WHS students: Please share any poems you find worthy! Be sure to credit the author in your post.  If you are the author, consider sharing a video/audio along with the printed poem. 

It would be extra-fantastic if you, the student, are the poet! 

You’re not terrible

You’re not terrible.

You’re manageable,

you can be sweet as candy,

and can be loved or hated by different people.

You’re okay, I’m not trying to hate,

but you’re not great,

but you’re not terrible.

by Micade Shumway

Roses Die Too

Roses are Red
Violets are Blue
You do not know how much I loved you
You never will and I know it’s true
But sometimes I forget roses die too

People say my life will go on
But today felt like forever
When people asked if I was alright
I said yes because it wasn’t worth the fight
Because I forgot roses die too

Roses die when picked
And boy did you pick me apart
My anxiety went through the roof
When I saw you I always knew I would goof
Act cool I would tell myself
Don’t be so obvious
Because when you are obvious everyone knows when you realize that roses die too

And then something magic comes around
You realize that new roses don’t bloom until the old ones pass
And you realize everything will be okay
Because roses die too

And a new bloom is waiting for you

Written By Olivia Squire

Explosion

When time exploded,
Where were you?
I was in the cold depths of icy caverns with no coat
And then a hellish fire pit with no drink of water.

When time exploded,
When were you?
I was just a child who felt even younger
Flying forward just for the chance of a certain moment.

When time exploded,
How were you?
I was an elephant dancing on a pin
Desperately adjusting my weight to stay balanced.

When time exploded,
Who were you?
I was a shattered china plate
A mistake in ink that was unerasable.

When time exploded,

You weren’t with me anymore.
I know that correlation isn’t causation
But I think your absence lit the fuse.

Written by Samantha Case

“Instructions for a Bad Day” by Shane Koyczan (Submitted by Andrew Tong, WHS Sophomore)

“There will be bad days. Be calm. Loosen your grip, opening each palm slowly now. Let go. Be confident. Know that now is only a moment, and that if today is as bad as it gets, understand that by tomorrow, today will have ended. Be gracious. Accept each extended hand offered, to pull you back from the somewhere you cannot escape….. Despite your instinct to say “it’s alright, I’m okay” – be honest. Say how you feel without fear or guilt, without remorse or complexity… If you think for one second no one knows what you’ve been going through; be accepting of the fact that you are wrong, that the long drawn and heavy breaths of despair have at times been felt by everyone – that pain is part of the human condition and that alone makes you a legion….So be a mirror reflecting yourself back, and remembering the times when you thought all of this was too hard and you’d never make it through. Remember the times you could have pressed quit – but you hit continue….Be the weed growing through the cracks in the cement, beautiful – because it doesn’t know it’s not supposed to grow there….If you are having a good day, be considerate. A simple smile could be the first-aid kit that someone has been looking for. If you believe with absolute honesty that you are doing everything you can – do more. There will be bad days, Times when the world weighs on you for so long it leaves you looking for an easy way out. There will be moments when the drought of joy seems unending. Instances spent pretending that everything is alright when it clearly is not, check your blind spot. See that love is still there, be patient. Every nightmare has a beginning, but every bad day has an end. Ignore what others have called you. I am calling you friend…. Everyone knows pain. We are not meant to carry it forever. We were never meant to hold it so closely, so be certain in the belief that what pain belongs to now will belong soon to then. That when someone asks you how was your day, realize that for some of us – it’s the only way we know how to say, be calm. Loosen your grip, opening each palm, slowly now – let go.”
“Instructions For A Bad Day,” written by Shane Koyczan shared from Rarainbow.wordpress.com. (3 Aug. 2014).