Brave

By Jacie Richman

This book consists of all of the poems that I have written throughout my life, from elementary school all the way up to college. Most of these poems are based off of real experiences that I have gone through. It has been difficult for me to share my poetry with others. But I believe that there are always moments in life where you can choose to be afraid, or you can choose to be brave.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Oct 13, 2016
• ISBN: 9781524543440

Jacie Richman

I have always had a love of poetry ever since I learned how to rhyme in elementary school. I am a lover of sunflowers, Christmas, fall, and cheesecake. I am a cancer survivor of neuroblastoma cancer, and someday, I want to use my profession in cosmetology to help cancer patients feel beautiful. I have a great love for travel and humanitarian work. One of my biggest dreams in life is to go to Africa on a humanitarian trip. The small amount of money that I earn from my book will be used to help children in Africa.

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Copyright © 2016 by Jacie Richman.

ISBN:   Softcover       978-1-5245-4290-0

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Rev. date: 09/28/2016

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Contents

Soldier

Dancing with Invisible Wings

The Young Musician

Difficult Decisions

Dream Car

See Through

Grade C Haiku

Fast Food Mood

Awake

Monday

The Draw Flaw

I’m Gonna

Grandma

Laughing Through Life

Haiku’s are Hard

Inside

The Fish’s Wish

Sunlight

Texting

Never Say No to Cookie Dough

It’s Not too Late

When Karlie Went to College

Might

Humanitarian

Doormat

I Want to go to a Carnival

Need

The Curious Cliffs

Free

Something Wrapped

MOM

Autobiography

Epitaph

I Used To, But Now I

Fulfilled

Ugh

Die Inside

Your Presence

Tritina Poem: Pretending All Along

My Happy Family

Reassure

Twins

The Worst Feeling Ever

Crushed the Trust

You Deserve Better

Lift

Writing Again

Hidden Path

Serendipity

The Line

Letting Go

Venting to You

This Class

Flash of Pain

Elephant in the Room

Aching

Inspiration

Rotten Food

Cool Shoes

Gangsta

Lion

No Idea

Colleges

Undetectable Agony

I know You

When I Meet Anyone

Flour Girl

The Point

Don’t Judge the Mask

Better Not

Forever Out

Shape of a Heart

Not Completely

Grow

Crave

Cool If You Wanted To

Think

Love Your Piggly Wiggly Shirt

Gray

Awkward in the Library

Sparkle

How I Speak

Reel Back In

Feel

Excited

Pleasing You

Prom

Block

Focus

Justin,

Brushing Words

Popcorn!

The Best Day of My Life

Crush

If Math Were a Story

My First Date

Happy Day

The Son

You are Unique

I’m Just Tired

Collision

Any Angel

When Thunder Breaks

Yearbook

Try

Drops of Silence

The Perfect LDS Prince

Time for Writing

The Mold Memory

True Friend

Arise and Shine

Daring to Drive

Glance

Choir Concert

Prayer

Bitter Litter

My Clean Room

If I Was a Mayfly

For the Beauty of His Children

Meaningful Me

Double the Bubble

Color

Believe

Alone

Smile

Special Stress Reliever

A Sister Like You

Start on the Heart

Bright Darkness

Be Strong

The Wish

All Day Long

Lasting Love

Stranger Strength

All the Kisses

My Wish For You

Opposites

Lazy Day

Laughter

Me, a Celebrity

Knowing You

Magic Miracles

Pajama Party

Shop!

With a Friend

The Foot Fall

Cheese

Sing A Song

Broken

Princess

The Same Jersey

Halloween

Red Hair

The Giggly Girl

Mr. Future Football

Thanksgiving

The Beautiful Crayon

Mother

Maybe Sit by Me?

A Bad Boys Point of View

Athena and Hera

Conversation Inflation

My Love For You

Price

Take it Up

My Worst Fear Came True

Married Friends

Let Me Go

I’ll Go

My Mom

Confidence

The First Day

Trevor and Sierra.

Inside Yourself

Polka

Cinderella

Pop Back In

Rebuilding Bridges

He is there

Let Me Run

Doors

Your Change

God’s Plan

Tanner Paskett

Mirror Mirror

When I am alone

Scrubbing Scars

Stare Me Down

Fifth Wheel

No Sir

Reassuring

Better than one

Courage

Five Year Old

Mean

One Day

He Saw Me

It’s a race

Perfectly For You

Because of One Person

Delete

For Certain

Grateful Mindset

Twinkling Lights

I’m a simple human

Change

The cackle

Hole (Whole)

She smiled

I don’t know, I don’t know

Bad Guys

Choose to Come Back

Week 3

How Much

Found

Easter

Shy

Blake,

What Everyone Wants

When You leave

TWIX

Righteousness Always Wins

I Believe

Take a Deep Breath

Second Time

Faith

Dinosaur

A Lot More Nice

Memory

Everything

The Test

Wonderfully Rare

All of Me

You Know What Is Wrong

Chasers

Shine

You Got This

Bread

Excuse

Miss You, Miss Me

Doesn’t Seem Right

Release

Becoming

One Direction

Through the Chatter

Friend Zone

Clay

Sparks

Love by Chance

Petite

Overwhelmed

Spirit

Bed

I Saw Him

Risks

Airport

Girlfriend

Away

Letting off Steam

Oh Boy

Choose Happy

Like Lemons

Gloomy?

Confused

Gift

Healed

The Pure in Heart

Balcony

The Click

Doorknob

Smear

Come Back

Film

I Need My Dad

Monkey

Snake

The Boys Next Door

Edge

Surprising Avail

I am a Mormon

I Needed a Miracle

About the Journey

Beans

King Gold

Find Me

Zombies

Dawn

Starry Tears

A message to everyone:

That Could Have Been Me

People ask me to do favors for them

Another Guy

How it works

Two Weeks

I’m a Catch

Trees

Bowling

I give up

Numb

It doesn’t matter anymore

Overthink

The Person I Hide

Spilled Milk

The involuntary muscle,

Sky High Giraffe

2 Voice Poem: Relationship

Eyes that Cry

Free Verse Poem: Clean Again

Chicken

Rejection

We Bought a Zoo lied

Undetectable Agony

Cold

Epitaph

Found Poem: Mixture May Seem Dry

I heard that you liked the solar system

so I wrote you a poem about it:

Lemons

My journey

Jeffrey Gene

Goodbye

Tritina Poem

Spine Poem

Renga Poem

You are Awesome

Opposite Poem: Twins

Valentines Day

Hum

Awkward

The Insanity of Waiting

Peach Fuzz

Christmas in July

Conquered

Thankful for the Hard

Real School

Trigger

It’s Hard to Say No

Ultimate Frisbee

Don’t Stop

Comfort Zones

Kayla Jo

Homework

Orange Juice

Bipolar Weather

Self-Centered

I’ve Accepted It

He Kissed Me

You own it all,

I was Just Trying to be Nice

Cute Nose Goes

Absorbed

Black

A Description of a Thirteen Year Old Girl in Six Lines

Want To

Acquaintance Changes

Today

Ambiguous Loss

It’s No Bother

Low Expectations

Personally

The Beast

What Did I Do??

Granted

Giving Love

Inner Battle

Before

Take Me There

Writers Block

Lonely

Almost Done

Traces

Fault

Blame it on my Heart

Pumpkin

Betrayal

Crimson

Vase

Tomatoes

Where are You?

Metal Basket

Reality

New Love

The Dumped Trio

Last Name

Catch you Cuddling

The Heartbreak Box

The Other Roommate

You Two

Controlling

Hungry, so hungry,

Fog

Deal

Feelings of Brick

I am curly,

Dawn

Number

If You Want to Know…

Oakcrest

Heavy

When you grow up,

Edge

Surprising Avail

Finals Week

Maybe in a Moment

In my Car

When I am Taken

The way we Play

Days in May

Love by Chance

Good Kind of Crying

No Games, No Rules

Manicure

Brave

Soldier

(First poem I ever wrote)

Soldier, soldier how are you?

Soldier, soldier we are waiting for you.

Soldier, soldier I am proud of you-

And everyone else is too!

Soldier, soldier you are so brave,

And because of it our flag still waves!

Dancing with Invisible Wings

I could never fly alone,

So I twirl with invisible wings,

I stretch and jump and soar on ground,

Because dancing is the closest thing.

My feet move to the happy beat of joy, music, and song,

And my soul is full of happiness, when I choose to dance along.

The Young Musician

(Dedicated to Andrew Tolman)

People said he was a magical note,

Playing perfectly in tune and upright.

Others said he was a trumpet,

Playing the notes beautifully as his fingers dashed across the keys.

He was a talented young musician,

Who loved the sounds and emotions of music.

It sparkled in his eyes, and everyone knew it.

He taught me to love music,

Not just by how music sounded,

But by how it felt.

He lived by how he played,

With happiness and emotions of gladness.

He was the music.

Not because people said so,

But by the way he lived.

Whenever he smiled or laughed, the music came with him.

It was the music that brought everyone to know happiness,

And it was him who brought the music.

Difficult Decisions

We all make decisions in our lives, whether they are good or bad,

We choose when to be happy, we choose when to be sad.

We choose who our friends are, and what kind of people to follow,

We choose whether or not to get up for school tomorrow.

We choose how we act, how we react, and dress,

But whatever decisions you make today,

Make sure to make the best!

Dream Car

What is your dream car?

I was asked one day,

Is it a mustang? Maybe a Chevrolet?

Or maybe you’d like a ford, convertible or jeep?

Maybe a loud race car, so you won’t fall asleep?

A Toyota Tacoma? Hot wheels? A truck?

Or maybe you’d like a little slug bug?

They kept naming cars, but I just shook my head,

Because my dream car would just be a simple small car instead.

See Through

Whenever I look up at you, I see so much:

Your face, your gifts; your smile and touch.

The wonder and secrecy through your eyes,

That hide everything you are in disguise.

The sharp look that determines who you are,

What your story is from afar.

Believing no one will ever know

What you’ve been through, where you’ll go.

But if I look closely, I see through you,

Understand the things that you go through.

I’ll listen and learn about how you see,

Who you were meant to be.

Grade C Haiku

You’re like a Wednesday,

How do I feel about you?

I just can’t decide.

Fast Food Mood

I’m in a hungry mood,

I really need some food.

What should I eat?

A treat?

Some mac and cheese?

Some peas?

Chips?

Dips?

None of those seem right,

But my stomach can’t fight.

Ice cream?

Something in steam?

Some honey?

Yeah right, that would be funny.

I know I’m being picky,

But I don’t want to eat something sticky!

Hey! I’ve got an idea that will change my hungry mood!

Let’s go get some delicious fast food!

Wait, I don’t have any money…

Doesn’t anyone have some food for my poor, helpless tummy?

Well I guess that’s Okay,

Even if fast food would please me,

Fast food is always just so greasy.

Awake

The waters cease, the mountains break,

The level of wisdom has come to take

The everlasting adventure that has multiplied,

To discover new worlds on an eagle ride.

To feel freedom and a sense of peace,

Where enjoyment and discovery are here to increase.

The place for flowers, birds and trees,

A place with mammals and bumblebees.

To always follow the flow of today,

To feel the gentle sunlight ray.

Grass bristles, pines quake,

The earth seems to be wide-awake.

But when the day moves on and the sky turns to red,

And you can see the sun going down ahead,

The life of today settles in for tomorrow,

And the silence brings dreams but no sorrow;

The starry sky is still filled with light,

With the moon shining down on the breezy, cool night.

Waiting for tomorrow to come today,

When the world once again will be wide-awake.

Monday

It’s Monday today, Hooray! Hooray!

Jk….Jk….

The Draw Flaw

I sit in class while doing math,

And I have no clue what’s going on so I just start to laugh.

So I’m sitting in my seat as clueless as can be,

When all of a sudden a wonderful idea just comes to me.

I pick up my pencil and I start to draw and doodle;

I start to draw a sun, a smiley face, and poodle.

I draw an ice cream cone;