wassup poet! welcome to the brand-new blog for the germantown poetry festival's young blood poetry workshops! this blog will allow you to connect with other poets from the workshops in between our monthly gatherings. using it, you can share your work with your peers and get their valuable feedback. feel free to post a poem that you are working on or post a comment on someone else's poem. occasionally, we will post writing exercises or quotations to inspire your writing. feel free to do the same. as you enter into the conversation, just remember to keep it real & keep it positive.
so who's posting the first poem?
peace & poetry,
yolanda p, fest director
Spoken Words by Elisha Buckingham
ReplyDelete“She lives life unconsciously unaware of the broken picture
fractured smiles, tainted laughter, and brief moments where she feels whole, all disguises the true chapter.
Unspoken words, leave question marks
never to be answered.
A chapter in her life has
never been written
She avoids the big picture
Her life is incomplete
and she is unable to truly
build a relationship
she lacks coordination
She's lost, she can only go so far,
she needs guidance,
her mother has brought her this far,
but she still needs
guidance.
Her greatest fear is rejection
and her greatest weakness
is fear of rejection.
You'd think
that would be her strong point
being that everything in her life
she earned
and was never given to her
but
she still falls short
so I guess
we all have to learn
'Teach me to be strong, and able to truly love, show me the light, so I can rise above my great depression; a slave to my closed chapter, I'm the resurrection of second guessing, but the master of my reflection...'
A lot to be spoken
she's always searching,
rivers of pain
flow threw her valley
and like a pledge
infect her membranes.
her white blood cells
turn screeching red
infected with horrors
and pride.
She's always at war
with herself
even though
she knows of the lies.
Its not her fault
but she takes blame
willing to fix whats’ been
fucked up
She fights to change her ways.
the pressure that fuels her fire
is to never
be like her father.
I will finish what I start
and when I'm wrong
I'll be a women
and never be ashamed to admit
I was wrong.
I will fight for what is right
and accept my life choices
and decisions
I will be a great mother
and friend
and always be there for my children
I will look into my son's eyes
and see a wonderful, strong man.
I will tell him of my trails and tribulations
and teach him how to be a real
man.
My daughter will be a strong women
I will teach her how to fight
discrimination,
and I will allow her to fall
and guide her
when she stands
I will give my all in every situation,
because failing to give my all is
preparing to fail.
I will never forget the ones who were there for me
and even though I will one day forgive you
ignorance is never bliss
ignorance is failing to prepare
and I don't excuse your absence
and time will never make up for itself
so even though
I find myself
sometimes looking for your face
in a crowd when I'm playing tennis
or receiving a award
or even walking down the ale,
I will always remember
that I made it
this far without you
and I will go on living
my life
and
picking up the pieces you left behind
because everyday
I grow stronger
and learn something new
something maybe you should have been here to teach me
but
I guess in the long run
I'd rather experience a failure
and learn from it
than to be told about it
and avoid it
because
assuming is making an ass out of you.
Damn
I wish you only knew...
your little girls growing up
so fast
and she has great pride
thanks to you.
she's learn her strength;
you figure out what your made of
when you land on your ass
time n time again.
I keep my head up
always looking forward
can't dwell in the past
because
today's a present
something
you weren't present to receive
so I make it a priority to make it
since you made me
and left me,
and for the record
I shouldn't have to find you
cause you made me.”
That awsome Elisha, and I hope everyone reads my new piece;I DARE YOU
ReplyDeleteIm bout to read it now
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