Its prefferable to allow speech to be free
For 'only then' can others consider?
Of the orators intent; and
Ideas? Also mentallity.'
Listening with care.'
Officially polluted streams
Now fish for some facts.'
Hong Kongs
Big pong
Five are tried
heads hooded
Hands tied
Wolf like packs
Claim a moral low
Truth can't bestow
The depth of facts
Now for all to know
Morals now obscene
As today is seen,
Humanity traded
Weave of life torn
Insanity in-braided
A very aged norm.'
I WAS TOLD I COULDN'T,
AND SO I DID.
DEFYING AUTHORITIES,
SINCE I WAS A KID.
I DELIBERATELY WROTE THIS,
USING ALL CAPS.
IT WAS THE NORM,
BEFORE THE CREATION OF MAPS.
THE CAVE MAN LEFT,
BEHIND A TRAIL.
WITH SIMPLE DRAWINGS,
HE TOLD US A TALE.
NO ONE SAID,
IT WAS RIGHT OR WRONG.
THE STORIES WERE LOST
AND MEMORIES GONE.
THINKERS WERE BORN
AND WERE MISUNDERSTOOD.
PUT TO DEATH,
BECAUSE AUTHORITIES COULD.
THOUGHTS WERE WRITTEN
AND THEN DESTROYED.
LEAVING BEHIND,
AN EMPTY VOID.
WHEN PUNCTUATION,
CAME AROUND.
WHAT WAS BEFORE,
WAS BURNT TO THE GROUND.
I PAINTED THIS PICTURE,
USING ALL CAPS.
DON'T DESTROY IT,
AND TARNISH MY PAST.
I HAVE THE AUTHORITY,
AS A HUMAN BEING.
TO CREATE IN MY MIND,
JUST WHAT YOU ARE SEEING.
A free country,authorities questioning our rights
no crime,no contest,a superseded street plight
peacefully discussing the right for your stance
self expressions,through a calm balance.
The road of life has many signs,riding the ruts
ethically speaking out loud,there is a few buts
when police intervene,trying their ways
to blind you with law,and you make them pay
With their own words,more indepthly sort
feeling a losing battle,will be bought
they mumble few warnings,then on their way
good afternoon officers,do have a nice day.
Paul Beadnall:
.Sponsor Brian Strand
Contest Name SEPTEMBER-YOUR CHOICE any theme/form max 14 lines
Expressing thoughts and inner most feelings, has always been a chor
spontanious and fluentness, is something i would like more
than having to my put words over, more distuintantly in a poem
but this outlet is a form thats something, that i can feel at home.
A speach impediment lacks my ability, to a coversational flow
but certain ones i feel at ease, my speach that it will grow.
A crowded space or unfamiliar faces
or simply being in strange places.
.
Melodramatic
Rhetorical
mistakes
Eyne hear
ears see
hands taste
tongues think
hearts speak
Reprehend
“never query the veracity
of a poet's
pen”
A note book in one hand
A pencil in the other
I sit down and write
A poem about my brother.
He fights in a war that is so surreal
Why did Bush make an unjust deal?
Why is my brother in Iraq right now
Why did he make this crazy vow?
He's not fighting to stop a war.
He's fighting for what Bush voted for.
Bush wanted to be the next president to start a war,
Bush got what he wanted what he voted for.
Now my brother is in Iraq
Fighting a war
Soon to meet his daughter that one day he will adore
But for now we have to pray
That my brother Chris will come back to stay.
Love you and miss you Chris Matters
peaches and cream:
speeches and dreams.
witches and words are
not all what they seem...
If i never told you before, purity in the sense of verginity is not in danger in the least
bit, i have all intentions of keeping mine untill i am married.
I feel that i stole part of your innocence and i feel really bad for it, but it happened
and so theres nothing i can do about that.
That line was confusing because i just felt that i should say something and didnt have the
slightest clue as to what to say.
I mean the past is behind me as far as what has happened to an extent... I remember the
good times and tryed to phase out the bad times, or the ones that were there, but there
kind of vivid so there still there. (then again it was fairly recent ya know) That and
everytime we end up talking about it we both end up getting majorly emotional.
So its best to avoid the emotional stuff i think... even though in general its emotional...
That speach was really nice and you said you dont know how you wanted to end it and in the
end i was kind of confused to the meaning, like the general meaning of it all made alot of
sense and i feel the same way but the end was kind of confusing because its like you held
back from saying something ...
I feel bad for what I did to you,
It wasn't a plan to hurt you so.
I didn't mean to make you hurt,
I didn't want to, I'm worse than dirt.
I don't know why I cheated on you,
the girl was random, I had no mood.
I am a youngster, please forgive me,
cause only with you I want to be with.
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