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Here are some poems written by young people in Suffolk:
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Don't judge me by what I wear
or the way I do my hair
I still have fun I mess around
I still fall over and hit the ground
It's not outside that counts at all
it's inside that makes me cool
I go outside with my friends
I still want a Mercedes Benz
I'm just me don't give a frown
I still hurt when I fall down
get to know me don't judge from what you see
I'm just a girl don't judge me
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Why do we have to call each other names?
Why do we hurt?
Why do we blame?
Why can't we all be treated the same?
When did this start?
When will it end?
When will everyone be a friend?
Who started this?
Who made it so we can't be all the same?
Who will be the one to solve our shame?
What is the reason?
What is the right?
What is it that makes us fight?
Where can we go?
Where can we hide?
Where can we be on each others side?
How can we solve this?
How can we survive?
How can we prevent this and contrive?
We must make peace
We must fix the wrong
We do this and all get along
Try to remember we're all equal
Try not to judge
Try to get along with out holding a grudge
There's nothing that can bring us apart
So love everyone for what's in their heart
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Winters early wind along with a setting sun,
Grasp at the air to savour the moment.
In this scene a new thought comes
Creeping into your mind.
The autumn leaves that fall to the floor
Crisp and crunch beneath your feet
Winters breeze a chill to the bone
The rustling of the leaves.
The childish game of conkers,
One of fun yet fear.
The colours like a painting
A painting by the wind.
Laying on the grass
And staring up at the endless sky
Autumn and its amazing features
Are all ours to enjoy.
I have seen the face of the sky.
And the face beyond it perhaps.
Have you yet to be humbled
By the silent chill of a new born morning.
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We're all the same, in the fact that we're all different,
We're all the same, in the fact that we all hurt!
We're all the same on the inside,
And all the pain we cannot hide.
When you felt pain, I'm sure you cried,
It's the same, inside,
It's the same outside,
It's the same WORLDWIDE!
We're all the same!
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My world is like a horse and carriage
Moving in and out
My world is like a butterfly
Flying all about
My world is like a hot sunny day
Beating down on me
My world is like a piece of gold
All smooth and shiny
My world is like a dark green room
Where shadows go and hide
My world is like a crowded place
For stuff I cannot find
My world is like a car
Moving down the street
My world is like a cafe
Where people go and meet
My world is like a war
Very cruel and sad
My world is like a prison cell
Where people go when they are bad
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We’re so different,
Why don’t you see?
But not as different as you seem…..
People look at me, like I’m nothing,
Can’t you see?
But not as different as you seem…..
Together as one or as a whole,
We’re all the same or don’t you see?
We’re all different,
I wish you could see.
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I lived in Leicester a people kind of town
a cocktail covered street with yella, black n brown
I'm not a racist and colours kinda cool
when ya milk bottle white like
I is as a rule.
When I come to Suffolk colours kinda rare
most of you in Suffolk are freckled and fair
But I know there's them that thinks if you're black you're mingin
unless you're in the charts and it's Garage you are singin.
I ave a mate who's Egyptian and hence
his neighbours call him Paki cos they haven't got the sense
you see, you see cos unlike me
they paid no attention, in their Geography.
Them same blokes think that Mumba bird is tops
but sex is sex don't come into equal ops
Hope you follow this it's rap that I'm singin
and it's all you damn fool racist's that are mingin
you see, you see, just like me
appreciate the culture they're givin it free.
We get everything first in the city
It takes a while to filter to the country it's a pity
But smell the coffee people take a look around
You're the minority half the world is browned.
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The Suffolk Racial Harassment Team held a competition on thesource for Young People to send in Poems and Posters against Racism. The Poems were judged by Imani Sorhaindo, who is a published writer, poet and anti-racist educator. The above poem was the winner.
Comment by Imani Sorhaindo - "Very lyrical, vibrant and educational piece, showing contrast in city and rural experience. The message is powerfully put across in a unique way. I felt the power!"
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The girl sits alone
Slowly a smile forms, on her lips.
She stares, as if seeing something,
Something we can't.
Deep in her thoughts, the smile stays
Not talking,
Not moving,
The smile stays
Her mobile placed on the table
In front of her, suddenly rings,
Wobbles across the small space
But is ignored, the smile stays
People come, people go
Taking a bit of the smile with them
Brightening up a small piece of their world
Suddenly the smile disappears
As if the world has taken too much
She sits, for seconds more, and then
Leaves, but the imprint of one smile lasts
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I think that everyone should be their own person,
No matter what.
I think everyone else should let them do that,
It's what they want.
I think everyone should be different,
Not the same.
I think other people should respect that,
Not laugh.
I think everyone of us should die,
To be born a different person.
I think that when I'm told it's not true
It is.
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The Suffolk Racial Harassment Team held a competition on thesource for Young People to send in Poems and Posters against Racism. The Poems were judged by Imani Sorhaindo, who is a published writer, poet and anti-racist educator.
Comment by Imani Sorhaindo - "Kayleigheen's piece - again - excellent. It describes a world many of us would so much love to live in. Where equality is priority, and seeing the world in the eyes of others brings about peace and mutual respect. Powerful."
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I only want to be with you,
Proving that our love is true.
All those days we used to cry,
When I had to say goodbye.
Now I never see your light,
From all those days we used to fight,
For the freedom of your little girl,
She was always your shining pearl.
I used to think of a twinkling star,
Now I know that's where you are.
I will search this world for you,
And all the things you said you knew.
You are always in my heart,
And we'll never be apart.
Even though you are not with me,
My love for you will always be.
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Sometimes it is happy
Sometimes it is sad
Sometimes it is angry
Sometimes it just looks mad
Something I have noticed
It looks just how I feel
Until the other day
I found out it always will
'Cos each time I look in water
That's what I shall see
'Cos every time I stop and look
I'll come face to face with me
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I don't care they're cowards,
nothing better to do with their time,
Is that why they're picking on me?
Bullies, that's who I'm talking about.
No matter how many times I tell myself,
that I don't care, I'm not afraid, I'm stronger,
It still doesn't work.
I still feel that dread in my stomach,
when I see them.
They make me feel worthless, below them,
annoyed in a way
Why do they pick on me?
Is it how I act?
How I look?
The seed of doubt has been planted
in my mind.
I mustn't let them win.
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How did I do that?
How did I dare?
I still can't believe it
Let me tell you.
Today when they started on me,
I actually answered back with
an insult of my own.
Where did it come from?
Its made me feel stronger,
Like I have the power, not them
Maybe they'll leave me alone,
Or maybe not.
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So near yet so far apart
So close but so far away,
Two people far in distance,
Yet so close in heart
Two people separated by distance,
But close in love for each other,
They keep in touch,
But hardly see each other
As time goes by,
The love deepens,
But so does the ache,
Of hardly seeing the other.
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I am the girl that you held tight
I am the girl that cried at night,
I am the girl that you loved,
I am the girl that weeped with blood,
I am the girl that you took out,
I am that girl without a doubt,
Each day that we spent hand in hand
are the days I class as forever grand
Each time that we would say goodnight
Is now the time I enter the light,
My heart it is no longer more,
You were the one that I adored,
The love we had was pure and strong,
I guess you thought it didnt belong,
I hope that now you are happy with life,
And with that woman you call your wife.
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You hurt me then desert me,
and break my heart constantly
I thought once that your love was true
still feel the pain you put me through
I gave you all my heart and soul
but to hurt me must have been your only goal
we shared each night laying together
you told me we would be forever
then came my birthday ... what a joy
you dropped me like a broken toy
well thankyou for the life we shared
at least you know I always cared
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I need him back with me,
how can I make him see?
My heart no longer exists
I need to feel his kiss.
The pain it hurts so bad,
I hope your family's glad,
My life it is no longer
don't tell me that I'm stronger.
I need you by my side,
as every night I cried
You didn't say goodbye
yet your words made my heart cry.
Baby come back soon
I can't go on without you.
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The love I have for you will grow,
and everyday I'll let you know.
You're everything to me
you're the one that set me free
Together forever until we die,
to you I swear this ain't a lie.
my knees just seem to go so weak
everytime you kiss my cheek,
Your my world and my air,
I would die for you I swear.
What could I possibly do,
to prove my love is true.
I will never let you go,
just thought I'd let you know
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Is there something in the air?
I'm fading.
Who are you?
Are you a stranger that I knew?
Is there something in the air?
I'm fading.
I see the child inside,
that died
You see the child outside,
that survived.
Is there something in the air?
I'm fading.
Is this me?
Or what you want me to be.
Do you see what you want to see
Or the bleak reality?
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Is life better than
death or
Is death better than
life?
Life is good then
death is bad.
But could life be bad
And death be good?
Life is light then death
is darkness.
But could life be darkness
And death be light?
Is life death?
Is death life?
A fear of death
A fear of life
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The world swirls around me,
Reality fades.
Life, death which is it?
Is life reality
or is death reality.
The world swirls around me,
Reality fades.
A kid trying to survive in a world that lies.
Reality.
Or a kid whose a waste of space always in trouble.
Reality.
Which is it?
The world swirls around me,
Reality fades.
Truth, lies, which is it?
Truth is honesty
Or are lies the truth
Is reality false!!
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Despair, just wanting
to curl up and die.
Happiness, just happy
to be alive.
Can I be two people inside?
A simple question, But no
simple answer.
Hate, just wanting
the pain to stop.
Love, just needing
the release of pain.
Can I be two people inside?
A simple question, But no
simple answer.
The love of everything.
The hate of everything.
A simple question, But no
simple answer.
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A terrible scene insight, I can't quite explain. An indescribable feeling tearing through my soul.Unclear to me, as I stare at the lifeless image ahead. Mystical confusion all around, not knowing what to do. And there it happens all out of the blue. A sudden light blinds my eye, yet I can still see the blur of the horrific image.I feel like I'm on a drunken night out, nothing fits into place, everything is bizarre. Absurd I might add, where am I?
Suddenly I feel like a feather, rising above reality, Travelling through a dream may be, I am not quite sure. The higher I rise, the worse of my blindness. Voices seem echoes, images become obscure. An endless journey above reality continues I shut my eyes, trying to relax. I then awaken, but the strange feeling has gone, my soul doesn't feel like it is being torn apart, it feels whole. My curiosity leads me astray, because when I look down on what I had been rising above; I see grievance. I don't understand, the light has miraculously disappeared, my vision is clear. I see a box, there my body lays, my heart in-between, my soul up here. Although mysterious to me, of how this happening, I puzzle together my recent memories, it then all makes sense...
The protection of my soul was the lifeless image ahead, the goodness I had achieved throughout my life resulted me into rising to a better place. The light that had blinded my eyes, was the path I had taken to this better place, the grievance below was the celebration of my life that had an unfortunate ending.
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Fly with fly with me
Where the seas are blue and the skies are grey
Fly with me
Where our dreams will come true
Fly to the heavens above
Where the lights shine so bright
Where all our thoughts are in flight
Fly with me to the highest mountains
Where we can watch the sunset fall
Come with me till the day I die
Fly with me
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In the sky above is a light that shines for you
The thought of you keeps inside and brings me near to you
I am waiting for you to return and I hope that it is soon
I want you by my side I want you next to me there is no-one I think more of than you
I sit and watch the time go by and hoping you will come home some day
I look above and see your face knowing there is no time to waste
Come home soon I'm begging you please return in these arms that are always open for you
The thought of you gone brings tears to my eyes
Knowing that you have gone leaves a hole in my heart
I think of you day and night wishing you were here to hold me tight
I hope that you are coming home
When you return I want you to stay never leave me this way
Bring back my thoughts bring back my happiness that you took away from me
I sit by the door waiting for you to return so that you can come back for me
The dreams I have of you brings back the memories I have never forgotten that makes me think of you
I want you back never leave me again
I wait for you to return to come back into my life
To hold me like you use to when I was a child
I remember all the good times and everything that you did
You always brought me happiness that I will never forget
I wish you were here to hold me close to say the words that I want to hear the most
I want you to talk to me like you did to bring back all that you took
I will always love you and that is true
I know you're in safe hands with god above
Like an angel from above
You stole my heart when I was young you will always live on in my soul forever till I die
I'm missing you
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A dream of the world colliding
A dream that starts is a dream that ends
A dream of anything that you can imagine
Your thoughts are running wild you don't know what to do
You run around in a room you choose to view
A dream that has meaning is a dream that comes true
A dream of someone that belongs to you
You dream of worlds that you wish exist
A world that has meaning a world that has new life
A world that belongs to you that you think is right
Your slowly dying your slowly going your dream begins to fade away
You have one chance left what are you going to do
Will you ever stop dreaming will it ever come true
The choice is yours on the other hand
Its time to stop dreaming your world is at an end you must stop dreaming to make it disappear
Your eyes slowly start to open and you begin to see the world is no-longer a part of me
You start to go mad
You start to think you could have had me now just think
Your dream is now over and so am I
Your life is now over you begin to see now your soul belongs to me
The dream is no-longer real it does not exist the world is now a mess
No more lying the world you once knew is dying
There is no happiness there is just sadness everyone you knew is crying
Go to the corner of your mind have a look and see what you can find
I'm fading away time has run out
I'm going to leave you in the dark there will be no light now that is what the world is like
This is the end which you must fight
This is the dream
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I long to live I long to breath
Give me everything that I need
I can see the world I can see my life
Let me see the heavens above
To make my feelings fly away
I need to know that my life is real then I will travel alone
Hold me tight show me the way I need to know now time is fading away
There are things that I can see I want them to go away
I need life far away from home
I see a whole new world before my eyes
I want to hang onto the world I want to believe
Let me dive into the oceans that I see
Above is the key to my soul
I see your face in the sky I watch as your smile goes by
Let me have feelings let me have love
Let me run free I need the power of you within me
Let the world come together let the pain go forever
I see you clear I want to live in this world forever
Nothing is real
Knowing that you are in my dreams
You hold me close
You hold me near
Only you can take the fear
Only you can see the world through my eyes
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I'm standing on my own,
brushing my hair with a comb.
When SHE starts to push me,
and starts to call me names.
Everyone's the same,
but Everyone's different.
I'm a different colour to HER,
so to HER I'm a horrible person.
It's been going on for ages now,
and I hate my life,
being called a black cow!
I've had enough,
I cant take no more.
I've reported it,
and it's gonna get better.
I've walked through the school doors,
and everything has changed.
No more bullying,
no more jokes.
I maybe different but we're all the same!
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The Suffolk Racial Harassment Team held a competition on thesource for Young People to send in Poems and Posters against Racism. The Poems were judged by Imani Sorhaindo, who is a published writer, poet and anti-racist educator.
Comment by Imani Sorhaindo - "Lucy's work was very good. The imagery was fantastic and it clearly demonstrates the person experiencing the bullying has the ultimate power, and the importance of reporting incidence."
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In thoughts that make a thousand words right
(A thousand stars burn bright)
Paint a picture...more beautiful than the last
(And when she's falling through glass)
Each shard cutting deeper than the last
Each brand new day gives another chance to say 'refrain'
Every sideways look
(Every chance I never took)
Is another phrase to throw a beating heart away?
But as this clock strikes twelve we are on our own tonight
(And i follow you and we are slowly swallowed whole)
But as her breath draws back I won't be wrong tonight
You before me and you swallowed me
As the night draws in and all locks are cut
And the tide is high on what we lost
And when the moments right (we can start to fight)
And without shaking, we can slowly set fire to the night
We can slowly set fire to the night
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I gaze down on this view and the way it breaks all the bones in my body...
"anything, anywhere at any time might set it off...and then it will fall,
she will fall from the top of the steepest cliff and the sea won't stop her
now...nothing can stop her now"
(when i was asked of her and what to think)
"I take everything out of it but it wants more, do you know the feeling to lie awake at night? to feel it cutting you in two, to know that at any given time it could wipe out everything"
(i'm losing my identity...)
"when you wake up and you can't breathe for fear of losing something (my hand is shaking and my body's braking) and you can't walk, you can't even step outside of the cricle...and to know whatever you do will cause you to slowly fade away (i'm falling away)"
(like a knock to the head and a shot to the chest)
"she will crumble and brake from the many mistakes that turned her blue eyes to black and it cancels thought, like a faded picture...she will shatter and fall apart...everything i love will fall apart"
(and the skies and the trees will bring her to her knees as i fall into nothing below)
"the sun will set for the last time on who you are and what you know and the way you go about things from now will change...tomorrow when you wake up you will see your face differently...as i am writing this the hand in front of me becomes unfamiliar and i can't keep it straight...and because it's a new day, it's a new life and everything you love will change and break apart and the world that invited you (is) not how you left it...progress made us into alibi’s..."
(nothing will ever be alright again)
"and nothing makes sense at all and you try to remember what you did yesterday, or the day before that but nothing is there and the memory of everyone you once loved is lost and the wall are clear (the writings all gone) and there will be no trace of what youwanted...no-one and tell and you aren't missed...you will never be missed because you were never there to be missed in the first place...and as you try to remember that there is something that you know you should be crying about nothing will come to your mind...because nothing was there in the first place...you were never there in the first place..."
(a footprint in the dust of empty and nothing can bring you back at all...no-one can say anything no-one can do anything...to stop this bending and braking and this falling and shaking and this feeling that what ever you do, whatever you say will help you melt (and slip) and fade away"
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Fear wraps my head in a throbbing pain
I search for a fantasy way out
"I can't stand classrooms! I just can't"
I very nearly did shout!!!
My head and palms thickened with sweat
My heart beat is rapid, way too fast
It starts to hurt my chest, is it a heart attack?
How long will this......thing.....last?
Why am I not normal? am I changing into a demon??
I can't breath, I'm choking! What is this?
Look what sophie's done, it's because of her isn't it!
Why did I have to move school, she's in bliss!
Telling everyone lies about me!
WHY did the teachers Believe her and take HER side!
They didn't listen to me, they listened to her fake sobs!
Saying I lied! but she lied! she lied!
Teachers started picking on me! saying I'm horrible
I had to move school you see!
Even though I'm not bullied I'm still the same!!!!
WHY does this only happen to me?
Now I'm at the upper school, and she's in my class
I've got to spend 3 yrs with her! Three!
She's been in my class since yr4 to yr8, that's five
then add 3, now you can see.......
I tried telling mum and dad they wouldn't listen
Only you know....
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If I shine you stamp out my flame, only a bruise you see.
If I fall down from the world around, you let me.
If a bird sings you listen,
Why can't you listen to me?
Screaming from inside I let you torture.
Now I cry you laugh at me.
What's funny I do not see.
If I work you taunt me, does this allow YOU to be intelligent?
If I look, your piercing eyes burn me.
Feeling one thousand daggers down my spine,
every second I'm alive.
You don't like me, just let it be.
Tears dried up, my mind is numb….
A red rose surrounded by weeds.
Which would you pick?
By the way, that's me.
Pull away those weeds, please let me breath.
What would u do?
What would u do?
Help stop racism now xxx
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The Suffolk Racial Harassment Team held a competition on thesource for Young People to send in Poems and Posters against Racism. The Poems were judged by Imani Sorhaindo, who is a published writer, poet and anti-racist educator.
Comment by Imani Sorhaindo - "This poem made me get goose pimples - very descriptive and powerful. You tapped into the feelings of oppression and victimization really well."
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Grandad although it has not been long since you left
It feels as if I have been away from you for years
All the things I’ve looked at since you left
Shoot memories at me that I’m not strong enough to bear
The phrases you’d say at meals and occasions
The laughs you gave us, the smiles you put on are faces
Those snippets of factual information
Stories of your past that could amuse me for hours
But as I get into the memories
The thought suddenly hits me
Your not here anymore
Your gone, I am alone.
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I'm a snowflake falling from the sky
I'm getting very sick because it's so so high
I can be lots of different shapes and sizes
I can win lots of snowflake prizes
I'm cold and icy
not like curry hot and spicy
I come in very cold weather
I fall quicker than a feather
I'm sorry if I make you sigh
but my journey to the ground has ended
so I have to say goodbye
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There's a chill in the night
filled with noises that can fright
the wind is howling
while the trees are bowing
you can faintly hear
something you begin to fear
an open shed door
a squeaky board on the floor
footsteps up the stairs
or is that just in your nightmares
There's a chill in the night
filled with noises that can fright
you pull the cover up over your head
and hope whatever it is stays away from your bed
you wish the morning would come
so you can go and cuddle your mum
you see someone hiding over there
or is that just in your nightmare.
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I will put in my box
the summer and winter
the sunniest beach
the bluest sea
the cutest little dog you can see
a tabby cat that follows me everywhere
and the nicest mother that will care
I will put in my box
a cute little fox
a pair of white socks
I will pack my life in this box
my box is the colour of the sky
with pictures of birds that can fly
and secrets behind the stars
and the lid is made out of chocolate
from chocolate bars
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