“Words can be Powerful”
By Samantha R. Siefert
Words can be menacing, evil through and through,
but words can be meaningful, wonderful, and true.
Words can be corrupt, and they can be dark,
but words can be beautiful like the song of a lark.
Bad is a threat, an insult, and blasphemy.
Worse is a cuss, a curse, and profanity.
Good is a hymn, a poem, a young dove’s cry.
Better is a song, a psalm, a lullaby.
Words can be ugly, weak, and rotten.
Those words are best ignored and forgotten,
But words can be beautiful, powerful, and strong.
Those words will be remembered all your life long.
Words can be mighty, and they can be great,
but not when said with malice and hate.
And so a word to the wise.
In with the good and out with the lies.
Samantha attends Rhinelander High School and is in the ninth grade.
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"Should Trouble Cross This Path"
By Matt Parker
Should Trouble cross this path
and upon arrival take me,
Then I laugh, for I’ve escaped that devil
so long as I have
Should Fortune turn her back
while I walk a plank no man could make me
Then I smile for having known her
so long as I have
Should Trouble cross this path
then let ye rest at ease
For I promise he will not be
at work tomorrow
Should Death be struck with hunger
that naught but I could appease
then feast with me
and leave that starving bastard alone in sorrow
Through years of others’ cries run I
And long I’ve yearned for sadness
like a Cape Cod painter exploring the depths of gray
Deluded by song in times of joy
And rock-a-byed into madness
But bearing a smile though we know the path does fade away
And so should I cross paths with Trouble
and I’ve lost what I promise was a mighty struggle,
Then carry me corp’rally home
For I’ll have to bid goodbye
And feel not for me sorrow;
Time is not a gift, but borrowed
So long I’ve roamed my terrestrial home
And I smile for in the same I shall peacefully lie
"About the poem: Suffering is uniquely for the living. Boredom is for the living. Guilt is for the mournful to imagine upon Death. Hi, there.
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