
Poetry
Festive Tranquility
Hailey Creason
Infected with a sickness,
Hidden yet apparent with contradiction,
A constant song,
Of guitar solos,
That stop when worn
Slipping through my fingers,
Leaving behind a dust,
That permeates into existence,
Only to leave a cleaner stain
New optimism approaches,
Left behind with the old version,
That was once a dream,
Inconsistence breaks loose,
But with anticipation
Leaving the life of sorrow,
Welcoming the unknown,
Bound to the unusual,
Readied for the unplanned
Space Between
Luke Clifton
I know the feeling.
When days, though many, blend together; when we are neither here nor there. When
We’re trapped in the space between.
Classes end and begin, then begin and end, without beginning nor end.
My mind idly repeats assignments and tasks like a broken record: again and again.
I know the feeling.
When I don’t want to be here, but I cannot leave, and
I don’t want to leave, but I cannot stay, then
We’re trapped in the space between.
We try to care, to succeed, to lead others, to finish strong; we try to try,
Yet for all our efforts, the feeling only sets in further, like a dark cloud above us.
I know the feeling.
Between apathy and graduation, between the carousel and Pencey,
Between packing up and moving in, between the past and the future,
We’re trapped in the space between.
Two worlds, once the same, have begun to pull apart. One familiar, the other new.
For now, we can live in both; but someday, we’ll have to choose. Trust me,
I know the feeling.
We’re trapped in the space between.
YOU
Arianna Moon
Can I undo the damage you’ve done?
If I could what would be the end result?
How soon could my happiness have begun?
My whole life feels like it is an insult
You took my voice but I am getting it back
You took my purity and I hate it
You marrying him feels like an attack
I needed you to be there for me a bit
You watched him hurt me and you did none to help
He was on me and you just laughed instead
I sat there and just let out a big yelp
No matter what I do I still feel dead
You were supposed to be my protector
Instead, you are my biggest objector
Rainy Day, Big Dreams; Free Verse
London Richardson
Puddles splash one after another
Little red boots pouncing down
Her boots were made for this day!
Chasing after her big dreams
This rain won't stop her
Winter
Tayla Killman
My favorite season is Winter,
Everyone gets a little more bitter,
The trees look like they’re covered with glitter,
Under the mistletoe was where he kissed her,
No one around had a splinter,
Everything gets quiet when it’s Winter
Pressure is Privilege
Anna Becker
The saying is pressure is privilege
But is this always true, I push myself
wanting to be the best in everything I do
I want to thrive and excel in every aspect
of my life, but am I becoming to tight
Over analyzing keeps me from the top
My focus veers and I’m in my head
I’m so hard on myself that I become the
biggest threat, as I slowly lose control
4.64 Seconds
Kenon Johnson
Thee
----- man
falling
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thee
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stalling
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thee
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hauling
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thee
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holding
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hands
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With The American Tragedy
Sleep
Ivy Shove
I shut my eyes
Hoping it will make it stop
Sometimes tired goes beyond sleep
It goes...
beyond rest
It goes...
beyond me
Audience
Kenon Johnson
She's waving towards the seats
It's her time to shine
Her time to talk
The source of light has changed.
But the source of understanding has stayed the same
Something in the void of the seats was being too loud.
She sadly paused the show as the heckler
Was her
The Queen In Limbo
Tracy McNeil
Brown: A Color Poem
Carly Bond
Lilith
Tracy McNeil
If I were to die tomorrow, would my life have mattered?
In the whole grand scheme of things…probably not
The world is always on a roll..
Always trying to be in control..
Never stopping for anything or anyone
Even if I take Mother nature's hands and try and make her better
I would just be a forgotten letter that was once read
Everyday…but then tossed to the side
Though my pride would never let me go away forgotten
Heroes aren't talked about constantly
They still go down in history
If I’m clever and play my cards right…
I could become a mystery
Sending my regards from limbo
Unsolved but found my own self purpose
Which means I can watch the circus
To see the clowns try and discover the crowns
That I own.
Brown is a rainy Sunday morning curled up on the couch
With a dog at your feet, the fire crackling beside you.
Looking out the window rain pelts down plop, plop, plop.
The dog's fur brushes against you as they dream.
The aroma of coffee fills the air,
Taking a long hot sip, worries fade away.
Easing into the couch as my book opens
Tranquility washes over me
Time passes and the world goes silent
As the rain clears mud puddles form.
I head outside to bask in the sun and jump in puddles
The day passes and I have enjoyed the peace
Earth winds down and I climb into bed
Enjoying the warmth of a freshly baked chocolate chip cookie
Playing classical music as the light dims
Rain pattering in the background as I fall asleep
Sweet as honey, makes lots of money
Heart of gold, Mind full of lust
She may be flirty but she's the person you can trust with your cup at a party
Looks like a peach,is a peach though she's sometimes a bitch
Might switch up on you..
If that's the case she won't take your order you'll be taking hers
Did I mention she's in the F.B.I.?
No?
Oh..
I know She’s a total badass
OH! I forgot to tell you.. She’s a Demon too
One in particular that enjoys semen
Don't judge a book by its covers though
She has the look’s (well obviously) but it's what’s on the inside that really counts
Her pride also shows a lot but she isn't cocky
Well not to cocky anyway, if you catch my drift
“One shot One kill”
Is her motto, she was top of her shooting class you can call her a marksmen
She really doesn't miss
And she knows you really wanna give her a kiss
<3
Gone; A Sestina
Johnathan Posch
Her eyes open in fear, nearly dead
The ears perk upward, they can even hear the happenings in the trees.
Clothes torn, into uneven pieces,
The hands are long and bloodied.
Her fingernails hanging off,
As she runs away from the man in black.
The forest is dark, nearly entirely black,
The scent of the forward trail reeks of the dead.
But as she runs toward the exit, she trips on a dirt mound, the ants dropping into ears, jumping off.
As she looks up, the wood’s cry out, though the soft trees,
but the pleas stop, the soft murmur turns into a poem of the creature and the bloodied.
She tries to get up with haste, but drops at the thought of turning up into magazine pieces.
Her thoughts stopped, her bloodshot eyes looking it looking at the dirt mound pieces,
her brain trying to wrap around the ants of black.
“If I do not get up, I’ll so soon be gone and buried and bloodied,
dying, fading, fertilizer for the willow trees, but maybe I can be better use to them dead”
Her legs long and thin, stained by the twigs pieces belonging to the trees,
her knees try to move, but one move could leave them without her, leaving her no longer to be off.
She moves, her mind full of thoughts, but draining til it squeezed memories themselves out and off,
The bits and facts she knew are just long ago 3rd grade art pieces.
Her impulses force her to move forward, running away from the figure hidden among trees,
the birds cry out, singing about the longing of her turning gone and ashy black.
The small black ravens, too, are crying about in baritone in the realms of the dead,
as she looks back, to the creature in a cage dyed with men bloodied.
The tall man,approaching her, stained with impure clothing, drenched and bloodied
he has’ killed before, the stains of the souls left him insane and off.
She impulsively looks back at the man, but his presence his long dead
the drenched man in crimson has faded into the approaching insane pieces.
The bird’s eyes are staring at my back, holding back laughter til their blood turns black.
The red piercing eyes just above the new moving figure, a disfigured man beneath the trees.
The figure following her howls, breaking the bark hanging tightly and suddenly falling off the trees.
He rushes towards the woman, screeching while tripping over the bark, leaving her foot bloodied.
Her palm, wrinkled and traced into a prophecy of old age, reaches toward the man in crimson black.
The eyes of him, multiple spiraling colors into one, staring into space to seem off.
His face, tooth and nose bruised, hanging by a vessel, his ears into 5 hundred unique pieces.
The wonder of the modern world, as in medieval ages he would’ve been dead.
The man in black might as well be dead, hanging around this forest of trees.
But he hangs onto his life in pieces, the glorified life of the bloodied.
His fingers are cold and off, he dies with no farewell, the man in plague’s black
My Honest Poem
Hailey Creason
I was born on September 29th.
I hear that makes me a libra which I know a lot about.
It means I play with people’s feelings,
But I crave peace in my world.
Only that last one applies.
I am 5’7 which has been my height since 7th grade.
I've been a sucker for Dr. Pepper ever since I saw my mom drink it when I was little.
I’m still learning how to let things roll off my back.
I’m often insecure when it comes to sharing my feelings.
I’m often confident when I can talk about the things I stand for.
I like being considered when it comes to relationships and friendships.
I’ve been told I care too much.
People say that it’s something to be proud of but I find myself lending a hand to people who don’t deserve it.
People say that I’m responsible.
Secretly, I get overwhelmed by the feeling of going into the day with a mess in my room and a mess in my head.
I have this odd fascination with ghosts.
I assume it’s because I watch so many horror movies that I started to research on my own.
I know it sounds crazy, but I find it interesting when I pass by the Sally House and go to the Lemp Mansion.
And to be honest, I deserve so much more than I get.
I know this sounds weird, but sometimes I wonder why I get walked all over.
I wonder why it’s so easy for people to treat me like an option.
I’m afraid that one day everyone I care about will leave and take my love for granted.
Hi, my name is Hailey
I enjoy giving my opinion in every situation
But speaking up feels like all the heat in the world is in my cheeks.
I like being busy,
I like being clean.
My hobbies are reading and writing but who would have guessed that?
I don’t know what I’ll be tomorrow but I do know that I will be proud of who I am.
I know I can be difficult,
I know I can be explosive,
But I also know that I’m worthy.
I’m worthy of being someone.