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Kevin
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0 posted 2002-08-01 01:55 PM


Ok guys Its time for me to get cliche' on  you.  I decided it was time to evaluate how well I know myself, and what I know about myself so I did one of these god awful I am poems...but I want to see what everyone else thinks of themselves too so post yours under mine if you feel up to it (or down to it   peace


I am undiscovered
I am a romantic in waiting
I am partial to gummi bears, sweetarts and nerds
I am a nerd
I am a moviequoteaholic
I am intimidated by beauty
I am a recovering dependent
I am finally in control of my life
I am happy wasting days and nights on the beach
I am too philosophical for my own good
I am learning every day
I am unsure, insecure, and will endure
I am forever a child
I am going to be a father, someday
I am a dreamer
I am naïve
I am out there somewhere
I am a romantic in waiting

[This message has been edited by Kevin (08-01-2002 01:57 PM).]

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LCBS
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1 posted 2002-08-01 02:23 PM


I am indescribable….

I am a girl, small and naïve
I am a woman, mature and strong
I am never good enough
I am the sister of absolute perfection
I am the daughter of intelligence and beauty
I am not my siblings
I am not my parents
I am never good enough
I am in love with laughter=
I am a believer in true love
I am a child of God
I am myself, but try to be more
I am never good enough
I am a quiet rebel
I am a messy perfectionist
I am waiting for a life to begin
I am insecure about everything
I am never good enough
I am what you people think I am
I am whispers and gossip
I am that girl
I am my grades, my looks, my personality
I am never good enough
I am indescribable….

[This message has been edited by LCBS (08-01-2002 04:28 PM).]

Jenn Cirrincione
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2 posted 2002-08-01 03:22 PM


I am unstructured

I am indecisive
I am my own worst enemy
I am energetic
I am always learning
I am the "other woman"
I am spontaneous
I am naive
I am a wallflower
I am the girl next door
I am the object of your affection
I am the one you love to hate
I am defensive
I am insecure
I am in love with a dream
I am on the verge of discovery
I am exhausted
I am indecisive

Why is it that we are at our most ingenius only when trying to destroy the things that keep us alive and thriving?

StellarChica
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floating down a river...
3 posted 2002-08-01 04:13 PM


Wooo! This looks like fun. So it's my turn to try.

I am who I am,
I am someone to make you laugh,
I am at times insecure,
I am a hopeless romantic,
I am a music lover,
I am an aspiring writer and/or musician,
I am unsure of the future,
I am unsure of a lot of things,
I am a loyal friend,
I am a person who cries herself to sleep sometimes,
I am living in my own fantasies,
I am a slob and you like it,
I am weird but in a good way,
I am Erin,
I am who I am.


I'm no good at those kind of poems but oh well.

*~erin~*

StellarChica
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4 posted 2002-08-01 04:13 PM


Wooo! This looks like fun. So it's my turn to try.

I am who I am,
I am someone to make you laugh,
I am at times insecure,
I am a hopeless romantic,
I am a music lover,
I am an aspiring writer and/or musician,
I am unsure of the future,
I am unsure of a lot of things,
I am a loyal friend,
I am a person who cries herself to sleep sometimes,
I am living in my own fantasies,
I am a slob and you like it,
I am weird but in a good way,
I am Erin,
I am who I am.


I'm no good at those kind of poems but oh well.

*~erin~*

"I like Erins...especially the you kind."-Ryan :D

StellarChica
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5 posted 2002-08-01 04:14 PM


whoopsie double post..sorry.

"I like Erins...especially the you kind."-Ryan :D

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6 posted 2002-08-01 04:24 PM


I am pure potential energy
I am afraid
I am logical
I am my own grey dreams
I am a "walking contradiction"
I am my books
I am my words
I am never my words
I am a sloppy obsessive
I am my own god
I am always hungry
I am never alone
I am always alone
I am the observer
I am angry
I am waiting for the rain
I am too impatient
I am doubtful
I am independent
I am clinging
I am letting myself go
I am someone else



"Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions."
  ~David Borenstein


[This message has been edited by Child of the Stars (08-01-2002 04:41 PM).]

CwboyAtHeart
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7 posted 2002-08-01 04:33 PM


I am Cody
I am often shy
I am humorous
I am proud of being who I am
I am longing to be able to be who I am
I am constantly striving to be better
I am an individual
I am not trying to please anybody else
I am not led by the crowd
I am a loving friend
I am open minded
I am willing to try new things
I am a brother and a son
I am a child of God
I am strong willed
I am stubborn
I am not afraid of who I am
I am what I allow myself to be
I am not perfect
I am challenged by my imperfections
I am waiting for my time to come

      - Cody -

Note To Self:  If Pigs Can Fly, So Can I!!!

If someboy laughs at me, does that make me funny or just plain stupid?  

[This message has been edited by CwboyAtHeart (08-01-2002 04:35 PM).]

Kevin
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8 posted 2002-08-01 04:53 PM


Lisa- Messy Perfectionist is priceless
that is you in a nutshell
I can say that I'm her big brother for those not keeping score

ROFL@SC

I am a slob and you like it

AWESOME LOL

[This message has been edited by Kevin (08-01-2002 04:59 PM).]

anya
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9 posted 2002-08-01 05:00 PM


I am a puzzle even to myself
I am never quite there
I am over active in every way
I am always loud when silence is needed
I am a fake blonde but not a fake girl
I am too damn talkative
I am waiting for something, i'm just not sure what yet
I am living in the future too much
I am always having to tell myself to just be
I am probably doing myself more harm than good
I am always surrounding myself with messed up minds just like mine
I am letting too many things take me down
I am just trying to get along
i am...impossible

Master
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Boston, MA
10 posted 2002-08-01 05:32 PM


I guess, I'll give it a shot. lol. No critiques on this one please.

I am therefore I think.
I am the ink in my veins.
I am the hand that holds the reins.
I'm gold on green.
I am obsene.
I am the hand that rocks the cradle.
I am a fable.
I am the cherry in the pipe.
I am ripe and ready to burst.
I am stress above the verse.
I am the priceless perfect rhyme.
I'm lost in time
and I am drained.
'I am the shadow of the waxwing slain...'*

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
quote from my favorite book, "Pale Fire" by V. Nabokov.

[This message has been edited by Master (08-01-2002 05:39 PM).]

LCBS
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11 posted 2002-08-01 05:47 PM


no no no, this is me in a nutshell

"Help, help I'm in a nutshell!!!!!"

Sorry, I couldn't resist....now continue with the *I am* poems

~Lisa

Riley
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12 posted 2002-08-01 06:07 PM


So it stinks, what can I say, I gave it a shot.

I am an attitude
I am a perfectionest
I am myself
I am nobodys fool
I am a shadow
I am not cool
I am a friend
I am life
I am not you
I am a blonde
I am crazy
I am serious
I am smart
I am what I am
I am a poet
I am a runner
and I am everything I wanna be and so much more


Yea, stinks, who cares. What can I say. Ok, enough of that.


~*Riley*~

Better check that I'm about to upset and I'm glad now so you better step back I'm taking over so watch me shine-Joanna Pacitti/Watch Me Shine

Spine Grinder
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13 posted 2002-08-01 06:42 PM


i am inconsolable
i am notorious
i am my music
i am me
i am the one and only me
i am the twinkle in your eye
i am the tear upon your cheek
i am me
i am disorder and chaos
i am the bored stepchild
i am a worrier
i am me

~Ultimately, we are all dead~Proximo

Local Parasite
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14 posted 2002-08-01 06:45 PM


You are rude.
Yes, I am outspoken.
You are insulting.
Yes, I am outspoken.
You are annoying.
Yes, I am outspoken.
Your views are disturbing.
Maybe I talk too much.
I disagree with you.
That is because your ears are closed.
You are making no sense.
You are denying yourself sense to be made.
You are a terrible person.
Yes, I am outspoken.

Local Parasite
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15 posted 2002-08-01 06:46 PM


Your post sucks.
Hey, I never said I was creative.

Kevin
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16 posted 2002-08-01 07:02 PM


LOL LP
nice addition thanks

Dark Enchantress
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17 posted 2002-08-01 07:13 PM


I am emotion
therefore I am honest
I am outspoken
therefore I am wrong
I am brave
therefore I am fearless
I am confidence
therefore I am beautiful
I am dark
therefore I am jaded
I am polite
therefore I am gentle
I am uninhibited
therefore I am free
I am nameless
therefore I am numb
I am artistic
therefore I am creative
I am a writer
therefore I am power
I am fire
therefore I am untame
I am lust
therefore I am sexual
I am me
therefore I am not enough
I am courage
therefore I am everything



"if you know me so well then tell me which hand do I use?" Tori Amos

[This message has been edited by Dark Enchantress (08-01-2002 07:18 PM).]

Kevin
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18 posted 2002-08-01 07:17 PM


Hell yeah DE

HELL yeah

can I say that?
hehe

Dark Enchantress
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19 posted 2002-08-01 07:19 PM


I added to it. lol

"if you know me so well then tell me which hand do I use?" Tori Amos

clve527
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20 posted 2002-08-01 09:07 PM


This is neat.  So as much as people would hope that I would stay away, I won't.

I am more than you can handle.
I am less than I can stand.
I am not good enough to love you.
I am not good enough to be loved.
I am hard as nails.
I am an unopened book.
I am a statue today.
I am a pigeon tomorrow.
I am a too tired to continue.

Casey

If all you want is emotion, go down to walmart, buy yourself a diary and hide it in a drawer where no one can see...

Kevin
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21 posted 2002-08-01 11:54 PM


quite the contrary casey
your poetry has never been in question and again you have shown here that you have quite a talent

I love the statue/pigeon contradicton

thanks for the addition

Kandi
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22 posted 2002-08-02 12:39 PM


Wowzers...hi kevin, im glad you decided to swallow ur pride and write this one cuz i thought it was very well written, one of the best ive read! (everyone else's was awesome too!) and i feel like i got to know u a lil thru it. I actually wrote a poem bout myself a few years ago. It doesn't start with "I AM"'s but its close enough. Guess i'll add it in here (sorry so long)....

The "WHY" of Me

-I write because all other forms of artistic expression fail me.
-I sing because the words would be meaningless without musical accompaniment.
-I play the piano because my hands communicate more accurately than my mouth.
-I win because I do not know how to fail.
-I question because ignorance is an open invitation to fear and prejudice and hate.
-I know because I asked.
-I persist because I don't know when to quit.
-I laugh because my foolish pride hastily holds my tears captive.
-I cry because my heart is overflowing.
-I smile because I've seen a beauty in the simplest of things that not even the cruel hand of a human form can take away from me.
-I frown because you don't see what I see, and to me that is a great unfairness.
-I yearn because my path would end without an incentive to pave the way.
-I love because you've opened up something within me and moved my soul, whether or not I wanted you to.
-I dream because the harshness of reality would soon engulf my free-flying spirit if I did not, which is a sad but true thing if you think about it for too long. So I choose not to.
-I pray because I believe the answers lie in something greater than myself.
-I believe because they've failed to give me a reason not to.
-I have faith because it is loyal when all else has gone awry.
-I am happy because I have no reason to be sad.
-I admire because I've seen in you something that I would like to possess.
-I inspire because I've somehow managed to touch others the way my inspiration has touched me.
-I blush because I am too insecure to admit to myself that there is something beautiful in me that I've allowed you to see.
-I look because I don't know what I'll find.
-I listen because the value of another person's thoughts is something I can't afford to waste.
-I strive because I seek to obtain perfection.
-I laugh at myself because there is no such thing as perfection.
-I live because I’m dying to be alive.
-I will die only if I've failed to truly live.
-I will say nothing more because there is nothing and everything left to say.

Not as good as urs, but hey i contributed!
Again - great work!
K

The day you were born, you were born free
That is your privilege.

Ceinwyn
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23 posted 2002-09-10 05:03 PM


I am my own person
Yet I am lost
I am my own worst critic
Yet I'm biased
I am emotional
Yet so stubborn
I am the product of my environment
Yet try think outside of the box
I am complex
Yet can be read like a book
I am a quitter
Yet have my feet firmly planted on the ground
I am my mother's daughter, unfortunately
Yet at times I wish I was someone else
I am naive, insecure, sarcastic and unstable
Yet Always trying to reach out
I am my own person
Yet I am lost


[This message has been edited by Ceinwyn (09-10-2002 05:25 PM).]

EleanorMoonbaby
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24 posted 2002-09-11 10:12 AM


I am self-destructive
I am discombobulating
I am aggressive
I am defensive
I am (according to my dad) arrogant
I am a quiet talent (not sure what though)
I am messed up
I am actually quite a nice person once you get to know me.

Liked the idea, liked your poem. Nice one.
Ellie )O(

In the beginning, the Universe was made. This has angered a lot of people and has been widely regarded as a bad move- Douglas Adams

Allysa
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25 posted 2002-09-11 11:32 AM


I am

I am impossible
I agree to disagree
I am independent
but I rely on you
I am insane
and hold more common sense
than most of the adults I know
I am a gummibear addict
I am Lyss to my friends
Alyssa Marie to my parents
Pedro to Manuelo
and Me.
I am a person with a marshmallow personality
sticking to your fingers
that sugary goodness
I am addicted
but I do not need anything
I am yours, all yours.
I am insanely in love
but I'll never tell
I am stubborn
but sometimes you win
I am emotional
I am intelligent
and clumsy
I am defensive
and open
I am excitable.
I am loveable
and able to love
I am radioactive
unable to be held
I am yours, all yours.


I am also thinking that I may have to revise this later!



ich bin schwul, ich bin jüdisch und ein Kommunist dazu, Ich bin schwarz und behindert, doch genauso Mensch wie du ~Wizo

[This message has been edited by Allysa (09-12-2002 11:33 AM).]

jave
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26 posted 2002-09-11 07:07 PM


Me next!

I'm nothing
I'm everything you're not
I'm always there
I'm never where I need to be
I'm a Twinkie...
The golden spongecake of perfection
filled with that stuff, oh so sweet
I'm whatever the moment calls for
I'm not the type to retreat
I can't do everything but
I do what I can
I'm Gabrielle
I'm alive, and well...
I am

Kielo
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Posts 1109

27 posted 2002-09-12 07:14 PM


I am loyal
(above everything, this is true)
I am in love with laughter,
I love especially to cause it in others.
I am stained,
impure, imperfect
I am shattered,
a glass filled too full of emotion I could not contain
I am a child,
my tears and needs attest to it
I am ancient,
experience and pain have forged me as such
I am hateful and hated,
neither hatred is merited
I am compassionate,
even to those I believe that I hate
I am changing,
never constant, easily swayed
I am easily used,
and have proved it over and over
I am strong,
I will live through all this and more
I am enduring,
I will survive
I am weakness and strength,
courage and fear,
anger and sorrow,
bitterness and forgiveness,
love and hate.
This I know.


Ok, I didn't read anything that was written except the first one, so if I've repeated anything, sorry, I guess we're alike, but I didn't copy it. Um... This was hard...

Beautiful_Skyy
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28 posted 2002-09-12 09:55 PM


*I AM*
  I am sensitive
I am shy
But I am glad
I'm not a guy!
  I am weak
I am determined
I am disoriented.
I am high on life.
  I am very pregnant,
I am very much in love,
I am very happy to be alive.
  I am independent,
I am a love addict
I am sensual
I am a tease.
  I am too emotional
I am insecure.
I am scared
And I am unsure.
  I am very wise
Yet at times I'm immature.
I am fun to be around.
  I am logical
I am rational
I am stressed,
But I can handle it.
  I am patient
I am kind
I am loving,
But love is blind.
  I am new here,
But I've been around for years.
  I am still not sure,
Who I really am.

~~Kadence~~

LyricFetish
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since 2000-01-13
Posts 528
North Carolina
29 posted 2002-09-12 10:30 PM


I am brutally honest
I am brittle
I am an artist
I am eager
I am faithful
I am a red-head (sometimes black, sometimes purple)
I am resolute
I am musical
I am definately over you
I am intoxicating
I am fragile
I am bittersweet
I am colorful
I am singular
I am precious
I am a Doors fan
I am clairvoyant
I am priceless
I am trendy
I am searching
I am afraid of the dark
I am intriguing
I am tragic
I am loved
I am a star
I am open
I am critical
I am felt
I am a paradox


It's been a while since I've been here, and I see a lot of new people. Hopefully y'all might know me a little better now! Be cool.

*~Meredith~*

"Before you slip into unconsciousness,
I'd like to have another kiss..."
*The Doors

Sunshine
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Listening to every heart
30 posted 2002-11-16 09:32 AM





NSnaomian
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In my troll closet I be
31 posted 2002-11-24 10:46 AM


I am the youngest of three
I am the most spoiled too
I am a lover of Spongebob Squarepants
I am also one of you
I am known to have fallen in love with someone
I am the one who got torn apart
I am an individual now and I like it a lot
I am always there for my friends
I am trying to be optimistic at all times
I am in my phase of self discovery
I am ready to get out
I am one of those who has lived there life in one place, for too many years
I am ready to fly half way across the world, if that is what it takes
I am finding what I want to do
I am on my way out

Well, I read this over and I'm not sure I like it, but since I did it I'll post it anyway =-P
Laura

"I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful."
-Bob Hope-

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