ISO This is Just to Say

 

I made

a salad

it was good

it had eggs

and avocado

tasty

I ate

It fast

I didn’t

savor it

ISO "The Madness Vase"

 Dear Friend

I’m not good with handling emotions

I don’t know how to react to the majority of things

But I try to help the best I can

I’m here to listen

My parents don't have that many problems

But I know you have a vast amount of problems

I’m struggling too for different reasons but I’ll never say because I’ll take the spotlight from you

You need much more help than me

Please talk more because I know you need to let it out

You’re an amazing friend and I love you

You deserve so much more than how you're treated at home

Your anger is justified

You asked to get taken away from your house but I couldn’t

I can’t drive yet.

I hoped to drive soon so I can take you somewhere more peaceful

You moved away

Now I won't ever get the chance

ISO "Dear Straight People"

 

Dear Broken Role Models

I loved you. 

I wanted to be just like you

News came out that you were racist. Or a pedophile. Or just a terrible person.

I used to seek comfort in your words even though they were through a screen.

I looked forward to watching you after a hard day.

I looked up to you.

Without you, I feel empty without your kind words and happy energy.

Then I learned it was all just an act. 

A ploy to make you look like a good person when you’re not. 

When it all came out, I didn’t want to believe it.

I was in denial and avoided thinking about it.

I wanted to defend you and say you had your reasons or that people are exaggerating.

But it's true. Deep down I know it’s true.

I wish it wasn’t.

I wish you were still the kind creator who brightens everyone’s day with such little effort.

I wish this all didn’t happen.

I still find myself wanting to watch your videos knowing that it’s so wrong of me to do so.

Why did you do it? 

Surely you knew it was bad.

Surely you knew how many hearts you would break if everyone found out.

You don’t even know me.

I’m just another number. Another dollar.

Yet I placed so much trust into you.

I now don’t have trust for any other.

If I find comfort in another, there will always be that worry in the back of my mind.

That they’re just like you.

ISO Night of Snow

 

Thoughts, please be nice.

Lately, you have been quite harmful, raking at my consciousness.

Keeping me awake at night and preventing slumber.

Sleep-deprived because of everything going on.

Tossing and turning wishing you would go dark for once.

I hover throughout the day wishing to close my eyes but I cannot.

Can you please be quiet so I may sleep?

My darling, I shall not stop, these topics are pressing.

You cannot avoid these for long, they are for your own safety.

You must think for this is your only time for yourself.

Rest has to wait and I have to be awake.

I might not be liked, but fear not because I am help.

Harmful may be what I am, but I hope I am not.

One day I will be gone, but for now, you must be here.

ISO Dialogue Poem

How’s school.

Alright

Are your teachers good.

They’re strict.

Thats too bad.

I don’t like them.

What do they do.

Yell at us over the simplest things

Oh no.

And More.

How’s homework going.

Not too good.

Why.

There's too much.

Do the teachers understand you guys have lives.

Apparently not.

Oh dear.

Have you made any friends.

I have none.

Why’s that.

No time.

What classes are you taking.

Honors.

Why do that if you are busy.

I need to get into a good college.

No need to torture yourself.

I need to get a high paying job so I can die peacefully.

That’s a little morbid.

I am aware but it’s the truth.

I understand.

Piece of Advice

      It was a very sunny and wet day at my sister, Chelsea's, farm. I was working there for about a week. Chelsea is twelve years older than me and moved out when I was in first grade, so we have a more awkward sisterly relationship. It was the third day working with her and I was following her around picking flowers for the bouquets she sells. The bright yellow and pink snapdragons were growing in netting so they grow up tall and straight and we had to be gentle taking them out. I had my gardening scissors snipping away and plucking them out of the netting. One of them was stuck in the netting, and I had a tough time trying to get them out, so I suddenly jerked it upward, getting it free. Chelsea's eyes widen, "don't do that!" she yells. I jump. I didn't expect her to burst like that. "I was frustrated! It wasn't coming out!" I say defensively. "You should always apologize. Never give excuses," she tells me. "...I'm sorry," I apologize. "It's okay. I'm sorry for snapping at you," she responds.

ISO Grasshoppers

Leaves

Satisfying crunching

                                         Grass browning

Leaves are                       leaves are

Falling down                    falling down

Changing of

                                        Seasons
Newborns grow

                                       Through time
Leaves                            leaves

Are falling                       are falling

Low

Leaves                            leaves

Tumbling                        tumbling

                                       Hard

Stepped on

Many times

Foot to foot                    shoe to shoe

Ground to ground          floor to floor

                                      Color

Changers                      changers

Grass

Crunchers                     crunchers

Starting                         starting

Ending                          ending

Leaves                          leaves