Faces

The faces that I would like to display to the world would include a face of confidence, a face of contentment, and a face of love.

These faces kind of describe my inside personality, or how I would like myself to be portrayed as. Confidence is a key component to assuring others that you have a self-esteem, and others are more likely to respect you if you display a sense of personal worth, as well as a value for the lives of others.

A face of contentment is important so that the world can see that I am happy and comfortable where I am currently in life. I wouldn't want anyone to have to worry about me, or to feel a burden of me, therefore, I would rather that they perceive me as someone who has things pretty much figured out. I would like to be someone who can take joy in the simple, as well as the majestic things in life.

A face of love is probably to most important, and key to my personality. I want the world to know, the people that I interact with, whatever I do; I do it in love for them. I wish that everyone could feel truly loved and full of worth. Through loving, I can express the way that I feel about people, what I would do for them, and my respect for them as a person and for their life. I would want people to see my face as a face of love so that they would have no doubt that i did, in fact, love them.

Slam Poetry

You know what I hate?

I hated writing this poem!

I hate being asked to write a poem,

about something I hate

It’s like scraping your fingernail across a chalkboard,

Like a mosquito in my ear all night long.

I hate the fact that there is hate in this world!

I hate the way that people search out hate,

who look for anything,

and blame anyone for what they are feeling;

hate!

If I’m going to be a peace promoter,

can’t I just write about something positive like happy little elves or sunny bright sunflowers??

Why can’t others think happy things too?

I hate it that we hate so much,

When we were put on this hateful earth to love.

Hate infiltrates everything that we see and do,

Everything that is good and holy and pure is transformed into negative emotions.

I hate hate;

that people hate things,

and hate other people too.

If you want me to hate,

then I hate you.

When writing this poem, I had to really get myself internally worked up to be able to produce results. I had previously written a poem, which took a long time to write, and the product was probably the worst I had ever done. I realised that this was most likely because I was not riled up over it at all; in the whole scheme of things, it wasn't really that important. This poem, however, is truth that I believe, and though I only spent about five minutes writing it, and though it is both hypocritical and ironic, it came from the heart. I 'm not sure if I would say that writing slam poetry is easier than writing any other type of poetry, because I always find it easier, with better results, to write poetry about things that I am passionate about. The slam poetry was also fun to present; if there was a subject that i was REALLY passionate about, I'm sure it could be very dramatically presented. =]]