"Poeticness" - Poems By The kNOw
By The kNOw Youth Media, Various Authors
July 13, 2009
The Place Of Poetry
Poetry does not come from inside you.
You must seek in order to write
Poetry. It is in the world
Waiting to be discovered and be put
On paper. Poetry will not find you.
-Arena
Process Of Healing
Wound,
A painful cut or feeling of yesterday
Once healed and gone, but
Scarred.
-Arena
Emergency Situation
I cut your hair while you were asleep,
My boyfriend said.
It was too long.
No girlfriend of mine will be looked
At by other guys. You’re mine. Them
Looking at you makes me scared.
I know that they can’t harm you by just looking, but
You never know. What if one day,
You’re walking down the street
And I’m not with you. A guy
Noticed you because your hair is so
Beautiful.
He feels it’s love at first sight.
And since you’re my girl and will
Never leave, he kills you and himself
Because he won’t live without
You. I don’t want
Your beautiful hair to be the death of you. When
Your hair was long, full and curly
You looked amazing. You would wear
It down it would just fly in
The wind. Now you’re just plain.
You’re not that cute to die for.
-Patrice
Say You’re Sorry
You have fooled me
Once pretending
There was a bug
I looked down.
You flicked my
Small nose
Which now
Tingles with redness.
You fooled me
Twice with
The same joke
Thrice, I think not.
-Victoria
The Fashionable Bag
Money and love
Fills
A fashionable
Bag
Twinkling with silver
Chains
Sits beside the ripped
Backpack.
-Victoria
Lady Of The Nile
Come here! Come!
Watch closely
She walks down the unfainted
Stone aged stairs
Pure white, kisses her body, it does
Her hair hangs and curls without the command to do so
Her skin radiates as a thousand suns
Her eyes hold the keys to the kingdom
Her neck holds a gold plated necklace
She is surrounded by purple irises that sing
Praises
Praises of admiration
Praises of infatuation
She makes the quality of love seem eternal and luminous.
Watch closely.
When she speaks only drops of wisdom touch your soul.
So ever lightly
When she creates, it gives life to a barren desert.
When she walks it wraps the Nile around her
Feet in total submission, ever so smoothly
Pay attention
Days stop to pay tribute in her presence
Stars send gifts in the day of thanks
She’s here
Behave yourself
Your mother and I are going to the coliseum
Go to bed! Go!
-Jesse
Reboot
I can learn quick
By just looking at
The directions given
Trust me, I’m a pro
I hardly make mistakes
I can do what you want me
To, process, store info,
Yet with just a click here
And there
I’m back to the babbling stages
Getting ready to learn my ABCs.
-Dasen
Since Your Love
You cast the sunshine over
The darkness that filled me
The sunshine isn’t bright and
Joyful but hits me deeply
It penetrates into my heart
Mysteriously
And shows me how
Beautiful our future can be.
-Dasen
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