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POEM STARTER

Write a poem, in any style and genre, which ends with a question.

The question should be clearly related to the theme of the poem.

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The Growing Up Table

It started as a song

But Iā€™ve lost the melody.

Sitting at the grown up table,

_Is_ anyone stable?


I talked with the faces

Washed my hands with the broken flowers vases.

Sat with strangers on those stone-hard benches

Followed His tears in those life-worn trenches,


No one really wants to see over their neighbors fences.

Well


The absence of warmth. Thatā€™s how Iā€™d describe it. The echo and th...

My Life

From as long as I can remember I was broken, forgotten and unseen,

From all the ones that were supposed to be there for me,

Dad always leaving me on the floor crying and bleeding,

From all the abuse and meaningless beatings,

My Mothers blank stare that continued without a care cut deeper than anything,

And my Brother and Sister weā€™re nothing but bitches always lying and deceiving,

So much for the ...

Is It Real, Or Is It A Game?

Is it real,

All those looks of admiration?

Or is it a game,

To see how hard she falls?

Is it real,

That you want to know her name?

Or is it a game,

So you can tell them who it was who fell?

Is it real,

Going out of your way to be near her, to see her?

Or is it a game?

Tell, please,

Is it real, or is it a game?...

Let Me Back. Please?

I miss the times when my thoughts were overthrown

With thoughts of her

Not with thoughts of wanting to be dead

She would take over my brain for hours

With scenarios

Dreams

Hopes

Wishes

Now instead of her my thoughts are with suicide

Life

Death

Blade

I wish I could go back

To my sane mind

I need to go back

Please?...

If I See What I Feel

If I see what I feel, Iā€™d live in a meadow of daisyā€™s, along the shore, and Iā€™d always be on a horseā€™s back. If I could see what I feel, the sky would be a permanent sunset. You could walk on the clouds. They would taste like cotton candy. And the sun! The sun would be kind, and keep everyone warm. Sheā€™d back off in the summer, and be sure not to roast us. There could be no money, so everyone just...

Alone

Iā€™m not good with people

Bad at making friends

But what I know is

Theyā€™ll leave me in the end

They need me for a while

Because theyā€™re lonely too

But then theyā€™ll find a true friend

And Iā€™ll be left again

Iā€™m a shelter, a temporary home

For them to come and go

Till they completely tire

So I have just one question

When will you leave too?...

torture

My lungs are filling with water,

liquid trying to force me to fall asleep,

trying to take away my right to breathe.

Filling

with

t t r

a e a e w

w w r a


just go ahead and take my breath away,

either give it back, give it back or take it.

Take it forever, and gu...

Why?

I didnā€™t have my heart broken.

No one died.

I have a safe home, food.

A loving family, friends.


So why?

What went wrong?



What led me to this?...

Am I Fine

Start traveling

Going through time

Going through the river of expectations

Wanting to get it over with

Able to live my life

But yet

My parents want me to achieve goals

Just like my brothers

I want to be left alone some

Just let me peruse my art

Let me do anything I want

I donā€™t want to follow my

Brothers


I am still in middle school

But I feel I have depression

ADHD

I ask

And ask again ...

Who Am I?

People like to ask questions

Ones they think are simple

Ones about who you are

Because who doesnā€™t know themselves

Well Iā€™m here to say those are the hardest

Math is rules

So is science and grammar

Just facts or truths

Thatā€™s why the hardest question of all is

Who are you?...

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