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- Opinion > Discrimination
“Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” That is what the constitution of our great country states, written hundreds of years ago. As citizens we are guaranteed those rights and nothing can take those rights away. Isn’t our greatest freedom to love whomever we choose? Maybe choose isn’... - Poetry > BalladI’ve slept twelve hours, but I don’t hear the clock Its hand slowly moves around the face I’m in a huddled mass under clean linen sheets But I feel no warmth from them or smell the spring breeze The last time I ate Was it a day? Maybe a week But the thought of consumption Leaves me ...
- Poetry > SonnetIn the darkest night on the darkest hill The wolf’s bane woke her up from sleep The mistress of the house felt the icy chill The sound she knew so well, plunged her into the deep She wore no shackles to keep her there Outside, the world, was dark but she was forbidden To leave into th...
- Poetry > Haiku
- Poetry > Free VerseSometimes I write poems I know what you’re going to say “You’re a writer it’s what you do.” That statement is true, but let me finish Sometimes I write poems, not for my own Enjoyment Or Pleasure Or because I’m simply Bored and can write Sometimes I write poems For you t...
- Poetry > Song LyricsOn the corner of our city’s streets In the heart where we used to meet The road says “Love” and the other says “Hate” I read the signs but it was too late The wishing well rose from the ground Bringing wishers and hopers from all around They tossed their coins and made a wish...
- Poetry > Free VerseI stood up in class and read the note That girl three rows back with powder blue eyes, Wrote it, she couldn’t wait five minutes for the bell So now I was suckered in and I’m living my own personal hell “Tell us what the note says, tell us what couldn’t wait.” The ignorant teacher a...
- Poetry > Free VerseMy towers locked, there’s no way down His beast inside’s come back around I try to run away to find love and adventure All that wrought was dishonor to my ancestors I’m stuck in the house with a list of chores An orphan after the brutal revolutionary wars Poisoned apple sent me into ...
- Poetry > Song LyricsQuietly you creep Into your wildest dreams Fantasies unfurl their tenuous wings And you sink into a slumber Wake up, you’re dreaming into flames Wake up, your dreams can always become too real But then you find and you feel You can’t wake up in time Or run from the lurking thoughts W...
- Poetry > Song LyricsYou eat your words I’ll eat mine You serve your time, I’ll walk the line You do whatever I’m just fine You gave up and I’ve run out of time Your chances came and they all went My love was precious but you had it spent Gave up on me on the halfway mark Well I paid a price and i...
- Poetry > Song LyricsIts time I disappear This place which held my fear And all the breaking pain I just can’t bear a second more Will you remember me? As I used to be Will you still hear my voice? And forgive me of this choice? Please, let me go Its time I left this place for good I should have gone ...
- Reviews > Movie Reviews“I solemnly swear that I am up to no good” At midnight on June 15, 2011, I lined up in costume, as well as a plethora of other Harry Potter fanatics (Used in the best sense of the word here). When the lights dimmed and the movie started there was an excited buzz electrifying the air, girls sque...
- Poetry > Free VerseWho am I? You think you know me Just by that infamous name Rumors have fed That treacherous flame Who am I? You never cared to ask Don’t even know my face It’s been buried away You were forced to ask someone in class Who am I? I’m complicated Lonely Funny, Trust me ...
- Poetry > Free VerseIn the dark of the world The weeping lay naked Upon the streets of broken gold Where the prophesies of old were made The sky’s barren and knows no light Now that the mournful come to lament Their sins of the heart professed For a world in which they gave no mercy The fires rain down ...
- Poetry > Free VerseI’ve been lost inside a maze Lost my string and I’ve no compass To point me in the right direction Hello, can you find me? Lost The turns turned out to be dead ends I pretend that they lead me somewhere warm Because it’s so cold in my heart And I can’t find my way out Hello...
- Poetry > Free VerseApathy How I loathe you And wish you were never born Oh If only you died You won’t see me shed a tear Oh no, not for you my friend I wouldn’t care!...
- Poetry > Free VerseAbove the earth where the heavens lay The sky was turning an ashen gray The lights of the city were blaring like white noise But in the suburbs of Illinois Everything was brilliant and shone so clear It was looking through a truth-telling mirror With the moon omnipresent And the air cr...
- Reviews > Book ReviewsFew books have touched my heart as dearly in the first fifty pages as did Josh Sundquist’s book, Just Don’t Fall. I devoured it in less than a week, eating up the pages and drinking up his luxurious words. I cried within the first seventy pages, and laughed so hard I ended up crying some more. V...
- Poetry > Free VerseLittle Sarah Small Loved To sit on her mother’s vanity fair To comb her honey silk hair And gaze at the reflection She’d play around with rouge and powder Around her neck hung the strings of peals Her honey hair in ringlet curls A daring red lined her lips The window was opened wide...
- Poetry > Song LyricsLook around downtown All the flashing lights Look at the faces the places Were in the spotlight Yes we arrived Oh we arrived Feet pond the street It’s a free frenzy for all In the hustle of the bustle Of the curtain call Yes we arrived in the city It’s so pretty and brig...
- Poetry > Free VerseFire dance Spark of a flame Swirls Swishes Lights the night In a red glow It burns away apathy Brings energy to the silence Around us But The colors fade Into gray As the flame recedes Into embers That turns to ash When the sun ascends And the fire dance is finished For now...
- Poetry > Free VerseUse, abuse that’s what I am Beat me, punch me A punching bag, just something to punch again Lose your composure let anger relase Beat me black and blue Then you’ll leave me in peace A cycle, a circle a constant action Pain and tears, an abusers attraction I’m here for the good tim...
- Poetry > Free VerseWords lose meaning The sound is gone Maybe it’s me Maybe you’re wrong I take my pen and write my script Watch as the ink goes Drip-drip-drip The words flow I know, What needs to be said It’s a warning before we give in And all end up dead My hands don’t shake but yours do ...
- Poetry > Free VerseLook to the heavens above It is truly great That is beauty For us Together We’ll mark our names there We’ll write in clouds They’ll all know We were Happy Thunder and lightning are quick But forever isn’t immortal Forever stops for Lovers like Us Erase the sky’s blu...
- Poetry > BalladThe music box sat on the vanity Its wood once dark mahogany, Since has faded and chipped Inside lies the ballerina’s crypt The golden latch is broken Once a treasured token It now is a faint memory Dust enclosed for a century It marks a promise as broken as the latch Of true love...
