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My Beautiful Mother

By Evan Kaplan, Staff Writer
May 9, 2021

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...

Holiday haiku: 'Frozen cheer'

Holiday haiku: ‘Frozen cheer’

By Evan Kaplan, Staff Writer
December 24, 2020

No cold confounds these Icy sentinels, guarding The holiday cheer  

Quarantine

By Evan Kaplan
March 19, 2020

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...

Where I’m From

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...

The Cowboy

By Stephen Tahbaz
March 17, 2019

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...

Moving

By Griffin Kingsley
March 17, 2019

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...

A Woman’s Worth

By Luca Rivera
December 13, 2018

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...

The Corridor

The Corridor

By Bernadette Russo
December 3, 2018

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...

The Last Weekend

By Dan Carlton
November 1, 2018

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...

Pelham Examiner seeks new submissions for Poetry section

Pelham Examiner seeks new submissions for Poetry section

October 20, 2018

Dear readers, 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...

Snowstorm

By Violet Massie-Vereker
September 6, 2018

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...

Suffocating

By Ella Burns
August 28, 2018

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...

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