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yet no one is,
theres lots thing to change
and we try to do our best,
more trees...
I was to be in the middle holding both of your hands
….. to swing.
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yeah thats right
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African-American
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Im...
1976
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Thank you lord
The dawn of a red sky
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Dear Mr.President,
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Our sophmore year of high school, for
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t is in the process of
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I write . . .
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Dark and Cold
part but whole
blood droping from my soul
kicked and rounded
lights come on but still it's dark and cold...
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So bright
Keeps me warm
Keeps me light
In the morning
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But after noon
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Then I start to...
Each day, I call out to you,
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this is where I stand,
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The hate of the earth will make you blue
Bitterness can harvest, in your heart...
today you've stopped looking through me
finally deciding to see me
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as I sit it intensifies
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Instant.
Like the pain that spreads after you're cut .
Sharp.
Like the confident model shows her strut.
Immense.
Like the...
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You want to commit suicide go ahead, be my guest.
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I love you
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Single Dot
In a world of white,
There is a single dot.
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When you get closer to it,
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against othe countries
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everyday we wage war
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Powerful word:
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why can't I offer my input in some way
your teaching methods...
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A write this for ma country kenya,
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Country
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I look at what used to my home
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The automated words stream out
"It's ok, it's ok, it's ok."
When will anyone wonder if she herself
knows the way out?
The...
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I noticed "them" watching me,
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I...
CHILDHOOD
A stage of immaturity
A time between infancy and puberty
Early stage of development before maturity
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Night by night
Hour by hour
Minute per minute
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Constructed of understanding.
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In this cold world is there no place for me
it makes me mad how hard society has it
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A beautifully hand-crafted wooden chair
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Some believe its hype while,
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I write to not only...
FIRST STANZA:
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dogs barking
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All of Joy and Anger,
I'm Young
Filled with Longing and Amazement
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I live in a world with a single mind...
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Time is like a waterfall,
always goes forward
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The water is like the current of time,
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Weak minded I once was
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Throughout my life history
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i feel like im in jail
four walls,
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SAVE ME!!!!
8:13-2:45, IM IN HELL
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The squawking of the seagulls
the calmness of the waves
seashells shining gracefully
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To write
I feel the love
Burning inside
Like a flame so bright
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He gets me...
you billow
you bluff
you can't blow enough
you twirl and spin
you craft waves and dunes
you blow through full moons
you come...
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This World Of Mine
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I was a boy who was so confused.
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It's hard...
waiting for it
my time grinds down and i sit still
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trying to make sure that i am ready
waiting for it
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Or are we waiting on the day,
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“I Am From…..”
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I am from the living room
from the...
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I can see it all around me,
the deep deaths of suffocation
the pits of eternal falling
the sight of a blind man
I can sense...
As he walks in,
He sits amongst his peers,
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While the world turns we've disheartened our
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When You Walked Out The Door.
I Should Have Known.
You Didnt Say Good Bye And All I Wanted To Do Is Cry.
My Father.
The One...
Addiction how can you sentence me?
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The ball bounces against the crack of the drive
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Dusk disappears...
Steve Momphete
10/9/10
Mind Prostitution
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The sky is gray
Puddles are filled
Nobody realizes
How beautiful the slippery pavements,
The muddy grounds,
The fresh air,...
Many days I've often wondered why,
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Expressions are life
the story to be told
all of the pain and strife
the plot to unfold
sorrow greif
happiness to day
the...
She watches us all,
and yells down the hall.
Everyone runs,
and yells "hear she comes."
We call her Dresscode Natzi.
Chaos
Chaos
Mayhem
Look at the disasters of the earth
Lies
Lies
Destruction
See the troubles at birth
It's days like this when you're sitting all alone at lunch,
no one to talk to,
eat with,
no friends,
dang it's just so much...
It's gon' come.
When it's time, it's gon' come.
Though I have time, a day will come,
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She is mellow, creating what I saw as ordinary;
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Its days like this I feel like I'm at war
Ironically, it's raining and it pours
Memories are days when such worries
didn't...
Only raise your hand whenyou want to sharpen your pencilor go to the bathroom.Repeat every ten minutes.
Never raise your...
sometimes i feel like the whole world is against me sometimes i feel like nothing ever goes my way and it seems that things...
Growing up I was differnt from the norm
wheather is the way I talk, think or dress there was
always something wrong.
I was...
I'm good without a roof over my head. The government tryna force me to use gunkead. But instead, i'm still tryna get two...
Life is a big game
That has a certain set of rules
Some of them might be lame
Some of them might have holes
If you would...
Of many colors I am combined
into one beam of light
Patiently waiting under the clouds
Until the drizzling stops
One color...
As I look into the sky
I notice the worldly light is different.
It's something like a twinkle, but there's something else in...
It is with a heavy heart that I am writing this to you.
I want to start off by saying I'm sorry,
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We wear the mask that hides who we are
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This debt we pay to society
With physical apperance...
Money is the motive in the streets of Ea$t Oakland power in the gun keep a nigga stay posted mobbing on the track keep a...
I walk into the class, Room nine
and all I see are boys behinds
I wish they would take school more serious
cause what they'...
I write to express
when theres no one left to understand, I write to those that are in the same postion as me
wondering if...
The Image of Beauty
What is beauty?
Is it shaped, colored, living, a symbol, an image?
Can it be found in nature?
the...
An hour could pass
as a bear rolls around
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but the spring buds abound
Nine hours too little
my email...
It’s like a new world
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People wave their fingers in my face
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I am a beautidul black woman at heart
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i'd never have to see
we've hoped for many things
that are just so far out of reach
i...
Mapping it out was one of the ways that I can be me
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The cool wind blows, the leaves dancing upon it in a typoon of color. The gray sky reflects the emotions you feel. You sit...
You are the flowing and the firm,
The flaming and the frigid.
You are the fledging and the fossil,
The foolish and the...
You could see the brokenness of her heart in her lovely green eyes.
Hear her cry of help through her soft sweet smile.
You...
Do you thinkyou understand who I am?
I bet you can't even answer with the right choices
But you will give me your own...
Your hair looks terrible
Did you even try to use a brush?
I mean I think some birds are living in there
Seriously I just...
She is a blooming flower although they don't see it,
she is a more than just a shadow sitting in the classroom,
she is more...
Teddy bear’s choked with duct tape remind us to
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Red Bone, Yellow bone
Is there not a back bone that praises the black bone?
Is there media that praises the mahogany skin...
Hear em' shots from da Trumps n' Saxes?How bout' the drops of the Basses' beats?Whata' bout' the Piano's keys swarming...
My name is A'Jayla
All of Joy and Anger,
I'm Young
Filled with Longing and Amazement
I live in a world with a single mind...
Let us die
In a world of blue
Where no noe soul
Bares a clue
Though to walk the streets
None to wear of the cheats
This land...
I live in California, miles away from where I was born
in Oklahoma the tornado tragedies have my heart so torn
I mourn for...
Ten years old,
insomniac,
major depressive,
anxious.
My parents can't deal with me;
My teachers won't put up with it;
My...
Families of Seasons
The feel of love; and all around the year,
Seasons, Winter and Spring, Summer and Fall.
The love of...
Los Angeles, California. What is it like?
Sunny weather, super stars, flashing lights.
That’s what people think L.A. is like...
So you want to know
Why happy is the way I look,
But why that’s never ever
My feelings on Facebook?
Yeah, some of my days...
Many colors can be found
But there's only one stands out
What do you think it is?
Could it be blue?
As we look at above
We...
I cry out. Help!
I wimper and gasp with racing drops falling down my face. Help!
I am stuck in a dark, molded sphere,...
(poems go here) In line we stand, waiting to see what once was
All dressed up, but why?
Tears become inevitable
So many...
I wake up,
another morning,
so cold,
getting up from this warmth that surrounds me,
feels like taking a plunge into a world...
Summer time is here and along with that brings the family out.
Out on break from school and work, out enjoying what nature...
Pain is like snow.
You look up—
And no matter how hard you squint,
You can't quite see where it's coming from.
From time to...
Remembering the past and what I used to be is a part of my present
Eighteen years old with eighteen months clean and sober...
What color am I?Mixture of shadesMy heart filled with yellow; but a touch of black.In my eyes, an emotionally intense...
Captured and still
Painted with skill
She waits with grace
A darling face
Heavenly glow
Painter will show
Beauty behold...
Reduce;
Because, let's face it, we've gotten all too big.
The Earth is huge
but we make a difference,
we're making her sick...
Student advice is not often heard, even though we repeat every word. We appreciate your help, and all of your time. But...
It happened so fast, it all happened at once
I lost my job, my house, my life and everything I loved
The nights are cold and...
Laying in my bed staring at this picture on my wall,
It is not that big but yet it stands so tall,
As it hung not saying a...
i am speaking to an open door
which communicates, red-faced
and feeds me compliments
that i munch on like almonds
i can feel...
Right behind these high gatesThere is a placeWhere people fall silentQuiet even in a face of violenceEveryone is one, as if...
Spiders, spiders,
Crawling in my room,
Smack them, whack them,
Or they won’t leave soon.
Spiders, spiders,
Hide in the...
As the night sets in a still motionless type of beauty. The lights dim, the stars arrive accompanied by the moon. The...
My brother
Make your legacy live in history
The past of segregation lingers onto our present communities,
And its comedy is...
Like the earth beneath a popular tree, life is shaded.
The existence of knowledge stands firm and strong,
yet, some and many...
I had zits.
I have zits.
We all do, it just comes with being a teenager. And just like zits, that awful “I’m not beautiful”...
Small words, big meaning
To understand, to finally know,
Emotions that leave you seeing
The world and the woe
Of unheard...
I am Eija Shellman
I hear people talking
I smell Japanese Cherry blossoms
I taste alcohol,
I touch fabric,
I see clothes,
I...
What makes a photographer good?
Patience, settings, or things that would,
make people stop dead in their tracks,
to observe...
There is a bee who loved to drink tea.
She loved to play during the day.
She slept tight at night.
When afternoon, she...
Laying in my bed staring at this picture on my wall,
It is not that big but yet it stands so tall,
As it hung not saying a...
Its Now or Never
The doors are closing
So may places
So little times
Two Roads ahead
You can go left or you can go right...
Ours was a love of gun smoke & closed windows
Remembered in Polaroid photos
Can you feel my breath escape?
I found...
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Marriage
Marriage is tuff with good and bad days.
Marriage takes work but it starts with someone whos...
Mr. never really had a real thrill for lies despite the tries leave u stuck-without a motive...
knowing while u craving---...
From the moment I saw you, I reached to be a kind friend. The Time i finally met you I knew I was blessed to have you as my...
When I was little
I ensured everyone I had the loudest scream
One that would shake the world
I could feel it brewing up...
I flit from branch to branch
among the trees
Humans walk below me
Never looking up to see
The creature that is me
Who’s...
Do you ever sit around and ask yourself
What if I could start all over again?
Take what I know now and make a change in my...
There came a time
When I considered throwing away all religion and relationship
As things started to shift
So I...
I am from the rolling hills of Scotland,
I am from the white sand beaches of Spain,
I am from fighting, tears, and divorce,...
Look at the girl who carries such grace no one can critique.
Look at the boy who falls for her, regardless of how bleak or...
Songs of the dying echo through the vents
Ringing alarms for the hermits.
Get out, get out; it's all coming in.
All the...
Why we making a songs about strippers and your poles but not worrying about to disappearing in North and South Poles. why...
Our house, our home, our life, our right.
The spinning world in the spotlight,
Whose deep blue depths, bright...
The sounds of roaring fire
Falls heavy on mistrials of ones individual mind
Essential to those never had the nothing...
What would it take for every adolescent in this room to get a spark?
A famous person, a teacher, or bright dreams and...
5, 6, 7, 8 numbers in my head
Adagio, Arabesque, Allongé
Perfection in motion
Dance
5, 6, 7, 8 numbers in my head...
Time is a healer.
It's a concealer.
It waits for no one, no one.
Time is a healer.
It's a revealer.
It silences everyone,...
Morning and the inevitable sigh
A constant reminder of life
So bright in the eyes
Yet so empty from within
The universe,...
When you see or hear of a child getting raped, Is the first thing you ask did they escape? Or do you just not care, because...
Your phone is so old, so last year, not cool anymore.
That dress you are wearing is so last season.
You haven't post...