(Raise Your Voice) Light Up Mommy (a poem)

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Light Up Mommy

Written June 12th, 2011

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Firelight flicker

Malicious embers glow

Burning up the poison

A serpentine tongue of smoke

Rising from your pale deprived lips

Slithering between your dying teeth

Coating your sickly yellow tongue

And torturing your withered lungs

(Raise Your Voice) Amy and Morgan (a poem)

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Amy and Morgan

Written June 11th, 2011

Everyone wants to know Amy,

Generous and sweet as can be

Wise for her age and a bright future ahead

Giving up her time to help others instead

She's the one to go to when you're feelin down

She always knows just what to say to turn that frown

But Amy doesn't see herself that way

Up late cryin after what happened today

Walking behind girls down the hall

She heard something not meant for her ears at all

"Amy is so damn fat,

Never seen anyone with rolls like that!"

(Raise Your Voice) The Simple Fact (a poem)

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The Simple Fact

Written May 29th, 2011

Here is the wolf

Treveling at a steady pace

On silent lithe paws

Tireless miles to go today

Across the plains

And beneath the shadows of pines

She will cover great distance

Then go all the way back

She has hungry mouths to feed

Uknown to the untrained eye

A huntress of deadly beauty

A thick coat of silken fur

Fateful teeth and a soothing tongue

Contained in one powerful jaw

Hear her sing at night

Her voice so stunning and inviting

Even the moon stops to listen

And she sets the stars to dance

Raise Your Voice (a collection, informational message)

Hey all of my lovely readers!
I am starting to get back into the swing of writing again, and I have decided to start a social commentary poetry collection called Raise Your Voice. For those of you who don't know what it is, Social Commentary is a where someone makes a point or expresses an opinion based on a social problem or idea. It could be pro or con to the idea. Usually, Social Commentary is used to put down a certain idea and try to end it. I was inspired to do this by an art project we started in school. For my project I am doing my commentary on school bullying.
There is a lot I feel strongly about in the world today and in the past, and there are lots of things I hope to see change to in the future. So i decided to take it beyond just my one project at school. All the poems in the Raise Your Voice collection will be about things I see wrong in the world and that bothers me.

(Raise Your Voice) The Pentacle and Cross (a poem)

Added to 'Raise Your Voice' collection May 25th, 2011
The Pentacle and Cross

Written March 9th, 2011

I wear a pentacle

On my breast

Dangling from a thin silver chain

You bear a cross

Upon your chest

So very different,

Yet so very much the same

In their causes

For peace,

               Kindness,

                              Empathy,

                                            and hope

(Raise Your Voice) The Truth (a poem)

Added to 'Raise Your Voice' collection May 25th, 2011
The Truth

You
And your nasty words
That cut deep like a knife
Right into the life
Of someone beautiful
Who used to smile
Before they met you


They
Don’t know what to do
Just let you cut deeper
And deeper
Picking them apart
Revealing all of their insecurities
To the world
Leaving them weak and sore
Crying in the corner
Thinking they are unloved
Unwanted
Discarded

(Raise Your Voice) The Dark Secret He Keeps (a poem)

Added to 'Raise Your Voice' collection May 25th, 2011
The Dark Secret He Keeps

No one knows

That he cries softly in his room at night

Muffled in his pillow so his family won’t hear

So they won’t ask questions

They can’t find out

They can’t know

He doesn’t know

What to do himself

What to think

He tells himself it isn’t true

So much he almost believes it

He doesn’t want to know

The boys in class don’t know

How much their words hurt

They’re mean to him intentionally

But they don’t know just how deep

What they say really goes

I’d like to think they’d stop if they knew