#popularity poems on Hello Poetry

Annika J Jan 2019

Do we write
To make others think
Original thoughts
Poured into
Poems
Creativity
Poured into words
Do we write
To create something new

Or do we write to grab attention
Appeal to what's already built
Follow the same rutted paths
For the sake of
Attention
A fierce human need
A beast that can corrupt
For the sake of food
And can destroy creativity
Just to follow another's path
Just to be known
To be seen

Or do we write for
Both
Blending our own ideas
With those of others
Hoping to be heard

And what makes popularity?
What is it that grabs our attention
And pulls us in
And makes us lose ourselves
For the sake of being known?

#popularity #attention #ideas

Basic Strain Nov 2018

The man who knew nothing

One day
There lived a man
Who knew, he knows nothing

In the age of populatity
Growth in humanity
Everyone knew almost everything

But no one knew more
Than the man who knows
Nothing

#growth #nothing #popularity #humanity

Sabika Oct 2018

The Humbling Cycle

What fun this is!
To have people cheering
following
believing
in your vision!
Fueling your ambition!

It's like all the voices that doubted you
are done!
And you and your supporters
are just having fun
as you dance while you fail
and dance while you succeed,
and you just become filled
with a pleasant greed
and motivation
as you feel like you an your dreams
are set in full motion!

...
But how devastating it all becomes
when this all goes in an instant
and everyone gets distant
and bored
because they never really cared
if you scored.

In a time like this you remember
that you are always on your own,
and the only people that might have cared
were just you and your folks
back at home.

#humble #famous #popularity #goals #dreams #fans #supporters #lonely #love

Anya Sep 2018

In too Deep

A dog
Waiting
For it’s owner
In my case
For more likes

We all look to society, often in the form of social media, for verification. Even Hellopoetry for some.

#dog #waiting #social #media #desperate #society #popularity #too #deep #stuck

Haylin Aug 2018

Me

I do not know the feeling of popularity,
nor the feeling of being hated by all.
I'm just in the middle.
I'm me

#highschool #me #popularity #hate

Haylin Aug 2018

Popularity

A teenagers dream. Something few deserve, something most don't get. The word that you think can change your image, looks, and life.

And then you graduate,
and then you realize,
popularity,
is just a title
and means nothing,
In the real world.

#popularity #real #world #nothin #life #looks #dream #teens

Haylin Aug 2018

Educating the Youth

Don't tell me
what you learned in school
was useless

because
every day
you:

count
the number of likes
you got on your selfie
to figure out the value
of your beauty,

write
perfectly formed tweets
to exude creativity and wit
you wish you
actually possessed,

read
status updates
from former friends
who always seem
to be doing something
exciting,

become curious
about the lives
of people
you've never met,
and

question
why you waste
your time
comparing yourself
to carefully crafted personalities
that exist only
for Internet audiences
they would otherwise
be too afraid
to address.

Don't tell me
what you learned in school
was useless.

#popularity #youth #education #school #likes #tweet #socialmedia

Haylin Aug 2018

I would rather be

I would rather be
unpopular
for all the right reasons
than popular
for all the wrong ones.

Kurt Cobain "I'd rather be hated for who I am than loved for who I am not"

#popularity #unpopular #highschool #right #wrong #life #thoughts

Haylin Aug 2018

RANDOM NOTE

I care about popularity
I care about my looks
I care about the boy in the back of the class
Yet
I don't care about who I surround myself with
I don't care about my health, why eat more than 1 meal a day
I only care if the boy in the back of class likes me
Because,
I don't care about myself
I care about you. The one reading, it's You.
It's me,
Caring too much
Acting stupid for you
Starving for you
Just to look perfect enough so you know,
I'm here for you.

It's is such a selfless act of anxiety so discriminated.
This may be confusing so here's a summary!: it's me saying that I change every aspect of myself,...for myself. But I don't do it for self-acceptance, it's so I can accept YOU accepting me. If I went to school with no makeup, I would think every word you tell me is a lie or that you only talk to me because you HAVE to. Because not even I can look at myself as normal human being when I'm makeupless without breaking down eternally.

#popularity #friends #boy #love #class #aloone #makeup

Haylin Aug 2018

Of Popularity & Loneliness

What she shows the world:

She is always the center of attention
Where she goes others follow
When she smiles they feel affection
When she leaves all feels hollow

She can dance the night away
And party till the dawn
She’ll never walk alone by day
Or wake lonesome in the morn

Whatever she wants she gets
And she does not seem to try
She lives life with no regrets
Simply watching the world fly by

The globe is in her hands
So many at her beck and call
All play into her demands
For they’ll catch her, should she fall

What she feels inside:

She is all alone in this world
Though crowds do often pass her by
Her life seems to have come unfurled
In a shambled mess she does lie

With no one to pick up the scraps
She lays broken and destitute
Fighting for air her lungs collapse
And her weak cries for help fall mute

Now pondering her life thus far
She realizes it was a waste
All that’s left is an ugly scar
Her deep shame, and a bitter taste

She often lays awake at night
Waiting for loneliness to end
As darkness parts for morning's light
Sleep, her only friend
Can one be both popular and alone?

#popularity #you #dance #crowd #alone #darkness #sleep #highschool