, , , Arts & Entertainment, Career & Job Readiness, Media, Photography, Poetry, Showcase, Spring 2019, Writing & Communication, 1
Our names are José Disla, Carlos Nuñez, and Cristopher Beltre. We are students at Crotona International High School. We...
, , , Showcase, Spring 2019, 1
“He who makes a beast out of himself, gets rid of the pain of being a man.” – Samuel...
, , , Poetry, Showcase, Spring 2019, 0
IWouldWalkthe streets of Rundberg at night aloneRunThe trails of Walnut Creek park in the humid rain andPatearLa pelota with...
, , , Poetry, Showcase, Spring 2019, 0
The color of brown and white It reminds me of the calm days This shells whiteness makes the day...
My first impression of this poem was that it was about a mother. When I read the first line...
, , , Beauty, Poetry, Read/Write Poems, Showcase, Spring 2019, 7
She knows she can’tBut if she has the chanceShe wants to stay To breathe in the unique scent of...
Replace your small frown that they don’t seeWith words, declaring it was offensiveReplace that forgiving hugWith admitting it’s actually...
, , , Poetry, Showcase, Spring 2019, 5
I want you to fall.Like so many others in this twisted worldI want you to put all your effort...
, , , Black Lives Matter, Civic Engagement & Social Justice, Showcase, Spring 2019, 4
Martin Luther Kingwill go downinhistoryA great Americanwhose hopeas a Negroisof segregationon a lonely islandNegroAmericanSocietyina conditionofrightslibertyand happinessisAmerica In this assignment, we...
, , , Fall 2018, Shakespeare, Showcase, 6
For this poem I had to connect a topic from Shakespear to my own life. I chose to write...
, , , Showcase, Spring 2018, 0
Modeled after Sam Cornish’s “Sam’s World” a good friend of mine is such a joyful spirit so free ...
, , , Creative Writing, Happiness, History, Memoir, Poetry, Read/Write Poems, Showcase, Spring 2018, Stories, Where I'm From, Writing, 1
I am from Nestle Crunch bars, from Airstream and Herman Miller. I am from the crystal-clear panels that let...
DAZED AND CONFUSED WITHOUT MY MUSE AS THE DAYS GO BY I MISSED MY BEST FRIEND WHO EMBARKED ON...
, , , Memoir, Showcase, Spring 2018, 2
The world is already cold Family is supposed to give you that warmth That warmth you need to survive...
, , , Showcase, Spring 2018, 0
midsummer i am trying to sleep in the hot summer night the AC is on but alas the...
, , , Memoir, Showcase, Spring 2018, 8
Why do we fall in love? Man meets woman Woman meets woman Man meets Man Simple love, but...
, , , Memoir, Showcase, Spring 2018, 4
Why am i mad as hell Cause i hate everyone Everyone gets me mad The irritate me which gets...
, , , Showcase, Spring 2018, 1
I am so much, and yet, so little. I am a giant and yet simultaneously, I am more miniscule...
, , , Poetry, Read/Write Poems, Showcase, Spring 2018, 4
I came into this world deafeningly. I will exit it the same, And I will occupy it with nothing...
, , , Showcase, Summer 2017, 5
I am from the beach swimming in the full moon near to the train station. ...
, , , Poetry, Police Brutality, Politics, 0
Look at all of these people, all of this because this Rodney King guy Maybe we’d be better...
, , , Creative Writing, Poetry, 1
With these beautiful words that have fallen away from my soul- this time- my tears will dry. they will...
, , , Poetry, 1
Wander, Climb, Run, Swim, Do them all, Do them now, Live your life, Now, Today, Before it is gone....
, , , Spring 2017, 0
Poetry can be great! It can be used as a way to express one’s feelings, or as a way...
, , , Creative Writing, Poetry, Showcase, Spring 2017, 2
It was the people we could be. The conversations, nostalgic desire/ what happened to us? I fell in love...
I had only ever been kissed by the rain/ so gently as it may. I spent all of these soft wasted...
, , , Poetry, Showcase, Spring 2017, 3
I am So sorry I used all the data this month and I know it’s only the...
, , , Poetry, Showcase, Sports, Spring 2017, 1
WOW RUNNING SUCKS WHY AM I HERE I AM A SWIMMER THEY KNOW ALL THESE RUNNER NAMES WHO ARE...
, , , Poetry, Showcase, Spring 2017, 0
Surrounded Constantly surrounded Their loud, mean, oblivious personalities. All I want is to be serious for once Drop the...
We are Raindrops in an endless ocean/ free-form and crashing, forever changing in a raging storm. Despite the unforgiving...
, , , Showcase, Spring 2017, 8
Poem in the style of Giovani that time the rays and my eyes made eye contact they...
, , , Spring 2017, 0
let my body- by the flames of your soul- be engulfed. however so captured by your pure & instinctive...
i can not think so forgive me. there are these faceless shapes in the dark corridor with painted walls...
, , , Creative Writing, Poetry, Showcase, Spring 2017, 6
Perhaps this is not an assumption or a conclusion the echoes of what once was- what is- of people...
, , , Creative Writing, Nature, Showcase, Spring 2017, 0
There are some nights/ like this night/ where I wish to be one of those stars that you wish...
, , , Creative Writing, Nature, Poetry, Showcase, Spring 2017, 2
There are some nights/ like this night/ where I wish to be one of those stars that you wish...
, , , Fall 2016, Family, Poetry, Repentino., Showcase, Social Class, Where I'm From, 0
I am from mud pies, from old stone walls and leaf-buried granite boulders. From kickball and the tire...
, , , Bullying, Guns, Poetry, Repentino., Showcase, Violence, Where I'm From, 4
I am from Oakland, CA I am from a world where the only thing you hear is gunshots wherever did you...
, , , Poetry, Racism, Repentino., Showcase, Where I'm From, 5
I’m from the city of Oakland, California. A city where your use of freedom of speech can get you...
, , , Family, Friendship, Poetry, Repentino., Violence, Where I'm From, 7
I am from a city where people hide their feelings where people don’t believe in self-pity where people...
, , , Poetry, Repentino., Showcase, Where I'm From, 4
I am from days of happiness and laughter but it all goes away the day after Every time I...
, , , Poetry, Repentino., Where I'm From, 4
I am from two Stuck in between because I don’t fit in any shoe I am from simple rhymes...
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