Scoil Chaitriona, Glasnevin, Dublin 9

I walk down the road

The air is quiet
too quiet
would i be safer with a man by my side?
thats the question i ask myself
I wonder to myself why am i frightened
why is the air too quiet and not peaceful
Who am i really scared of
men.

Silenced

As i girl I don’t feel heard
I am scared to share my feelings
because i feel like i’m not healing
but with every tear and every scar
I find my voice among the stars.

Broken

They think I am broken, but I am not
Its my own experiences I have not yet spoken.
I have been up, I have been down,
But there is many things that I have not yet found.

I am only human, not a machine
People must treat me like a being.
That is all I must say,
I’ll have a lot more to say another day.

Medusa

Medusa was cursed with taming snakes within her hair
Athena cursed medusa to have a stoney glare
Medusa lost all she was dedicated to by the hands of posidon
Athena cursed medusa to risk her hair killing her with poison
Medusa died to a man, who used her head as a weapon
Fiction can’t even escape the circle of women.

Word Ladder

I
am always
climbing
the stairs
that
I create
with
my words
all t
he way
to
the top.

Rainy mornings

The rain is pouring
Your parents still snoring,
The bed still toasty
And the window so frosty,
You walk out the door
And the drops hits your head,
And you remember the days
When you could just stay in bed.

Shadow Play

In a classroom where the shadows play,
Beneath the weight of expectations’ sway,
A group of boys, with dreams untold,
Find their voices, brave and bold.
With Mr. Keating’s wisdom as their guide,
They learn to see the world wide-eyed.
“Carpe Diem,” he whispers, a call to be free,
To seize each moment, let passion decree.
Through sonnets and verses, they break the mold,
Challenging norms, their spirits unfold.
Friendships deepen, risks are taken,
In the pursuit of dreams, no heart is forsaken.
But beneath the laughter, a darkness looms,
As pressures mount in the echoing rooms.
The cost of freedom, a heavy price,
In the struggle for identity, sacrifice.

Yet in the end, their voices remain,
A testament to courage, love, and pain.
Though the world may silence, their words will soar,
In the hearts of the dreamers, forevermore.

Sunsets

I think love
can be like sunsets.
It starts with a blazing
orange sun,
fire in the heart and veins,
until it turns
into a gentle pink glow
bringing comfort
to your soul.

I don’t cry

im hard nails
broke my leg
now the taddle tails

i don’t feel pain
it’s the winter arc
when it gets dark
all i do is bark.

Man Flex

There is a serious problem amongst men in Ireland and around the that we don’t talk about how we feel. Because so many men struggle or have struggled with things like suicide and self harm. A lot more than you would expect. If you ask men/ boys if they know people or have personally struggled with these topics, a lot more than you would expect would say they would and that is a serious problem that should be spoken about more to lower the rates of male suicide.

To be a girl

Is to live, to love and to die,
While carefully spinning a cobweb of lies.
To be a girl is to never be too much, or too little
To be small but never too brittle.
You can be weak but you may never break,
These jokes we need to learn to take.
To be a girl is to feel, but not show
You’re place is what you must always know.

To be human is to be alive

School starts

again and again, i’m in a class all alone away from them
My friends that i never see at lunch only
Sitting in silence trying to be social,
looking out the window being asked if okay i wasn’t
I was always waiting for the end of the day
Seeing my friends and Listening to kneecap
with my best friend after school the only time i see her
Moving classes was the best decision for me.

A Longing

It’s not a want to be perfect
it’s a need,
In a world where being clever
is a good deed
comes grief and shade
It is a longing to be better made

Everybody has a Fear

It might make you shed a tear
Or even share a beer
But it’s the good times that make it all worth it
As there is no sunshine without rain.

My Friend Joe

I seen my friend joe
while we were playing in the snow
he said he was about to go out to row
but the snow wouldn’t let him though

After that Mo was passing by
he was on a run with the son
lucky for us they didn’t have a gun therefore we didn’t have to run

When I came in i had a bun it was yum.

Why?

If men and women are equal,
why must i fear walking alone,
being stared at or harassed?
Explain to me why I must be gawked at,
and have insults hurled at me for simply walking.
I am a child,
I am human,
why should I have to go through this?

Growing up

is like a game
Each level brings a new name
From tiny steps to running very fast
We learn so much that we have a blast

Sinking

When the cookie falls & sinks in the milk :(💔
No one understands the pain 🙁 💔
This isn’t about cookies & MiLk

Love Hate

“I hate the way you talk to me and they way you comb your hair,
I hate it when you ride your bike
I hate it when you stare,
I hate your big black puffer jacket and the way you read my mind,
I hate you so much it even makes me sick
it even makes me rhyme,
I hate it when you make me laugh
even worse when you make me cry.
But mostly I hate that I don’t hate you at all.
Not even a little not even at all.

Stories

Everyone experiences today different.
I did, you did, we all did.
Some people might have had a better day than you
some people could have had a worse day.
So you should always stay humble and enjoy the little things in life,
enjoy the journey, enjoy connections, resilience and enjoy loving.
Always block out the negative and think about what could over come it.
never regret anything that made you smile
and never regret anything at all.

in the world of Jacks

There’s Jack in the box,
with a spring and a pop,
He’ll make you jump high,
then you’ll laugh
’til you drop from the bean stock.

Giving it a Lash

I’m trying to make a poem
But I just want to go home
School is a Kip
But without school my social life would be pretty shit

It’s hard to talk about me feelings
When I don’t really know how I’m feeling
It’s hard to say something that’s so weird to talk about
When I feel like I don’t know what I’m on about.

Dawn Breaks

In the quiet of the dawn,
Light over fields of green,
Whispers of the day,
Nature’s calm and serene.

Birds begin their morning song,
A breeze begins to play,
In this moment, life is strong,
A perfect start to a new day.

Saul dropped a poem

It was really cool
They think I’m stupid
I don’t act a fool

Saul is next up
Yup.

Wake up

On the grind
It’s winter ark it’s time to shine
Don’t be hard get left behind
Have a cause or fail to rise.

I’m on my winter arc

The grind doesn’t stop
There praying on my downfall
I’m not gonna flop
I’ll keep on working
I’m not gonna stop
Until I make it to the top.

I hate Yondrs

they are bad,
we needed that €9mil
for the housing crisis,
how many houses could you build
with 9 million quid?

I cannot cope

with having no hope
because this dope can’t tie a rope ,
he can’t get a grip his hands will slip
I’m not able to skip without having a few sips.

Connected

Although,
if men and women
are just objects of desire
to one another;
could they ever
be connected
by love?

Strolling

life is taking a serious stroll
but the pain in peoples heart
is getting harder
to hold all the pain and the stress
people are left to deal with not one person really cares
when they’re left on there own
they just want to quit.

Numb

My body feels fine
but I could stare all day,
craving the feeling to be
someone familar
but they only exist
to me

Fortnite

Is the best game
When you are not lame
Flocking through the fields
I hope i don’t forget to yield
Everyone trying to shoot me
But they won’t even hurt me
Landing at the dogpound
I hope no one comes around.

Fort Night

During the day i’m on fortnite to play
but in the night i fight the crime
Im known as the batman
or that’s what they say
they need me to clean up this grime.

One Million

One million ginger beers pls
Can I get a burger with cheese
Just put the fries in the bag
Get home to play fort with the gang