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- Poetry > Free Verse
Hope in the form of a new playground On the morning of a new sunny day Light has finally found a way around The darkness of man once killed in play Sight in the form of green grass's dew A night had never been so cold The sun is shining on the chosen few Who would bend but never fold ... - Poetry > Free VerseI Write The words on this page The feelings that I can't quite Display, only through rage That maybe just might Land me stuck in my cage The reason that I fight To put out this beautiful blaze That might be too bright To see through my own craze Because it's j...
- Opinion > Points of ViewThe Electoral College has become a topic of hot debate in recent years. Originally designed to expedite the voting process, many people no longer see a need for it, especially since it is possible for a presidential candidate to lose the popular vote and still win the election. This happened in 2000...
- Poetry > Free VerseWelcome to my life Under God I once stood Now under mountains of strife I will crack like brittle wood My eagle once promised liberty Now money does instead As leaders preach in deceitful clarity My children get covered in red The boys who paid for me Like innocence, are forgotten Now...
- Hot Topics > What MattersAn old woman sits down on a bench in a park, weary from years of pain. Laughter fills her ears, spring flowers and the smell of grass pervades her old nose, hope a taste on her tongue. Across from her are children, so full of life and so hopeful of what is to come; learning of life and living and ...
- Poetry > All PoetryThe city of sinful need Holds no place for me For when I went there to feed I forever starved This city of worldly pleasures Kept drawing me back Keeping me searching for hidden treasures That were not there This city of sin Forever taunted me It took me to lands that I had never bee...
- Poetry > Free VersePlease wake me when I’m free So I may clear this uncertainty And erase this fog that enshrouds me I am not about power and greed I created the American dream After all, money does not grow on trees I am what this country desperately needs So no more bailouts for me Just let me be Me...
- Opinion > Spirituality / ReligionTo believe an untruth is to believe a lie. But what if the untruth is truthful in that you believe it to be the actual truth, and reject the actual truth? Does the untruth become a truth or are you just lying to yourself? To believe in something you cannot see is to have faith. Are you lying t...
- Opinion > Current Events / PoliticsThe world is chaos. Bullets screaming past your ears, the smell of burning flesh in your nostrils, the cries of the wounded and dying as they call out for their mother and blood and body parts are all around like a deck of cards that have been dropped. This is war. Beautiful, isn’t it? That on...
- Poetry > Free VerseA stranger to It's own mother Who would have ever seen it coming Surely not the history books That politicians keep ignoring The truth is sometimes what hurts But this time it is the cure This ignorance that is prominent Can happen no more Power is the drug of life Obama knows this...
- Poetry > Free VerseWhat day was it when it was taken That the beauty of this country was mistaken For the Garden of Eden that holds the youthful fountain Now we will all drown in our ignorance This idiocrasy of hypocrisy has gone too far Making our men lose their lives to a lost war And now our men must liv...
- Poetry > Free VerseNow when the politicians say the economy is bad It is pretty obvious In fact it makes me mad Because they’ve been so oblivious Hidden away in their jail of power and greed They have forgotten everything we need For does anything matter at all When you can give away the world, a trillion d...
- Fiction > All FictionOne day there was a group of beavers in a land that was far away. These beavers had a very good life and were very prosperous. However, there came a day that there was a problem within the beaver’s land; not all of them wanted to abide by the same rules. As a result a group of beavers, led by a...
- Opinion > Current Events / PoliticsWar. A word that when said can bring up feelings that no other word can. One may think of bloody battles, war movies, famous generals or historic wars. Perhaps one may even feel the aching pain of loss that can only come from the death of a loved one or one may even think of America's curren...
