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Breaking Through

Poems written and chosen by:

Morgan Fenner

5/1/2010

Table of contentsIntroduction.......................................................................................................................Page 2

“Never Left Alone”(narrative)............................................................................................Page 3

“Stand in the Rain”(song)...................................................................................................Page 4

“Rain”.................................................................................................................................Page 5

“Road not taken”.......................................................................................................Page6

“Tired”(rhyme)...................................................................................................................Page7

“The Best of Seeing”(slam).................................................................................................Page8

“Stop It”(free verse)...........................................................................................................Page9

“Love Game”(found poem)................................................................................................Page10

“Still I Rise”........................................................................................................................Page11

“What is Happiness”..........................................................................................................Page12

“A Smile”............................................................................................................................Page13

“If”......................................................................................................................................Page14

“Silence”(sonnet)...............................................................................................................Page15

Introduction

People in this world go through many different experiences in their life time. These experiences can create many different states of mind, i.e.: sadness, happiness, anger, loneliness etc. My topic is centred around those states of mind, and braking through them. The poems that have been chosen for this project will be based on this topic.

Happy, depressed, angry, lonely, these are all states of mind that are shown through the experiences we’ve all been through. Happiness when we first learned to ride a bicycle, anger when we get into fights with friends, and depression when we lose what we love. The poem “Never Left Alone” is about a girl who is thrown into a state of depression and loneliness. She later overcomes this feeling and finds that she can make do with what she has. The poem “Tired” has the state of mind when people feel like they can keep going because they’re too tired to move any farther. “Still I Rise” is about a person who no matter what happens they will continue to get up on their feet a keep fighting. All these poems have something to do with people being in different states of mind.

I know how the different states of mind make people think differently. I know how it can affect us. Having lost many loved ones, I know its not an simple thing to overcome. But it is possible. People are always looking for something for a way to reassure them that things will be ok. This is why i chose this theme. I hope that anyone who reads these poems will finally feel assured that they’re not alone and that it is possible to overcome whatever they’re going through. I hope you enjoy the poems.

Never Left Alone by Morgan Fenner

I’m sitting in the corner of the room with a locked door. I’m finally alone, the tears start to slide down my warm red face. Silently falling from my chin to my arms, wrapped around my legs. I cling to this moment in time where I can let myself go, Not having to worry about them seeing me. I am hiding myself away again with the fear of getting hurt, Knowing there is nothing else that could hurt me anymore. Running away and finding myself right back where I started, And becoming lost in everything that's happened, Too scared to let go of the past in fear of forgetting what I had, Knowing IV already lost it.As the pain slowly creeps back into my life i realize it never really left, I just pushed it aside to deal with the rest of my life.In this corner I am myself for only a short time till they find me again, They have come to put the mask over my face yet again. I am running, Running down a long dark road with no lights in sight. I am asking myself why am I this way?There are walls everywhere trapping me in keeping me away from what light is left. There’s cuts that can’t be seen because they're only in my mind. There’s nowhere left to run and nowhere left to hide.I fall to my knees and see the end is here. But there is something different this time, Like it’s not that bad, I look up to see two outstretched hands giving me a way out. I hear the voice of what seems like it can’t be real. I think to myself, who would help me now, But the hands never went away. They only stayed to brush the tears away. I’ve finally come to realize there are lights on the road With the lights right beside meGuiding me, helping to walk me home.

Stand In the Rain by Superchick(k

She never slows down. She doesn't know why but she knows that when she's all alone, feels like

its all coming down She won't turn around 

The shadows are long and she fears if she cries that first tear, the tears will not stop raining down 

[CHORUS] So stand in the rain Stand your ground 

Stand up when it's all crashing down You stand through the pain 

You won't drown And one day, whats lost can be found 

You stand in the rain 

She won't make a sound Alone in this fight with herself and the fears whispering if she stands she'll

fall down She wants to be found 

The only way out is through everything she's running from wants to give up and lie down. 

[CHORUS] So stand in the rain Stand your ground 

Stand up when it's all crashing down You stand through the pain 

You won't drown And one day, whats lost can be found 

You stand in the rain 

So stand in the rain Stand your ground 

Stand up when it's all crashing down Stand through the pain 

You won't drown And one day, whats lost can be found 

[CHORUS] So stand in the rain Stand your ground 

Stand up when it's all crashing down You stand through the pain 

You won't drown And one day, whats lost can be found 

You stand in the rainSuperchick(k), “Stand In the Rain”, www.metrolyrics.com, www.metrolyrics.com /stand-in-the-rain-lyrics-superchick.html?page=2#5a, April 19 2010

Rain by Shel Silverstein

I opened my eyesAnd looked up at the rain,And it dripped in my headAnd flowed into my brain,And all that I hear as I lie in my bedIs the slishity-slosh of the rain in my head.

I step very softly,I walk very slow,

I can't do a handstand--I might overflow,So pardon the wild crazy thing I just said--I'm just not the same since there's rain in my head. 

Road not taken by: Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,And sorry I could not travel bothAnd be one traveller, long I stood

And looked down one as far as I couldTo where it bent in the undergrowth.

Then took the other, as just as fair,And having perhaps the better claim,

Because it was grassy and wanted wear;Though as for that the passing there

Had worn them really about the same.

And both that morning equally layIn leaves no step had trodden black.Oh, I kept the first for another day!

Yet knowing how way leads on to way,I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sighSomewhere ages and ages hence:

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--I took the one less travelled by,

And that has made all the difference.

Tired by Shel Silverstein

I’ve been working so hard you just wouldn’t believe,And i’m tiredThere’s so little time and so much to achieve,And i’m tiredIve been lying here holding the grass in its place,Pressing a leaf with the side of my face,tasting the apples to see if they’re sweet,counting the toes on a centipede’s feet.Ive memorizing the shape of that cloud,Warning the robins not to chirp so loud.

Shooing the butterflies off the tomatoes,Keeping an eye out for floods and tornadoes.Ive been supervising the work of the ants,And thinking of pruning the cantaloupe plants.Timing the sun to see what time it sets,Calling the fish to swim into my nets.And ive been taking twelve thousand and forty-one breathsAnd im tired.

“The Best of Seeing” by Morgan Fenner

Being the best that you can beIs always a goal thats simple to seeBut its always simpler said than doneIts like not going blind while staring at the sunWe start to get hassledAnd start to get buggedTry living in my shoesOr the shoes of othersStop acting like you’re livingIn the shoes of your mothers.

Stop it by Morgan Fenner

Stop it.Stop acting,Stop hiding, Stop regretting, We all live life thinking of our past.Thinking of our failures that we cant take back.We don’t try to take our failures and make them work.Use your loss to make your success that much better.Learn from your past,Look forward to your future,And start living in your present.So start going,Start learning,Start living,And please, start loving what you have never letting it go.

Love game by many different poets. Put together by Morgan Fenner

Every generationBlames the one beforeAd it must have felt so very insignificantTo those of us who know the painEither you keep it forever with fist closed or let it flingLove which is the most difficult mysteryHidden away in the darknessWinters to chill the heartThat slowly withers in the summers heatI feel so much different than i didAll day they have considerable importanceSo remember those who win the game.

Still I rise by Maya Angelou

You may write me down in historyWith your bitter, twisted lies,You may trod me in the very dirtBut still, like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?Why are you beset with gloom?'Cause I walk like I've got oil wellsPumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,With the certainty of tides,Just like hopes springing high,Still I'll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?Bowed head and lowered eyes?Shoulders falling down like teardrops.Weakened by my soulful cries.

Does my haughtiness offend you?Don't you take it awful hard'Cause I laugh like I've got gold minesDiggin' in my own back yard.

You may shoot me with your w ords,You may cut me with your eyes,You may kill me with your hatefulness,But still, like air, I'll rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?Does it come as a surpriseThat I dance like I've got diamondsAt the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history's shameI riseUp from a past that's rooted in painI riseI'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.Leaving behind nights of terror and fearI riseInto a daybreak that's wondrously clearI riseBringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,I am the dream and the hope of the slave.I riseI riseI rise.

What is happiness by Sam Byron

happiness is bliss

happiness, is when you get a new puppyhappiness, is when you get marriedhappiness, is when you go on you first datehappiness, is making your own decisionshappiness, is graduatinghappiness, is getting you first jobhappiness, is falling in lovehappinessis being proud of who you are

happiness is bliss

happiness, is glowinghappiness, is funhappiness, is an amazing feelinghappiness, is when you smile all dayhappiness, is giving someone a hug just because you canhappiness, is that light in your eyeshappiness, is what makes the world go around

happiness, is bliss

A smile by: unknown

A smile costs nothing, but gives much-It takes but a moment, but the memory of it usually lasts forever. None are so rich that can get along without it-And none are so poor but that can be made rich by it.

It enriches those who receive, without making poor those who give-It creates sunshine in the home, Fosters good will in business, And is the best antidote for trouble-And yet it cannot be begged, borrowed, or stolen, for it is of no valueUnless it is given away.

Some people are too busy to give you a smile-Give them one of yours-For the good Lord knows that no one needs a smile so badlyAs he or she who has no more smiles left to give.

If by Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you.If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,But make allowance for their doubting too;

If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,Or being hated, don't give way to hating,And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:

If you can dream  - and not make dreams your master;If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;If you can meet with Triumph and DisasterAnd treat these two impostors just the same;

If you can bear to hear the truth you've spokenTwisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools:

If you can make one heap of all your winningsAnd risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,And lose, and start again at your beginningsAnd never breathe a word about your loss;

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinewTo serve your turn long after they are gone,And so hold on when there is nothing in youExcept the Will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,If all men count with you, but none too much;

If you can fill the unforgiving minuteWith sixty seconds' worth of distance run,Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!

Silence by Morgan Fenner

Silence is everywhere yet nowhereSilence is in the mind and in the heartIts in the moments of time when nothings thereAnd in those moments when things begin to start

Silence can be your friendOr your enemySilence can pretendIt can be one or many

Silence can mend a broken heartAnd put the pieces back togetherOr it can rip one apartAnd lock it away forever

It can mean the difference between being freeAnd loving all the time you takeOr being locked up with no keyAnd a state of heart ache

For silence is nice and meanAnd everything in between.

Anthology

Superchick(k), “Stand In the Rain”,www.metrolyrics.com /stand-in-the-rain-lyrics-superchick.html?page=2#5a, April 19 2010

Silverstein Shel, “Tired”, A Light In the Attic,“rain”,www.poemhunter.com/poem/rain-4/ 2010-04-28

Robert Frost, “Road not taken”, http://www.whitedovebooks.co.uk/inspiration/poems.htm, 2010-05-02

Maya Angelou “still I Rise” http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/still-i-rise/ April 20 2010

Sam Byron” What is happiness” http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/what-happiness-is/ April 29 2010

Author Unknown, “A Smile”, http://www.whitedovebooks.co.uk/inspiration/poems.htm#A SMILE 2010-05-02

Rudyard Kipling, “If”, http://www.whitedovebooks.co.uk/inspiration/poems.htm#IF,2010-05-02