Everything Touches

Here are a selection of poems, voted by 98StrongStreet as the best six of our class.

Jessica
Everything touches, life interweaves
Victory strikes, reflections give in
Glory surrenders a frozen heat
Beginnings finish as endings start.

Footprints of knowledge create a new path
Nonsense makes sense
Future overtakes as past retreats
Everything touches from you to me.



Caitlin
Everything touches, life interweaves
Blood and water, moonlight and waves
A sparkle of light, a patch of darkness and black.

Courage and kindness, rusty and clean
Never too small to fail, never too big to sink
The coldness of winter and the light of the sun.

A stairway of life climbing up to the future
Weaving its way through the gentle breeze
A fragile rose and lonely thorn
Surrounded in a garden of weeds.

Everything touches.



Isabella P
Everything touches, changing one another
As memories fade and future forms
Where you're free yet captive, accepted but forgotten
Tranquility destroyed, red handed but innocent
Everything touches, impact delayed.

Reunited lost
A mask of happiness
Covering sorrow
As darkness becomes fate.

Destiny deflected, joy averted
Fleeing from all hope and chance
Scared and healed
Scared and brave
Everything touches, life interweaves.

 

Finn
Everything touches, life interweaves
Old lady places a coin
A second before she passes
Sandbag supporting tower, preventing destruction.

Prayer and war
Devastation and pride
Mercy and defeat, bodies and deserted
Victory overtakes surrender, concentration hostage
Conditions and bone.

Precious turns into grief
The fun has to end
Restart a new beginning
As friendship takes charge.

Future and present
As luck runs out
Fatal and outcome
Everything touches, you're touching me.

 

Mya
Everything touches, life interweaves
Thunder and harmony
Gratitude and greed
Singing altogether
Days unravel.

Trees sway in the breeze
Ruffling the leaves of the evergreen
To a small apartment, brick and concrete.

Glory and golden waves
Controlled by the moon
Spinning in space.

Beetroot blood plunging into love
Hygiene and nails
Rhino horn from horse hair
Footprints leading me down the futuristic path.

 

Bruno
Everything touches, life interweaves
Moon and waves, a beating heart
Breath and wind, moving the tides
Footprints of the past leading to the future.

Blood and war, death and retreat
Guns and cannons, like the sound of thunder
Cries of the wounded an everlasting noise
From fear to fear, nothing will change.

Sun and sky, plants of poison
To fall and rise
From the break of dawn to the setting sun
Everything touches.