rachel-julia - Hello Poetry

Billy Collins said "high school is the place poetry goes to die." I would have to disagree. High school is monotonous and horrible and awful and wonderful. Some do not understand poetry and they may hate to read and write it and poetry may not be written. but does it have to be? We are living high school poetry. Poetry is exploding onto life's pages. When else do we have the emotions that we have now? every teenage love affair, every essay, every night of studying until we cannot stay awake, every audition, trying to find yourself over and over again, the practices, the tears, and the accomplishments. That is poetry. We're busy, and may not write it, but poetry is lived by us. Poetry is feeling, emotion, something that matters, jumping in the lake, a late night meeting of friends, staying home alone on Friday, wondering if we are needed. We're living our poems. To let everybody else know all one needs to do is pick up a pen.

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Oct 23, 2015

Oct 23, 2015 at 3:40 PM UTC

High School Poetry

Billy Collins said "high school is the place poetry goes to die." I would have to disagree. High school is monotonous and horrible and awful and wonderful. Some do not understand poetry and they may hate to read and write it and poetry may not be written. but does it have to be? We are living high school poetry. Poetry is exploding onto life's pages. When else do we have the emotions that we have now? every teenage love affair, every essay, every night of studying until we cannot stay awake, every audition, trying to find yourself over and over again, the practices, the tears, and the accomplishments. That is poetry. We're busy, and may not write it, but poetry is lived by us. Poetry is feeling, emotion, something that matters, jumping in the lake, a late night meeting of friends, staying home alone on Friday, wondering if we are needed. We're living our poems. To let everybody else know all one needs to do is pick up a pen.

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Let people tell you that you will fail Let them try to discourage you and then confuse them and continue to listen to your heart If your heart says to take a chance maybe you should listen You may end up a failure But you may end up a success Maybe you'll be poor or in over your head from college loan debt but at least you will know it's because you're going after your dream Being ambitious is dangerous Taking chances comes with risks You can choose to play it safe And you can tell me that I should play it safe too But I've never been much for safety I've tried to never let the what if's rule my life So you can give me your advice but I'm going to take risks and take chances It's going to be difficult and its going to be scary but I will do it because my dreams are worth it Saying no Saying it won't work Telling me to do something else Will only make me push myself harder Won't you feel silly when you see my dreams become reality after telling me they wouldn't No it isn't realistic The chance is slim and the world is full of competition but the world needs dreamers I will not be discouraged and I will keep going on Whether I get what I want or not I will just keep going I couldn't live with myself if I didn't try

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Oct 23, 2015

Oct 23, 2015 at 3:08 PM UTC

The Optimism and The Fear

Let people tell you that you will fail Let them try to discourage you and then confuse them and continue to listen to your heart If your heart says to take a chance maybe you should listen You may end up a failure But you may end up a success Maybe you'll be poor or in over your head from college loan debt but at least you will know it's because you're going after your dream Being ambitious is dangerous Taking chances comes with risks You can choose to play it safe And you can tell me that I should play it safe too But I've never been much for safety I've tried to never let the what if's rule my life So you can give me your advice but I'm going to take risks and take chances It's going to be difficult and its going to be scary but I will do it because my dreams are worth it Saying no Saying it won't work Telling me to do something else Will only make me push myself harder Won't you feel silly when you see my dreams become reality after telling me they wouldn't No it isn't realistic The chance is slim and the world is full of competition but the world needs dreamers I will not be discouraged and I will keep going on Whether I get what I want or not I will just keep going I couldn't live with myself if I didn't try

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Our form is free Think imagination You are abstract Art, subject in color Bold My life like no masterpiece Painted through experiment by me From here we paint passion Demanding a mess

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Oct 23, 2015

Oct 23, 2015 at 3:03 PM UTC

Our Form

Our form is free Think imagination You are abstract Art, subject in color Bold My life like no masterpiece Painted through experiment by me From here we paint passion Demanding a mess

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Sometimes everything in real life can be going really great but in your mind for some reason on a night when you're alone everything seems to be crumbling. On a friday night like tonight. When i went home and thought about the bonfire I was invited to thought about friends thought about how I had no idea what my relationship life was right now thought about how it was so frustrating that I couldn't find my glue gun for weeks binge watched tv ate put away clothes found some pictures of myself, pictures of an insecure youth who hated her body more than anything in the world. a girl who cried. a girl who was disappointed that she didn't look like barbie now that she had become a teenager. a girl who wore a lot of makeup to look pretty and cover all her acne. it didn't cover the acne just gave her a little barrier from the world. A girl who wore push up bras and straightened her hair every day and sometimes wore a bow in it. she hoped that boys would notice her or like her. A girl who was upset when they didn't. A girl who had no idea she liked other girls. put on some lipstick, smeared on black eyeliner, patted on blue to my eyelids, put my hair in a cheerleader bow tore apart two closets trying to find my ******* hot glue gun more tv thought about how i felt dehydrated thought about the mess i made from looking for the hot glue gun considered cleaning it up considered texting someone glue gun glue gun glue gun glue gun

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Oct 21, 2015

Oct 21, 2015 at 3:50 PM UTC

Glue Gun Friday

Sometimes everything in real life can be going really great but in your mind for some reason on a night when you're alone everything seems to be crumbling. On a friday night like tonight. When i went home and thought about the bonfire I was invited to thought about friends thought about how I had no idea what my relationship life was right now thought about how it was so frustrating that I couldn't find my glue gun for weeks binge watched tv ate put away clothes found some pictures of myself, pictures of an insecure youth who hated her body more than anything in the world. a girl who cried. a girl who was disappointed that she didn't look like barbie now that she had become a teenager. a girl who wore a lot of makeup to look pretty and cover all her acne. it didn't cover the acne just gave her a little barrier from the world. A girl who wore push up bras and straightened her hair every day and sometimes wore a bow in it. she hoped that boys would notice her or like her. A girl who was upset when they didn't. A girl who had no idea she liked other girls. put on some lipstick, smeared on black eyeliner, patted on blue to my eyelids, put my hair in a cheerleader bow tore apart two closets trying to find my ******* hot glue gun more tv thought about how i felt dehydrated thought about the mess i made from looking for the hot glue gun considered cleaning it up considered texting someone glue gun glue gun glue gun glue gun

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Don't wait for your prince oh princess For he may never arrive Get going and grow Find things you don't know Run princess run to places unknown Don't look for your prince Just look for your purpose There’s got to be more to make it all worth it Princess oh princess just listen to me follow your heart And follow your dreams Dare to be daring prove you are more Than the poor little damsel that lives next door Think princess think You know all the answers Shout, sing, share all that you know Your mind is with you wherever you go Oh princess be confident Be all that you are Love your outside and inside Show you're a star Oh princess you see When all this is done Your prince may have found you But your self search is done

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Oct 21, 2015

Oct 21, 2015 at 3:44 PM UTC

For Her

Don't wait for your prince oh princess For he may never arrive Get going and grow Find things you don't know Run princess run to places unknown Don't look for your prince Just look for your purpose There’s got to be more to make it all worth it Princess oh princess just listen to me follow your heart And follow your dreams Dare to be daring prove you are more Than the poor little damsel that lives next door Think princess think You know all the answers Shout, sing, share all that you know Your mind is with you wherever you go Oh princess be confident Be all that you are Love your outside and inside Show you're a star Oh princess you see When all this is done Your prince may have found you But your self search is done

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I walked in on shaking legs Hurry away my mind begs But I decide to leap Wishing I was sound asleep Like that last step in the dark Go ahead do it from the heart I quietly begin my song, With luck it will not last too long After a slow beginning I grow and grow I smile and soon somehow I know Their faces are warm like a hot cup of tea I know they see the improvement in me They applaud and they smile Now it’s time to wait for a while

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Oct 21, 2015

Oct 21, 2015 at 3:41 PM UTC

Audition

I walked in on shaking legs Hurry away my mind begs But I decide to leap Wishing I was sound asleep Like that last step in the dark Go ahead do it from the heart I quietly begin my song, With luck it will not last too long After a slow beginning I grow and grow I smile and soon somehow I know Their faces are warm like a hot cup of tea I know they see the improvement in me They applaud and they smile Now it’s time to wait for a while

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The music wrapped itself around us as we sang and forgot. The room had left us. The paper copies danced away and we forgot. Simply perfect music flowed from us, we were all there together completely focused and completely mesmerized and it happened again.

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Oct 21, 2015

Oct 21, 2015 at 3:39 PM UTC

Singing Hypnosis

The music wrapped itself around us as we sang and forgot. The room had left us. The paper copies danced away and we forgot. Simply perfect music flowed from us, we were all there together completely focused and completely mesmerized and it happened again.

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It was stupid. Waves crashed and the wind was cold. I shivered and i wanted to change my mind could i back out now I grabbed the hand next to me and we ran and we jumped it was fast but slow the air was cold for a second until the water hit. there was no feeling I was under the water thinking was gone and my lungs did the talking screaming to my mind “get up get out you air, now, now” i open my eyes and i can see black and blue and the water is over my head the bubbles and curls and waves of the water break away as my head is pushed up. i gasp at the air and fill my lungs with the hot gas of life. my limbs and body have become weights but i dont sink I push my body through the water and it takes all the strength i have when i reach the ladder I grasp with a hand i cannot feel i stand with my feet and the journey up that ladder takes two lifetimes then i'm up it is the coldest i have ever felt I run and i breathe you never know what being alive feels like until you feel like you are almost done being alive it was very very stupid suddenly everything was hot air was hot ground was hot my skin my eyes my dripping wet hair hot hot hot hours passed of feeling hot and cold and breathing it's strange to think that something so stupid made me feel so strong

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Oct 21, 2015

Oct 21, 2015 at 3:37 PM UTC

When I Jumped

It was stupid. Waves crashed and the wind was cold. I shivered and i wanted to change my mind could i back out now I grabbed the hand next to me and we ran and we jumped it was fast but slow the air was cold for a second until the water hit. there was no feeling I was under the water thinking was gone and my lungs did the talking screaming to my mind “get up get out you air, now, now” i open my eyes and i can see black and blue and the water is over my head the bubbles and curls and waves of the water break away as my head is pushed up. i gasp at the air and fill my lungs with the hot gas of life. my limbs and body have become weights but i dont sink I push my body through the water and it takes all the strength i have when i reach the ladder I grasp with a hand i cannot feel i stand with my feet and the journey up that ladder takes two lifetimes then i'm up it is the coldest i have ever felt I run and i breathe you never know what being alive feels like until you feel like you are almost done being alive it was very very stupid suddenly everything was hot air was hot ground was hot my skin my eyes my dripping wet hair hot hot hot hours passed of feeling hot and cold and breathing it's strange to think that something so stupid made me feel so strong

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Dear world, I have something I have been dying to tell you. For some time I have known something about myself that most of you don’t. I know myself better now than I ever have before. So I have decided to end my hiding. to let myself live in the light from now on I spent far too long wondering how you would react when I told you. Now I know, how you react is not my choice it is yours alone I am who I am I cannot change and I don’t even want to I am not ashamed I am no longer afraid Your acceptance and love is valuable but I can stand on my own feet and when I my feet get tired and my legs grow weak they will catch me. I am loved I am accepted And love overcomes all. So when finally break down the final wall of this cage and I tell you ************* Whether you choose to love me for me or not I will be okay because I am loved I am accepted and I am strong We are strong and we are not going away I am the same me I will speak I will be a voice for the voiceless I will be me and I will never be silent

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Oct 21, 2015

Oct 21, 2015 at 3:31 PM UTC

Break Out

Dear world, I have something I have been dying to tell you. For some time I have known something about myself that most of you don’t. I know myself better now than I ever have before. So I have decided to end my hiding. to let myself live in the light from now on I spent far too long wondering how you would react when I told you. Now I know, how you react is not my choice it is yours alone I am who I am I cannot change and I don’t even want to I am not ashamed I am no longer afraid Your acceptance and love is valuable but I can stand on my own feet and when I my feet get tired and my legs grow weak they will catch me. I am loved I am accepted And love overcomes all. So when finally break down the final wall of this cage and I tell you ************* Whether you choose to love me for me or not I will be okay because I am loved I am accepted and I am strong We are strong and we are not going away I am the same me I will speak I will be a voice for the voiceless I will be me and I will never be silent

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my hands tell a story of living. a story of being happy, sad, hopeful, and hopeless. my hands say where i’ve been and hold the knowledge to where I will go. my hands see the people I have touched, the tears I wiped away, the things I grasped, and those that I should have let go of. my hands are big, dexterous, and strong. they touch, type, and hold. I have seen the wonder my hands can create. my hands mold, shape, and color. they wear rings, polish, dirt, sweat, bruises, cuts, and scars. my hands hold in every variation a memory. my hands know me.

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Oct 21, 2015

Oct 21, 2015 at 3:25 PM UTC

Hands (Body Series)

my hands tell a story of living. a story of being happy, sad, hopeful, and hopeless. my hands say where i’ve been and hold the knowledge to where I will go. my hands see the people I have touched, the tears I wiped away, the things I grasped, and those that I should have let go of. my hands are big, dexterous, and strong. they touch, type, and hold. I have seen the wonder my hands can create. my hands mold, shape, and color. they wear rings, polish, dirt, sweat, bruises, cuts, and scars. my hands hold in every variation a memory. my hands know me.

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