Innovative and
Alternative Education
Literary
Magazine
2010 - 2011 School Year
No Name...
by Cecelia
Dusk turns to dawn quicker as the weeks go on.
The memory of your voice begins to fade,
as the leaves on the trees slowly fall and cover your cold lonely grave.
Deep regret lingers in the air as winter cautiously nears.
Winters come and gone, but I still feel your presence when months have passed along.
Spring turns to summer when i finally realize your not here.
Did i lose my mind? How could i not say goodbye?
I'm trying to comprehend these changes I've endured within, yet nothings really making any
sense.
The memories get fuzzier over time, soon enough it'll be like you we're never alive.
And once i can't remember you at all we'll meet again only to fix it all.
We'll laugh, and play, and cry, and argue.
It'll be just like the childhood I never had the chance to have with you.
Soon enough it'll be time for you to leave again, but only after we've restored amends.
I'll try not to weep and cry as we subtly say our goodbyes.
And once your finally gone i'll have nothing but good memories to remember you from.
But the sad part is, who knows when that'll happen. Because your gone and there's no telling
when my time will come.
Pure
by Caitlyn
Caitlyn
- Pure
Origin: Gaelic (Irish)
Original Spelling: Caitlin
Comes from the name Catherine
My son is pure
I don’t really like my name, but I like it enough to keep it my name.
I would never change my name because I think it’s a waste of money, and it makes people look
dumb.
When I think of the meaning of my name, I think of 1, my son because he is pure. 2, I think
of bottles of water.
Teenage Mom
by Ashley
It’s 6am and the baby’s crying,
Shh, baby I’ll sing you a lullaby,
Lay my head back down on my pillow.
Alarm buzzing I minute later.
Time for a day of school.
Walking the halls,
Dead to the world,
Tired of the stress,
I’m confused during class,
And rushing through the day
Come home diaper changing, homework, making food, laughter
I suppose this is my full time job.
I lay my head down thinking
About events I never get to attend
As I drift to sleep
Only to wake up to the voice
Of my daughter say mama tengo hambre.
My only job.
A teenage mom!
Father
My Father has always been around
Your father left before you were born
My father means the world to me
Your father isn’t the man I use to know
My father is supportive and caring
Your father doesn’t know the meaning of responsibility
My father is funny and outgoing
Your father is controlling and selfish
My father is the father you know
Your father is the one you never got the chance to bond with
by Destiny
My Father Your Father
by Kenisha
My father loves me
Your father loves you to
My father left home
Your father is in jail
My father comes to visit
Your father will soon
My father is not with my mom
But your father is
My father needs to be a better man
Your father needs to do the same
My father has 4 kids
Your father has 1
I love my father
I wont you to love yours
My Father Your Father
I am poem
by Ashliey
I am from where fighting is accessible.
I am from a full house of brothers who are always over your shoulder.
I am from a big happy loving protective family.
I am from a school where they cared and did anything to help.
I am from my first job that taught me a lot about being responsible.
I am from a dark place where I hold emotional feelings.
I am from where money isn’t anything and never was an issue.
I am from where the streets are clean, and peaceful.
I am from a drama world.
I am from remembering the ones who passed away and was never forgotten.
I am from where fashion matters.
I am from a world of negativity.
I am from where education is important.
I am from a mother of 6.
I am from a mother that was once addicted to drugs.
I am from a mother that once was a drunk.
I am from a hard working strong independent women that has been doing bad all by herself.
I am from a family full of talent.
I am from a big family filled with girls.
I am from where I was the little white girl.
I am from a world where everyone thinks that violence is okay.
I am from a belly that loves shrimps.
I am from a head of smartness.
I am from a future that wants to be a teacher some day.
I am from nothing but love flowing through the air.
I am from a place where I feel trapped.
I am from a place where I feel like I can’t be replaced.
I am from a mind where I think I couldn’t deal with moving into another place far far away.
I am from a state of mind where I am just fine where I am.
My Father - His Father
My father was never around when I was growing up.
His father is never around while he is growing up.
My father started visiting us when I was about six.
His father won’t be around when he is about six.
My father makes an effort to see his children now.
His father doesn’t make any effort ever to see his child.
My father does everything he can to be there for me.
His father doesn’t do anything for anyone but himself.
My father has been a great dad to me and I love him.
His father doesn’t even deserve to be called a father.
by Jessica
Fathers
by Genoveva
Your father is a loving and caring guy.
Your father is a hard working man and responsible guy.
Your father is around are life all the time.
Your father is goofy and fun to be around.
My father is a hard working man.
My father is a difficult guy to talk to.
My father is always around.
His father was into trouble all the time.
His father was always in the streets.
His father was never around.
I Wonder
by Ashley
I wonder
I wonder if you ever cared or
If you lied all along.
I wonder if you think your right
Or completely wrong.
I wonder if you ever stop and think of
The pain you put me through.
I wonder if you’ll ever realize on one
Will love you like I loved you!
I wonder if you ever thought it was a mistake
To leave me all alone with my heart in ache.
I wonder if I’ll ever get the time
I need to heal.
I wonder if one day we’ll get
Back to being great friends or stay stranger
Forever.
I wish we could go back to you ≠ me because
You never know what you
Have until you lose it.