Poetry
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Who needs them after all?
They’re just the ensemble to my play
The sidekicks and I'm the hero.
The extra chess pieces but I'm the king.
Even though i may be the main character to my story in this world
The extra people who get me through it is what makes the game easier. Game you ask ? I mean we only have one Life right?
We go to school so we can level up our minds right?
We eat to grow our strengths, right?
So it's a game.
A game of emotion, strength, and strategies.
No cheat codes.
By Briana Reyes
Classroom Thoughts
Just stop it!
Get out of your head.
Enough is enough.
Stop thinking about things you said.
Ok, well I said "hi".
But i'm not thinking about that.
I'm thinking about what happened.
I walked into a locker and fell into the janitor's mop bucket.
It started rolling and I fell down the stairs.
So now you see why i'm in my head.
By Briana Reyes
Mara
Forgive Mara, Forgive.
Take all those pains and rebuild.
I know the truth hurts, but don’t let it burn.
Those marks shouldn’t reprimand you.
Define to me not your old name, pain.
Those scars are not your story.
Amend Mara, Amend.
Let not the world remember your bitter affliction.
History only writes Victor names.
I know- roads on roads of memory pave you everyday.
But Mara, shouldn’t you rewrite that torment, as you have a new name.
Don’t suppress past trouble, rest.
She only gains an interest rate, like the press.
Arise Mara, Arise.
The present seeks you.
The struggle is only a scratch of your glory.
Keep carving, a diamond awaits you.
Be free Mara, be free.
As the caged bird sings, find freedom.
Assert your destiny.
By Victoria Agoha
Unknown Company
Who there?
I’m standing at the door knocking
Who there?
I’m not sure ,still trying to find the answer
But I’m getting there.
Who there?
Depends, I’m just a bystander standing by.
It’s a New Yorker thing
Who there ?
That has an answer that so little choose to hear.
Who there ?
It is I,
a version of me you didn’t seek.
Unknown by the past you.
Yet, this is the seventh time we meet .
I’m here though .
Must be faith’s doing
Who there ?
Just find me at the door and we’ll meet again.
Who there?
Present me that desired future mystery
As nightfall will make a new me again.
By Victoria Agoha
This poem was publish in "Inside of Me" American Highschool Poet of 2021 Contest - Live Poet Society
On Go
M.A.G.Life, yeah I’m really on go
You already know that I run the show
Get up when I get stuck in snow
I really get inspired by my city full of green lights
I’m always staying 10 toes away from street fights
Wanna have a good future, I ain’t really tryna rewrite
Many people do wrong, if I do that then I’ll be tight
Never accept failure, I improve cause I speak life
I’m great at pen to paper, so they said to do rap
I’m on my grind now, so I’m never gonna take naps
I don’t have time to roast people by making diss tracks
Why would I beef with someone if we won’t mix match?
I’m on that go mentality, and no one will ever switch that!
Part of a song by Mark Gonzalez Jr
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Life is like a merry-go-round, it comes around with good days and bad days, but in my life I mostly notice my bad days because those hurt me the most.
My good days don't exist when my bad days come around.i have good dreams at night while I'm sleeping, but reality is reality not a dream.
I heard someone say in a video "why do we close our eyes when we kiss, pray, cry, and dream?"I thought to myself and didn't know why until he said "Because the beautiful things in life are not seen but felt from the heart."to me those words came to my mind and made me think beautiful things do happen,Like they really do exist and are meant to be seen in life
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A Kiss could be a special thing that happens between two people in love when they get married and last till death do us part.
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A Pray could be someone's word being sent to god when they need a blessing for a love one or themselves or even send a miracle to happen, those prayers do get answered it just takes time for happiness and for a miracle to appear when god's angel isn't ready to be sent to Heaven and stays on earth.
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A Cry can be someone's love that feels so original or just having someone that gives you that company you need to make you feel happy again.
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A Dream is something you see in your imagination that you see yourself doing something you've always wanted to do as a child or even become something in the future that makes you work hard enough and focus and accomplish things you didn't know you can do by just sticking to that dream.
So beautiful things can be seen and not just felt from the heart, but besides that statements i'm still waiting for my beautiful kiss, for my prayers to be answered, my beautiful cry and dream, while waiting for that to happen i'll keep searching for the light in my dark battles.
By Lisha Sanchez
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They say girls are too emotional bc of the way we act
I mean if i say no to someone it means im being too uptight
but if I say yes to someone it means I’m just letting myself go.
If we don’t wear makeup that means we’re being lazy
and they’re gonna ask you is it that time of the month again?
But if we do wear makeup then it’s because we do it for attention.
If I don’t have the perfect body with the perfect curves, then I don’t fit in today’s society.
But if I do, then I can’t show it or else they’re call me desperate.
You want the girl with the perfect hair, the perfect face and the perfect body.
But you need to remember she can’t be obese and she can’t be anorexic.
She needs to be PERFECT.
But perfect isn’t a word, perfect doesn’t exist, no one is perfect...
And at the end of the day you ask me “why are you insecure?”
I wonder why...“why don’t you show your face on FaceTime?”
I wonder why...”why don’t you send me pictures of your face?”
I wonder why...I really do.
By Kai
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They say girls are too emotional bc of the way we act
I mean if i say no to someone it means im being too uptight
but if I say yes to someone it means I’m just letting myself go.
If we don’t wear makeup that means we’re being lazy
and they’re gonna ask you is it that time of the month again?
But if we do wear makeup then it’s because we do it for attention.
If I don’t have the perfect body with the perfect curves, then I don’t fit in today’s society.
But if I do, then I can’t show it or else they’re call me desperate.
You want the girl with the perfect hair, the perfect face and the perfect body.
But you need to remember she can’t be obese and she can’t be anorexic.
She needs to be PERFECT.
But perfect isn’t a word, perfect doesn’t exist, no one is perfect...
And at the end of the day you ask me “why are you insecure?”
I wonder why...“why don’t you show your face on FaceTime?”
I wonder why...”why don’t you send me pictures of your face?”
I wonder why...I really do.
By Kai
Colors
The colors make me think of around the world
because you see colors everywhere
no matter where you are looking
Sometimes, when I have seen the colors for the very first time,
I want to know where that color came from,
like mixing paint colors.
But the colors sometimes I like when it is fresh air or very hot,
I think of the 3 colors, green, blue and purple
while the other 3 colors are like the hot ones, red, orange and yellow.
The colors also make me think of the coloring books
I really want to draw and show to everyone how I have done perfectly.
Lastly, there are only 3 colors of black, white and gray
from the previous years
because the cameras from the years like the 1880s, 1890s can only see non-color.
By Mario Laime Jr.