The Heartbeat’s Valentine’s Day Poetry Collection 2022
Hey Highlanders! It’s that time of year again, and in celebration of Valentine’s Day, here’s our student-submitted poetry collection! We thank everyone who sent something in this year, and can’t wait to see what talent you have to offer in the future. With that out of the way, here are your love poems Holy Heart!
The Nameless Man
Not a soul knew his name
He sat on the bench picking at petals
Knowing that this day would be just the same
But he still waited for someone special
No face
But a bright heart
An empty space next to his place
Petals split into little red parts
“Does she love me?”
He would sit and wait for his soulmate
Though the space was always free
The petals made a shade of red
Just like the scars in his heart that bled
Crimson Budgell, Grade 12.
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I have always wondered
Love, is it a must?
Opinions I got far and wide
Very little difference between the few
Everyone wondered if its a need or want
You probably have your own idea
Our lives are all different
Ur goal is what you set
Final destination
In your heart
In your mind
The place of love
I shall find
In this maze
With some luck
To my amaze
I got though
Just one day
My goal I appraise
To someday be
The one truly
In your arms
Your chapter in my book
Was one of my favorites
But I cannot keep rereading it
Expecting a different answer
So I shall start a new chapter
With references to you in it
But I shall move forward
Onto a new world
Anonymous, Grade 10
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There I spot
Walking down the hall
A girl I see
Her emotions, I see balled
Seems to be upset
Or maybe down
I begin to jet
And start to walk around
Beside her I stay
Waiting for the notice
But all she will say
Is her life is atrocious
With comfort I try
Making it seem alright
Her father who had died
The past, I wished to rewrite
I ask what I could do
Nothing for it had seemed
A idea I held so true
Something I had dreamed
So I had asked
“Wanna hangout sometime?”
A smile I had caught
She thought for some time
And said “tomorrow at nine?”
After we talked it out
A hug I received
Then I heard something
The alarm, I was deceived
Ibo, Grade 10
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I want to be your valentine,
oh how I longed to make you mine.
your love hit me like a cannonball,
Don’t keep me waiting until fall.
I love you more than words can say,
Before I met you my days were grey.
I can’t resist your charms-its true,
I’m head over heels in love when you.
Anonymous, Grade 12
Roses Are Red,
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
My voice is cute,
And so are you.
Orchids are white,
Ghost ones are rare,
An outline is wavy,
And so is your hair.
Magnolia grows,
With buds like eggs,
The run is long,
And so are your legs.
Sunflowers reach,
Up to the skies,
The wand is hazel,
And so are your eyes.
Foxgloves in hedges,
Surround the farms,
The hide is tanned,
And so are your arms.
Daisies are pretty,
Daffies have style,
My sight is pretty,
And so is your smile.
A rose is beautiful,
Just like you.
Anonymous, Grade 11
Thinking of You
Thinking of you
Forever and always
The things that you do
Now and all days
I love your mind
Heart and soul
For you are kind
And my whole
My love a blaze
I am never blue
I spend my days
Thinking of you
Emily Fagen, Grade 12
“I Love You Too”
“I love you”
Or
Do you need me to forgive you?
Want me to accept you?
Have nothing left to say?
Is it obsession?
Is it control?
What does love mean anyway?
Because
I have been hurt the most by those who
“Loved” me
Is love abuse?
Is love a tool?
Or
Have I simply never experienced “I love you” in the correct way?
But sure,
“I love you too”
…Is that what you want me to say?
Rowan Clarke, Grade 11
Empathy is an Illusion
Hey,
I don’t care about you.
I only care about myself.
but
it seems to be the case
that when you are happy
I am.
so I’m here to exploit that
if you know what I mean.
Okay?
Anonymous, Grade 10
Mirakurung
A basket on his tied arm
He used to pass by the market cause in his eyes
It was so real when he passed by the street
Has no heart — carries a suspicious package in its trunk
A few lines in front of me
There’s a bug in his house
like a white demigod
I fell to the ground looking back
A moon song on my tongue it’s fifteen thirty
You are on the cobblestones, ocus pocus
In whose bosom it will be brewed that night — give up!
A carnation in Kanar’s bosom with a foul breath
Everyone looked at him as if Monet had drawn him.
A sonnet from Shakespeare fell silent on my lips
Every expression that comes out of your mouth is color and prayer
Hello survivor of a short story meaning
(refrain)
I stayed halal
fortune telling on your face
count me
Wrap like night
a fairy tale
it’s Sunday
gliding star
If he came and took me
If I were a knight
Molière in the basket
And the moonstone necklace on her chest
As you breathe, it gets closer to the stars!
(refrain)
He looks and thinks about the water fortune
A ship from afar takes away all that daydream
The plastic shape of his face — a reform?
A new aesthetic form, just like the gospel
His face is towards the day, but the night is on his back.
Some speak another language I don’t know how
She cries, her face is both mournful and sweet
It wouldn’t even touch the flowers as if it were the plague
And one day a sparrow landed at your feet
A forelock fell between the universe and your face
A converging lens in the forest of dreams
The truth swelled up in all the lies
It’s worth it if she raises her head to reach for the stars
Her nails were full of joy but she was offended.
He undressed slowly on the old port
And he always turned to the moon when he got offended at home
What about fire or logos in my body?
Is it the north wind or the southwestern that lifts its skirts?
But that night he turned to me, not to the moon
He said count the stars above my head come on!
And the stars are naked before me
They don’t even sell me a shirt anymore in the market
I stayed halal
fortune telling on your face
count me
Wrap like night
a fairy tale
it’s Sunday
gliding star
If he came and took me
If I were a knight
Molière in the basket
And the moonstone necklace on her chest
As you breathe, it gets closer to the stars!
Anonymous, Grade 11
