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Tag Archives: 15-18
Peace
“The first petals of Spring have arrived,
but no one dares to admire their glory”
A Covid-19 Personal Essay
“Governors and the President both had daily briefings about the virus and how they were working to fight it.”
The Diaries of Privilege
“I’ve got to switch out my pillows soon though; they’re giving me neck pain. I wonder how the homeless are doing.”
Carrying On in the Dark and Lonely Hour
“It was an emotional relief whenever I cried, but at the same time a giant tree breaking from the impact of this storm was at the brink of crushing me.”
And You Feel Like a Child
“your ceiling
is your sky, and Now
becomes engulfing”
Beyond the Walls
“Desperate for restful sleep
Beyond these walls, disconnect so deep”
If I Had Known
“I would’ve told her that I was proud of her”
A Collection of My Quarantine Feelings
“I broke up with my girlfriend over the phone. I cried for the first time since my basketball season ended.”
Waiting for a Bounce
“You wonder if a small part of someone dies when they lose a loved one.”
Hello Coronavirus
“How do I comprehend this chaos?”
Silver Linings
“Spending this past month with my sisters has made me realize how lucky I am to have them.”
Beautiful Fragility
“Science will pull through, vaccines and hydroxychloroquine and whatnot. Still, our vulnerability began to frighten me; who is really in charge?”
What I Hope I Sound Like Through a Gramophone
“we shared an ice cream, by the shore
and then i found that i much preferred
your presence only in pictures”
Numb
“to be deprived of emotion or the lack of sensation”
Thoughts and Conceptions: COVID 19
“My community is located about an hour’s train ride from New York City, the current epicenter of the nation’s panic.”
Waiting for the Dawn
“Hushed, they wait in silence
Waiting for the sun”
A Teenager Living Through the COVID-19 Pandemic
“Many people around the world are working collectively as a whole to find a vaccine to this terrible virus.”
The Fair Princess
“Once, there was a fair princess. They say that when her feet touched the sand, vines grew. They say that she loved her kingdom with the love of a parent for their children. They say she would have died for us. She was never lonely. She had us. We had her.”
Art School
“I take a picture of my new peacemaker for reference, and that’s when I begin to create. As the tips of my colored pencils touch the paper, my extremely small happiness grows so big, my brain lights up not in a fire of fear, but in shiny rays declaring to the world, “Frances has found something to feel good about! She’s in her happy territory!”
And it’s true. I am in my happy territory.”
LA Devotee
“Tick, tick, tick, tick. He wondered what time it was. How long had he just been a miserable mess on the floor? He didn’t know if he wanted a break from all of this by fainting, or for the sun to finally reveal itself. It was a dark and stormy night, and he hated that. He wanted more lights than that from the street and the electric sky.”
Fatal Feelings
“You are not equivalent to my race
Stop trying to change my broken face
I can kill myself
But I’ll do it slowly
My smile is there but fading shortly
Figure out how you wanna write your story
You will never put that pen down
You look at me with raging glory”
College debt…is it worth it?
“What’s full of new experiences, ups your education, and puts millions of kids in debt? College. What started out as a way to receive more knowledge is now leaving over 44 million Americans in debt.”
I Don’t Know What To Call This – A Poem
You own me in chains. Cold, hard steel. Break me, break my bones. Shatter my spirit of writer’s block.
I don’t know what I’m saying. I don’t know what I’m trying to say. I’m bad at this. Bad at life. Cut my throat of blood and ice. Rip my spine, use it for your books.”
All the Way
“The waters break roughly,
So I look far out to sea,
Where it sits patiently,
Waiting calmly for me.”
The Cheese Thief
“At first, he would seem to be your average Sombrero citizen. He was a snake, the native species of the planet, ate cheese, the food of choice, and he always, always wore his sombrero.”
Grayforce
“Amina tried to keep a hold of her phone, but the pull of Cam’s telekinesis was too much for her. Her smart phone slipped clean out of her dark brown fingers, past her cornrows, and into Cam’s lap.”
Poem # 3
“Some details only noticed by the wise,
Beautiful worlds live in disguise,
Small moments catch uninspired eyes.”
Tonight
“Do to me this for it shall be no worse
Than what has’t been done,
Forgotten from thy lips
My name once sweetly sung”
Darkthorn
“Another twig snapped, this time seemingly closer. Eyes narrowed, I pulled the bowstring taught and aimed towards the sound. I still didn’t see anything, but a feeling of unease had begun to creep into my body.”
Timeless
“I’ve gotta do something more with my life than just wait for something exciting to happen. I should be road tripping across the United States or something. My mom says that the US isn’t worth road tripping across. She says that it’s just 7-11s and narrow-minded people.”
Sketches
“He didn’t plan this one. He let his hand and the lead create. They created first a rough sketch. Detail slowly crawled into the drawing and the outline quickly became a distinct depiction of a person.”
Adeline
“The sound of children’s laughter and shouts filled her ears as she gazed out the window. She had never before laughed as those children did almost daily.”
The Forest
“The remark was nonchalant but mentioning such a place made Dawson instinctively shudder and look over his shoulder. There was nothing there of course, only the plodding horse. The horse felt it too. It took several minutes of the bright sunshine to remove the grim shadow of those words.”
NYC Subway Reliability Essay
“The New York City subway can improve its reliability by making alternative routes clearer for riders, hiring more platform controllers, and better managing the time allocated for construction and modernizing signals.”
Pulling Me Back Under
“The sound echoed throughout the empty house, shaking its walls. Everything stopped, everything stayed still as if it were afraid to breathe. As if it were afraid to scream.”
Staggering Impacts of Single-Use Plastic on Human and Environmental Health
“From the production of plastic in a factory, where the gases released from the creation of the material are toxic, to the consumption of foods that are packaged using bisphenol A (BPA), the entire process of both the creation and consumption of plastic is damaging.”
Scared of Heights?
“Have you ever felt your legs trembling or wanted to crawl on the floor while high up? Do you close your eyes while riding across a bridge with nice scenery? Then you might have acrophobia.”
The Shattered Syringe
“Crossing his fingers, Michael watches as an icon walks out of the pack and does that little animated celebration everyone was waiting for. Maradona. Michael watches his stream go crazy, numbers rising from thirteen to twenty to thirty six viewers.”
March 17th
“The trickee has become the trickster / Running around with crushed hearts in hand”
Before I Forget
“I’m beginning to wonder what exactly is true. How can the rumors I hear be about the same girl I used to know?”
Bus Thoughts
“The boy I look at every day always sits in the same seat on the bus. The one in the very back and next to the window.”
The Dream Sixteen
“Today is the day of my 16th birthday party. It all started out as a normal day. I was just taking my birthday party outfit out of my closet. I’ve been waiting for this party since forever.”