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 May 2017 Rapunzoll
Hailyn Suarez
I've forgotten the last time I had to memorize
oh wait, it was today.
I memorized so I didn't have to plagiarize
and I plagiarized because I had no idea what to say.

instead of studying, I was out at play
breaking ankles instead of pencil tips.
made some gnarly 3 pointers, I might say,
all I could think about were my papercut lips.

the keyboard fights me with whips
I'm trying, I am really trying,
but I'm collapsing, like sunken battleships.
Well, at least I'm not dying.
written before finals crushed my pencils
The landscape of my mind is one of twilight,
Every moment caught in the stillness of my attention,
Fragments of light break the willow trees every now and then,
And I am all alone,
I hope you get my messages,
I toss them over the edge whenever I find enough time,
I love the idea of running,
If only running wasn't so far,
Everything is so far here,
Most of the time I simply gaze,
Down and down into that darkness,
Shadows twirl and dance before my eyes,
I find the notes from you there,
They drift in on a breeze and fill my mind,
Hello to you as well,
 May 2017 Rapunzoll
Conscious
Your name evolved into my disease
Imagine a constant desire but inability to sneeze
It attacks my thoughts, my mood, my energy and my emotions
Congratulations, you've become the one fish I wish I never found in the ocean.
The first feeling I get
When I look at you now
is that of Simple Indifference
This time last year I was so Sick. It is amazing what a year difference can make.
Friends,
They are my family that is not blood.
Every time I make a new friend,
I get a new family member.
This makes me feel happy.

But, it goes the other way as well.

When a friend is forgotten or left,
I lose a family member.
This hurts me with a dark sadness.

But new friends are good,
They help me grow as a person,
Help me learn more about the world.

I get to make friends that are on the other side of the world,
Where it's lucky that he can speak English,
Since I can't speak an ounce of what he's saying.
But despite the distance of 5,264 miles,
We somehow became friends.
And in my book, family as well

I'll do anything to protect and serve my family,
Blood or not, they are one giant family to me.
And they all make me happy.
My friends are my Family, no matter who they are.
What is success? To some it's a desire to be the best of the best
To some they just want to be better than the rest, but it's hard to be average when you can't pass their test.
In my mind, an ongoing strife, knowing I've been a failure my whole life.
That's why I write poetry, shows I've got passion, knowing with insight, there's no need to ration.
I may not be smart and I **** at biology, but using my mind and the aid of technology, I can share with the world and now that you know it,
It's time that I share with you the birth of a poet...
It's unfortunate
how the sky
is getting uglier
by the day --

I look up
and only see
the roof of a
cage
I cannot be
free
from.
 May 2017 Rapunzoll
Matthew Goff
Separation

Spread my limbs
Across a globe
Dipped in gels
Like laughter swells,

For the dawn
Whose shadows stick
To a country’s search
For misplaced bones

A scorned people see
The sea’s exchange
Of sound degrees
For tides at ease

© Matthew Goff
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