Friday, March 26, 2010

outsiders poem


Looking through that glass
That separates you
From the rest of the world
You're all alone
On the outside looking in

Shining through you find
Blooming flowers
And warm smiles
To greet you around every corner

Looking like innocent
Curiosity
Within the depths
Of their stares
You feel the glances
And glares
Glued to you're back
Ignoring them
With your chin held high
You walk past it all

You hear
The bees buzzing
Towards blossoming
Buttercups
The peaceful hymns
Around you
Whispering in the wind
You see
The gushing fountain
Carry all your loneliness
Away

As the days prolong
And the days drag on
You feel more at home
Then you ever imagined
For
In someplace
You're outside
That glass
Looking in
With the rest
Of the world
Finally,
You belong

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

hello everybody

Hi people, this is star (yes that is my real name) I am currently a middle school student in the eighth grade attending Urban Promise Acaedemy. In our English class we are working on writing poems using literary devises to make them more powerful. We have just finished reading a riveting novel by S.E. Hinton called THE OUTSIDERS. One of our assignments that we've had was to go to a place where we're not really familiar with and after that we had to write a poem describing our experience, depending on our outsiders theme and if we were felt accepted or excluded.