Time for a Change
She was a hero.
Rosa Parks was determined,
to make a great change.
Moving Forward
His great soul helped all.
As Gandhi changed India,
many lives were touched.
An Important Party
Boston Tea Party.
A step forward to freedom.
What a great protest.
For the Future
Hero in my eyes.
A brave man was MLK.
Made the world better.
Sacrifice
She was just fifteen.
She spoke for education.
Malala was strong.
Stand up for what you believe in,
Even if no one else is on your side.
Be rebellious,
But also be civil.
Let the past die,
Move on with your life,
It gets better with time.
No matter the tragedy,
No matter how bad times seem,
It will get better.
Once you’re able to move on,
You will be able to stand up and fight
Fight for what you believe is right
Fight and fight and fight
Fight for your life
All I wanted,
was a seat on the bus.
All I wanted,
was my right.
But like a fallen tree in the woods,
They dragged me out of there without hesitation.
The only right I had,
was the right to remain silent.
But what does it mean to have rights…
If you can’t live them.
Oh how they prefer a sick heart over the others.
Letting people die rather than being a donor.
They give us laws,
In order to break them,
but we break them like a quiet bird on a branch.
Because we make life to enjoy,
instead of enjoying to take life.
Like they did in Mississippi.
We won’t stop until everything done right.
Even if they fight, we’ll fight through the night until…
There is an empty seat on the bus.
What does it mean to have rules,
The one where it turns on each other through hate,
The one where freedom has become the necessity,
The place where goodness hides,
The place where source of self reflection is needed,
The Natural source of confidence lost,
The movement for natural rights began,
Exemplified a source of restrictions on human actions by Gandhi,
Belief that one shall not physically fight for what’s theirs,
The Segregation of colors just because they weren’t the needed color,
The realization that one shall break the rules to create better rules,
The power of unification through tolerance and in arms,
Reflection of past following the future,
Age of darkness controlled by fear,
Nature shall take a hold of your inner struggles.
You are not complete until you reach it
Full potential is what you need
Believe in yourself
And stay true to yourself
Speak your mind
Keep your opinions firm
Started from a discussion club
We are all individuals
With our own opinions and ideas
Stick to yourself when no one else is there
Imagination is a part you will need
Creativity and counter-cultural spirit is needed to succeed
Everything is connected through it all
We get jealous of people that have nicer things
Yet when we get like them you are straying farther from success
What do you have?
Do you know who you are?
It’s so easy to fall in love.
And it’s never planned.
You don’t have to fall in love with one person.
Or anyone at all.
Fall in love with the flower growing in your front yard,
Fall in love with the way his eyes squint when he smiles,
Fall in love with the dew drops falling off the strings of a spider web,
Fall in love with the little rainbow that the glare of your window made,
Fall in love with the sky or the little old lady you saw in the cafe,
You don’t have to fall in love with a person,
Fall in love with life.
Every goosebump,
Every scrape,
Every strand of hair,
Every wrinkle on every finger,
Makes up for all of the pieces of yourself that you’re still mending.
Every layer
every nail bed
and every vein
Hides the secrets you’re trying to keep.
But keeping them from yourself will not do any good.
Mend your own cuts.
Trust yourself.
Do not judge me,
Do not nudge me,
Do not take my name and smudge me.
I will not budge,
I will not trudge,
I will just laugh and eat some fudge.
~M.Z.
Dear High School,
It has been fun
Except not really.
It’s about time to retire
So that I can go to college.
I look forward to our parting moment
In a bittersweet way.
-Anonymous
From all the hours were have spent together
Exploring a world known to many others
From all the draugers we have encountered
In the Berkshires we’ve spelunked
All the Nord armor we have collected
On our quest to Daedric
Finding all the Dragon priests
And collecting their masks
Killing dragons
To acquire stronger shouts
The merchants we’ve bought from
And cities we are thanes in
While we leveled up our speech, destruction, and alchemy
It was you Dragonborn
Who made the land of Skyrim
Oh so special
-Anonymous
My philosophy:
If you worry about it
You will suffer twice
~D.H.
Sometimes I wonder,
Who are my parents?
Then I had thought,
Was I bought off clearance?
Sometimes it feels that way,
“Go to your room Cole,
No dinner for you today,”
That always makes me sad,
But at the end of the day,
I do love my Dad.
~Cole Heckaman
Dear Penn Manor,
You were one hell of a run, a dive into the deep end, and a drug I have never experienced before. You lead me to loyal friends and collided me with snitches that got their stitches. You put me through social embarrassment while faking a laugh along the way. You were a movie that has reached its long and unexpected needing. You gave me the experience of unforgettable knowledge that I will pass on to someone of my own some day. I will appreciate you from a distance far and unknown without ever looking back. From the depths of my lungs, you will be the last puff of smoke that leaves my body.
Goodbye Penn Manor High School,
~T.C
Happiness isn’t the company of another
Without internal happiness, it can’t be genuine
Find your own happiness
~M.C.
Heart break tears you down
I don’t wish on anyone
But find a better man.
~Anonymous
He was a spirit lifter father.
He taught me the good deeds.
He never let you down ever.
He was there when needed most.
Through the ups and downs times.
His name was Ty Jacob Erisman.
The best father for four children.
He changed all of our lives greatly.
Goodbye old man who loved us.
We will love and miss you.
Forever and ever and ever eternity.
From the Erisman kids.
~Ty Erisman
Sixers draft Simmons
They start doing well and win
They make the playoffs
~Z.B.
She moved on.
But sometimes the sky still looks like his eyes.
She moved on
But she kept every possession that had any connection to him.
She moved on
But when she comes across that flannel that he left behind she’ll put it on so it’s like he’s holding her again.
She moved on
But the fact that the same flannel has almost lost every last trace of him, makes her chest feel heavier for a while.
She moved on
But on lonely nights she’ll sleep in his old t-shirt he gave her when she was his.
She moved on
But there’s moments so often where something happens or is said that reminds her of him and a memory she loved, sometimes wishing she could relive it even just for a moment…
-Anonymous
Dear dance,
I remember the moment that you were the one for me.
When my Mother plays the sound of beats and drums in the little pink DVD player, and her little girl who just took her first steps is dancing like a little soldier.
When Mother switches to the soft sound of music, and her baby starts to switch position to sway along.
She mutters, “Our little girl won’t be playing soccer.”
The moment I looked at my first ballet teacher, I knew it would be a perfect match.
Through the tears.
Threw the blisters.
Through the bruises.
Dance motivated me.
I learned to love the pain that led to accomplishment.
When one choreographer says “NO”, I will go and find one thats says “YES”.
Dance brought joy.
Dance brought love.
Dance brought release of emotions.
I am ever so grateful to the gift that God gave me.
The gift that has helped me to achieve the purpose he had for me.
The gift that brought me to achieve my biggest dreams.
It is time to say goodbye.
It’s been a great life full of 5..6..7..and 8.
~Anonymous
Summer Nights
~G.H.
Since the day I saw you
I have loved you,
Your culture and rich tradition
I bowed to.
You have carried me with your love,
From day one to eleven, my beloved;
“Mother Ethiopia” I called you,
Home of Lucy, and animals like Kangaroo
Day by day you get more beautiful,
Just like your people and view.
I will see you soon,
That I promise you;
But till that day, I will say,
Mother Ethiopia, My Ethiopia I love you.
~E.T.
My life is like a movie
On display for everyone to see
It’s not so bad I guess
~N.E.
Tragic event changed the whole world
Many families and buildings forever destroyed
The date will forever be remembered
~Anonymous
Dear Grandpa,
I love you.
Playing and coloring at your house
I loved being with you, dad didn’t
The fighting I heard
Didn’t change my love for you
The things mom said about you
Didn’t change my love for you.
Christmas,
Seeing the smile on your face
While taking pictures with us opening gifts
The smile you had
In the pictures with us
Then you weren’t in them
No beautiful smile to brighten my day
Going into the hospital
For the last time
Didn’t realize this heart attack
Would be the last
I will love you forever
I will always remember your smile
And everything you did for me
I’ll see you again someday.
Love,
Me
~Anonymous
“Always expect the worst out of things
so that in
case the worst
occurs, you were
ready for it.
If the worst
doesn’t occur,
then you will be
surprised and
happy when the
situation turned
out to be better than you thought it would.”
“Whenever
something doesn’t go the
way it was planned
or how somebody wanted
it to, someone they know will say, “get
over it, life isn’t fair”. But if that is said to
everyone, shouldn’t that mean that life
isn’t fair to anyone? If life isn’t fair to
anyone, everybody gets the some
unfairness.. Doesn’t this mea that life is fair?.”
“If you are supposed to treat people
the way you want to be treated, then
why do people harm each other? Does
that mean they want to be harmed
back? If you ever want to harm someone
in any way shape or form whether
it is physically, socially, mentally, spiritually
, or emotionally, think that you are asking
for the same thing to be done to you.”
~Ian
Guide the hand to a new fate,
And do not tell him of what you truly are,
Just smile at him, looking,
Away, from his face.
Listen to the voice that came from the hate,
And do not help him, only give him a taste,
Of who you desire, par,
Himself, neglected by you.
Guide his smile, to truly; who looks,
Yet, contrive, he is yours,
And he undermines by your fascination; benign,
To taste, the hand upon your face.
Simply untrue, undeserving, undesirable.
Away, from himself, neglect the hate,
Do not tell; the fate, so new; your heart
Won’t ever break.
Listen to the lies, you’re making up; lies.
Of given is the par, undermine who looks,
Telling not of a soul, to be under mine,
Is what of yours?
Guide to fascinate, to lay upon, undeserving of,
Your face, benign, you truly know,
Who you, are; not to be himself, he loves. He loves.
Simply, who he truly, undermines,
Who of what is your soul, not to understand,
Look now away, from yourself, smile,
Neglect the lies, not to love; not to hate.
Listen to the facade, voice, inside,
You won’t ever misapprehend,
Lies won’t ever break,
–Ever what is, undesirable won’t, how do you?
Guide to help him, do not,
Give to contrive to taste to know,
To understand your soul,
Suffice to desire the hate.
Simply, himself; as fate, smiles,
Fascinate the facade, obey,
Look, you’re mine, under love will never
–Break.
Guide to what, he is not, true, you; to not stand,
Under; the hate, helps him; you
Do not, under what, stand upon the hand,
Fate lies at your, face.
Listen, you’re who you love, he loves,
The benign tastes the, heart; obeys the soul;
Contrive to suffice the untrue, neglect
–What once was the hand of fate.
Simply par, not mine, understand him,
Tell not the truth, of you are, who looks?
Fascinate the soul, he loves, but he hates. He hates, you.
Guide: to understand what it takes,
To stay awake, away, from the fate,
Breaking the heart; Undermining distaste, in himself,
Truly, doesn’t tell him you’re fascinated; the facade.
Simply: how he looks at your face,
Suffice the hate, desire the hate, you know
He will never neglect your lies, remained untrue,
Taking his hand, to the voice inside.
Listen: the soul gives into for what?
Contrive, you won’t ever misapprehend,
To par his smile, to you, and only you,
He loved you; you, to break his heart.
Look, it’s all the same.
~Anonymous