Poetry

By Rebekah Booth i don’t think the main focus was supposed to be the tower. it looks as though the taker was on a walk, maybe alone, maybe with friends—maybe someone took the lead and someone else went “hey, check that out!” and the taker took the photo. you can tell because they are very far from the tower and it is only half in the picture; the rest is hidden by river trees and palms reflected perfectly into still black water. it feels like texas, san antonio specifically,

By Varna Rajeshkannan Dear 5, you were a seed in quiet ground, Your tender dreams unspoken, soft and sound. Dear 13, young stem with trembling leaves, Afraid the wind might steal what heart believes. Dear 18, climbing vines, both fierce and wild, You sought the stars, still restless, still untamed. Dear 21, through storms your roots held fast, You bent but never broke, the darkness passed. Now 24, I bloom because I know, The sun I need is love I give and grow. With roots deep

By Maeve Evans Pluck my fruits from beneath the earth Spin them tightly on their stems And dig half-moons into their rippling girth For there is no beauty in unscathed gems Reach for my fruits atop their tree Glossed with salt and shimmering faith Don’t they remind you of me? Or do my lips expel too much wraith There is freedom in flight But here I am, and here is my dread I close my eyes and thumb the dark in sight There glimmers death, like a crow in my bed Desires of mine

By Gracelyn N. Rose The trees freeze In the breeze I am down on my knees Lungs can barely breathe The quiet thoughts Turn into knots Their screams Tear me at the seams The screams The knots The quiet thoughts Are not as they seem The quiet thoughts Are just thoughts Thoughts are loud But never proud Lungs can barely breathe I am down on my knees In the breeze The trees freeze And I am down on my knees My thoughts riot My surroundings grow quiet The trees freeze In the breeze

By Gracelyn N. Rose Where do you run When you're at your lowest point Where do you turn When you're asking What's the point In trying In fighting In crying What's the point In the torment you can't see Under the sea Of oceans And emotions Trying to forget Trying to forgive Trying to run But the lies come unspun You're trying to run You're trying to forgive You're trying to forget The emotions Of oceans Under the sea In the torment I can't see What's the point You're crying Yo

By Gracelyn N. Rose They tell me I am sick But this sickness It is who I am I can never change They tell me I am damaged  With whiskey on their breaths If I was damaged For being this way Aren't they damaged, as well? All is swell In the well  The hole that I have dug for myself In the well All is swell They are damaged as well For being this way If I was damaged  With whiskey on their breaths They tell me I am damaged  But I can never change It is who I am This sickness They

By Gracelyn N. Rose The Loveliest feeling The one worth falling The one worth crying All with the one That cannot be undone The lies unspun The loveliest feeling The one of crying The one of falling Into the dark The dark barks Surrounding me Under the sea Of torment, can't you see? The darkness escapes But it leaves scrapes The dark screams It tears me at the seams Can't you see? The seams The screams The scrapes The escapes The torment you can't see Under the sea Surroundin

By Gracelyn N. Rose The shadows surround me The darkness closes in The twilight night Counters the bright light Locked in tight What a sight I'm on display for all to see Me and my memories. I reconcile what has been lost But what was the cost? My memories are shaken But nothing is forsaken. Me and the shadows We meet in the meadows Under the willows Their green leaves Sway in the breeze. The sun goes dark Like the bark Of the willow we sit beneath I hear a sound  And look ar

By Aden Maloney Fighting with someone you truly love Is a hurt from way above It doesn’t hurt just in your mind But dives deep into the spine Running a blade across your intestines As nerves you almost can’t contest with Beat down on your limbs As the soul begins to dim Losing oneself in the abyss Trusting you will find each other's kiss By Aden Maloney

By Aden Maloney It’s hard to sleep in this lonesome bed Wishing I was with you instead Feeling your body press against mine Knowing everything will be fine The way you wrap yourself around my arm Not wanting the morning alarm to come Feeling the sun on our skin Knowing this moment is coming to an end Waiting for when we can lay down again Until than It’s hard sleeping in this lonesome bed By Aden Maloney

By Aden Maloney I know you have loved before only to be broken to the core, never wanting to be hurt again putting your heart deep in its den I know you have loved before but I promise you this will be like no other, you will never suffer from having to uncover the way that I feel, I will always reveal the love I have so deep inside, because my heart has found a spot next to yours to finally reside I know you have loved before but trust me when I say my love is forever Foreve

By Aden Maloney In every single way With every waking day I hope and I pray Someday you will say you love me too I wish I could lie And say that you are not on my mind Sometimes I would rather be blind Cause I look into your eyes And become impaired by your gaze It sets my heart ablaze Now I know that it’s true I’m in love with you By Aden Maloney

By Aden Maloney I'm jealous of the blanket that wraps your waist Of the mirror that gets to see your sleepy and tired face I'm jealous that I can’t stop thinking as I tap this pen Of how lucky the water is to run down your skin I'm jealous the wind gets to hear your voice Singing all the songs of your choice And how the sun gets to kiss those lips Causing me to lose my grip From everything I can’t do So, I'm jealous of time having to wait for you By Aden Maloney

By Aden Maloney I’m scared of letting myself love you I don’t even know if I do but someday, I think I will All the joy that does fill as we sit and you're in my arms I feel as though nothing can do us harm But this alarm sounds in my head Scared it won’t last scared you'll just be a part of my past By Aden Maloney

By Aden Maloney I'm still confused on how we got here How we could go from talking as friends to me saying we could never speak again I'm still confused How now it's as though we never stopped at all That when I see your eyes and see that smile knowing I could trip and fall But I find myself leaning and wondering if I slip Maybe than Maybe than I won't still be confused By Aden Maloney

By Aden Maloney It feels as though it’s been too long For you to hear me sing this song The more and more I explore It is your love I do adore The pain of missing you tears me to the floor My body filling with such sorrow The legs I stand on begin to wobble For when I see you in the morrow My voice will sing for you like a sparrow By Aden Maloney

By Aden Maloney I love the way we go together Our fingers interlocking forever Never letting go of one another Holding you so close our body's mesh as one That when we speak our voices harmonize The way you fit in my heart As if it was memorized Us together we will be immortalized By Aden Maloney

By Jayden Taing Oh! The praise of the Romantics (By Jayden Taing): And thus, I write your name into stone, Yet, your kin belittle your name. Worn, worth, truly found within, And yet beyond glassy rouge she stands, absent minded in a trance, For sainted names are dust, yet our hands create storm. Centrepiece O' it all, and yet, here I stand. Ego, yet he clinged till death, Fingers wrapped round his quill, And yet, as he, unamused with the tale, Anchor, to the tinny and whale,

By Dr. Hari Mohan Saxena मिलकर आशा और निराशा जीवन में ये करें तमाशा, आशा रखकर जीवन काटो रहे निराश तो बढ़े हताशा। मन में प्रबल आस्था लेकर जो आशा के दीप जलाते, उनको प्रभु निराश न करते जीवन उनका सफल बनाते। आशा, कठिन परिश्रम मिलकर काम मनुज से बड़े कराते, जो निष्काम कर्म करते हैं वही सफल हो श्रमफल पाते। कर्म नहीं, यदि सिर्फ अपेक्षा नहीं पूर्ण हो कभी शुभेच्छा, केवल भक्ति काम न आती युक्ति, शक्ति ही काम बनातीं। क्षीण बनाती हमें निराशा नहीं पूर्ण होती अभिलाषा, हो निराश जब कर्म को छोड़ा त

By Dr. Hari Mohan Saxena पाप, पुण्य की क्या परिभाषा इसे जानने की अभिलाषा, जो दोनों का भेद बता दे ऐसा गुरु प्रभु मिलवा दे। प्रभु ने इक वर नेक दिया है सबको उसने विवेक दिया है, इसी विवेक को तुम पहचानो पाप पुण्य का भेद भी जानो। जो करके संतोष है आता ह्रदय प्रेम से भर भर जाता, दुखी मनुज भी राहत पाता जग में वही पुण्य कहलाता। दीन दुखी की सेवा करता भेद भाव नहीं मन में लाता, उसका काम पुण्य कहलाता वह मनुष्य भी स्वर्ग में जाता। पशु, पक्षी का दर्द समझता निर्धन का हमदर्द जो बनता, तन मन धन