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  True Colors

  

  By AdrienneMPayne, Alachua, FL

  Please paint me a picture With these true colors of yours. I cannot care Just how vibrant or dull So long as the paints Flow straight from your heart. Yield me your senses, And give me your thoughts. What you reveal to me matters. Just make sure that It won't be marked false, For I...
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  Am I Brave Enought to Say I Love You?

  

  By AdrienneMPayne, Alachua, FL

  Look at you... You've messed with my heart. I cry at night when I think of you, Off somewhere in a big city, Currently lost to me, For we cannot reach each other. All I want to do is find you. All I want is to be held while the tears fall. You hold this broken girl Who's sealed up...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Come Find Me

  

  By AdrienneMPayne, Alachua, FL

  Come find me, I am waiting for you. Count to ten silently as if you don't care... Then take me by surprise like you always do. Come upon me me where I am not expecting you to, For I am calling: "Come find me." Lift your brilliant head from those pages for just one sweet second....
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  What Does It Take to Be Published in Teen Ink?

  

  By AdrienneMPayne, Alachua, FL

  What does it take to be published in your magazine? What makes an article publishable? We are always encouraged to write freely and individually, but where do you draw the line between individuality and a lack of something universal that constitutes “good” writing? Or is it truly a brave lack of...
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  My Pleas

  

  By AdrienneMPayne, Alachua, FL

  I stare at the blade.... It shines, metallic and painfully sharp. My flesh craves the pain. It tingles with desire. All that I've built crumbles to dust. I face a struggle to satisfy my self inflicted thirst. I war against this monster ruling me. If I could simply put You first, This ha...
• Hot Topics > Bullying
  Am I a Bully Too?

  

  By AdrienneMPayne, Alachua, FL

  If someone were to ask you if you were a bully, regardless of what the true answer would be, you would most likely answer that you weren’t. I have always considered myself a decent and caring person who would never bully someone else. In fact, I believe I would rush to the aid of a friend or ot...
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  Stupid Twenty Line Poetry Contest Rule

  

  By AdrienneMPayne, Alachua, FL

  1. I tried to find 2. A poem of mine 3. That had just twenty lines, 4. And I could not. 5. Because of your fool, 6. Unnecessary rule, 7. I even tried to write one too, 8. But became quite overwrought. 9. I cannot tell my story 10. Quite so shortly. 11. My words must flow free, 12. And you...
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  The Web

  

  By AdrienneMPayne, Alachua, FL

  Words. Sentences. Phrases. They started out gentle. At first so nondescript, They were casual in passing. What happened? Ideas. Metaphors. Expressions. Food for thought, And hungry spirits that we were, We ate it up. Where did it take us? Thoughts. Feelings. Conversation. We started t...