Ace Sargent: Favorites

Oct 2017 Ace Sargent

I’ll follow you, no matter how far

Oct 2017 Ace Sargent

S

I’ll follow you, no matter how far

Wherever you are, our stories will always be with you...even if I am not

Oct 2017 Ace Sargent

The beginning of a man

Oct 2017 Ace Sargent

Michael Kusi

The beginning of a man

The beginning of a poet?
Its like trying to get to the beginning of man.
It started with Dr. Seuss
And colorful pictures and rhyme.
Continued with the reading of psalms.
And looking at King Arthur.
Trying to create short stories.
Until I realized I could do it in rhyme
And tell a story at the same time.
And use metaphor and alliteration.
Without having to draw it out.
I could put Arthur’s sword in the stone again.

It was also embedded in the soul of rap music.
I thought that I could spit like them.
And I kept writing until I woke up one day.
In a cold sweat to realize that I was not a rapper
But I could make something of these words
That was not rap
But was a special bond.
It picked up in school

When the teacher said, I have an assignment.
And I discovered a part of me
That I thought was buried
In my childhood
And to arrange them into beauty.
And then the beginning really soared in slam poetry.
Spoken word that was performance art.
Even though I did not win an award.
I discovered a talent
That was more than victory
It was realization.

Oct 2017 Ace Sargent

Poetry of the Occupation

Oct 2017 Ace Sargent

Lawrence Hall

Poetry of the Occupation

Poetry of the Occupation

          “…trained in the politics of the day, believing the great new
           system invented by a genius so great that they never
           bothered to verify its results.”

                              -John Steinbeck, The Moon is Down

Political poetry occupies the streets
Brakes squealing to a stop before an idyll
Squads of inclusive wordtroopers disembark
Into our souls to force submission and love

Armed with warrants and inquisitions
The bills of indictment already drawn
Needing only a tap upon a screen
To serve in the office of a signature

And sensitive to death the personal life -
Political poetry occupies the streets

Oct 2017 Ace Sargent

Situations..

Oct 2017 Ace Sargent

AaliyahGisele

Situations..

I’ve been through it all,
The betrayal, the verbal abuse, the mean looks,
The pain and the hurt,
I’ve been in deep situations where my own friends would talk hell about me,
I’ve been the one who always cried with a broken heart,
But people don’t care, about me, about my hurt, my aching, my pain,
To them, my feelings are irrelevant but to God, they aren’t because I know that God will always be here,
My feelings matter to God....

Oct 2017 Ace Sargent

D.

Oct 2017 Ace Sargent

Ryan Nyberg

D.

You are my autumn leaves
My winter snow
You are light summer breeze
Before the storm.
You are light rain
So quickly growing heavy
You are the hurricane
That ruins all I carry.
You are the book I've read too many times
You are the perfect ending to love story
So tragic so heart breaking , filled with crimes
So perfect- you could be a saint, your soul so holy.
You are the cold that I feel in my bones
In summer heat
You are the fire burning deep inside my heart.
You are my ally, I accept defeat
You are the psychic and I'm just a card.

Oct 2017 Ace Sargent

Just a Dream

Oct 2017 Ace Sargent

Marisa Lu Makil

Just a Dream

No matter how
Much sleep I get
No matter how many
Pills I take
I am still drifting
Through life
No, existence
As though I am
Watching the waves
Of pale snow wash
Over the ground
I am alone
I am cold
I am scared
And often times
I don't know if I'm really here
Or if I am only a dream
I didn't want this
I didn't ask for it
But now the screams
In my head
Grow ever louder
And the pain in my chest
Ever more bitter
All I wanted was
To live
Nay
To exist
But oh, Lord
What I must have done
To deserve life
In such a hell
As this

Oct 2017 Ace Sargent

sprinkles. soft monsoons

Oct 2017 Ace Sargent

avalon

sprinkles. soft monsoons

flower petals fall into the sky
with all the righteous anger
they deserve
but they don't cry. they know
there are enough raindrops
in an autumn grey sky.

Oct 2017 Ace Sargent

unbeatable ?

Oct 2017 Ace Sargent

Val roxas

unbeatable ?

I woke up every single day
Without nothing commenting on my way,
I tried so hard to go away
Envy, angry, everyday.

I always looked up; to fight my rights
But people I know they are my benight
Who, Where are my knights?
Why they leave me in this sorrowful night?

Do I need to use a punctuation semi colon;
To continue, but I was abandoned.
I grant a pardon to them and make some action
But my action treated like malfunctioned.

They caught me; I was a real spy
But no one can testify
Do I need to terrify?
From revealing what I classified.

Let me just simplify,

Don't be so happy and complacently feeling ahead
You're just still and stilled in my toe; instead.
I hope that this piece, won't you read,
Because I don't want you maltreated.

I'm a good person you know,
I can protect you, but now we're full of foes
I don't want to be your patience with this show
Just reserve it to your woe.

My time is close enough to making amends for,
My willingness for you to pay what's my depths;you adore
I know You lived and believed from the story that you bought into the bookstore
And now, you can't be with me evermore.