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FEBRUARY 2014
ISSUE 1
VOLUME 1
VERB MAGAZINE
POEMS
Sweet Sweets
Flowers on the Moon Elegance
By Moia Jayva Mc Barrow
Form 5, Bishops Anstey High School East
KC Martin
Form 5, Trinity College East
Salvation Yalams
Form 5, Trinity College East
I am sweet
A tasty trance-like,
Enticing treat with smiling faces to you I will
greet
But make me mad and its madness you’ll
meet
The look of me will make you weak
And tingly, my tender touch on your tongue,
you’ll have
To take a seat, cause I love you so much from
your head to your feet
I’m a deceptive, deadly, detrimental treat.
After one of me you’ll want to eat
A lot, a load, long lasting sweet...
Taste, to fill your senses to the peak
Then to your children, me you’ll bequeath
And they’ll love, lust me, lose their lovely
teeth
So if too much of me you want to eat,
A path of powerful, pangs, painful ... pain, I
promise you’ll meet
Evening slips through cobwebs and dust tangles and brambles cover the hush of heather
and
feathers as ostriches rush under an ocean of
silence and scorn little bare footsteps blue
waters
surround …
Roses are red
Violets are blue
I’ve never found someone more charismatic
than you
Your tender look is so precious
Your gentle smile is so true
Your soft skin is almost perfect
Your persona is so true
Roses are red
Violets are blue
From the tip of your head to the sole of your
shoes
Elegance is placed between those two
Swans are cute, peacocks are pretty
None of which can be compared to your
natural beauty
Cherry blossom flowers open each day
through the dew
But none of those shine up as bright as you
do.
Roses are red
Violets are blue
Your elegance is beyond comprehension
And I wish you knew ...
All because you couldn’t deny a little, innocent, sweet ... sweet.
Friends
Karishma Ramsook
Form 5, Bishops Anstey High School East
Friends make you smile
Even if it’s for a while
They never put you down
And they are always around.
Friends help you to survive
They never want to see you die,
Even though they have pride
They will never leave your side.
Friends are the people you trust
To love you is a must,
So cherish the friends you have
So they won’t become the ones you had.
Follow my shadow from sunrise to dark walk
in a midnight that lies in the light trip over
seconds in clockwork that died leave riddles
behind to find in the night
Live in a forest of nightmares and ghosts hide
inside verses expecting the worst make a
mind
wander and owe such a cost stumbles and
mumbles devour my life
Rise to the rooftops in pleasure and pain drop
to the concrete shattered and lame to argue
with
mirrors and nonsense alone wait for the
morning to rise once again
Sunrise slips sparkles of stars in my eyes
rainbows work wonders high in the sky fragrant wild
flowers breathe me new life showers of dewdrops diminish my sighs.
Whatever you witnessed was me being me
things that I do when I forget I am she who
clings to
a cloud and sinks in a heap this flawed ballerina spins in her sleep.
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