What beauty is profound, shining, and true?
Can beauty be but the surface’s sights?
Like the dawn sky red and day sky blue,
Or is it more than a gem without blights?
For, in...
My family’s under quarantine
The coronavirus has been very mean
Can’t they just come up with a vaccine?
The country’s in the worst shape I’ve ever seen
Will I be here until I’m fifteen?
Or...
By Victor Chang, Opinions & Ideas Editor September 25, 2019
Trudging towards gemstones of the night, tugging at chains from my mind
Left to wrestle with sludge of my head, clock dripping oppression.
Raging against the pace of thought that leaves me at this...
He sits on his steed, steady and able
Waiting for the sun to rise
For when it comes up, he'll have to move forward
Away from love and towards his demise
For he surely has earned all his freedom,
Through...
Left them I did
Left them for a better life
They were always there
Me for them, them for me
I was their glue, holding them together
Until I left
Now I walk an unknown road
The cities...
I am a lesser being because I am a girl,
It is illogical to think that
My future will be full of success,
In reality
I am worth nothing,
It is wrong to think that
I am equal to every...
I am standing in the corridor
Where two rooms lie
One, black and empty
The other, crowded and full of life
The darkness in the first room screeches,
“Come here. You will live...
Mid moon ride through forest of red, gather bay girls wrap warm scarved head.
Wind chasing pods pre flashes of green, record weight gord named sur after saints.
Tales of breach and whites shared...
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It's time for new poetry submissions! We don't have a theme this month, so anything you write or have written is eligible. It can be your own work or graffiti on the subway or from a classic...
This body of air is raging around everything
All that holds against it has never looked so solid and still
It seems the whole world is surging up,
and all that has ever grown up from the earth...
Happiness overcame the young face,
When even the smallest opportunity came.
A smile that was carefree.
Radiant memories pranced around in her brain,
But the ones she wished would disappear,
Wouldn’t.
Her...