Impluse (Based on Richard Cory Poem)

Impulses coming from deep within
Breaking free of this mask...reality
Reality of my poems
Breaking out of my perception

Impulses of my heart beating
Impulse?
Quickly fading away...seeing the light
My heart beat fades
Strong impulses are taking over
Weak impulses start to mean nothing

My perceptions verses my reality
How else will you see?
I can't resist these strong impulses
Afraid you might see
My perceptions are my reality
Wait until you see

Biography Poem

Laura Ann
Indifferent Smart Hyper Adventurous
Being the only child with no mother and father in plain sight
Lover of my grandmother, basketball,writing,poetry

Who feels inadequate as if there is still missing pieces to this puzzle
Who feels as if I'm too younger to be going through what I'm going through
Who feels as if this will make me a stronger person on the inside and out
Who feels as if I'm unstoppable
Who give words, inspiration and a hope and a future
Who has been waiting patiently
Who needs unconditional love of a true mother and father should have to offer
Who needs a Teddy bear and her brother, Kevin ErvIn my teddy bear
Who fears to be tainted, destroyed, or even that dark passenger that you fear in the eyes
Who says I can do his, I'm invincible, Lets go!
Who would someday like to be that person you didn't think I could be, that famous basketball/ saxophonist/journalist
Resident of Manhattan, New York
Coleman

A Voice within the school body of 400

Yesterday I got this letter from my school an urgent one a matter a fact. The letter brought fourth about how the Board Of Ed took away 2 classrooms of our 22. Now we have a lack of classrooms provided for The Opportunity Charter School which holds starting in September 400 students from 6th to 12th grade. As the letter stated; Students will be forced to adapt to crowed classrooms WHICH WILL DISTRACT FROM THEIR ABLITY TO LEARN AND PREFORM. Also FEWER COURSES WILL BE OFFERED, THE SAFTY OF THAT CHILD WILL BE COMPROMISED.
When I read this I was in shock because we never had this type of propblem but now that I see they are putting a 2nd school inside another school which totals up to three schools. The Board Of Ed need to get their stuff together they should know putting another school inside will cause problems. OCS had problems getting testing space in the past years when we were forced to test in stairwells and even the gym. ALso we had problems when the other school ( Family Academy ) interfered with our school at times.
The Board Of Education needs to think things throughly before putting another school inside a school and think about how it can affect the children from the school body and how can it affect that childs willingnesss to learn in crowed classrooms. The Board OF Education needs to look at all of these empty lots and make schools out of them. I dont understand how they would take the time to invest money on a new stadium right a cross the street from the orginal in shuch a short time when they could of built probably two schools wroth as one. It's not just us OCS that education is a t risk but also other students whom school is within another school. They to lack lots or maybe more them we do. Maybe they dont have proper equipment, maybe they dont have a gym or maybe damaged places within the school. The Board Of Education needs to get their crap together because its not just me but other students as wellcare about their education and cant have this crisis now.
I'm currenty a OCS (Opportunity Charter School) student going to the 11th grade in 2 and a half weeks. I'm very disppointed to hear about this right before school starts. I strongly care about my education and I can't acept the fact that my education particularll is at risk. Jr. year is important because colleges look especially at your jr. year. Also I know we all will be fighting for the gym and especially durning afterschool the sports teams need the gym and now we"ll have limited of time to get it. But most of all I just cared about getting the right education needed without any problems with course limtied or lack of classromm space due to the Board Of Education.

Please help our school find a voice to prevent such actions happen and help our school fight for a higher education because this is a cirtical situation we are in....

A Letter's Reply

A simple reply to a letter
Would simply not be enough
To show all the love that I hide
Deep within my soul.

A simple reply to complexity
Would be blowing into the wind...
So I've decided to stray from simplicity
And give you my hand instead.

You've taught me who I am,
And taught me how to love again.
You've opened locked doors and thrown away tormenting keys

A loss for words would be an understatement for the millions I have bottled up
Just waiting for that bus stop hug
That mcdonalds smile
That street race
Or that game-winning nod...

So I leave you with this:
I remember vividly the first time you hugged me
No, not the first time I hugged you
Nor the first time we embraced.
It was that fateful night
Simple but complex
And everything you ever needed to say
Was intertwined in your hug
Which could have been all of five seconds
But lasted for a lifetime...

Remember your brother
Is always there
Through time and space
Through challenge and fear
And a reply could not be complete
Without a true revelation of who you are and who you'll be.

You inspire generations, both yours, the ones before and the ones after.
You inspire me.

Growing Pains

Sometimes I feel invisible
Invisible to the world
'Cause nobody ever listens
Listens to my words

It hurts so much, this expansion
Stretching since my birth
I'm stuck in the middle of dimensions
Not to mention I'm here on earth

Oh, this pain I feel is normal
Or I guess that's what they say
Wear my heart on my shoulder
Or its written all over my face
I can't seem to find solitude
Can't seem to find my place
I guess I chalk it up to
Simply growing pains

Like standing alone in a crowded room
Or april without may
Like a writer with no utensils
Or a painter with no paint

Impossiblities are my reality
Normalcy is my fate
But I can't settle for what's given to me
I've got to make my way.

Oh, this pain I feel is normal
Or I guess that's what they say
Wear my heart on my shoulder
Or its written all over my face
I can't seem to find solitude
Can't seem to find my place
I guess I chalk it up to
Simply growing pains

Time

Time on the wall ticking on by
Seconds quickly going on by as minutes come and go
Hours building by time as weeks goes by
Months begin to come which eventually and turns into years

Time on the wall suddenly stops
Memories are visualized taken back into time
Reliving memories of the past
A first kiss
A first dis
A loss...
A new one enters
Time to see history made
A new era of style, music, fashion
Times of lessons learned
Timing back to lost memories

Time on the wall suddenly repeats
Thoughts of times of the bad and good
Time repeating lost in deep down thoughts
Time confronting you in the face
Restless times
Exhale

Time on the wall ticking on by
Time stops and repeats and continues to go on by
Time on the wall is what I'm living to the fullest by
Confronting me on how much it means to me
Having exhale of the thrill of times I relive
Have lesson learned to teach me more
Waiting for the time to start living my life with you
What are you doing with your time?

Pictures

Captured quickly
Lasting forever
Funny how a memory can be held.

Snapshot discovery
Frozen reality
Serious how time can be stopped

Past wishes
Future hopes
Interesting how space can be frozen in time.

Mental complexity
Spiritual simplicity
Helpful how faith can be spawned by sight

I dream in snapshots
I pray in polaroids
I'll wait for reality to reach scientology
And my negative reel to meet positivity.

I'll watch as the old fades to new,
Waiting for the candles to be blown out, the first steps, or first kiss,
That last memory to become my first reality
And the past experience to become my present,
And my future will be decorated with digital stills of the memories that helped me to get to me end...

Thank you pictures, thank you friends...