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These are posts from Juniors at Steamboat Springs High School

The poems were written during our unit on Imperialism in the Middle East - Enjoy!

Friday, December 18, 2009

Adrenalin - allen nunez

here waiting at the bus stop
waiting for the bus
the bus is coming
I can hear the big motor
I get on
I sit like in a pit full of mudd
I look around
I see the fear of people
then i push the button
boom i'm dead
now where are my 72 virnins

Realization

Dry, scorching sand blows around
The bus stop bench frying even my covered legs
The air is bordering on too hot and dry to breathe
I hear incessant conversations around me
Though none directed at me
A man with a blank stare approaches
His massive, black coat looks painfully warm
The bus arrives
He climbs aboard ahead of me and reaches in his pocket
The fear creeps inside of me
As a shadow across the night
Creeping slowly,
Heavily
I realize what is occurring
And then I realize it is too late

A Cubs Fan's Burden - Alan Capistron

When baseball season rolls around
When the snow melts away
The Cubbies begin to play
In their ivy-covered burial ground

But now they only bring fatigue
While dwelling at the bottom of the national league
The Cubs always seem to disappoint
Winning games just isn’t their strong point.

Cubs fans never seem to catch a break
Winning just one should be a piece of cake
Haunted by billy goats, black cats, and Bartman
The Cubs will never win it all again

Since 1908
The Cubs have not been so great
The boys from Wrigley do their best
But the “Curse of the Billy Goat” will not rest

Light

Why do we hate?
To make us look strong?
When we weren't even weak to begin with

Why do we hate?
To give us more power?
Do we get power when we stand alone?

Why do we hate?
Is it out of revenge?
Since when was darkness able to get rid of darkness

Why do we help?
Is it to be a light?
How many lights would it take to light up the world?

BOOM By: Cameron Arroyo

I walk into a building, people are everywhere
I feel the sweat trickling down my cheek
I hear my heart bea as if it was the beating of a drum
I see a child hug his mother's leg
It brings me to my childhood
I walk to the middle of the room
Time seems to stop
Boom!!!

The Office Worker



Every morning you wake up at five,

You put on your suit and prepare for the drive,


As you walk out the door you say bye to your wife,

While inside your head you think “I hate my life”,


Everyday is the same and you don’t know what to do,

You must quite your job and try something new,


The only problem is, to quite your job your scared,

Your afraid to lose your income and think your unprepared,


So to all you unhappy office workers old an young,

Don’t lose your life to work, for life has just begun,


Take the next step, let your freedom be unfurled,

Just take your family and see the world,

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Israel-Palestine Conflict

young Jew is da name and rappin’ is the game.
here to complain about da nation palestane.
after WW two it was the world against the Jew and we didn't know what to do.
so we decided it would be great to have our own state safe from the hate before it was too late.
we were given a piece of land from the middle east.
boy was it grand to say the least but it destroyed the peace.
now we're in a war with the sand peeps.
nobody sleeps knowin' those creeps
are trying to find a way to ruin our day and night,
they return to fight and, yo, this shit aint right.

A-to-da-rab is what I am called. Don’t be hatin' just cuz I’m bald.
I am here to propose a fate for this unjust Israeli state.
After WWII my home was invaded by the Jew.
They tried to argue their side but it was more like a rant of their pride.
They had reasons I know aint true.
Their biblical arguments aren’t thought through.
This has been our land for such a long time and to take it away is an unforgivable crime.
It was Europe who hated on the Jew so they should now take care of them too.
It is my demand that we keep our land.
If Europe is who care then they should be the ones to share.
You have taken our land with all your might, you bet your ass we are going to fight.

How many are gonna cry and how many must die before you decide that we shouldn’t be banned from our own holy land? We gonna build a wall to save us all and it will never fall, guarded 24 7 violators sent to heaven. It’ll create a separation from your unworthy population and guard the real god’s nation.
If this is your plan it does not make you a man
All you want to do is hide so how can you take any pride If you want to build a wall we will set off bombs till you all crawl
There is no way you can trap us all we will surely make it fall
Freedom will be ours; you can’t keep us behind bars

There aint nothing but lead in your toweled head
If you ran the land it would be better off dead
Too many die cause of suicide, bombers decide
That they don’t like the way we live, so they kill women and kids?
How is that justified?
We’re on slippery slope and beginning to slide
Before we make the world divide and choose a side
I think it would be wise to create a compromise

I agree we need to compromise in order to save some lives
Let’s visualize a place where no one dies
But how we gonna find a solution to this violent pollution
Maybe the land could be split so the fighting will finally quit
We shall divide the nation based on population

It would stop the civil violation and protect the next generation
Then we need to move people behind the newly designed green line

Yeah that sounds fine and things will mend over time
The last issue that’s rather shitty, what we gonna do with our holy city?

The only way we can make this fair is if we leave Jerusalem for everyone to share
Let’s keep it a neutral spot, this maybe our last shot

I like that a lot ..so …..why not?