Submission: “Birth, Death, Sleep” by Devin Hammond

A more insightful look of myself, “reality” and anything beyond. Came up with the idea of the poem after speaking to my friend about the subject of afterlife, religion and who’s the “right” one. Religion kinda comes in play. I asked myself: Is there a difference between reality, fiction, Life, Death, and sleep?
Birth, Death, [...]

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Here’s another poem I wrote when I wondered how it would feel if you loved somebody but they never knew you did or really cared. The name of the poem is “Ridding Myself of You.”
Ridding Myself of You
You were my best feeling, the best emotion
But you was the one that filled me with commotion
You was [...]

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Third submission. My name is Devin Hammond, age 16 and from NYC. This one is called “Sweet Tragedy”. I did this one because I wonder how it would feel in a relationship and how I feel about a girl I know now…
Sweet Tragedy
Her lips, they taste like a tragedy
Cherry red, and sweet with misery
Her eyes, [...]

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A poem by Devin Hammond, age 16, from NYC. The poem is called “Lord”. It’s basically I did out my head, when I was feeling a little down and just looked back at my religious views.
“Lord”

There’s something inside those ashes
The many pages of my life I burned inside the fireplace
And the bandages and wounds I wiped [...]

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A poem by Devin Hammond, age 16, from New York City. 
 
“The Dream, the Hope, the Future, the Love” 

I met somebody
I call her Dream
You don’t see her
But I see her, it seems
And when you’re against that wall, barricaded to it
You hold on to something dear

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