Words And Art

In 7th grade, I learned to love writing poetry. This Flipbook has the poems I wrote for my end of year poetry project.

For that project, I explored three viewpoints of myself. I chose my home self, my school self, and my private self. I wrote about those viewpoints on the first page of the book and then the rest of the book has the poems I wrote and illustrated.

Floating By (I Can’t Let Go)

I sit on my little cloud

Watch my stories fly by

Pick one

Out of the air

Hold on until I

Can’t

Any

Longer

I sit on my little cloud

My friends with me

All figments

Of my imagination

We talk

Until I am called

By my mom

To dinner.



glass is so fragile

I look out the window

ignoring my homework

I look 

around

and

see

birdsgrassrabbitstrees

and

leavesrocksflowersbees

I change my perspective

now, my reflection is what my eye sees

as I stare at the glass

hope that this moment will last

Alone

I sit

Confined

To my picture frame

The people 

Rush by

And I sit

Still as stone

Watching it happen

Everyone talks

Everyone laughs

Everyone smiles

Define everyone

It is not everyone

Because it is not me.

While

not-everyone is

Talking

Laughing

Smiling

I am alone 

In my picture frame



Writer’s Block

A Block

Blocking

the path to my ideas.

I try to move this Block

Blocking

the path to my ideas.

But the Block persists.

My pencil stays put

and will stay put

until

I 

figure 

out

how

to

Break this Big Block

into a billion bits

clearing the path

to my ideas.


Be Quiet

Brink of sleep, except

Emotions are at full volume

Quite uncertain how to turn them down

Always talking so loudly, they are

Unrecognizable without a voice

So loud they don’t hear me 

Until they have no choice

It’s almost funny

Everything is too loud

That’s my life


The parts of me, myself, and I

My mind is a forest

My body a world

My heart beats the emotion 

that allows me to be

 

My mind is a weapon

I guard my memories

My thoughts fly like bullets

I will do as I please

 

My mind is a canvas

Ready to put on a show

I am a person

That is all I’ll ever know