Strength
Beneath the weight of whispered fears,
A seed of hope begins to bloom.
With every struggle, happiness draws near,
Transforming darkness into room.
In fragile hearts, resilience grows,
A quiet strength that always shows.
Judge
Trying to make a purpose so people will care.
People even judging me for my hair.
I am walking acting like I don’t care.
All they do is stare.
Judging isn’t very fair.
They said they didn’t they said they swear.
Going to sleep and I had a nightmare.
All I want to do is become a millionaire.
Workshop
I have never wrote a poem before
This workshop is not really for me
I cant listen to this man no more
Talking about masculinity and male appearance
he says most boys need to open up
they keep their feelings held up tight
After all the man is right
I think this workshop is for me
Dreams
Thinking what difference can be made
for the dreams I want and have prayed
stress of wanting to be the best
insecurity being put to the test
wanting to fit in with the rest
have to catch on that I am blessed
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There’s so much unnecessary stuff,
and a lot of things I’m forced to do just seem too tough,
I’m not good at much,
I’m just writing what random thoughts I have in my head,
my head is in a crutch,
thats enough, I’m heading to bed.
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I come from a family
where a kids dream was in my hands
a family who owned a funfair
The Miami and waltzer
Spinning around
what more could you ask for
from young I get my fun time travelling
until I got a bit older and was put to work
I didn’t want to I wanted to keep living the dream
of a kid but as the years came by I was glad
I got put to work now I know
how to have maximum fun in the fair
while working building machines
moving them about younger
me had fun and it was fair in the end.
Where I am From
I come from Clondalkin
Where people are always talking,
Slagging,
From rich to poor
Time keeps dragging
we all strive for more
From hand to mouth
to touch the moon
Cherrywood born and grown
From kids on the street to footballs on the road
All we wanted to do was score loads of goals
Home
I come from a polish home that makes me roam
I do what I get told to not get uproar
I love it there and It always shines
I Want to go home
I come from Clondalkin, born and bred
In a small estate where I would play with my mates.
Little old me thought life was great.
Until a little while ago,
When that all had to go.
Everything changed,
Everything stripped away in the blink of an eye.
A new home in an even smaller estate with none of my mates.
Everything great turned into hate.
I hated this new home, I wanted to go home.
Identity
Who am I?
I talk and walk in ways I dislike
My physicality, a rebellion to my brain,
It’s locked up in a cell and it wants to be me
It cries out with helpless pleads when you bark up the wrong tree
What you don’t understand you tend to despise,
When you lay in bed at night you hate you for your lies
Everyone around you would love you right? Unsure
What you want to be and who you are is a line that progressively blurs
A sickness feeling and it eats at your heart
When you drift off to sleep you see what you are and who you want to be, eye to eye
A lock, we all want the key,
Please, who am I?
Poetry Workshop
My name is J
someone came to school for a workshop
Poetry was it and was cool
I found the man
very sound
I didn’t think I was interested in writing it
but what is the point in fighting it
Open Up
In what felt like Two very short hours
This workshop has made me really reflect
on who i am and how I live my everyday life.
I struggle with opening up about my feelings,
talk about who i am or even be open about
my hobbies because of the world that we live in.
your worshop and the constant wisdom
pouring out I have realised I am not alone,
so thank you.
School
I don’t like this place
I wanna escape
I’m stuck in here
So I might as well stay
I’m starting to enjoy it
So I’d much rather stay
Maybe I might come back someday
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I have this burning feeling that I need to be the best or else I’ll fall into the rest
I never had a chance to be myself so why should I be like everybody else
Always wanted to try something new but no can do
You’ll have to be like them or else you’ll be spit like phlegm
But I guess that’s just how it goes you’ll just be a shadow to everyone you know
Ay just wish it didn’t always have to be this way
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living life in Dublin where everybody’s not trying to look like a fool,
people bringing others down to have self validation or a higher status.
We all thrive for high expectations but in reality were trying to be
liked be people we don’t even like.
Workshop in Moyle Park
I’m in Moyle park
doing a work shop
rather not
then I started it
and I thought wrong
this poetry workshop is so good
and I’m grateful thanks
to this kind man
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I come from a home
that has well grown
it speaks to me sometimes
with me unknown
it is called a system addictive
to some
but no to my mum it annoys her sometimes
When the bills are high she hits the switch
and the xbox dies Cuthberts road
on a friday night is chaos at sight the noise
of loud bikes awakens the old
and comes the night with terrors
and fright robbed cars and lights of fires
of the the burned out bikes
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I don’t like this place
I really need to get some space
These people think they are better never talk to my face
I’ll disapear without a trace
My families in a state
I am relying on my mates
People filled with lots of hate
I cannot concentrate.
Change
Lived a very awkward life. never really knew where I fit in. I was put into a sport very young and it wasn’t competitive.
I never really enjoyed seriously competitive sports but I have always enjoyed playing them and got clowned on for that. When I got older I started to hate it because of how competitive it was and was made fun of for that so I just quit because it didn’t make me happy.
Never really felt myself anywhere including hanging out with guys so I thought I would feel more myself with girls and I thought that was wrong so I thought there was something wrong with me.
When I made friends with girls I realised how easy it was to be around them because I wasn’t forced to be someone I am not and could be myself which felt very good for once because I became very close to them and still am.
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Have you ever been hated on or discriminated against
Never felt like the best
All these thought on your chest
Never been able to put it to rest
Focused on the vision powered by your strength
Now your walkin, your path going to any length
Beyond School
Going through school,
Acting like a fool,
trying stay in my bubble,
but keep getting in trouble,
getting a suspension,
because of lots of detention,
getting home and finding out we’re moving to Rome,
Since I got expelled,
My grades have excelled,
because of my knowledge,
I’m being sent to college,
attended my first lecture,
studying architecture,
it was so boring,
I slept and started snoring,
me and my mate,
went on a 2 man date,
it was going so well,
until he started feeling unwell.
Mouse and Chicken
I had a mouse that lived in my house and h
His name was James all the way from Laos.
The mouse liked chicken it was always finger lickin
but when he didn’t have it he would be trippin.
all i’m saying is that he’s pretty cool but remember
when he sees chicken the mouse will drool.
Football
I love football,
Every time there’s a match I watch them all
I love it so much if I fall,
I might even crawl, just to play ball
My Life
I’m ready to scrum
I’m ready to run
I’ll go to school
Try to get through
I’ll go out with friends
and have a bit of craic
That’s a fact
Acting
A lot of people today today act like they can do what ever they want
Just because they know people in higher places then you
And so they act like they are better then you so just ignore em
And do want you want write play dance sing do things
That make you happy not what make others happy because
If you go down that route your gonna end up sad when your
In your house thinking about how life could have been different
Life you only listened to yourself so go do things you want live life
The way you want it do what ever
Trained
I woke up one day
fastened my gloves
and trained and trained
not knowing who i was
or know who I would become
but i kept moving
becoming who I am
without using combat
but the other features I use
Would help carry me there
And achieve what I really want
Is to become my best me
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In the clouds everyday
chilling out beside the bay
above the worlds satellite
sometimes nothing feels right
A bell goes *bong*
feels so wrong
Isn’t a lot
But that’s all I got
Curly Fries
Golden twists, a tasty prize
Crispy curls that mesmerise
Dipped in ketchup, oh so bright
A snack that brings pure delight
Salty crunch with every bite
Comfort food, a savoury sight
In a bag, a joyful surprise
McDonald’s love curly fries