'I am... Scholarship Slam 2016

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Tides of Change Drifting Shifting Divided our peoples Like seagulls Flying in the wind The lighthouse of hope Flickering and fading As sorrow seeps Into the masses
A hard year for all Slander and Pain abundant Time for renewal
I swallowed my pride, remembered that Patroclusdidn't have to die and that Enochleft no bloody body to mourn. I knew the tragedy of mourning. 
Change ripples and fluctuates like the river Without reason or warning before But should you stand and shiver? Or will you be hungry for more?
As the years go by, I wonder, if each resolution I make is truly a promise that there will be a resolution.   As the years go by, I wonder if there will be a promise, for less misery, 
I am Lost A roaming soul left among the trees A sapling learning to grow on its own This is fine though  I appreciate the silence left only for me I find comfort in the thought of loneliness  darkness
I am Lost A roaming soul left among the trees A sapling learning to grow on its own This is fine though  I appreciate the silence left only for me I find comfort in the thought of loneliness  darkness
I am Lost A roaming soul left among the trees A sapling learning to grow on its own This is fine though  I appreciate the silence left only for me I find comfort in the thought of loneliness  darkness
I am cheerful and life is full of joy, Everyone around me say it is true, Whenever I bake sweets I think, "Oh boy!" I bring smiles whenever I am in view.
Clouds
I am hoarding millions   of unspoken thoughts. Waiting to be spoken yearning to be heard.  Each with an incessant need 
                                She is a brick house standing so strong                           Her thoughts are the chairs where her mind will sit                              She is attacked by the ugly creature with hate
Turns Always Go Clockwise Four sisters spread of the floor, the shapes in their order It works. Clockwork. We play.
I wake up every morning, I see my Mom smile, My Daddy had passed away, Its been awhile, My Mom says she's not tired or hungry from work, But inside, I know she's very hurt,
All I need... is YOU Up above I know you're looking at me Even though i'm on this island it's YOU I need YOU, only you can calm me in my dark days God, YOU, the essence of forgiveness Throughout my life, You
Romance is dead, and poetry buried beside it Lovers no longer are roses by many names, but the vixen of a song Classics are branded a bore, the modern is too formulaic Free form is "sloppy"
Are you searching for meaning friend? Are you coming to your bleeding end? Do your wrists speak your bleeding mind, telling you your purpose is hard to find?
My eyelashes divided, for the very first time the first crease in these lids, created to be mine the first photo taken, with my baby blue eyes like a canon with a cap, a photographer’s surprise
Into the Wintry World I walk, And see the blood in shock. Lie there twice in the moon Never there thrice in the tune.   You were always there for me. Now you are gone with the fee.
I walk with no fear in my city fear is a feeling just not within me though sometimes I get weary, I weep in silence   I just want to be great girl, that's what I'll say  I need no lights, nothing sparkling
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