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

Maxine and Dhiima – More than a Billion MAXINE 1). The world is not what you think it is 2). There is a slew of world problems with people just trying to break into the biz 3). With its violence, religions, and Identities being unknown 4). People’s lives are being taken with no mercy shown […]

Riley Gray – Honey A smile that drips like honey  Flashing in the darkness Of a midnight sky Eyes that spin like a galaxy  Through dripping trees And painted pine needles  Glittering blue rush  Weaving through your veins  Of patchwork clouds And cotton candy skies A smile that growls like rocks  Sneering in the silence […]

Zoe – For Colors DEEP BLACK Black is the dark Which seems impenetrable  On nights when all you have Are your own thoughts Black is the shade Cast by yourself When you peer down From the second story Black is the deep That holds the unknown And all That we fear Black is the dark […]