Testing

By: Mckylan Mullins

The Rose

By: Cyera Young The petal closes and the thorns grow strong. Beauty that deceives hiding secret pain. Only wanting to know how to belong. The stem standing strong in the wind becoming its chain....

Metanoia

By: Hope Brandenberger

Welcome Home

By Annbeth Turner Welcome home to the haven of broken cars and bombed-out lorries and teeming trains and bursting buses. We are about as organized as a fraying fabric seen ripping from the seams.

Tolerance

By: Annabeth Turner My body is really good at building up a tolerance to stuff I swallow down, like tasty flavors and feel-good medications.

Just Another Day in Paradise

Just Another Day in Paradise

My Smile, In Seven Shades of Black and White

By: Nouhad Elie Melki II Here’s my smile, black and white. My smile was captured in the fraction of a second, one point five megapixels, seven shades of black and white, and in seven syllables. And my smile does not ask questions. Rather, it begs, “Why?”

Halfway Goodbye

By: Erica Barnes Truth was on the table. Feelings leaked out And were quickly patched up. This was your halfway goodbye. “Change of heart? So did mine.” Only, it was the opposite part. The timing was immaculate. We couldn't have a bomb detonate. Flickering feelings left to spark With halfway goodbyes and your change of…

let us stare to the sky

By: Sarah Hester let us stare to the sky while the sun collapses to the earth....

History Remembers

By Annabeth Turner We will not remember the voices who screamed in protest or grumbled in disgust. We will not remember the leaders made famous or broken into infamy.