Triston Hull

Triston Hull: Two Poems

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Hill Top Love

 

Nature is peace to me that’s everything
Some days quiet some days chaos
Nature is love and life
Peace and pain
Nature is signal hill full of life
Death flowers trees and grass
Nature is calm cold and never alone
The hilltop is joy and sun
Rooted deep in its core
The city of lights
Hill top brings love at first sight
Nature is the lights you can see from the hill’s top
Nature is walking the trails
Hill top gives you love and clarity
Peace is nature
Nature is going outside and seeing the palm trees
Nature is looking over the city
Nature is the skyline of the ocean
Nature is the breeze that whispers
Nature is the place my thoughts can go
The hilltop is the place where darkness holds light
The breeze against my face
Time that can’t be replaced
Nature is birds that sing free
Signal hill is where I find me
The balance in my voice
The roots that keep me still
Nature is strength inside the hill
Peace is nature
Clouds that drift away
The end of the day
Nature is stars that softly glow
Nature is the path I choose to go
Nature is my path where I feel whole

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EAST LA WALKOUTS

 

Walking shouting
Yelling and wishing students
Chicano y chicana
Equality and fairness
Hoping and fighting
Breathing believing and seeing
Future worth fighting for
Students marching the streets
Change in mind
Fighting for a future of education
Wood posters speakers
Walking bleeding believing
Education equality a up hill battle
Blood tears change
15-20 thousand students
walked out of school
Locked gates police
Hate love pain fear
sweating tears
Boys and girls teachers students
Chang chang chang
East LA walkouts
Pushing shoving fighting
Sparked ideas of influence
Garfield, lincoln, roosevelt, belmont,
jefferson, wilson, venice high
Students walked
students cried
They stand tall walk with pride
loud with purpose
Chicano boys and girls
Filled with power
Cuffs snap body’s drop
Treated like their different
Heavy blocks gates are high
but they strive with one goal in mind
Equality,education, fairness, freedom,
fair treatment, respect.

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Triston Hull

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My name is Triston J. Hull, also known as Tray. I’m a young man finding my voice through poetry, using it to bring peace to my mind and heart. My work is inspired by my family, my life in Long Beach, my pain and happiness my understanding and my will. Artists like Langston Hughes, Mike Sonksen, Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, 2Pac, The Notorious B.I.G., Ice Cube, Dr. Dre, The Black-Eyed Peas, Stevie Wonder, A Tribe Called Quest, Michael Jackson, and Bob Marley are many of the greats that have inspired my poetic nature.  My journey is only just beginning as I grow my name too and a quote by the great Muhammad Ali. “I will show you how great I am”.  I’m only 17 known by a few hundred but in a few years, I’ll be known by thousands. For one day I will be a great and successful god-fearing man just like them.


My story is just beginning. The quotes I live by are my own: “Time is money don’t waste it. Believe you can always do it. Focus on what you can control. Live for now, not the past. Life is a blessing, believe it. God will always be with you. When you speak, people will listen.” 


My name is Triston J. Hull this is where my story begins.

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