ODE TO THE YOUNG ADULT CANCER SURVIVOR
I stood at the threshold
Of a promising life,
Ready to step out bold,
Face challenges and strife.
I wanted to soar,
Like an eagle in the sky.
Eager to conquer more,
To reach really high.
One fateful day I awoke,
To a painful, swollen knee,
In one terrible stroke,
It changed what I was to be.
Multiple hospital trips,
And neverending tests.
Our hearts
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Categories:
young adult, cheer up,
Form: Rhyme
My Life: A Week of Years
The Biblical book of Genesis poetically recounts the undetermined time of creation as happening in a week of seven days. As I look back upon life, which has gone by so quickly, it seems that eighty-six plus years have been
accomplished in a week of years, i.e., a long life in earth terms, yet
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Categories:
young adult, 7th grade, age, growing
Form: Free verse
A Matter Of Faith
When I was a child, I wondered
Was deep sleep, death?
Was every morning a new life, a new incarnation?
Waking up, I found the people around me were the same
I was the same too, nothing changed
This cannot be death I rationalized
When I came of age, I wondered
Is life for real, or are we just atoms clumped together?
Maybe
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Categories:
young adult, allusion, creation, faith, god,
Form: Free verse
Young Adult
I bit into the hardest of suckers
‘Cause I’m no longer a big huge baby
With moods a lot like teeter-totters.
Now, I’m who I always wanted to be.
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Categories:
young adult, growing up,
Form: Quatrain
Addiction My Friend
Addiction my Friend
Poet: Migdalia Torres
No one knows the shadows that fall when
addiction rules a minor’s soul
Addiction my friend that raises me
Lord help me not to pretend,
The hell I am going through to concord this
Addiction my friend, it will be to the end
Farewell to Hope, Love, and Glory
No one will know until I am buried in
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Categories:
young adult, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Blank verse
Young Adult
Young adult where is your degree?
Young adult get a job and pay your taxes
Pay back your HELB loan and get cleared
Young adult get an anticorruption certificate
Young adult ensure you are Debt Free you must pay for it.
Young adult, Remember your responsibilities
The expectations from the society and your people
where is your wife Young adult?
Your mother needs
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Categories:
young adult, age, growing up, life,
Form: I do not know?
Young Adult
Young adult where is your degree?
Young adult get a job and pay your taxes
Pay back your HELB loan and get cleared
Young adult get an anticorruption certificate
Young adult ensure you are Debt Free you must pay for it.
Young adult, Remember your responsibilities
The expectations from the society and your people
where is your wife Young adult?
Your mother needs
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Categories:
young adult, age, growing up, life,
Form: I do not know?
Poetry Portfolio--Young Adult Novel
Move along pages
Youth complies little
Breathing swiftens
Novel leaves nothing
But a heartbeat lost
Towards the novel
The internal contents read
As time brings down the senses
No human can endure
The pages therein
And heartache ensues
Over nothing real
Russell Sivey
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Categories:
young adult, fun,
Form: Free verse
Young Adult Novel
Move along pages
Youth complies little
Breathing swiftens
Novel excuses no mortal
Heartbeat is a cannibal
Towards the novel
Extremities become red
As time brings down the senses
No human can endure
The pages therein
And heartache ensues
Over nothing real
Russell Sivey
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Categories:
young adult, anxiety, conflict, confusion, heart,
Form: Free verse