All of the following poems were written by the students in the Senior English class I taught at Ewing High School in the fall of 1999. Although few of them would consider themselves poets, their talents speak for themselves. -- E. F. Winerock
Index
Athlete Ancient Christmas Christopher
Big Bright Right Reed
Breast Butt Dumb Dunn
Cash Cool Donkey Duque
Christianity Charity Parent Parisien
Cool Care Daring Diaz
Cool Cat One Oliver
Curtain Cold Sleep Stires
Dazzling Dangerous Mean Marceau
Dill Door Condom Popp
Doctor Dentist Apple Alvarado
Enthusiasm Evil Wise Williams
Frog Flag Clock Chasar
Jack-o-lantern Jack Kevorkian Dork DeVido
Kettle Ketchup Broom Bethea
King Knuckle Hammer Havens
Lace Love Mike Meseroll
Marketing Manifest Jobs Johnson
Rich Rape [lost] Latimer
Standard Spotlight Scrumptious Sanders
Sun Stars Sea Sawicki
I must slake this insatiable thirst,
I must slake it before it gets worse.
The hermetic bond which we once had,
Is now transitory which makes me sad.
Pungent and facetious my attitude might be,
But a salubrious life is what I foresee.
Your rampart of love has protected me,
But I am almost a man which you don’t wanna see.
I know you’re disinterested in what I have to say,
But I must fend for myself, and so comes the day.
Life has goaded me to prove myself a man,
But I am your "ingenuous" boy, for this you won’t stand.
-- Bryan Reed
Andre
Love is like a dove flying high and free,
Love is not supposed to die like a dying tree;
Love is also the feeling for one to another,
Love is not to be like a cold shower;
Love is a river roaring on and on,
Love is not a job or a duty that can be done;
Love is free like a growing tree
that we have for one another,
like a shower of blessing,
no matter how the bond breaks.
Billy
Love is caring, being there, trust, risking.
Love is not sex, (unless it is committed love that involves sex)
Love is also good days, good feelings, good times.
Love is not hate, hatred, dishonesty, unkindness,
Love is happiness, understanding, helping, working out bad times, expressing love in good ways.
Love is not selfish,
Love is Love.
Bob
Love is what you share with someone you care about;
Love is not when you are just attracted to the person because of sex.
Love is also when you would do anything for that person;
Love is not something that can just go away.
Love is when you put that person before yourself.
Love is not mistreating that person by not
caring about their feelings, or not being faithful.
Love is the most wonderful thing that could happen to a person.
Bryan
Love is a feeling that can not be explained.
You feel empty but full at the same time,
weak but stronger than anything else.
Love is not an obligation.
Love is forever.
Love is not something you can just forget about.
Love is something that everyone wants to feel complete.
Love is not something to take advantage of.
Chantale
Love is something that two people share together in their heat.
Love is not any one thing you could decide to do anytime you want to.
Love is also a warm feeling that makes you happy when you think of the other person that you love.
Yet love is not a feeling that just comes up anytime you want to.
Love is a good feeling that two people or more share in their life.
Love is a good thing that makes you feel secure inside.
Chris
Love is a feeling of completeness
Love is not a thing or a place
Love is also hard at times
Yet love is not what you do, but what is done
Love is special
Love is not for everyone
Love.
Cristian
Love is a trick that you mind plays on you.
Love is not something to die 4.
Love is also dangerous even though it makes you come back for more.
Yet love is not too dangerous, if you use it right.
Love is emotions and feelings,
Love is not sex, although sex is part of it.
Dana
Love is that feeling of butterflies in your stomach every time you think or see that person.
Love is not making fun, mocking, or making each other feel bad.
Love is also looking in their eyes and being able to look into them all day.
Yet love is not having a second thought that he/she is with another.
Love is trust, honesty and communication
Love is not lying, criticism, silence.
Dave
Love is having fun,
enjoying something, and
never wanting to stop.
Love is not boredom.
Love is also serious.
Yet love is not a drag.
Love is all around,
Love is not a rock.
Dorothy
Love is sweet; it’s understanding.
Love is not pressure, bitterness
Love is also caring, is wanting
Yet love is not regret
Love is beautiful at some bad points in your life
Love is not being there because you have to,
but being there because you want to.
Love hurts when you are not loved back.
Franklin
Love is joy
Love is not pain
Love is also happiness
Yet love is not sorrow
Love is to be given
Love is not to be bottled up.
Joe
Love is knowing someone will give up
all possessions they have, just to be with you.
Love is not saying you love someone.
You may be untrue, you may be saying that just to please them!
Love is also wanting to be with someone 24/7.
When you’re not with them, you’re lonely & sad.
Yet love is not giving someone anything they want, that’s being cheap.
Love is from the §.
Love is not hate,
It is a true feeling of happiness.
Karimah
Love is when one feels a special feeling towards someone else.
Love is not being infatuated with someone.
Love is also when you care for someone to
the point where you will do anything for them,
Yet love is not just having sexual intercourse.
Love is a special binding
Love is not just liking the looks of someone else.
Ken
Love is being there when needed, caring when you don’t have to,
Love is not pain or hurt,
Love is also doing the little, extra things for people,
Yet love is not fear or grief,
Love is making someone (or people) happy or feeling funny
(tingly or butterflies) around someone you like.
Love is not prejudice or hereditary,
Love can be quite confusing, very complicated,
also the best, and greatest feeling in the world.
Lacey
Love is a beautiful thing that two people feel.
Love is not something that should not be taken advantage of.
Love is also a strong, emotional feeling, a wonderful feeling.
Yet love is not something we overlook or are unsure about.
Love is that tingly feeling you get inside
when you look in that someone’s eyes.
Love is not a toy; you shouldn’t play with it.
Love is like glass; make sure you don’t break it,
because gluing the pieces back, will never be the same.
Liz
Love is true
Love is not phony
Love is also caring, having respect for one another
Yet love is not sex
Love is a feeling that you have when you
feel that person has filled in an empty hole in life
and you want for nothing else in this world but to have that person.
Love is not a feeling that comes and goes.
It’s a feeling that no one would understand, but you.
Marque
Love is when you will do anything for a person
Love is not liking to have sex with somebody
Love is also blind
Yet love is not hidden
Love is caring
Love is not hate.
Shawn
Love is spending time with the person that you really love,
Someone who makes you feel like you’re on top of the world.
Love is not someone who treats you bad,
Saying I love you, it is meaning it.
Love is also the Joy of just thinking of spending time with that person,
When you get this tingle up your spine.
Yet love is not
Hurting the person, hitting the person, making that person feel bad.
Love is so hard to explain sometimes,
when you don’t know whether it is love or lust.
Love is not going out with the person just for sex.
Love is an indescribable, incredible, breath-taking experience,
and everyone should go through it just once.
Símon
Love is a word, that comes and goes
Love is not sex in the room
Love is also an inner feeling
Yet love is not a mind thing
Love is a deep, inner thought
Love is not being by yourself.
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