantLike ivory pearlsMy strong assertive voice
I am intelligent,
I am beautiful,
I am outgoing,
I am a hard worker,
I am funny,
I am caring,
I am sweet,
I am not ashamed,
I am FLAWLESS!
I AM ME!
Hair a mess
no make-up, no stress,
wearing jeans and a shirt
the same thing you'd probably wear to work.
I still smile and be who I am
I wake up, #FLAWLESS.
No make-up. Bra-less.
Should I wear jeans, or joggers?
Every morning I go through all this...
20 minutes til I catch the bus,
Eyebrows on FLEEK, hair looking plush,
I'm candid as me,
I may have red cheeks, buck teeth and my hair may not be neat,
But I'm just the perfect me,
So why bother be he or she?
Can't you see I'm just like B,
I won 10 out of 10 doing me,
Who am I without the "mask" I wear,
in a world that just sees me as another statistic?
Who am I without all the filters?
Who I am is defined neither my physical appearence, nor my intelligence,
I am a blank canvas,
I am unique,
I am a soul of wonder.
No person,
No object,
No filter
Shall change who I am.
I am dreams,
I am optimism,
I am a hopeless romantic.
Mirrors tell the truth, you see
They are blunt and honest, the worst but best kind too
It's hard trying to see yourself when it's impossible too.
You can't count on people's words either.
Enough, because you both have raised me better
Enough, because you are both leaving me dry
In tears and in pain,
That do not ever leave me.
Enough, because I trying, I have never paused
Put your makeup on, go to the beauty salon.
Get your nails done, my dear loved one.
Curl your hair, keep it slim their.
run an extra mile, keep your smile
Just so they could like you?
Most days I don't even wanna see your face.
You think everything in life is always a race.
If it was then I would win, even though I'm not tryin'.
How does it feel to always come in second place?
The Girl In the Corner,
Yes the one all alone,
The one who is in the pouring rain,
She has had a troubed past,
Cuts that are like sleaves going up and up her arm,
Her parents both gone,
The corset is now off,
Putting all the guard down.
What if they should flout or scoff?
Sea of shame, go ahead, drown.
Fabricating to care,
Pitching bad self esteem.
Yet they gossip and stare,
He made promises.
Things he could never reach and
things he could never keep.
He saw things beyond his reach.
He would gaze at the moon and stars
Are you ready to see what hides behind the curtain? Can you handle something so uncertain? All you can hear is laughter from her lips, and see a shadow moving her hips. Are you ready to pull the curtain? Are you ready for the uncertain?
"small lips", "big nose", "pale face",
"big eyes", "small thighs", "fat in the wrong place",
"awkward", "strange", "too shy",
but "dont let them get to you", "dont you cry"
smile, smile, smile.
She flies in the inner city.
Surrounded by different flocks, which one is best to join?
Colorful birds flying in the sky
Why can't she be more like them?
Wings, large and wide,
I see the past as lessons
and I pray for blessings
that will make me strong for the future
I've made many mistakes
including acting fake
I can't believe I put my personality at stake
Close your eyes,
Close your eyes and breathe.
This can’t be me,
This isn’t happening to me.
But it is.
And you can’t help it,
But what did you do?
Why you?
The weight is over bearing,
This house sometimes feels empty
No one understands I don't mean to hurt them
I just don't know how to reach out
My mom was my galaxy and I was a stargazer
Now she's just part of the Milky Way
I exist within a beat
A moment of synchronized sound.
An instance, determined by an ongoing tempo.
Floral prints and straw hats
Sips of lemonade and a gentle scent of daisies
Mix nicely with the cool spring breeze
It has just rained
So grass sticks to the bottom of our feet
There it is. Those metallic golden gates glistening in the sun. I have only heard about the place they call heaven, but how do know it's really there? Have you ever seen a beautiful bright red cardinal singing in the trees when all hope is lost?
Black.
No longer just a skin color but a culture.
No longer a protective covering but a name by which any other race
Must refer to as “African American.”
My name is Mariama Suwaneh.
I was born on April 5, I’m eighteen years old, I am 5’3.75” but I tell everyone I am 5’4”.
I am terrible at soccer, I love the Spanish language, I don’t really like chocolate,
Do you know how much silence hurts?
Your judgment burns
Even when I don’t know you
How can I show you
That whenever you laugh, it lacks its happy definition and instead creates an incision in my wall of confidence
My heart grows weak from the pain and the suffering of this cold hearted world i sit back and wonder why
Sunflowers dancing in the light, Hidden but not out of sight; Gathered in anonymity, But not without solemnity.
I’m hollow without you, a lock with no key.
You’re my canteen when I’m on a quest.
Keyboards missing their keys is you without me.
In your absence life is flavorless, water without tea.
Am I wrong? For coming to poetry with my insecurities? Not for attention. Just because ya know, Im insecure. I’m uncomfortable in my own skin. I look in the mirror & I try to see beauty, I try not to focus on the flaws..
God please help me. I'm begging. You've never let me down, even protected me when I was wrong. Now, I'm right. I'm no longer in the wrong. I just need your guidance, your love and your support. You've never let me down before.
I’m screaming shouting
Crying sobbing
CAN YOU HEAR ME??!
do you even care?
standing on the edge
One step from the finale
The end.
Do you care yet?
Releasing blood from these gashes in my arms
Do you care yet?
Popping all these pills
Do you care y
I escape my thoughts in the midst of the day trying to feel a void that has been empty for so
I’ve been shaking lately,
A thumb pitter-pattering on a desk,
Trembling fingers holding paper,
Greetings stranger, I am from the O.s. galaxy; many aliens have died in futile attempts to battle. Welcome to my mind, the requiem of of reality.
(Intro:)
Here I want
But I just can't have you
My life is all about you
But you just can't seem to care
It was you though
It was you who ended it
Steady trying to feel in this void. I find myself clenching the sheets, feeling it's texture. Smooth you would've thought... but, it's been layed in so long there's a change. Not one too noticable, but one only the owner knows of.
Society: Be yourself, but not like that!That’s all I seem to hear.People encourage you to be unique,but blast it on Facebook that you’re weird.This world seems to love to bring you up,
Waving Beauty along the waterline
Proud, splendid, fantastic
Rowing among the brisk waters
Warming the bitter days
Days,
Weeks,
Months,
They pass.
And I wait.
I wait on you.
I wait on a FaceTime,
A call,
Some word.
But you don't call.
You don't FaceTime,
You send no word.
Afraid to start a new
I buried myself in gray.
Bound to lose myself and all senses;
I found you, my radiant, blinding light
Your exquisite aura inticing, I reached for you.
That wilted flower of mine,
patiently sitting on the windowsill.
Began to take hue and form
Slowly peaking were the bright petals.
Surrounded by our elements
Feeling out of place
Neither of us dared to ruin the moment
It’s coming—our bitter enemy
The end, the war—our nemesis
We were warned
No attention was heeded
Rain
Look while it drips and rains
He feels our pain
Yes, like us he weeps and cries
Hence the drops fall from the sky
While grieving for the fate of man
And the rejection of His mighty hand
I have wandering eyes, but they don’t cheat.
I have wandering ears, but they don’t listen to harsh words.
I have a wandering mouth, they it doesn’t speak lies.
The width of a smile is proportionate
To the woman's disconsolate heart
Purpose
It’s in you
Me, him and her too
It’s the way you walk in your own shoes
Let it lead
Let it fuel
It’s only something you and God can choose
Just don’t lose your purpose
I'm backI'm here to stayThough dismayed and distraught and never critically acclaimedI have made peace
Peace..
We have so many choices in this world, and we’re expected to pick just one.
We have so many choices in this world, and we’re never able to get the best of both worlds.
Should I eat a banana or apple for lunch?
with some of these teachers i just want to use profanity
they talk and talk and talk i think i just might lose my sanity
they can go off on so mant irrelivant rants
Look at me, what do you see?
A picture of average nationality,
American girls in picture books.
Come here, come closer and take a look!
All you see: brown hair, blue eyes,
Coming in at five foot five!
Body Language
With the strut of the Wind,
The boundless flow of time.
Our minds tend to flutter,
With an undying chime.
Speaking through tocs and tics
Vision scattered,
In elementary school,
I was told:
To look both ways before crossing the street,
Do not run with scissors
Don't cheat in hide and seek.
Friends are forever,
And secrets are kept discreet.
I am that nameless one, the one girl everyone seems to have an opinion on
Oh look, there's that one ! that slim one, I heard she was this , heard she was that
You hardly even know me to even talk. what do I do ?
Want
By: Kamaria Campbell
Big, beautiful, warm, and wet from his tongue
Slowly gliding along the surface leaving behind a trail of saliva
Have you ever just sat down and thought about the decisions you have made?
Or the decisions of others around you that have affected you in one way or another?
I want to be kissed!
But not just kissed...
I want to be kissed because I’m me!
Not just because I’m some girl.
I don’t want to have to think
And think and think and rethink
I tell the time by trees.
I tell the time in threes.
Three by threes from trees.
Three by three by three.
Time in trees to three by threes.
We pass our time in trees.
We pass our time in threes.
When the rain falls at night
It helps me to sleep
It washes away
All the pain that I weep
I try my best
To look beyond the bad
But it keeps coming back
Like my pen to my pad
I'm no artist, dolled up
and I'm not perfect, flawed is beautiful
and I'm worth it.
Shining so bright, to the world
its blinding, on my accord it is
real no binding
She really thought it was real this time
She was stubborn that this time, this time he was the one
So she danced with words on her tongue
And made him feel like a prince
Oh to life’s little desires
Through irresistible body’s pleasures
Such do they bring the hottest fires
Within you cannot control
Within it gives comfort and console
Promises to make things better
White woman:
The United States of America was founded in 1776 and discovered by Christopher Columbus.
He came to the land to make new friends.
But, the Indians turned against them.
What does it matter?
If someone is yellow, black,white, brown or blue
What does it matter?
If I am a different color than you
I have the same amount of rights
I wake up in the morning and I sleep at night
I reflect. I dream. I speak. I desire.
How does it even compare? A broken heart? A summer's day? They are all the same.
We wander. We drift. We run. We crave.
It is indeed true that
The makings of a man,
and indeed that the
Greatest of men
Are oft those of
The greatest flaws
And hardships concerning
Mental and physical
Armageddeons unseen
Each and every question, by you or I, to me
My mind is quick to answer, so sure I’ll feel it be
An evolution strikes, as dusk turns into dawn
Awakened with wide eyes, my decision’s fully wrong
Our eyes can see many things. The world filled with many human beings. I can run hundreds of miles Just to see you smile.
Out of the frying pan
Into the fire
Just your fellow man
Mislead by desire
I can do it, I know I can
Liar liar pants on fire
Holy waters of the United States,
Wash away the cherry blood on his hands,
My voice calls out like David's precious lamb,
So lost in the valley of death and hate.
I won’t write tonight
____only cause the words
____keep stubbing toes
and maybe my belly hurts too.
Since we were learning how to talk,
we were taught what is and isn't appropriate,
have to follow a template to do anything,
and even demanded to change what we wrote in it,
Don't be what they want you to be
Love and embrace originality
You don't have to wear white shirts and skinny jeans
Wear bandanas and orange tees
You don't where I come from
You don't know what I've been through
You don't know how many nights I
Stayed up crying for you
You just think this is a game
But you're the one to realy blame
Running down a dirt street
With my bare feet
Holding on your hand
As tight as I can
And never letting go
Running from my past
And going to the future
Running through time ain't a bad crime
I've been calling you the Queen for some time
And this for a multitude of reasons
Out of wit, because your last name is King
About you can drive a man to treason
Their eyes no longer blank
As they had risen from concrete crumbles.
In the burning heat of day
And in the rituals of the night.
Rushing through the strings of dirty tents
Trying to find the ceaseless end
Two hearts beat as fast as fluttering wings.
People may say that it's just puppy love
But that isn't what's engraved on their rings,
"Infinity and Beyond," with a dove.
"Y'all are making a big mistake," says all.
