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Find me in the Fir Trees

Grace Shaw January 25, 2024

Link to image I grew up intertwined within the roots of the Fir trees that litter the ground of this state. They harbored my juvenile body, naive, and innocent, with safety.  As though they were...

Confessions of An Arsonist

Confessions of An Arsonist

Grace Shaw December 4, 2023

Link To Image I am, an arsonist. Leaving everything in my path scorched. Love me from a distance.  Feed my fire but don't come too close. The minuscule spark flickering inside of me is keeping...

Disgusting. . .

Disgusting. . .

Anonymous November 11, 2023

Image To Link Disgusting.   You used me, You took what you wanted from me You tossed me out like I was nothing   Disgusting. Did that night mean nothing? Nothing? Nothing...

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Leaving Your Room

Grace Shaw October 27, 2023

Link To Image That room. Your room. I've rested my body in every square foot. Every inch. Stepped foot onto every creaky floorboard in that old room of yours. Cried in every vacant corner,...

Oh Beautiful Light- A Poem

Oh Beautiful Light- A Poem

Ava Rapport February 15, 2023

  Light,    Oh beautiful light.    I can see it    shining brilliantly through the window    a quaint little lamp    sitting on an ancient...

Eventually

Eventually

Cadynce Harmon June 17, 2022

  Eventually. That’s what they said. Eventually, it will be over, and you will be free. Of course, I never believed them. Years of anticipation ate at me, longing to break away. Years of being...

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A Collection of Poems Inspired By Music

Gwendolyn Janik, Writer June 10, 2022

  Night Stars Drifting out on the sea I'm all alone; Just me Laying down on my boat I see it; What the stars wrote. Can't make me share what the stars sung I couldn't if I wanted...

invisibility

invisibility

Rowan Kalhar, Editor March 14, 2022

My invisibility Surrounds me like a cloak Carrying me deeper Until I lose my breath   No one sees me For who I really am Just for who I really Claim to be   I don’t...

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Change Edition – evolution

Rowan Kalhar, Editor March 2, 2022

When you’re older They say About candy And pets And later bedtimes   When you’re older They say About TV And music And movies   When you’re older They...

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someday

Rowan Kalhar, Editor February 21, 2022

  I hope you find yourself someday In the middle of a field  Full of flowers and heartbreak   I hope you find yourself someday Lost in a city you’ve been to so many times...

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kill your darlings

Rowan Kalhar, Editor February 1, 2022

Kill your darlings But don’t kill your sweethearts Cause sweethearts Talk sweet Kill your darlings Like an unnecessary storyline And a main character That deserves it Kill your darlings Cause...

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beauty and pain

Rowan Kalhar, Editor November 29, 2021

And within her she contains All the stars in the night skies And yet they do not set  With the sun’s rise   As within her she contains The beauty or the pain Set upon the one Who...

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