Nearly twice as tall,
And just as thin,
You hold me in your arms,
And the whole thing begins.

"Today was just awful!" I cried into your shoulder,
You kept me sane the entire time,
My eternal holder ,
You helped me through my darkest days.

You move me to the couch,
And pull me farther in,
I tried to resist your help,
But I knew you'd always win.

You wrapped your knee around me,
Locking me in place,
I never wanted to be free,
From your loving embrace.

Kissing the top of my head,
You whispered comforting words in my ear,
Saying they weren't getting this worked up over,
Killing my fear.

I wrapped my arms around your shoulders,
Burying my face into your chest,
I never knew a guy that would be any bolder,
Then to hold me close and make the whole world disappear.

A soft kiss on my lips,
Wiping the stray tears from my cheeks,
The warmth from the fire spreading over us,
I hadn't felt this safe in weeks.

Until you took me into those arms I felt as if I was hanging by a thread,
But I know from your soft kisses and deep embraces this will never end.

             ~E.M.

Swords clashing through the haze
Allies shouting with praise
Will they fall tonight
The most noble of knights
A grin graces their lips
Swords tight in their grips
Rushing forward into battle
Enemies mere chattel
Sky blazing in flames
Fighting with no names
Winning within mere seconds
Together, they fought as legends.
-KJB

Gazing upwards forever
My side, you left never
Wrapped in your arms
Enduring the worst storms
Smiling up at the sky
Feeling the need to cry
Watching an endless ocean
So many different emotions
Watch day and night pass
The stars moving in chasse
Wandering innocent eyes
The world under a guise
It never seeming scary
In this state of reverie.
-KJB

She was a girl
No one ever chose
For teams or clubs
Dances or dates

She was a girl
No one ever noticed
Sitting in the corner of the room
Always alone

She was a girl
Left outside in the freezing rain
For the longest of times
With no one to hug or hold

She was a girl
That held everything in and let nothing out
It was only her eyes that revealed the story of her pain
Being left out like garbage everyday

She was a girl
Who never spoke
Yet didn’t need words to be heard
One day you will finally notice

-MMM

I always knew this day would come
He would eventually break free
He is coming

The wind was blowing fiercely
Trees began to rock back and forth until they cracked
Then one by one they would fall

It was like watching dominos
Once one fell, the rest were to follow
He is coming

My heart was going faster and faster
The chase was underway
With one crack I would jump

The life I knew was all a lie
With one domino down the rest followed
He would come

One moment
One breath
One lost heartbeat

-MMM

Orange
poetry hates it
nothing rhymes with it
a lonely word
bike and hike laugh at it

Orange
a fruit
construction workers wear it
pumpkins
fall leaves

Orange
an awkward word
that many dislike
or even hate
except for me

~Javier S.

When you learn about something like that everything goes sideways
not knowing everything about it
but knowing what to do you want to help
that’s not enough to save people no matter how much you love them

Not being able to say goodbye is the worst part
too far away to get there in time even if you knew in advance
that’s what cancer does
takes people’s lives and turns them on their sides

~Javier S.

There is a girl who lost her way
Lacks the sparkle in her eye
Darkness shrouds everyday
Feels like she wants to die.

There is a boy who is in pain
But fakes he is happy
Everyday his mind rains
And his eyes in which his forest grows sappy.

Fate brings them together
It is meant to be
He is meant to be with her
And finally they can both see.

There once was a girl who lost her way
Lacked the sparkle in her eye
Darkness used to shroud her everyday
Felt like she wanted to die.

There once was a boy who was in pain
But faked he was happy
Everyday his mind used to rain
And his eyes in which is forest grew sappy.

Sunny skies
Rocky mountains
Puffy white clouds
Beautiful view
Lake glistening
Birds chirping
Trees budding
Fish leaping
Kids running through the trees.

Gentle Rainfall
Wet mountains
Light gray clouds
Foggy view
Lake misty
Birds chirping
Trees budding
Fish leaping
Kids splashing through the muddy puddles.

Nature is beautiful,
Won't you come enjoy it?

Floating through the darkness,
Unwilling to let go,
From the chains he has been harnessed,
Since a long time ago,

Gliding across the lake,
Looking for closure in a tragic mistake,
Of Lori's heart he will break,
As soon as he knows,

Unwilling to let go,
From the chains he shall break.

Maturity doesn't come with age
It comes with experiences
Age is just a number that means nothing
Experiences
either good or bad
make us stronger.
Being strong makes us mature.

-Andrea Christine

Running
Running from my fears
Too scared to face them
I'm running down and alley
That never ends
My fears are chasing me
And they never stop

-Andrea Christine

being caught in a dilemma
uncertainty in a fluid state
In a meadow of doubt between two mountains
both sides are so strong,so stable, unchanging
both have valid points and both seem true
but neither have the full truth
why wont you just chose?
why is it a weakness to see all sides?
why do i have to choose between these options?
is there a third option?
In future years will I be seen as courageous or weak and feeble minded?
the mountains so set in stone
never crumbling or showing weakness
that the other side would see
the perception of the other is masked by years of fear and misunderstanding
its too late now to turn back
stuck in their stalemate
One day I must chose, and one day I will
But I shall save that for another day
Kylie D

Lies are a human spiderweb
we weave them without a second thought
justifying our falsehoods,
easing our pain by creating false realities
many go to escape from life’s burdens
the false freedom seems intoxicating
in actuality it is a trap composed of your own twisted web
one misstep and the delicate structure will snap
leaving you with nothing

Always selfish only thinking of our own pain,
no matter how minute
caging the truth like some sort of exotic creature
it too must be set free

The pain by telling the truth is soon healed and forgotten
whereas the toll of a lie is never ending
Kylie D

For the bottle that I bottle my feelings into has exploded,
And I am left alone,
So I fill up the glass and drown my sorrows,

I get a can of black spray paint and do as you say,
Paint the black hole blacker,
So now I am,

But this time I am inside the hole,
And you are painting over me,
I am intoxicated with the fumes,

That you are spaying on me,
But I embrace the black hole killing me,
For I have already been ****** so far into it I'm already gone.

The magic is over
Everything once creative is still around
But like the 4 leaf clover
it's rarely ever looked down

People cry and moan about losing creativity
The problem is, we don't look for them
Amazing work is a wonderful activity
but it comes around like a rare gem

All we see is darkness and sorrow
the love, the horror, the happiness, and an object
Instead we wait and rant by tomorrow
and now this occur, it's now a wrecked

Poems is something that could be taken many ways
But there's only one path that there can be
the life of a poet, is just to make another phrase
"The lovers, the dreamers, and me"

John/Crazyjc

No
never
not
ban
veto
forbid

The world is full of it
negativity
a distraction
a way to procrastinate
a waste of time
yet it takes a chunk out of everyday
things would get done if people couldn’t say no

~Javier S.

A void
A pit
A vacuum
A blank spot on a black canvas
It is everything
You can not hate it
It is everything

Stars
Planets
Comets
All stuck in a destined path
nothing can change it
It is everything
It is the final frontier

~Javier S.

Launch- I leap to the ball as fast as I can
Anticipate- I adjust to stop the shot
Crash- I deflect the ball, it hits the post
Reset- I see the defense recover
Offense- I watch the effective cradling and passing
Steal- I get ready commanding the defense
Success- I am protected
Execute- I'm proud to be a goalie

-MMM

Do you remember when it would rain?
We would all go outside,
Excited to jump in puddles and
Run around like crazy, just to get soaked
Not caring for our clothes and hair?

Now we bolt inside as soon as we hear it,
The big boom that opens up the sky
It comes crashing down,
Creating huge puddles of terror
But it's just water

We are afraid to get hit by it
As if a single drop is a lightning bolt
We drink it and touch it all the time
So when it falls, why do we run?
So what if your hair frizzes or you get a little wet, it's not the end

Is it so bad to sit back and watch the rain?
Is it so bad to get wet?
Why can't we enjoy the rain like we used to?

-MMM

The feeling so dark, bitter
I feel all the sadness of the world
In the end I drink out all the pain
I wish, I could, have a second chance to rethink everything, but...
All the sunshine fad away.

John/Crazyjc

If only I had been alert
then it would not have hurt
but I had felt so sure
and let it lure
me into false hope
so now I have to cope
with the rejection
if I had listened to the projection
then it would not have stung
or felt like the shot of a gun
straight through my heart
forcing my dreams and realities apart

-Jamie F

through your eyes
you see the smiles
and laughter

through your eyes everything
is okay

in my eyes
the smiles are fake
hiding all the pain
and hurt

those laughs
just helping the cause
hiding what's inside

my eyes see it all

open your eyes
and maybe you'll see
this life i live

isn't all it's cracked up to be

~anonymous

you say you understand
trust me i wish you could
if you walked a mile in my shoes
you'd be hurting before it started

you say you went through it too
that i can always come to you
it happened to you
did it really?

just let me
be me
for once try not to judge
don't tell me i'm not good enough

all they told me was to give up
to stop trying
to just quit already

i'm not going to have you tell me too

~anonymous

The gracious dragon smiles
As they have been apart for miles
The girl so beautiful
So youthful
As they dance into the night
The moonlight oh so bright
The dragon and the rider
Both are one another's guider
Until dawn breaks
They will dance, no matter the stakes
Even when they are lost
Their paths will someday cross
And dance once again
Through snow or rain
Joined once more
Through the sky, they shall soar.
-KJB

The whispers of the wind
Fills my confused mind
Hoping once again
That you shall erase my pain
Ending this terrible nightmare
So much that it fills me with desire
That I can no longer trust
That this is love or lust
But even so
Like the dark elegant crow
I shall fly away
Searching every single day
If only you knew
I cannot forget the memories of you.
-KJB

What is music,
Is it just something we hear and feel better too because we can relate,
Or is it the memories it brings to us that we like,

Maybe its the fact that when we are listening to that one song,
It makes the world seem so small,
But around us we are still there,

Living in the light of day,
breathing heavily and smiling because we are thinking,
Thinking of the one day we meet you,

Sweet n' sour is the taste you get when you drink lemonade,
Sweet n' sour is the taste you get when you eat Sour Patch Kids,

Sweet n' sour is the feeling you get when you think someone is telling you the truth,
Then you find out that they aren't,

But somewhere in between the sweetness,
And the sourness of it all,
You find the happy medium,

Not sweet,
Not sour,
Just somewhere in between,

Kind of like the color grey.

"on the narrow porch they sit, and wait, and sit
in wheel chairs, behind walkers, too many
like goldfish who crowd the surface
for flecks of food..."

their forgetful minds
but remembering hearts
you wonder if she knows
it's you
her mind doesn't make the connection
but her heart feels the love
like a mother and her son
not knowing how to speak
but loving without question

the dementia taking over
her mind once brilliant
now the light dimming
it's hard and she tries to remember
not wanting to let go
like a solider in battle
she does't want to loose this fight

you see her for the last time
replaying the memories
like your favorite song
over and over again

~anonymous
dedicated to my nana who passed this time two years ago year~i'll love you forever <3

I hate the rain
its really lame
I can't go outside so all i feel is pain
its always the same

i can't wait for the sun to come
so the rain can go away
because its really dumb
so i can come out and play

I can see myself a NHL hockey player
I can see me haveing millions of fans
I can see me scoreing the game winning goal


We will all see me as a superstar
We will all see a huge smile on my face when I win the Stanley cup
We will all hear the crowd chanting my name


You feel like a god at the end of the day for giving that kid your autograph
You feel completed when your coach tells you great game kid
You feel amazed at the end of the day for who you are

Shoveling the snow
creating songs out of nothing
playing with old sticks and stones
Don’t You Remember?

Inside that small room of yours,
watching countless videos online of the same band
laughing and pretending
Don’t You Remember?

Late night snacking on sugar
Catching your goldfish
Exploring in our own backyards
Don’t You Remember?

Walking through hidden paths in the graveyard
Singing random songs from that same band as we walk
Reading each grave as if we knew them
Don’t You Remember?

Sitting on your bed giggling about random nothings
Dressing up your dolls
And patting your dog
Don’t You Remember?

Flashing lights,
Long nights,
Wide and pearly whites,
My heart ignites.

Attention that makes me queasy,
Nothing’s easy,
People make me uneasy,
Never freely.

Everyone wants my befriending,
My insanity’s extending,
Along with my sanity bending,
Always pretending.

I'm alone.

Im gone
Drifted away
So far down
I cant be saved

My innocence is torn
I cant go back
I must move foward
And forget the past

It haunts me day and night
Reminding me of what I've done
It lurks above my shoulders
Ripping me apart piece by piece

Its lies behind me
But has the power of my future
They will always be here
They're carved in stone

      -Maddie

"If I could find the words, if I could shake the world,
If I could turn back time would you still be there?"

all these hours spent together
wondering if you ever gave a ****
i trusted you with all i had
you were the crutch i couldn't walk without

i'm drowning in the memories
trying to forget
you left me crying in the dark
shattered

you always said that you would never leave
well were are you now

"If I could find the words, if I could shake the world,
If I could turn back time would you still be there?"

~anonymous

we would plan for weeks
just me and you
the dynamic duo

picking songs
creating dance moves for each one
no tv
just a laptop
and the beat of the tune

just me and you
the dynamic duo

weeks of planning
shoved into just a couple hours
we danced all night
made our own songs
talked about anything we thought of

when i look back
these days
every minute
was worth it
these are my favorite memories
it's like we couldn't leave each other's sides

long lost sisters
our parents couldn't handle us
as sisters
so we chose to be
sisters by choice
not by force

~anonymous

My heart feels cloudy

As rain streams out my eyes

The horrid screams blast through my ear drums, like a shock wave

My head is throbbing

The earth is crumbling below my feet

I’m slowly sinking in

The smoke is consuming my lungs

Crushing me from the inside out

Toxic air

The chemicals boil through my blood

I slowly disintegrate

Who am I?

I have let this rule for too long

Time to break free


-A

The poor helpless child
Unable to bear a smile
Tears run down elegant cheeks
Her heart longing to speak
Sorrow is her destiny
Engulfed by jealousy
Her soul stuck in her own lament
Her soul so broken and bent
“Stop it!” She cries
Nevertheless, she is her own demise
Nothing is ever free
Her end is destined to be
Help is what she desires
But already gave in to the liars
Her souls, once like a festoon
But taken away by the crimson moon
-KJB

Through her eyes
Watches as her soul dies
Looking towards an endless abyss
Searching for a needed bliss
Graves to her left and right
Showing no signs of fright
Reaching outwards
Known only as cowards
Begging and pleading
Shouting that her path was misleading
She continues forward, this girl
Her hair shade of a pearl
Behind her, past so bent
This is Jane's Lament.
-KJB

darkness
nothing to be seen
but you and the creatures
the dark is mysteryic
that everything goes its way
that nothing could destroy it
but finding its weakness

ZaZa G.

I think of you
As I travel far
Wondering where you are
What youre doing
And hows your day

I think of you
When I'm by myself
Lonely
Cold
And afraid

I think of you
As I wonder
When I'll get
To see
You again

I think of you.

It's strange
Not black, not white
Just gray

Not good, not bad
Different
In a special way

It's all alone
No where to go
No where to stay
It's like me
In a hidden way

       -Beth M.

A stream of tears fall down my face
All hope is gone and in its place is now sorrow
No room for laughter
No room for joy
Just a sad girl feeling
alone

-Andrea Christine

We see this world in an ever turning spiral
To be or not to be is our quest
We build our lives upon trust and goodwill

Our lives our like planes
Sometimes they fly
Other days they can come crashing down

Although they are planes
They’re still in a box
Sheltered from all sides

The box will protect us
The box will no sooner guide us than betray us
The box is a friend and a foe

These are our lives
We build them and we destroy them
That is our lives in a box
                                           -Adam

The world around me
Sun falls softly

The moon emerges
Nightlight and Daylight’s excursions

The battle for space
Lights as bright as their face

I on this ground
Hear not a sound

For the battle in the sky
Will never die
                           -Adam

The winding tales of heroes and heroines from far off lands
their stories forever immortalized in the words of past wordsmiths
the stories they live are set in stone
yet each time I read one feels like I am with them on their grand adventures,
becoming acquainted with these courageous legends
facing every foe with them on the front lines
I figure out every riddle and clue before them, unable to communicate to them,
Unable to warn them of their doomed fates, unable to help them
still I stay letting my heart get crushed
by their predetermined fates
yet after its all through I am left with a void in my heart
only to be filled with a new book to fall in love with
Kylie D

The bones in my arms are week
my breath unsteady , mind racing
I'm trapped alone dark and cold
the only light is in memory's
memory's of old times
I am trapped
And cannot get out

JNL

Neither black or white
But a color in pencils
The feelings that people feel
When seen on shirts

But clouds have this color
On dark no energy nights
The clouds make a dark stormy feature
When they crawl to the sky

As the earth is asleep
And mix with the darkness
That falls from space
Where you can see neither black nor white
But grey

ZaZa G.

So much hate is in one school
to many people watch kids fall
to many people make them
But today it was different there was no hate
no one fell just laughing and smiles the world was perfect
the people they changed
but a fell to the ground
i woke up
so much hate in ones soul

JNL

Which came first, time or space

The flow of time is the rout I go
There's something that connects everything in this time
Time had of been made, when the space was being made
Even if there was nothing, it's only a matter of time when it's made
If there's something before, the arms will still click.

Space is the logical explanation
Everything has been made, even time
Is time real? Is it fake?
Or is was there was no time before space from nothing to time,
Maybe space is something that doesn't begin but goes on.

2 sides of every coin, who said they both came around that same "Time"

John/Crazyjc