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Our High School Years |
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Julie84 New Member
since 2000-07-10
Posts 2 |
Our High School Years As I walk through the doors in a scary new school, I try to act grown up, confidant, cool. If the other kids only knew how scared I was inside, they'd laugh, ridicule, and criticize. As I look around for fimiliar faces, I find no one, and no empty spaces. The bell rings my heart skips a beat, I take a step forward but I can't move my feet. I find my class and a friend of mine, I take a breath and say to myself everything will be fine. The day comes to an end, things wern't that bad. I look back and forget about why I was so sad. Two years goes by I'm in 11th grade, I'm thinking about my car, my boyfriend, and the next time I get paid. When I think about life I think of my friends this year, never once thinking about my future, my career. Another year goes by it's my senior year, I start to think about my future and I'm filled with fear. I start studying and doing good on my tests, trying hard to finish my homework and do my best. Getting my report card seeing how I was affected, thinking about my college and hoping I was accepted. Why didn't I think my early years, and took my mind off my tempting peers. It's time to graduate tears running down my face, thinking about my childhood, rushing it like a race. What happened to my petty fears, my pigtails, bruises, my teddybears. As I walk up the stairs I look out to my friends, and faking a smile I know this is the end. I accept my diploma with tears in my eyes, and realize we had the time of our lives. - Julie Jones |
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Kit McCallum
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Member Laureate
since 2000-04-30
Posts 14774Ontario, Canada |
Welcome to Passions Julie! This was an excellent first post! You've captured so many emotins through so many years ... to the end when we "say goodbye" with tears. Absolutely lovely! Check your e-mail shortly for a special message! Best wishes, /Kit |
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cutie2005 Member
since 2000-04-30
Posts 148Bennett, Colorado USA |
That was a great poem i love it so much! I hope you keep it up and to see more of you poems.. Love it!! Love ya, Cutie |
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Ethan Halo Senior Member
since 2000-04-28
Posts 793on the roof again |
Welcome to Passions! very very well done. i didn't even know that this was your first post until i read the replies. this was quite an entrance. and i hope i'm not as teary eyed when i reach for my diploma next year (but i probably will be!). well done. i like the rhythm in this one. you have conveyed the feelings of nostalgia that one gets about high school very well. and i hope you enjoy your stay here at Passions. We all got our demons. We all got somethin' to atone for. |
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Phoebee Junior Member
since 2000-07-09
Posts 42Peoria, AZ |
It's a great poem. I am going to be a senior this year and am starting to feel the feelings you felt. Where to go, what to do? I love the poem though. It really makes me think. "Everything happens for a reason!" |
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Jeremiah Johnson Senior Member
since 2000-06-08
Posts 1223Brooksville, Fl, U.S |
welcome to passions. and thanks for posting this great poem i really enjoyed reading it. it expresses how i feel right now because i'm going into 12th grade. thanks again and can't wait to read more real soon. I'm a dying romantic and when i can no longer write i can no longer live -Jeremiah Johnson- |
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TAP2 Member
since 2000-06-29
Posts 211Morris, Il USA |
Very moving firt post. I never had the joy of some of the things you described ( I attended High School in Germany and things are different there), but you described the whole experience so well that I could picture myself dealing with what you had to deal with. Greta work, can't wait to see more! Thomas "I could have missed the pain But I'd of had to miss The Dance" -Garth Brooks- |
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LyricFetish Senior Member
since 2000-01-13
Posts 528North Carolina |
I agree with you, that we all take our youth for granted, and then wonder where it went. This is an amazing poem! Every one I read today seems to hit right at home with me. Good job. *~Meredith~* It's so obvious That the promise Keeps me here Painting pictures where All the colors Disappear *Lit |
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Artic Wind Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 8080Realm of Supernatural |
Enjoyed ARCTIC WIND |
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