Poetry From High School

By Midnight Phoenix

As the title states, these are works from my high school creative writing class. Many are from my scrapbook of "Reality".

Syllable Cinquain

My life
Reels foreword now.
Learning, preaching, and how
Would things work out differently?
I’m gone.


Haiku

The earth grows the race
Mankind smart, society dumb
Lemmings don’t swim well

The land of the free
Leashes held by enemies
Are they friend or foe?


Clarihew

Things are never what they seem
Maybe it’s because we always dream
Of golden raindrops and beauty afar
Instead of bills and paying for your car

Either way we have to know
Reality bites when times are low
But whenever we need a helping hand
We can always venture to Candyland


Tanka

Be true, be the case.
Sand the test; have the true ring;
Prove true, substantiate.
Hold good, hold true, hold water.
True, right, correct, realistic.


Triplet

As I watched the dark sky
Feeling the soft breeze
The moonbeams I saw


Diamond

Truth-
fact, reality
proving, stating, explaining
pure, naked, natural, actual, authentic
bending, changing, warping
trick, wrong
False


Couplet

A tranquil land emits harmony.
For dreamers find it occasionally.


Quatrain

You search for truth but when the mists roll away
You expect to see clearly but something’s astray
The world is filled with blurs and fuzzy thoughts
For you to decipher from what you’ve been taught


Phone Poem

In the land of Reality
There are no limits to bind your mind
For everything exists here.
So live creatively,
Find yourself,
And never give in without a fight.
Think.


Reality is…

Reality is everything
Reality is nothing
Reality is pure
Reality is tainted
Reality is what we make it


Eye Candy

Real Real
Real Real
Real Real
< Real ( o ) ( o ) Real >
Real (_) Real
Fake \_______/ Fake
Fake Fake
Fake Fake
Fake Fake


Close to Reality

What we see, feel, and hear doesn’t even come close.
When the majority of the people agree, we follow the masses the most.
All it takes is one loophole to contradict the matter
And he who finds the key to this should be the one to flatter

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Copyright 2004 Midnight Phoenix
Published on Sunday, May 23, 2004.     Filed under: "Poetry"
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  • fritzwraith On Wednesday, July 14, 2004, fritzwraith (24)By person wrote:

    A lot of haikus I've read seem so cliche but yours aren't. I like the eye candy as well!

  • maddin foxxxy On Thursday, June 10, 2004, maddin foxxxy (358)By person wrote:

    Well I'm out of a central thought after I read . .this left me with several wondering thoughts and all I have left to say is that you made a splendid job, each one is full of thought and emotion ..there's lot of your talent denoted in every single word yo

  • maddin foxxxy On Thursday, June 10, 2004, maddin foxxxy (358)By person wrote:

    you expressed up there .. .absolutely worth reading to.

  • frost bite On Monday, May 24, 2004, frost bite (43)By person wrote:

    phone poem make frost bite happy, yay

  • OLd SouL On Sunday, May 23, 2004, OLd SouL (734)By person wrote:

    I liked Diamond and Quatrain alot. Thanks for knockin' the dust off these. :) :::OLd

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