On this page I'm going to put various poems that have been published in all sorts of things. Some nationally and some just in high school poetry books.
Enjoy
IF LOVE COULD SPEAK
If love could speak
It would say that it's gentle
That it doesn't make you do anything you don't want to do
If love could speak
It would say that it's not jealous
That it allows you to be free
If love could speak
It would say that it's forgiving
That it allows you to make mistakes
If love could speak
It would say that it's everlasting
That it never dies, it just fades away
To someday return.
Published by the National Library of Poetry, 1992
Sketches, 1988 (an unofficial publication of the Dept of Defense Dependant Schools)
THE RING
A diamond ring
simple and beautiful
symbolizing everlasting love
Look carefully
the gold band has fingers
clutching the diamond
the diamond is molded
to fit in the fingers
so they are dependant on
each other to stay together
They are dependant on
each other to be beautiful
Each needing the other
to be
Everlasting love
Published in Best of the Best by the National Library of Poetry in 1993
YOURS
You caught me
Now I'm yours
and nobody else's
You caught me
with your love
with your smile
with your personality
with just being you
And now I'm yours
and nobody else's.
Published 1987 in The Hanau High School Literary Anthology
SUICIDE
People said that she had it all, (looks, body, popularity, etc)
She had it-- except a person to talk to
No one would listen
She felt there was no way out except suicide
She was successful
No one understood why
"She had it all", they said.
Everything except a person to talk to.
Published 1986, Just a Bunch of Lines
AT THE END OF A ROPE
I am me
But what if I don't like me?
I twist and I turn so that
everybody sees the part of me that
I want them to see.
Nobody knows the real me, because
I won't let it show!
I can't let it show!
Can't let anybody see how bad I
feel my life is.
How I have so many problems
that I can't handle.
And nobody wants to see a
depressed young individual on the
brink of suicide.
So you don't see.
I twist and turn more. Everything
is inside now.
Away. Away where nobody can find it.
I hope.
Twist. Turn. Some more! More!
Somebody might see.
Published 1987 in A Modern Look at Despotism
NOBODY
Nobody can make me forget him
Nobody will erase my memories of his love for me
Nobody will make me forget the love we shared
Nobody can help since he's left me.
Who is Nobody?
And where can I find him?
Published 1986, Just a Bunch of Lines
