Amanda McKellips – Crashed Lines i. glass gleams on the side of the road cars crashed with smells of your cologne everything here reeks of you can’t clean up a mess of yours e. broken ribs full of glass what did i do to wrong you i’m stuck in your mind n. call me impulsive […]

Amanda McKellips – Wisteria’s Journey Wisteria’s Journey Purple is a haze of smoke and bliss A twisting sensation Full of momentum Propelling You Forward Turn a corner Find a different beast Snarling in despair But jump into its heart And find a cave of shelter But as you step forward You fall in space Onto […]

Annika Wicklund – Love is Love as young children begin to Love,    not all are accepted. like birds swooning to doves,    we all live and Love. teens reveal to parents,    a flower blooming open,    parents become shocked in fear. and still people despise and hate,    like a flower being plucked apart,    teens get kicked out […]

BlueSky – The Taste of Freedom I have always had thoughts about the universe. I’m not sure why, or when I first had my first thought about the stars, the planets, the galaxies…It’s always seemed to be part of me. To erase it would leave me unwhole, broken, cracked. Silky wind whistled past my face, […]

Distortion 1st draft of a novel (to be continued in later publications) By Brick by Brick Middle School Writing Group In our last installment, our characters find themselves trapped in a virtual reality cube.  They make initial contact with one another. They explore their surroundings and look for answers.  In the following chapters, they continue […]

E Nahkala – fire: works i want to live a life filled with music that has no source i want to run over a gentle hill that spills into the sky, my friends alongside me i want to live in a world where rain sparkles and soaks heavy into green, green leaves i want to […]

Ekram Ibrahim- Hijab My hijab I’ve become so accustomed to you That when they say I’m oppressed or I don’t have any rights I wonder “since when“ “I thought I chose you“ not the other way around My hijab is my religious code And I will never ever let go my hijab means cover up […]

Gabi Briggs – Change Rising up, time for change, awkwardness and disarrange, Be yourself and be bold Is what they say then force you into someone else’s mold, Do I change to fit in  And pretend to all of them I am akin? Or stand out and be different. Constructive criticism laws Say to tell […]

Group Poems – Creative Writing Intensive Students Notes float through the air My fingers slowly tap keys I am surrounded All clefs, all letters Of all of the alphabet Flying, beautiful A kaleidoscope  of colors, never seen before Should my end come now?  I don’t know my life, Yet I am fully aware,  What the […]

Anna Loegering – When the World Crumbles When The World Crumbles It’s the end When the world crumbles And falls It’s unexpected The honesty And how everything changes In those last few moments Undecided A strange way  To finish