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Avalanche

this poem waits for you to cross over
to cross over the heartbeat touch of your healing
hands, touching hands, touching hearts
this poem waits for you to cross over
to cross over love, this poem waits for you
to cross over, to cross over love
this poem waits for you to crossover
too crossover, too, love



QUINCY TROUPE

Inside My Shell

Sometimes I wish I was a turle. I would look like a nervous female ornate box turtle. If had a shell I would paint it! Make it really comfortable but taping extra plush toilet paper on the corners and making a cotton bed. I would be the coolest turtle ever, with comfy, rainbow painted shell! Ha! My life would be so awesome... Well, now I really sound like a wacko person. But dont you think having a shell would be cool?

New Set Of Feelings
By Winy

I want a new set of feelings
Imperialism, destruction
Mixed with Despair

I want love and hate
Peace and fuss
I want a new set of feelings
those nobody has

My heart will pound
My brain will swirl
'til my seriousness dies
'til self -goverment surprises
'til apathy appraises?

Tyred of simple apathetic first grade vocabulary

Want exotic feelings
that will fill me rage
Yet, calmness

I want anew set of feelings
Because new means better
Like stamp means letter

I want to feel the air my lungs
The thoughts in my head
A pin on a thread
I want a new set of tales

Take A Peek
By Winy

Sometimes I wonder if its all worth it
I take a peek out of and see what everyone sees

Then I try to go back and…not there anymore
I look and look as if it would pop out of somewhere
Naked and bare for my eyes to see it
But then the usual answer comes around
The one that itches my brain
Always there rubbing my memories together
Assaulting my thoughts
Forcing me to forget the apathy I used to have
Depression then comes around, wrapping me in sorrows

I want to be what everyone sees
Too bad my memory is blind
Closed and invisible

Haiku- Is a form of Japanese Poetry, consisting of 17 morae,in three metrical phrases of 5, 7 and 5 morae respectively. In Japanese, haiku are traditionally printed in a single vertical line, while haiku in english usually appear in three lines, to parallel the three metrical phrases of Japanese haiku. - Wikipedia

So, this week I have been learning about haiku(s), in my writing class. Which in fact I love and its the only thing that makes me smile at school. Ms.Whitaker, my writing teacher has been teaching us to write daily haiku(s), which I find very interesting. Haiku(s) are like little tiny poems that make you reflect life, it consists of three line, the first one has to be five syllables, the second one seven, and the last one five. Today I decided to share a haiku, which isn't very good, but I tried! Also, notice its not a perfect haiku with 5-7-5. But life's not perfect and neither is my writing.

Just One

By Winy

Thousand words to say

One word that conveys

All I need is philia

The Queen

By Pablo Neruda (translated by Anna Öberg)

I have appointed you Queen.

There are those more slender than you, more slender.

There are those purer than you, purer.

There are those fairer than you, fairer.

But you are Queen.

As you walk the streets

Nobody recognizes you.

Nobody sees your crown of crystal,

nobody notices

The red and gold carpet

You tread wherever you go,

The carpet that does not exist.

And when you appear

All the rivers

Of my body ripple, bells

Make the skies tremble

And a song of praise fills the world.

Only you and I,

Only you and I, my love

Can hear it.