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Tired!

So today I looked liked this guy,
tired
exhausted
miserable
and ready to go to bed!

Are you slumped?

MOTIVATION

Motivational Poems
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The Victor

by: C. W. Longenecker

If you think you are beaten, you are.
If you think you dare not, you don't. 
If you like to win but think you can't, 
It's almost a cinch you won't. 
If you think you'll lose, you're lost. 
For out in the world we find
Success begins with a fellow's will. 
It's all in the state of mind. 
If you think you are out classed, you are. 
You've got to think high to rise. 
You've got to be sure of your-self before
You can ever win the prize. 
Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger or faster man. 
But sooner or later, the man who wins
Is the man who thinks he can.

 

 

THis was a poem I presented to my resident assistant staff over the summer and I think everyone can relate to this in some type of way.

Often we feel defeated and feel as though we can't continue on with whatever we are doing. That self doubt come from within. It doesn't matter if someone tells you that you can't do something that final say comes from the will and drive that runs in our veins.

 

I woke up and I wondered what I would do with the rest of my life and how I would leave my name behind so that something on this earth can seem meaningful, and that meaning would be left by me.

 

I wonder how do doctors operate on a heart for 12 hours straight

 

I wonder how do teachers come back to the same classroom that ridicules and mocks them each day

 

I wonder how parents put up with a child that is rebellious

 

I wonder how my professor has so much energy everyday and still continues to love what she does daily

 

I wonder why homeless people insist on begging for money when they get rejected constantly

 

I wonder how the stripper keeps coming back to a place that undresses her with her mind while shes undressing herself and I wonder...

 

Why we leave in a society that runs on constant need of consumption...

 

I wonder why all these things that people do make a difference and how they have the determination and drive to do it. Maybe they read this poem and maybe something in them is telling them that...

 

I DO THIS BECAUSE I HAVE THE DRIVE!

 

So when I think of my future and the places I want to go, people I want to see, adventures I want to explore, mountains I would like to someday climb, and hearts that I will one day change, I think of this poem and I know that the only thing that will stop me is myself!

Writers Of Today:

Who Will make writers of today take a stand and mean something tomorrow?

I wonder how the world will be like if writers today were like Maya Angelou, who was reading Shakespeare at the age of nine,
or like James baldwin who faced controversy from his novel that only expressed his true sexuality,
or like Edgar Allen Poe whose tormented and corrupted life still brought beautiful poetry
or like James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and Ernest Hemingway who each had their own particular stories to bring that no one did at the time.

How can we say that we are writers if we don't write about things that we experience,
-things that hurt us
-things that weaken us
-things that only we could go through and that only we could face and experience life lessons from.

Writers of Today are the underdogs of today's society. The social construct that says writers will no longer exist tomorrow. That that story that beats through our shirts and is injected into us from the experiences we go through will no longer be heard.

THEY SAY WE ARE LEFT IN THE WOODS AND OUR VOICES ARE PICKED UP AND WHIRLED AWAY BY THE WINDS HOWLS!
how can this be?

Let's be more like these great writers that had a story to tell and told it well. It is most likely that yes, our mouth will be stapled shut a few times, but to endure the pain of holding in then letting the world see our thoughts in ink is much more painful.
OPEN YOUR MOUTH
SCREAM OUT LOUD
BREAK THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCT
LET THE WINDS CARRY OUR VOICES TO THE HOMES OF THE DOUBTFUL
LET US BE AS GREAT AS OUR SISTERS AND BROTHERS WHO TOLD THEIR STORY
LET US BE WRITERS AND TELL A STORY NO ONE HAS HEARD!

Why Can't I leave You

Faded shades of sky blue with sweet cologne and musk

Heavy arms, mass, weighing down from the bricks of coal sitting in your chest

Thumps, pumps, beating hot metal cooled at below 0 degrees

Vows of forbidden fruit that’s so tasteful to the lips

We vow to love and to hurt

Through manipulation and miscommunication

Til lies do us part.

But the aroma of your true love takes you away from me once more

Nature’s beauty turned grotesque,

clouds of balling fumes which chokes your lungs and you are left mummified.

I cannot speak to what I cannot grasp

And then you leave me with one phrase with a thousand possible doors.

I, of course, open the one most desirable.

"You don't care about me"

I reveal that the only way I know how.

The feeling of nothing but the grip of your hands

cocooning its way so neatly into my curves

Mouth opens and shuts into total darkness.

You are my forbidden fruit full of lyrical secretion of total nothingness

but everything that is to be this very moment.

Lyrical hummingbirds vibrating through the seams of my clothes.

And just how the days are like hours and the nights are like minutes

Is when I find that I am left with nothing but your melted body

Washing down the drain of my shower

Leaving me with that and not you

I am left with bricks from your chest

Because that’s all that falls out from your solid skin.

NO PRINTING?

Today In class the printing stopped working. So I thought to myself, what if we couldn't print?
Would that be such a horrible thing?

The total paper market is about 15.2 trillion pages worldwide and so, how much paper did we really save by eliminating one day of paper-free printing?

NOT ALOT I SAY

So what's wrong with a pencil and a piece of paper?


Why can't we write our thoughts on regular, old-fashioned, tree cut paper. Everything is about printing and typing and fast paced news. I don't see alot of people writing in journals, or taking out their notebooks to write their thoughts down. Now a days I see IPads and Kindles and Nooks...and

e-lectronic hands high on caffeine typing away.

I would love to see notebook paper, scattered around the streets of NY oozing riddled thoughts, and humerous giggles.
Fresh lead,
        paper cuts,
  squeaky erasers...

I understand the value of pencil and paper. To see your first thoughts fresh on white canvas and then erased again to start fresh again. To see black and white not yet printed but just a draft of just un-edited thought. So would a day with no printing really be a bad thing. Can we live without spell check and word count and <---
when we mess up.

CAN'T WE JUST ERASE OUR MISTAKES?

Sadly, when we press print, it's already a MISTAKE sent WORLDWIDE.

2012 Election...

This is what students of William Paterson University had to say about Govenor Chris Christie and my response to it.

“Even though he’s trying to help out, he still cut our students funding,” said Paulito Albea, 19, sophomore, criminal justice/sociology major, “That’s not fair that people with low incomes now have to find a way to pay for school and will be forced to take out more loans.”

“I don’t believe for what he stands for,” said Kerry Smalls, 20, junior, Business management and Public Relations major, “He’s trying to eliminate elementary and enrichment programs for high school and middle school students.”

“I don’t like his forms on education,” said William Frazier, 22, Environmental Earth Science major, “He’s cutting back on teaching jobs and my mother is a teacher.” Mike Grant, 19, sophomore, Business management major said that, “A lot of teachers I had in high school have lost their jobs because of the cuts that he’s made.”

“I don’t think he’s done enough as governor to move up to presidency,” Olga Correa, 21, sociology major, “He needs more experience.”

Many of these students that were asked to respond to Governor Christie's decision not to run for presidency were relieved and had a lot to say about what he has done for the state of New Jersey. Those who are education majors, or whose parents or friends are do not feel strongly towards him. Students who commented not only had their own notions about him but they also had the influences of their parents as well.

I know alot of my peers feel negative towards Christie because how it effects their family, their school, their household, and most importantly thier future. Many students did not respond positively, in fact the terms

"Asshole" was used alot.

But no judgement here. It takes alot to do what Christie does and he has indeed contributed to the state of NJ. He just needs to win the heart of students here.

It's going to be tough...