OMS Poetry Jam produces potent poems
“My Attitude”
They say your attitude determines your latitude
So I’m as high as the sky
above
So see I have confidence as wide as all outside My intellect, yes you can expect
My game is that you cannot tame
I rise and shine to get on my
grind
My confidence, you cannot touch But, I bet if you could
you would
-Airreal Lilly
“Fear”
What is Fear,
Is it when you doubt yourself,
Is it when you have watched a horror movie,
One that has blood,
Now you’re sleeping alone, in the dark,
Or is it when you know you have done wrong,
No, no Fear ... Fear is much more powerful,
It has anger, doubt, frustration,
It’s more than a bad test or a scary bully,
Fear is not real, some say its not known of,
Fear is, maybe a religion,
Some strive for it,
While others often avoid it,
Fear is often misused,
Used in the place of dense things,
Grades, movies, people,
Things that make no sense,
Fear is not what you think,
Fear is your soul,
Why run from it,
It’s in you,
There is no escaping,
It was in you when you were born,
Now it is in you in your grave,
You fear no one comes to your death,
“Give me my flowers while I am alive” is a famous phrase, You only say that because of fear,
Fear makes you do regretful things,
Kill, leave a family, but for what,
You will always have fear in you,
Laugh, laugh I will,
I laugh because your fear amuses me,
Fear of crowds,
Fear of loneliness,
Fear of death,
Fear of fear,
Fear is funny, because fear is not scary,
It is one of those things that you should get over, Like a new trend that goes out of style,
If you can not leave it why worry,
Why build up all that strength and power,
To fear fear, it is unheard of,
But it happens everyday,
The very person you love has feared you,
You also have feared them although you deny it, You do not fear you say, you have pride you say, You’re a man you say, but when alone,
You fear everything, everyone,
You fear yourself,
You fear what your body is capable of doing, Bungee jumping, skydiving, or speeding,
But you need not to fear that,
do that for your life is almost over,
the doctor says you’re dying,
the reason you ask
the reason you’re dying now,
you’re dying of Fear.
-Xavier Hewitt
“Think of Only ‘Her’”
She’s what I call beautiful
She’s everything I ever wanted
Where is she right now?
Is she thinking of me, too?
Oh, how I miss her soft voice
I wish that I could spend forever with her This feeling ... is the best I’ve ever had
This feeling...
This is how I feel... when I can only think of “Her”
-Dylan Munnerlyn
“Free Verse”
I wake up in the mornings
I move slowly
My body feels tight like an acrobat’s suit
I take care of my business
I head out of the door and ride in the car
I pull up to the school with my books in hand Another day
I feel like an ant.
Teachers are giants
The day is over I have peace
-J. Arthur Grubbs
“Smile”
I wait, there in the chair
Waiting to see which metal instruments of torture
He will attach to my face.
He cuts and clamps,
removing wires and bands.
It goes on forever.
Freedom! If only for a moment.
On go now wires and chains
Six more weeks til I see him again. -Emma Royal
“Writer’s Block”
It has happened again
I can’t think of what to write
The project is due tomorrow
My brain is numb
I won’t finish in a million years
I should just give up
I have a bad case of writer’s block Wait a second! Look!
It’s a poem!
-Kevin Lazenby
“Love”
Love changes your life
Gets you butterflies
Makes you blush
Love stirs the deepest passion in everyone Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does
I’ll love you ‘til the stars drop from the sky
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness Love is desire held in the eye that spreads quickly to the heart Love is like a war.
-Abby Alcantara
