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POEM STARTER
Title your poem after someone you have felt profoundly influenced by in your life.
It doesn’t have to be someone you know personally, but the poem should reflect why this person is important to you, even if it is not directly about them.
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I see the world in shades of gray
But even I’m a hypocrite
I hate you for taking him from me, I say
But wait-
Why do I blame you?
Why not blame him?
He who took me for granted and threw me away?
You with the trauma, dead parents and all
Blame the girl always, and the man gets off
You fell for his charm, you wanted to be loved
I don’t blame you anymore
I was you, growing up
Heal first, ba...
This is how I left the war.
This is how I turned the words
How I couldn’t grow my hair
How I couldn’t free the birds.
Here is where I start to hide.
Here is where I closed my eyes
How I couldn’t hold your hand.
How I couldn’t loosen ties.
That was how I saw my life.
That was how I faced the day.
In the towns where I was born
In the friends I turned away.
This is how I leave the years.
This i...
How could you leave us so unexpected?
We waited, we waited
For you but you just left us
We needed you, I needed you
Yo, I don't know what it's like to be addicted to pills
But I do know what it's like to be a witness, it kills
Becky told me she love me, I'm thinking this isn't real
I think of you when I get a whiff of that cigarette smell, yeah
Welcome to the bottom of hell
They say pain is a pris...
Staring into the truth
It’s staring back at me, staring with so much silence and couth.
What can I do? What can I say?
For me and my bleeding heart have chosen to stay.
Trapped, forever trapped.
In your mind twisted in a thread I am trapped.
In a last effort to regain my shaky balance I snapped.
Scared and afraid, I brush off my fear and sorrow.
They can never know.
They don’t need to know.
Why sh...
A sense of fleeting meaning,
Rocks thrown for no reason,
Shoes with no laces to tie,
Tears but nothing to cry.
Pages torn and turned,
Days passed and waved,
An unfortunate lonely day,
Someone asks to be saved.
I won’t speak of death,
I won’t deny it’s truth,
This man, what’s his name,
He’s guiding these troubled youth.
So, one must imagine hope,
One must imagine a way ahead,
His words, they sha...
At first I met you
There was distaste
To not support
Merely accept
My identity
Hurt
At first I talked to you
There was amusmant
With your prayers
Your psalms
A God
I rejected
At first I understood you
Split second
We connected
I felt jealousy
That you could believe
So faithfully
At first I loved you
As a friend
I’ll say that
But it was a romance
In a sense of awakening
Of faith
All these ...
Tumbling Granny
Flipping around
Scared of nothing
Not even the ground
Feet flopping about
She did lots of flips
If she knew you were looking
She also did splits
Her hands held up high
She ran down the hill
At an olympic speed
To show us her skill
She ran too fast,
The hill to steep
Her single steps
Looked more like leaps
But tumbling granny
Never fails
She muscled up
Tough as nails
Her arms ...
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