In the year of 1913 the latest technology would be considered nonelectrical items such as the zipper, or the ram jet. Technology today has increased the materialization of electrical items listing from a mere 0.4% to a participation level of 34% since 2009 in America. But electricity could actually ...
You bless me
With a tear that drips
From your chin
To the arm of this faded couch
A tiny blue river of you
That dries with my sighs
As bad jokes spill
On hearing ears
Fears fall away
I pray the Only
God's enough for now
To keep us alive 'cause
You bless me
With angry salt wate...
The air is crisp. A serene scent of pine lingers faintly in the frosty air. The sun, poking its dim rays from the heavy clouds, barely exists in the wintry sky. The temperature is around a comfortable thirty degrees. It is a skier’s paradise in Stowe, Vermont today. The snow is extra fluffy, which...
In my life, I have taken many journeys without which I would not have experienced important truths. My father started us off early, taking us on many journeys to help us understand that true knowledge comes only from experience. We took trips every winter break to Belize, Turks and Caicos, Costa Ric...
As you reflect on life thus far, what has someone said, written, or expressed in some fashion that is especially meaningful to you. Why?
According to Mother Teresa, “If you judge someone, you have no time to love them.” I first saw this quote when it was posted on my sixth-grade classroom wal...
The Internet
is my brain.
Filled with
downloadable knowledge
and google searches.
no one thinks,
the answer’s at your
fingertips.
just believe the
wikipedia page
and continue life
within the cage....
it's funny how hello is always accompanied with goodbye
it's funny how good memories can start to make you cry
it's funny how forever never seems to last
it's funny how much you'd lose if you forgot about your past
it's funny how “friends” can just leave when yo...
Like the time I couldn’t get my underwear on. Like the time I wore a body stocking and got painted in plaster. Like the time I was carried home from the zoo. Like the time everyone was way too nice to me at the birthday party. Like the time I fell off the bleachers. Like the time I ate the gravel....
You’re not above me
you just nudge me
in the direction you think I ought to go.
You don’t know me
so don’t show me
that you think you know more than He.
No one knows more
than the divine one,
(but maybe the divine one’s son)
bar none.
Just cause a guy
with a ...
We can see you hide your face
We know you're scared
We know you're name
We see your eyes
Golden brown
We see your smile
We see your frown
We see your nose
We see your brows
We see your ears
Big and proud
We see your hair
Crisp and blonde
We see your glasses
Thick and smart
W...
Youre thinking you can't get away from these problems
You're runnin on the treadmill thinkin nobody can solve them
Your life is fine
But you're in denial
Stop wastin time
And get away from these finals
It's like you're bein tested and you don't know the answers
S...
You can prove nothing from yourself.
Whether that makes you selfish or shy,
People can make you feel small, and worthless;
Totally self-aware, and self-conscience.
You can make yourself crawl on your knees and slap someone because of what you’re feeling.
You can make yourself feel bitter…...
You push and pull all the way across the border
Tell me not to talk or I will feel the thunder
The lightening, the storm, the opposite of beauty
And from that I can tell what my imaginations tellin me
You got studs on your fingers
Waiting to pummel me
claws on your fingers that you filed sharp...
I hate being in this place
This horrid state of mind
Where you put me in positions
That could make me opposed to kind
You treat me with all maliciousness
And whip me, and beat me flat
Never shall I forget
Lest I remember that
That night beyond the moon and stars
And every galaxy
Where moon...
I remember when I saw you
I wasn't used to seeing night
Your skin darker than black itself
You gave me no light.
You never talked except to judge
Which I guess makes you talkative
You never said something nice
And never once you apologized.
You called me names with all your verbal abuse...
Today my teacher asked me
What God might think of us
I thought of all the things I've done
And cried right on the spot
He might think I'm one of those girls
Who has no morals for herself
Whom He created
and regretted;
He should've created someone else.
He probably thinks
Th...
Sell me a violin, mister, of old mysterious wood. Sell me a fiddle that has kissed dark nights on the forehead where men kiss sisters they love. Sell me dried wood that has ached with passion clutching the knees and arms of a storm. Sell me horsehair and rosin that has sucked at the breasts of the m...
She's like any other artist
But this story has a twist
Her razor is her paintbrush
And her canvas is her wrist
What she eats she vomits
On the rare times that she eats
Her life is slowly purging
Like the liquids that she drinks
She's not the life of the party
But she's mind i...
Jazz. Delectable art divulged like chocolate into the ears of philosophers to philanthropists. Constructed and built on emotions, and celebrated from every direction. That raspy drawl of trombones and oh-so-perfectly overblown saxophones creating the true sound of brass. Creating the word, brass. Th...
Ch:
I've been ...
looking in all the wrong places
I've been hiding the truth
I've been holding on too long
You can see nothing's really new
I've been walking on trouble
I've been walking on glass
This my History
All the struggles that I've had
V1:
...
Your icy stare
Your stone-cold eyes
Your long eyelashes
Your perfect lies.
Your wispy hair
Your darkened skin
Freshly tanned
Fit but thin
Your soft worn hands
Your dry humor
Your great big smile
Spreading a lengthy mile
Your expensive scent
Your leather shoes
Your Prada belt
You...
Technology. The main reason why instead of praying before a meal, we check our cellular devices. Where we worship the high charge of batteries and the magical spot of WiFi instead of a higher power called, religion. Think about it. Would our ancestors be proud? Some might say yes, but in my opinion,...
Imagine: bustled halls, wall to wall, high schoolers coming out of class, school bell ringing loud, loud chatter, pleated pants, boys in ties, girls in skirts. Books to chest, books to breast, clamorous stairs, lights flickering. Gossip, cliques, groups, and lockers, locked tight, minutes passing, h...
Imagine: graffiti art, splattered walls, criminals, newscasts, reportages, school bells, chattering, tweeting, humming, trains, cars, planes, sounds, sights, smells! Collaborating into a huge magnetic force of height. New York. Trending state in America. Where seasons actually change, and sidewalks ...
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