Hope High School Poems

My Life is a song sung in a 
series of repetitive inferior notes.
I’m unable to record mellow melodies, 
as my violin strings continually play 
with...

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00°That smile
That smile could put the sun to shame
Those eyes are brighter than amber, eveen when in shade
Those words could mend a broken soul
That laugh...

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I’m tasting fumes 
Every word I try to say, 
burning me up inside 

I forgot all my chances 
at the girl-next-door’s house 

And I waited...

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We’re one loose screw away from being
Ten hollow corpses 
Nailed to crosses we didn’t even configure 
Still gossiping like our hands aren’t on fire 

And...

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My muscles know not my ultimate intent
“Around the block or just to that sign
Please share with us what’s on your mind

We hope this sprint is...

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Anxiously awaiting conclusions of trials
Dishonesty fading with passage of time
Veracity revealed in knowing smiles 
Poetry occluding the truth in a rhyme

Blissfully following my feet in...

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Walking off a High School wedgie,
Just digging out my underwear.
Lodged tight in the crack of doom,
These days it seems they're always there.

This daily Freshman ritual,
I...

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Seems like only yesterday,
when I wore a white cap and gown.              ...

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I grew up on a lilac dream
along with a few shows on tv
I like video games and writing stupidly long things
I got taught that life...

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Today my flowing pen
Streams screaming words
Cascading to hungry eyes
And thirsty ears of waves
Of the oceans of minds
Waiting to be sailed upon
In the winds of whatever
The...

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Grandma is as proud as she can be!
Her Eddie~growing tall as his backyard tree.
He dons his classic St. Mary’s uniform.
Not wearing a freaky shirt with...

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John

Dear John, 
When we were kids... 
just starting to set off, 
you called me
from the Army 
collect. 
It was half passed 2:00 am
and my parents...

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I was sitting in school when 
it happened
But I didn't know, not then
I was driving home from school when
Police were breaking down the door
But I...

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A movie, oh wow, when one need not be Woke!
A girl was a girl, a bloke was a bloke.

I forget I was born when times...

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