Semaj+Smith

"Poetry is the doorway to the soul." My Poet: The Talented Sonia Sanchez.

She was 7 It was the worse thing I had ever heard in my life, how could she be gone already? She was 7. I was 9 brushing my teeth ready for school black and white uniform on. The scream of a no took over the house... she was gone. She layed in the hospital bed, broken leg, broken arm and brain damage. her face was purple and her eyes were being held open. The room,was white and bright tubes running through the bed, Machines beeping every where I turned. She was hit. Hit by a car and she was 7. He was drunk and he didnt care. ... I never noticed the importance of life until my 7 year old cousin lost her. ..."Leave me alone" were the last words I said to her and now she was gone no time to say sorry. She lost her life to supidity and she was only 7.

Ode to my Lipgloss Vicki-Secret 5 for $20 sale The thought of the beauty rush gives me a rush that I just can't ignore. Fruit Punch, Vanilla Mint, and I want Candy Flavors of my life and flavors of my gloss My lipgloss is what keeps my heart beating The feeling of the gloss clinging to my lips makes my heart skip two beats My lipgloss, the thought of it squeezing out the tube greeting my lucious lips makes my life worth while. The racks of gloss spin around and round As my hand touches over every tube I can smell every flavor i can taste the tingle of the Mint gloss as it touches the tip of my tongue when i speak The tingle of my soul being open up I find my true friend in life everytime I walk into the pink and red store The store that opened my eyes to a dream and a life I never knew Before the sale all I knew was Lip-Smackers and Roll-Ons Artificial flavors and flowers in tubes But now It's a rush for my lips... A Beauty Rush ...And I owe it all to the sale the Vicki-Secret sale the 5 for 20 sale The sale that changed my life This is My Ode My Ode to My Lipgloss

My Riff i never want to minus you even though you wont add me to the equation i never want to minus you even though you stare right through me i never want to minus you even though i hate your every move. i never want to minus you even though our hearts will never beat as one. i never want to minus you because who am i without my other half? i never want to minus you because deep down inside im in love with you i never want to minus you because I love you and I dont love you ...well, isnt that happiness? I never want to minus you because without you the equation is never complete

What My Poetry Means... My poetry is inspired by things that have happened to me in my life. I like to use repetition so that people can understand the importance of whatever the poem means. I like to put a lot of emotion into my poems because then people cane relate to it easier. My line breaks normally come up when I would be taking a long pause to show intensity in my work. Sometimes I start my poems and don't clarify what they are about so that people have one idea about it and then by the end of the poem they find out what the poem was really about and it gives them a whole new look on what they just read. I like to use a lot of personification and metaphors so that they bring life to my poems and they make the readers see and feel what I'm talking about as if they were right there when the story happened. There are poems I write that have no punctuation and no capitalized letters, these are my raw poems something that was come up with on the spot its a poem that it strictly true emotion from my heart and I think those poems are the best.

The Talented Sonia Sanchez My poet is The talented Sonia Sanchez. Sonia Sanchez i believe is an inspirational poet she writes in ways you can actually relate to it and they all have a certain meaning and lesson that you are suppose to take from the poem. Sonia Sanchez uses a lot of imagery but in ways that are not normally thought of to do and a perfect example of that is a line from her poem '5 love haiku', where she says " your smell slides under my fingernails". Here she uses some SSSTT, because you know the smell of the man doesn't slide under her fingertips but its the fact that its so true and bold and strong its as if it does. There is so much wisdom in Sonia's poems and I think that separates her from a lot of poets. Because not only can you relate to Sonia Sanchez's poems but the wisdom that you get with it is a rare thing. Sonia Sanchez is the wisest woman I have ever met and as a upcoming poet I really hope to take many things away from her work.