'O Captain my Captain Scholarship Poem' '2018
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He wakes in the early morning to prepare for his day
Hard labor is what ends up making the pay
He hurts every morning and he hurts every night
A crayon
Teaches a hand to create
Colorful dreams onto white walls
Coloring outside the lines
No limits for each color
A pencil
Writes a love letter at 3 am
Born into youth with resilience and ferver
Was a boy so young, and so kind, yet clever
A boy whose bright mind and bright smile last forever
Taken care of by the whole soul of a wise tree
I walked into a cold and lonely room
It reeked of middle school drama and over-used axe spray
It felt like a thousand waves crashing into my body.
As I clung to anything I could.
A person.
My bed.
Like they were a lifeboat in the storm of losing you.
Holding chicken wings
Tiny hands fixing bike strings
I remember you
Old hands fixing gears
Callous and rough, old but strong
Holding chicken wings
Tiny hands fixing bike strings
I remember you
Old hands fixing gears
Callous and rough, old but strong
Holding chicken wings
Tiny hands fixing bike strings
I remember you
Old hands fixing gears
Callous and rough, old but strong
Thank you.
Thank you for everything.
Thank you for pushing me to be more involved.
Thank you for supporting me with all you have.
Who had the greatest impact on my life?
Makes me think back to when I was five.
My Momma was there
Making sure I brushed my hair,
But she wasn't the only one who cared.
As I got older,
Broken fragments pieced together,
is this who I am meant to be?
Little pair of hands and circuits working,
crafting what seems to be a part of me.
Guide me, until I break
the surface of the water
that held me down.
Hold me, as I gasp
for air that was denied to me
for so long.
Help me, as I swim
with struggling, unsure strokes
The story of my life can be relayed in lyrics
From pop punk to rap to Anna Nalick,
Eros, storge, philia, agape
A father stands for guidance, authority, and sound leadership
My father not only has these characteristics but many more
Through the good times and the bad times he has stuck by my side not switching sides
“Alone”
Left, right
“Worthless”
Left, right
“Weak”
Uphill, down,
“Lost”
Repeat.
Monsters growl and hunt.
My life growls and hunts, ME
I know who I am
I know who you are
But it’s hard to pinpoint what the influential point was
Was it when I realized that you are just as anxious as me?
A friend who teaches, a person you trust.
Helping you when you need it most and giving you all when you have nothing to give.
Those who teach and help with nothing in return
Everyone needs help when things get too tough
As an engineer in training, many things are taught.
We are taught new ways to solve problems, to innovate.
A family builds a great nest with windows that enable.
The mentor I seek, shines brightest
Brown is a mix of innocence and experience, because not everything is as easy in black and white. It is a blend of the natural essence in life. Her warmth assembled into your irises to turn the way you see things.
My mentor is my dad because he does not want me to go through what he went through, because he did not have a dad. Sometimes he be like you should be happy you have a dad because some kids don't.
My favorite class is the class I have the most fun in, where I can be myself
Even though I have to listen in this class
I can express myself as a person who doesn't have to worry about being laughed at by kids
“Mediocrity is not allowed
You know as well as I
For when we tolerate thoughts of simplicity
Ah, the creative will fall.
Then, we shall stand with heavy heads bowed
How voices will run dry.
I want to thank my grandparents
for when I was down
they did not let me get any warrants
I couldn not frown
They filled my belly
did not want me to starve
serve me grape jelly
I know I got lost sometimes
or caused trouble
sometimes I lost sight of my goal
but you were always right there.
Times came where we didn't see eye to eye
or I wouldn't speak,
God makes me feel free and lets me be me
he is a never seen mentor of mine
Of all the great people I know he has protected
us from great evils, including human kind
My mentor is my mother
My mom gives me advice, helps me
Makes me feel good, inspires me
And makes me happy
Advice is something everybody needs, including me because nobodyis perfect
Don't go against any good advice that can prevent you from getting yourself in trouble
Sometimes I travel too far along one set of tracks
When I look back I see that the distance is too great to venture home
So, I continue onward
I am lost and alone, waiting for the will to turn around
The first time we collide I was in aweI could believe this type of happiness Knowledge that if I ever did cry raw You would welcome me into your own nestWith a name just as odd as the beaches
O Social justiceWhat do you mean to meFor I am just a student with stage frighthaving to practice linesfor projects multiple timesalone in the night
An immense thank you to my past mistakes,
My teacher, my guide, my mentor,
My lessons, my directions, my advice.
The past is as vast as the sea,
And like the seas creatures,
My mother is a mentor like no other
Who bought out my creativity and made me wonder
My sister is a mentor who opened my shutters
When I was shy and my personality was under cover
As I look down the long road that awaits me
I wonder where it leads to
And who I will be when I get there
It will take me on a journey
One that I will never forget
You raised me up from a little girl.
Helped me turn my dreams into goals and goals into reality.
I could not have choosen a better leader on the path of life.
Thank you mom.
The rain falls steadily on
the waxy leaves.
I smile and feel
the drops fall
gently on my face.
The birds are only slightly bothered
by the water;
they twitter with annoyance
Dear Mom, I want to thank you. My single mom, Strong and steady. Showed me the power of a woman. Your heart was broken so abruptly. But you didn’t fall, you flourished. You picked us up and carried us along Still standing strong. I know you are hu
You brought me into this world.
It took you nine whole months to make me into a little girl.
You took my hand and held it close.
Because the shift dress remained to be a hassle, I wore capris instead.
How else was I to ride my bike if my dress was too tight?!
This was a story I would always hold in my heart dearly about my grandmother.
I miss you so much, god knows how much I miss you from your kind heart to the kisses on the cheek when you laid me down for bed.
When I was little kid growing up I thought you was a solider and could never get hurt.
When I was 10 years old, I had a dog that made me happy. He was my family. Everyday when I came home he would run to me. After he ran he jumped and gave me a hug, he makes me very happy.
My mom helps me and encourages me alot
before I walk out the house she says something nice
Oh... when I do bad she gets on me
I once skipped a class and she got on me
My love and inspiration
The thing that makes me happy all the tim is my friends. My friends always know everything I do and I know what the are doing. Everytime I am hanging out with my friends it makes me feel good in a way.
My mom gives me motivation
she is honest
she keeps dreams alive
she works harder and harder
everyday and almost night
but I know one thing
she never gives up
she is always herself
Disco pants
Long hair
Chest hair
Don’t care
You three look at me
With such an inviting stare
I let my frustration be
I let it go for a song or two or three
I dance along
Into this scandalous yet luminous world
Always changing
And many differences
Whos to say what's next
Who can tell you yesterday
The quiet omnipotence of my mentor
Has guided me through life.
To my younger self, I would have lent her
A small piece of advice.
To not resist these blueprints of success,
The last time I saw you,you were shriveled up with your hands held tight
You know I thought about you tonight
"never accept a wooden nickel," is all you would say
Dancing to remember
Dancing to forget,
Dancing to become something,
Dancing to pretend,
Dancing to stay active,
Dancing to learn more,
Growing up I never had much
Parents were always working and my older siblings couldn’t help me in my studies
It was always hard to keep up with the racial disparities being such a crutch
The person that inspires me the most is anonymous to random people,
but when duy calls for random people she is there.
She is out and helpful even though she is not with us.
You take care of me
You made me see what the world could truley be
you opened my eyes
There between your hands lies a surprise
You have gifted me with the sunrise
And so much more
You are beautiful
This is about my dad,
who is so very rad,
I talk to him when I'm sad,
and sometimes when I'm mad,
he always makes me glad,
he is a true comrade,
whenever I feel bad,
Thank you for helping me with my homework.
Thank you for giving me money when I need it.
Thank you for giving me good advice for school.
Thank you for helping me get good grades.
It is about my mom and dad
They are there for me
They help me grow up
and get to school
They tell me I am a sweet girl
and that I am smart
My mom is a good parent to me
You make my ears fell wonderful
All these different emotions
Happiness, sadness and contentment
You also make me very excited
You come in many different genres
Story of you...
Screams
Air shook
Quaking bed sheets
Story of you and me...
Cries
Broken connection
Seperated at birth
Story of you and me...
We are born with a fire
Ingited deep within our hearts
And with it comes a desire
To burn great and bright
But we are born the same
So if you want to rise, you must fight
This is what I was taught
Here's to the duo that raised me as an equal
I look upon them both as treasured friends who make my heart full.
Two opposites working in tandem,
It's about time I sit down and thank them.
Every little girl
Has a common dream
To start out as a princess
And grow into a queen
As a little girl
I looked up to my dad
He treated me like a princess
He was like my comrade
who is your greatest mentor?
they ask
who packs you lunches?
who wakes you up in the morning?
who is the first person you tell the good news to?
who let you cry in the car before wiping your tears?
You are the reason that I'm here
When you're with me, I have no fear
It is precious how you take a lot of time out of your day
I'm grateful that you take that time to help me along the way
I welcome you, brothers and sisters
To the island I call my home
The place of diversity
Filled with courtesy and charity
Thank you for the voices,
the ones that won't let me sleep at night,
the ones that keep crying out to me, "listen to me, listen to me."
Thank you for the voice,
the one that keeps my head down,
It's been with me my whole life,
I never had a decision.
Some days were good,
some were bad.
At one point,
it made me want to give up.
At others,
it made me thrive.
Mentor,
Friend,
Soulmate,
Brother,
Mentor.
A mentor is someone who shapes the mind,
Someone who helps the person to find
I am definitely most odd
With problems so broad
When I had a bad day
You made it less grey
And suffered time at school
Feeling like such a tool
You gave me your thoughts
To undo my knots
My eyes, blind to an orderly Earth
Discord. Turmoil paved the way
A struggle, a downhill climb from birth
I searched for comfort, day by day
Home
Oh the great sea
How it rocks to and fro
Carrying its children
Up above and deep below
They are all loved, by the ocean
held in its embrace
For those I love whome know not how much cherish they deserve
Oath to deign to those whose hearts bleed to mine
Referencing flesh and thought propels a marching pysche
Thoughtless to trivial conditionals
O Captain! My Captain!
Something so simple
O Captain! My Captain!
A class in school
O Captain! My Captain!
4 years in and im still learning more
O Captain! My Captain!
-So why am I not good enough for him
-Why am I not the person he wants me to be
-Why can't I be the person he wants me to be
-Why Why Why
I cannot touch you,
But I can feel you.
You come from the people that matter the most -
My family,
And my friends.
You bring me up, when I bring myself down.
quiet quiet quiet
why isn't your mind quiet
why does it race
and spin
and SHOUT SHOUT SHOUT
you are
overwhelmed?
you are
overwhelmed.
but she is there and she
Loosely, I stare
At the shriveled man before me
I wonder how it is people stay so put together
I smile, softly
He barely moves
So instead, I move
I kiss his cheek, and I hold his hand
You've made me sad,
You've made me mad,
You've made me cry,
You've made me sigh.
You've made me live.
When I wanted to die.
You've held me up, when time were tough.
I have 96 months 96, before IT comes. You know, IT, that thing, IT a gaping, tearing, pulling, pushing… IT I have just 96 months, the knifes so elegantly placed, so perfectly molded, holding so much promise.
My greatest talent is flexibility, bending but not broken.
The suffering of time gives the weight of challenge, but not the impossibility of defeat.
The wings of white turn the heavens gate upside down.
Little by little the world of human bound by time gets shifted.
The guardian of grace sends her knowledge of acceptance
reflecting on the purpose of her children.
My stomach coils within itself
My heart throbs behind my collar
My throat sticks and sqelches
My joints begin to melt
Your eyes flit across the room to find mine
Your laugh fills my skull
There is an oval,
of reasonably sick people sitting in room 121
You can feel the disease melting off our faces and onto the floor
People from each generation
I know how much you miss Michagain.
I know how much you wonder
If you're really making a difference
With kids from this Texan city.
Well, all I can say
Is that if the kids before
And the kids after
In the darkest hours of ones mortal life,
comes a light that will forever shine despite strife.
Even if the winds were to howl and all were fall,
she was there to endure it through it all.
Dear Mother,
Oh the things you have taught me
The experiences you have shared with me
The memories you have made with me
Dear Mother
Oh the times you pushed me to strive higher
I fall
The precipice just dark enough that no light penetrates
Just deep enough where my shouts aren’t heard
Down there, there is nothing, nothing but me
Dwight Shrute’s 10 Commandments
You may all know Jim Halpert
Pamela Beasley
Michael Scott
You thought me to be confident
Always told me to be honest
Show how to respect others
You always say to be strong
To be a leader
You take care of me
Always love me
Never give up on me
You gave birth to me when I was young
When I was down you picked me up
Everyday as the sun goes down
I just think about how many times you help me
When I look in your eyes all I see is tears
You have taken care of me since I was born
You buy all the things I want
You have always been there when I needed you most
You have always been pushing me to do my best
I don't know where I would be without you
today I realized I have many friends no mentor
I have an elder sister who slows me down when I'm going
too fast
a best friend who showed me how hard
work
will get you where you want to be
today I realized I have many friends no mentor
I have an elder sister who slows me down when I'm going
too fast
a best friend who showed me how hard
work
will get you where you want to be
Oh, Moon face, stars in your eyes, lead me to the ocean tonight
Sweet like peaches, cold as snow
No telling where we'll go
We'll find our way again one day
Silence
That's how it all starts
Darkness
The first thing I see
A range of colors that I have yet to know
A fight as I struggle to see
A blind rage for something I do not understand
an artist of graffiti,
a father trying,
a warm heart,
a recovering alcoholic--
a shirker of emotion,
I know you never
thought that you were
an example.
But you were.
You were
A great example for me.
You taught me to live compromisingly,
to be commited,
to be comical,
All my life I've never had to be creative.
All my winning poster and extra credit project ideas weren't mine.
All of them were hers.
She made the cute costumes.
She lay awake at night creating the clever saying.
There I was ready to walk away
But then God yelled today is the day
Walking back towards something that I had no idea what would happen
I trusted him and with the plan
How’s one to recognize any vicissitudes lest they paid attention. You paid attention.You paid beyond just attention,You paid it with love.Even though we fought from time to time and-That’s okay, We’re sisters anyway.Does it traverse your infinite
Mrs. Waters
Beautiful kindred spirit,
Lived my life before my breath.
You sail with me through it all.
My captain, lovely and wise.
Everybody has someone that they admire.
A person that helps them, a person that inspires.
They can be good, as they can be bad
But for me, that person is my dad.
My Tiny Mentor
Who would think that the smallest member of the house would have an impact so large?
Though we speak different languages, I know you’d never curse.
Out your soul was never a single ounce of hurt.
Because of you, I learned how to love
Because of you, I know love
Because of you, I strive for happiness
Because of you, I know happiness
Fear
My best friend and worst enemy
My number one motivator
My number one hater
Fear
I love you for taking me on this journey in life
Like a sword in my hand
a paintbrush glimmers with red,
ready to squander the acrylic dragon.
A canvas lay flat before me.
My brain oozes with paint as it pumps through my veins,
O Librarian, My Librarian
When an insecure young child I had been,
my imagination you did expand
Because the kindness of your heart gifted me a haven
as your soothing voice took me to different lands
Only one of my mentors has impacted me in such a way.
You helped mom give me life, but now I need to pay?
I was only five at the time,
but you believed hurting us was fine.
At the age of eight,
There she stands,
With the same smile that make her green eyes glisten.
I know her heart is full when she looks at me,
Because I have achieved everything she dreamt of,
Life, like prison or war,often is worsened by Heartbreak and phyical sores.
Everyone experiences thisMany suffer, its truebut what gets me through this time?Well, that would be you.
one…
two…
three…
four…
I hear the footprints upon the floor
Though they will not near my door
I sit and ponder the thought of one
Let me tell A bit about my life when I was only five I saw it all guns knives weed crack it was already Wack people were breaking in stealing all our money I could hear the rich people laughing I guess they thought it was funny because I was walk
Surrounded by pitch black
hoping the monster won’t come back
I hear its names society
It stops many lives entirely
This beast so corrupt
Rage overcomes your soul
Hate fills your eyes and all you want them to do is die
Stop breathing
Stop walking
Day after day dark clouds filled your mind.
Your smile and your laugh were your attempt to hide.
Fear of the darness kept you going,
until you became friends with it.
I understood you becuse I embraced it too,
Kline is like a nickel
She always has a ferronickel strength
When I'm not strong
She is strong for me
I thank her for her empowerment
Kline is like a dime
She always has 10 words of wisdon to share
I have played softball since I was eight.
Softball made me all my friends, gave me great role models,
and taught me how to be responsible.
I have grown up playing the game.
I have grown up holding a bat in my hand.
Anger is not a pretty emotion for a pretty girl like you,
and hate is a strong word, far stronger than what you feel.
I have grown in a world cultivated by fear
“I care what you have to say.”
Those words,
That thought,
I didn’t know how to reply.
I stood stumbling and mumbling incophensable words,
When I was a little girl
I would obsess over the horses.
I decided to dance instead,
But they never left my mind.
As the years went on I felt like I was different from the rest.
Dear Anxiety, You've always been there, in the back of my mind. Watching, waiting, listening. Biding your time until you felt it was time to come out. Watching me go through life, Waiting for me to do something risky, Listening to everything I sa
I am of influential women
The people who inspire me to be who I am and do what I do
The women who have raised me on a mental and physical level
She courses as strong as the tides
And dwindles when required
But when given the opportunity
She returns with larger waves than before
The future is mysterious yet bright,
It’s like the gold that shines on the streams mirroring the sky
Or the celestial bodies exposing the cosmos at night,
A guiding light inside my soul
That always tells me where to go;
Which path to take,
What choice to make
To which my actions show.
She hangs the flyer:
"Sale: baby shoes, never used."
Later, a gunshot.
A face I've always known
A shoulder I've always cried on
A half-mirror image of me
The person I want to be
My first hello
And eventually my hardest goodbye
Mom, please don't ever go
Thank you for listening to my nonsense
Thank you for guiding me down the right path
Thank you for being so understanding when others were not
Thank you for laughing when I couldn't
Thank you for keeping an open mind
Would you be proud?All the lessons you've taught meThe letters you kept me writingHands so worn with lead You've left behindNot by choice,The last words,You give are..Poetry, all that you have leftYou give it the best you canKeep writing what you'
In life, there are those who
Lead you to your destiny
But there are also those who
Are nothing but your enemy.
The truth is, we cannot process feelings of gratitude
So much has happened
So much has changed
When you debuted
People laughed
Judged, and didn’t believe
What you could become
As years went by
You made history
A Father.
A protector,
a lover,
a fighter.
A Father.
He is brave, he is strong, he is smart, and knows no wrong.
A Father.
You may fight, you may argue, but at the end
For Mama
You’ve been my strength
Through all of these years
Through broken bones
And endless tears
You’ve been my strength
Through tragic shows
Through worthless bullies
Most of the challenges I face everyday
Are due to the obstacles that get in my way
Life is not easy
But this fact shouldn't stop me
All I have to do is try
Sometimes I am afraid of not becoming successful
A mentor who changed me
A saivor oh is she
The strongest woman to ever walk this Earth
The very same woman who gave me birth
My mother my hero
Someone who is never a zero
Strives above all others
The doors begin to open,
And time begins to flow,
As reality is broken,
A world begins as an embryo.
So much to do,
So much to learn,
You choose to love someone
My father once told me
It's not an instant thing
You choose to love
and look past the flaws and failures
My father once told me
You love in spite of, not because of
i never knew how to respond
To the snide comments
The passing remarks
The constant reminder that i was “getting a bit pudgy”
While i fumble my words
my eyes dart to the ground,
but I feel the touch of your soft warm hands
pushing my head towards the sky.
Your booming dialect
guides me through the deep dark corners.
