Student Samples: High School
 Yesterday; Today; Tomorrow;
by Janell, tenth grade poet
Yesterday was cold and rainy with the sun shining on a summer day.
It was a smile that came to tears.
It was days that grew into years.
It was love at first sight, with a broken heart at the end.
It was new heroes that grew over your lost ones.
There was laughter that turned into screams and hope and love
Found in only your dreams.
Yesterday was everything left behind you.
Today is beautiful.
Today is yours but also mine.
I won’t give up a second of it only because I’m slowly dying.
With every day brings another toward my last.
I may find you today, hang my head in sorrow.
Either way, happy or sad, lost or found, today is my day and I
Will live it better than yesterday because tomorrow might not come.
Tomorrow is a frightening fairy tale.
It can bring joy or disappointment.
I may become the next big thing or just someone you once knew.
Suffering is ahead of all of us only because it builds strength,
But also because you find happiness at the end.
My future will break me down and bring me back up, but at the
End of this life time I know I’m going to have had something to live for.
 Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
by Jennica, tenth grade poet
Yesterday is the wind at your back
Drifting by as if hushed by the
Existence of character
Today is a gift
Tightly wrapped in a synthetic
Ribbon, delicately caressing the sides
Of optimism
Tomorrow is a promise of hope
To fulfill the fantasy which has been
Dormant in your mind for quite some time
 Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
by Keon, tenth grade poet
Yesterday I flew away
To a place where my mistakes were a distant memory
It’s funny because yesterday is a memory
Yesterday was pain which brings tears that fill up like an overflowing
Sea of sorrow and regret
I bet for someone yesterday was love
Yesterday was looking in a significant other's eyes
And feeling so good that at that moment in time you won’t spend an
Eternity in yesterdays
But you can’t.
Today I woke up and came to the realization that yesterday is over and
I’m faced with its mistakes
Today brings challenge to change, learn and grow
Tomorrow can only be explained as the unknown because that is exactly
What it is
Tomorrow brings promise, the promise of life and death
The promise of greater challenges
The promise of love which may not be tomorrow
But maybe tomorrow’s tomorrow
Or if you believe it’s worth it
Which I do a multitude of todays, yesterdays and tomorrows.
 Poem About Me
by
Lizette, tenth grade poet
Yesterday
Yesterday was an old day
Yesterday, I was innocent
Yesterday, I got in trouble that has to live with me forever
Yesterday, I was my daddy’s little girl
Yesterday, I lost someone very close to me
Yesterday, I had cried
Yesterday, I had memories
Yesterday, I was lonely
Yesterday, I made a big mistake
Yesterday, I had a last kiss
Yesterday, I loved you
Yesterday was the past
Yesterday was an old day
Today
Today is a brand new day
Today, is a day closer towards my baby being born
Today, I’m missing my loved ones
Today, love is starting new
Today, I think of two
Today, I wipe my tears away
Today, I’m hyper and excited
Today, I face my consequences of my actions
Today, I love you more
Today is a brand new day
Tomorrow
Tomorrow is future
Tomorrow is a day I can’t wait for
Tomorrow may be a good or bad day
Tomorrow, my baby will get bigger
Tomorrow is a day I’ll be older
Tomorrow may be a special day
Tomorrow may be a sad day
Tomorrow is forever
Tomorrow, I will love you again
Tomorrow is future
 yesterday, today & tomorrow…
by Jordan, 11th grade poet
yesterday
is the heavy, gray cloud that’s filled
w/your deepest darkest secrets.
it holds heartache and disasters
countless memories, good or bad
but either way it’s all in the past.
we can’t go back & undo, scratch out,
erase or change each thought, action or word.
yesterday is forever tattooed in your mind.
today
could be one of those good days
or one of those real crappy ones
but it’s the only day we’re sure of
so live like there’s no tomorrow
& make the best out of what you’ve got.
today is one step closer to your dreams.
tomorrow
is a clean slate, a new day, a fresh start.
it’s a way to fix your wrongs of yesterday
but it’s whatever you make it
who & what you want to be
the change you want to see.
tomorrow brings hope.
Poem
by Nikita, 11th grade poet
To try to forget yesterday
Could almost be impossible
For yesterday has made
What everything is today
Today will hold what
Could make tomorrow
I’ll hold my head up high
I won’t drown myself in sorrow
I won’t let a trail of unforgivable
Regrets follow
Keep it,
I don’t need your opinion
On how to live this life
At least I’m living
Not all of us have to live
What society calls wise
Sooner or later I’ll learn
Everyday I’ll open a little bit more of my eyes.
I’ll push, I’ll try, I’ll run, I’ll fly
You’re too young to die today
But if I did
I wouldn’t take any of my experiences away.
 Poem
by Mariana, eleventh grade poet
Yesterday,
Yesterday’s gone
All the laughter is done
It’s all in the past
Nothing ever lasts
I lost my friends who were dear
One of my deepest fears,
They are destined to never come back
It all turned black
It’s all in the yesterday
It’s all in the past
Nothing ever lasts
Nothing ever stays.
Today,
Today am missing you
The skies are blue
I’m trying to live in the moment
I hope I can be potent
Thoughts go through my head
But sometimes I feel as weak as lead
I’m fighting
I will come out shining
It’s happening now
I’m trying to live in the moment
I hope I can be potent
I hope I can be strong.
Tomorrow,
Tomorrow will be a better day
My mind rested will stay
I will be who God wants me to be
I know he believes in me
Future is facing my way
I will rest in the shining sun’s ray
I will always be strong
I will try to do no wrong
It’s going to happen no doubt
I will be who god wants me to be
I know he believes in me
I know he believes I’ll be free. |
