This poem discusses how one's life can change quickly. The author talks about how if they knew then what they know now, they would be living happier and better. However, the poem says you can't live in the past and instead must fix yourself when broken. It uses a train metaphor to represent how life constantly moves forward.

1. By: Jack Sicilian

2. C’est La Vie: by Miroz
If only I knew how's it going to be
If only when I try to fix things, they became better
If only I was certain of how others feel
And if only people believed what I say...
If I knew how to show what I really felt
If I knew how to make people understand
If I knew how to make them believe
If I knew how to make them happy
If making people happy doesn't leave me sad
If making them understand doesn't make me an ignorant
If making them believe doesn't make me a liar
And if letting them know how I feel doesn't leave me numb
Things would've never reached that point
I know I would be in a much happier place
No one would ever blame me for not caring
No one would blame me for not thinking
That's life ....You're never certain
You never know, you're never sure
You're not going to live that dream of yours
And life would never be "trouble free"
You have to live with what you have
You try to fix the broken glass
You try to collect the shattered pieces
You make the best of everyday
It's like a train that never stops
Keep going through life without pausing
Just live each day and throw it behind you
Don't look back or you'll break your neck !

3. The mood of this poem is depressing. The author talks about how if he
would have known things he knows now he would be living his life
much better and he would be happier. It talks about how you can’t live
in the past and have to fix yourself when you’re broken. This poem is a
free verse. It also uses a simile that compares life to a train that is
constantly moving.

4. Carefree: by Nordica D Lindgren
Young, carefree, innocent
You sing, laugh and dance
Taking in all Gods' glory
At every single chance.
Grown up
You ignore the wonders
that you cherished as a child
Gone is the carefree, honesty and mild.
You walk around with blinders on,
Into the race of money and greed.
Not caring who gets hurt
Just to fulfill your selfish needs.
Stepping over the line of morals
to have wealth and material things
Ignoring all Gods gifts
Like the first rain in Spring
Keep that little child inside!
Hold her close to your heart,
We're only here for a brief time
Then with this world, we must part
For a moment each day
It's OK to get silly
to laugh and dance.
Take in all Gods glory
At every single chance.

5. This poem is about growing up. It talks about how much you change, and how you do
things you probably never thought you would. It also talks about how you loose sight of
what is really important while you blindly chase wealth. To me this poem tells the
importance of always staying in touch with your inner child and remembering what it was
like to be young.

6. Through it All: by Destinee Snuffer
Friends come and go
Life flies by right before your eyes.
You loose ones you love
Yet through it all you still love your life.
People leave you to fight alone
You put on a fake smile to hide all your pain
Yet someone still knows your hurt.
Through it all you still put on a front to satisfy those around you
Thorough it all you wouldn't change a thing
Through it all you wouldn't trade your life for fame.
You build a wall to try to keep from getting hurt
You lock up you heart and throw away the key to see who cares enough to look for the key
Through it all there's not many people that got you to open up yet still you love it all.
Struggles meet you in the face to watch you slip up
Yet through it all you wouldn't change a thing.
Through it all you wouldn't change a thing
Through it all you wouldn't trade your life for fame.

7. The author begins the poem by talking about how people come and go
throughout your life, and how you will lose people you love, but you still
need to love your life throughout it all. It talks about how no matter how
rough your life gets and no matter what it throws at you, you should still
be content with it. This poem is a free verse.

8. The sun is setting
The leaves fall-fall is setting in
There's a slight breeze outside
It's getting cold
I walk outside to feel the breeze against my face
I close my eyes and listen...
I live in a world where there's so much life around
me
But for that moment I feel like I'm the only one
The only one, and for that moment I picture myself in
another place
My Sanctuary
I go over and sit on a bench and can hear the birds
overhead
My mind starts to wander
Life wouldn't seem so bad as a bird
They get to see the world
I would like to see the world
So much I have yet to see
So many people I have yet to meet
I open my eyes
I go back inside
Back to reality
My Sanctuary: Marci Corbett

9. This poem is about finding your special place in the world. The
author talks about how they realize how beautiful the world is
and find sanctuary in the fall. The mood of this poem is gloomy
in a way because the person realizes they cant sit outside in peace
forever, but that they have to face reality eventually. This poem
uses good visualization when the author talks about the weather
and the breeze upon their face.

10. We were put on this planet
To live and to love.
To cherish the ones in our lives.
And never let them get hurt.......
Safety is a priority
But danger is an outcome.
Why is it, that we work so very hard?
For something that will still happen
in the end........
Should we care about our lives,
Or sit and waste it away.
"It doesn't matter, were all going to
die someday!"
These words fill our heads
With sad confusion. There's no end
We get lost with the love
We want to have.
There is no conclusion to all
this pain.
But an answer that comes
Just the same.
The negative side seems to win,
But the positive side seems to
Glow.
We are who we choose to be,
So be careful who you choose.
Love everyday like there is no
Tomorrow....
And give to others the joy of life
So no one will hurt.
Love, And love will love you back.
Open your arms to life
And life will hug you back!
Don't be scared!
Life is still a one time thing!

11. This poems mood is somewhat sad because it talks about how no
mater what, one day we all die. The author also talks about how
sometimes we seem to be negative, even when our life seems to
be going positively.

12. Before: Mitchell Browder
before the bullet is bit
before the candle is lit
before the last call
before the curtain falls
before the grave we pray
there is something I must say
before taps is played
before the jazz parade
before 21 guns sound
before the final round
before the fiddler we pay
this I must convey
before the sweet by and by
before the tears we cry
before the bells are rung
before the reaper come
before angles wing
I have to tell you
everything....everything...everything

13. This poem is about a military funeral, and someone saying
that there is things they need to tell their loved ones before its
too late, because they fear they will die in combat. The mood
of this poem is very sad. There is a rhyme scheme in this
poem in which every other two lines rhyme with each other.
It also uses end rhymes.

14. In A Blink of an Eye: Hana Kent
Everyday I wonder and think
How much am I missing with every blink
Is the world spinning so fast
Or is it the time to forget the past
‘Cause with every spine
There were happiness and moments that stood still
Many questions poured everyday into my head
Why don't the people care who is alive and who is dead
Why don't they open their eyes and see
That the world is changing while they are sitting in front of the TV
I guess we are drowning in our desires
Without knowing that there are some countries that are still on fire

15. This poems theme is sad in a way. The author talks about how time is
going by so fast and people miss the things that are truly important.
She talks about how people are to caught up in what is on tv and in
their on greed to realize the truly important things in the world. This
poem uses rhyme scheme.

16. Too Late: Heather Hauge
I feel like it's to late
to apologize for everything
that I've ever done wrong
I feel like it's to late
to change who I've become
back to what I was
I feel like it's to late
because I've probably giving up
and "I don't care"
I feel like it's to late
too many tears have already been shed
and the past can't change
they say it's never to late
but then why does time exist

17. This poem has a depressing mood. The author feels that its becoming to late for
her to become a better person and be forgiven.

18. Life: Anjali
Life is full of surprises and shocks
while we are planning and deciding
our next move,
our course of action
It moves in opposite direction,
without warning
while we spend a lifetime,
thinking and planning
about our future,
our loved ones
It takes a step further beyond our thinking
everything about life is always uncertain
the only thing constant thing about it is
it is always moving
so keep moving,
keep smiling always

19. This poem is about the future , and how we spend so much time
thinking about it. The author is saying if we spend so much time
thinking about the future, it”ll be the future before we know it
because the present keeps moving. This is an example of a free
verse.

20. Life Taught Me: Kesihanna Mckenzie
Yes life taught me to love
Yes life taught me to be hateful
Yes life taught me to be negative
Yes life taught me to be grateful
Yes life brought me great pain
Yes life brought me pleasure
Yes life brought me rain
Yes life brought me joy that could not be measured
Yes life gave me friends
Yes life gave me enemies
Yes life gave me good times
Yes life gave me memories
Yes life gave me a chance to love
Yes life gave me butterflies
Yes life made me understand that
Yes life is life because all I was fed was lies
Yes life took the good away
Yes life gave me that bad
Yes life gave me a sunny day
Yes life took the light away and made me mad
Yes life gave me talent
Yes life never made it exposed
Yes life taught me to be patient
Yes life made me believe my talent must be disposed
Yes life controls me!

21. This poem is simply about all the things that will happen in life. It talks about what life
will give you, teach you, and take from you. I think that the author of this poem is
going through a tough time in their life, because they say that life gave them the bad
and took the good away. This poem uses end rhyme in every other line in some cases.

22. I am
Hopeful , calm, odd.
I enjoy being with friends.
Common sense is important to me.
Respect is important to me.
Having an open mind is important.
Music keeps me calm.
Destruction is bad, but can lead to a good beginning.
People are too soft.
Governments are corrupted.
With summer comes happiness.
This is me.
I am poem

23. Just because I’m funny
Don’t hate me because I crack jokes
Don’t get mad
Still, take the time to laugh
Just because I’m funny
It doesn’t mean I’m rude
It doesn’t mean im not shy
It doesn’t define me
Just because I’m funny
Still I’m angry
But, I can be happy
Just because I’m funny-
I am strange.

24. This is a flabalabagail.
Flabalabagails flourish in flower fields furthest from Finland.
Flabalabagails feed on fresh fruit, fake ferns, foreign fiddlers, and former first ladies.
Flabalabagails fight for fun, fiend for fries, fly to frankfort, and have food fights on Friday.
Flabalabagails teach French, frequently fart, and find fires frightening.
One flabalabagail fried a fish on my front porch then fled fastly, all before phoning the fire
department.
Blotz

25. Powerful breeze
Rushing through the window
Tires on the road
Is the noise I hear
Trees rush by as I drive.

26. There Once was a man named Lyle,
He came from the state of Ohio.
He robbed a bank,
And pulled a prank
And now hes got a file
Limerick