Everything Is Awesome Poetry Scholarship Slam
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Living is believing
Believing that the world is great
There are people to love
But those people may hate
So fly like a dove
Let your dreams soar
Because life isn't over
The other day I felt down and sad,
I had so many problems I could not deal with,
The thoughts kept buzzing making me mad,
All the bad was unreal, a horrifying myth.
I could not handle it, so I sat back and thought,
I think about my future and how it will be
I plan to graduate from Clemson with an engineering degree
However college is very expensive, you see
So I'll need help with this very expensive fee
A million paths, all lead to one.
You either lived life to the fullest or wait till it’s done.
I’m ecstatic, I am scared.
Doing what I love to do with the thrill of the unknowing.
A cumbersome, catatonic existence can burn at my handsand I'll keep the torch with me, an old friend caught between young palms,ash and emotion make me stand:
“Gullible is written in the ceiling.” They said.
“HAHA!” They said.
“So clueless.” They said
But I say “THANK YOU!”
They lead me to a surprise
Only to be fooled into a joke,
Do you see that,
The life so bright,
so exuberant and extravagant,
pure and powerful,
Known but not understood,
felt from vast distances unimaginable to man,
Standing out was something I never wanted to do.
Being different from the rest seemed so out of line at the time
I never wanted to try new things, going beyond what was expected
When I think about life
sometimes tears come to my eyes.
The lack of money I have
at times causes me strife.
But then I remember my goals
and what’s to unfold.
Then I remember my blessings
Awesome is...
A wisp of white cloud
A streak of golden sun
The warmth of cooling Summer
And peace of Autumn
Glory of the skies
Beauty in swaying trees
Springy of resiliant grass
Life is Hard. We all know that.But why is it you they always pick at?It’s like they know what buttons to press,That make you angry and sad;overwhelmed with stress.
Writing a poem about how everything is awesome
but my possum it ain't the truth.
Sometimes I think I should get my dreams and tossum
Behind the picture perfect family,
There were seven precious creations.
All human, all broken, all loving.
Let's say two were married,
Two strong sons, and three dear daughters
Is it weird to think that love is gone?that hope is lost,that I'm not strong.Is it sad to think that I'm too weak,
I see them all the time
the clouds and the rain
I see them bumping along
the top of the brain
of a very intelligent train.
clouds in the sky and its raining real hard
you look at your wrists and cry cz' they're scarred
the car broke down you gotta ride your bike
you got a hair cut and someone called you a dike
I believe the best flaws about some people
is when thy care about others,
and you can actually feel that loving when
aroung them.
It's a natural feeling that makes you
do you ever stop to think about
how very unlikely it all is?
very unlikey.
think about it.
you exist, and while not impossible,
the odds were still against you.
for you to exist,
I never knew how much I could love,
Until I watched her come into the world.
Fifteen months ago,
Ever since day one she's had a sparkle in her eyes
With every passing day they prayed, "God, please don't let it die!"
You feel constricted, like you are tied up in ropes,
Tugging, scratching, waiting to break free,
Finally you feel the ropes loosen,
They fall from your shoulders,
FREEDOM.
Everything is awesome
The way it's spring and the flowers blossom.
Everything is awesome.
Then Life's not a "bummer becuase it's summer.
At last it's fall, and all of the kids are having a ball.
Isnt it crazy how rapidly things change
From calm to insane,
Like life is a game,
Or the other way around.
Catastrophe comes storming down
Then suddenly,
Its nowhere to be found.
Oh! to be awesome,
the word itself
Is like a beast with many heads.
Awesome is the thing that catches your eye
Awesome is what makes the day go by
Awesome is the stuff that you and you alone
Everything Is Awesome
It can be hard to see the beautify life has
when it hurts, destroys and makes us feel bad.
Sometimes I wonder.
Bzzzzzzt!
Look down.
New story on Snapchat.
Friends… laughing…
I am not there.
I am here,
Looking.
Sometimes I wonder.
Insecurity,
He is a mighty fine actor
of the thirties and fourties.
Oh my my heart swell at his amazing voice and wit and charm,
the way he dubbed grace and honor with every movement.
He is a winner that one,
I'm like a drug addict
Thought I was free
once again i'm back at it
you got me feeling like a fiend
i'm addicted to your love
i need another dose
Take your love you made
They call you over and sit you down,
“We’re moving again.”
“Again?” “Again.”
Where to this time?
Detroit? Boston? New York?
It doesn’t seem to matter,
The different cities all start to blur.
Living in society, full of critics
Judgmental? Might be
They're saying you got to live this way
to be accepted
Freedom disappeared
Living in hell with some exceptions
No time to plan your own dream
Tis your right!
Thou has becometh a person
Thou has becometh Awesome
What is this?
huh?
I never knew ?
How?
Awesome?
Yes.
Thank you
9:54 pm,
clean skin,
faintly tingling,
wrapped in fresh linen,
drifting away as
an air conditioner
buzzes,
misting the room with
cool that wraps
its big blue arms
Walking down the halls are faces
Big faces, small faces
Black faces, White Faces
Diversity is AWESOME.
loving one another, not just for their skins tone, is AWESOME
Dazzle me.
Your bright colors of allurement
showing off,
spinning fantasies.
Well, can you turn those fantasies into reality?
Take me.
You grew so fast yet stop the time.
You made me smile while ever so tired.
You make me proud.
You make me see.
You make me dream.
You make me shine and dance.
You make be run, jump , and skip.
Everyday
I like to listen to The Beatles play.
They're my favorite band, I guess I'd say.
Oh, I could sing all their songs everyday.
Secretly
I wish I could grow up in the sixties.
We live in times inspired by struggle,
day to day things seem hard to juggle,
Sunshine outside, but no warmth is present,
trying to make it in adolescence.
Looking for an up when what surrounds you is down,
Inspired by the skies and the sunshine,
You're perfect in my eyes.
I'm obsessed with Your words
the beautiful melody of Your voice,
I hear You all day.. clouding my thoughts
Memory of You?
Never do I feel alone even when discouged.
I always ask for his help even when I'm nervous.
Don’t be sad, stay awesome and scream
After school, lets take a break and eat ice cream
School may not be a fun place
But putting lessons from class in your brain will make you have a happy face
The lady at work spilled coffee on me
And a customer claimed I hadn’t gotten his order right
My kids hate crust on their bread and refuse to wear the color green
A day on the beach is what I need
As I put on the shoes
As I go out side
As I feel the air against my face
As I feel my lungs burn
As I pass the five mile mark
As I refuse to take a break
As I laugh at my pain
Too much to abide by,
The stress of daily life,
When everything feels like it’s going wrong.
As all the little problems turn to big ones
Swallowing me up
I can’t breathe.
Then I look to You.
Some say Life is full of despair,
Anger,
And loneliness.
That there is no point,
No purpose,
And no profit
Since the hand of Death will eventually capture us.
Life is truly amazing.
The air is fresh, filling up our lungs with a breath of new life every time we inhale.
Looking around
A tangible world filled with colors
Sights, sounds, creation,
A different world wherever i go,
Look at those cherry blossoms,
Everything i see, is awesome.
I was hurting yesterday but today I opened my eyes with a fresh view
becuse of you.
Allowing me to pour myself,
you are the cup that caputured the deepest secrets of my soul.
Awaken to the sound of a
mother’s song echoing
sweetly beneath canopies
of youth where fears
cured by wealth become
symbols of love
consuming bliss like
winds signaling spring
What would you do...
if you were given negative advice?
To be told that all your dreams would come true...
once a camel passes through the eye of a needle.
You can be whatever you wanted to be...
New mother
She adores her baby boy
The moment she met him
She fell so in love
Perfect little boy
Breath taking blue eyes
Ten fingers, Ten toes
Makes the cutest faces
I could, but do not, break
I could bend under the pressure
I could give up and sit down, exhausted
Some days, I am ashen-
I drag my way around,
And I will not look you in the eye.
I have no energy to do the smallest things,
And I will slump into the wall when someone gets near.
Pain before power
Tribulation before Triumph
To get somewhere you have to through something
I'm just any old person,
My idea will never be as good as the idea of that guy.
You don't seem to realize what you're doing,
When you reject your idea and stay in limbo by eating that pie.
The notes glide off my tongue again
Further perpetuating my adrenaline
My nerves are eradicated
as my heart stops vigorously palpitating
We came a long way,
Me, myself, and D-Slaps,
I remember it like it was yesterday, me sitting there, playing video games, like any other kid on their summer break,
People are distinguished in two different categories
the immeasurably noticeable and the noiselessly unseen
those in the first - celebrated, unlike those in the latter
Nonetheless, each contribution does matter
Everything is unknowingly awesome,
when you're sitting at a desk;
Thinking how your thoughts are going to blossom,
on to a piece of paper.
"What is awesome about this?
Where do I begin? How should I start?
I guess I'll start with my own heart.
In the past few years, it has been consumed by
Worries, fears, and painful goodbyes.
And then time started scaring me, my thoughts started scaring me, my feelings couldn’t even take it any longer and wanted to escape my body, my soul wanted to leave my body, i star
“Go with the one, be with the one, choose the one, marry the one that loves YOU," but how can I not decide which is better…to be loved by someone I couldn’t love back, or to love s
I liked those breezy summer nights with the sounds of sirens and fast cars, crickets chirping, and leaves moving, I liked becoming one with the wind, I am the wind, these nights to
I never knew how crazy (literally) love was until I lost him. Before it was only crazy, now I know how crazy. What happened?
Do yo want to know what is awesome?
The way the rain makes the flowers blossom.
In the spring when they sprout,
I cant help but shout.
Do you want to know what is awesome?
I look across the block
And see you standing there.
I hear the clock going tick-tock,
While I hold that teddy bear.
Seeing you is just in my imagination
I remember seeing you run those fairs.
I’ve read lies only to write truth.
And that’s the true lie.
My teacher played the ruler like the flute and I saw chalk create distant friction,
between my illusions of grandeur,
These past seven months with you have been blissful
Laying down with la sparkling luna
And rising with the radiant sun
I would run through jungles like a wild jaguar
Slavery is still alive.Racism excist.Sexist runs careers.People we look to for help are the helpless.Squirrels can adopt children not of their own.
It has been many years since you and I
I'm not sure why
But everytime I think about you I feel like I'm about to die.
I need you.
More than anything, I need you.
Everything is Awesome
When you know
You woke up
Had a nice breakfast
Hit the roads
Can come back to your momma
Knowing you survived another day
Everything is Awesome
When you know
Poetry floats from their mouth
like dragon smoke in December.
Happiness relaxes on their cheeks
like a glittered recliner and
the sound of their laugh gets caught in my hair.
A petal ripped from a rose.
A story spoken in perfect prose.
The sunset burning your eyes under an orange streaked sky.
The song on the radio of other cars whizzing by.
The perfect shot, left of center.
When I was younger and the world was bigger
I’d often travel far, far away
To places where I was happy and unaware
Drive on, drive on, until we reach tomorrow day
The touch of a mother is always remembered
They call it skin to skin , and that shows the affection
Though what I remember when in cool nights of December
Was the floor that gave me all its attention
She is ripped away from life slowly.
Her flesh. Her soul. Her eyes. Her heart.
Yet she stays put, to remain holy.
A girl so naive and scared to part.
She has memorized the patterns of alcohol,
It can hard to find the light
When all you know is darkness
and how to fight.
It seems as if it is a never ending cycle
of you against the world.
But never lose sight that you’re a gem,
Every time I look in the mirror, I beat myself down
Nothing can change, nothing can turn around
I cry and weep myself to sleep
I feel like I have no peace
Everyone I know and love turn their back on me
My beloved waits for me day after day for me to return from my nightmare as I call it. But in reality it is a prison and it captures my heart.
Thunder sunders the sky, leaving angry holes
Wide enough for the lightning to violently tear rips, and jagged edges that
The wind batter-flaps... the wind pushes, whips the sky's jagged edges and torn folds,
Life, to me, is a haphazard of things
lessons will be learned
tables will have turned
and then we're all stuck in an unhappy reality.
The next day will involve the following:
Good morning sun!
Good morning everyone!
Come with me, let's have some fun!
Feel the gentle breeze, look up at the fluffy clouds, what a beautiful day!
To the world, death is not considered awesome.
To the daredevils, injuries are not considered awesome.
To the innocent, hardships, illnesses, and poverty are not considered awesome.
F - Fresh, delicious, and such a soothing feeling.
O - Opens a door of happiness when your heart is healing.
O - "Oh, but I can't drown my sorrows in food?!" You say...
Two Mondays ago, I was feeling down.
Typical teen angst. Then I remembered my lunch . . .
Warm and creamy,
Cheesy goodness,
Pure awesomeness.
Everything is awesome
I am here, alive and well
I am happy to be here
I love the gift I have been given
The gift everyone has received
The gift of life
Life is awesome
Dear world,
I've never really had much of a voice,
Until I realized that I had a choice.
I could bottle in my thoughts,
And start feeling regret,
Until I fret
So filled with pests.
I stood before two mirrors
And saw myself reflected...
In one mirror, I saw Me
Standing in gloom, yet sharp to my eye.
There was Anger arching my brow,
And Jealousy reflected in my searching eyes.
They gave away our table,
The car ran out of gas.
But it doesn't really matter,
Because we still had a blast.
We took our last bit of money,
Pushed the car beside the road.
Wow, I really don’t think that I deserve this gift that You’re giving me,
I’m trying to gather my thoughts as to how I even fit into this category, you see…
The sparkle of your eyes
and the spread of your lips
when you smile, gives life.
To see you smile makes
my heart race with happiness,
like a bomb that would go off
at anygiven moment.
Love needs tender touches
And I cant fit through the phone
So I guess i'll have to live like this;
I'm meant to be alone.
second place
second rate
second try
the number two is always considered bad
or not worth it
or not as good
so maybe that is the reason it's my favorite number
everything is awesome.
no, really, it is.
the kalahari desert, the amazon rainforest, the australian outback.
it's all awesome.
so is music, and books, and films.
smiles and laughter,
Bruised and broken?
No, more like healing and forgiven.
For tragic is inevitable.
So why not be grateful?
When somone knocks you down,
Smile, they just fear you have a crown.
How is it the mind works?
Truly, how is thought expressed?
Because my mind makes synapses;
They filter deep within and fester.
That is, until they leave or cannot exist.
Despite all the bad my family goes through,
We always come back together and let our love shine through.
Whether it's done by cracking jokes, or hanging out,
When we come together it's like a massive POW WOW.
tears,
i'll not fucking shed a one,
lock them away,
pretend it's all good,
pretend i'm not leaving a new home to return to the old.
i can't wait to see my family,
sleep in my own bed,
When things seem to have darken along road
Or perhaps the road vanished right before your eyes
You stop and breathe.
You try to not let the darkness get to you, to devour you whole.
Ha...everything is awesome when it's going my way
Not your way or her way but my way all the way
Yah it's all smiles and giggles when my style is filling
The room
This room
This life we have is one of growth.
We need to learn to accept the faults.
Perfection is impossible
As i look around me
is it really what it seems
there is laughing and happiness
there is joy and smiles
but is that the true color of the sky?
The things around me
cannot all be good
Home is everything. Literally. Without a home there is no safe haven, no place to rest when you're starting to feel weak.
If I could say one thing to the world, it would be "La Vie Boheme" . Referring to the "free-spirit" of individuals.
Everything is awesome,
Even I can agree,
Everything outside like the birds and the bees,
The world is growing with wonderful faces,
Who invent and improve some wonderful places,
Everything is awesome,
Life is awesome.
Years go by and we've yet to blossom.
Life is awesome.
We get the chance to change the world
We can sing, we can dance, we can be twirled
twirled by the ones we love
From the molecular bonds that form the parts of me
to the microscopic cells that walk inside of me
I will have no one tell me I am less.
When the wild wind blow
and the starless sky becomes starfull
There must be a god can't you see
Everyday we live in his beauty
The trees.the sky.
With this as proof, his existence cannot be a lie.
But do you know where the the amazement dwell
dont you ever wanna run away sometime?
and go to a place where nobody knows you
a place where you can roam and be free
without having to constantly look over your shoudler
What is the full meaning of being awesome?
What does it mean to you?
Is it having a nice house or expensive clothes,
She's a wild thang ain't she?
You're looking through your window wondering what it's like to walk through her door.
You've been cooped up and afraid to explore.
You stick to your phone and what you think you know .
