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  Blues

  

  By kenzie_treub, Orlando, FL

  Such a seemingly simple color, “Do you feel blue?” Such a strange question, you could answer with your best Smart Alec reply, “What kind of blue, aqua, baby, sky?” Blue. What a complex little colored crayon, How complex could a Crayola color be? You color the ocean, the sky, you...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  My Own Worst Enemy

  

  By kenzie_treub, Orlando, FL

  Shhh-be quiet They're coming you know? Quiet your torment or they'll kill us both! Kill, no That'd be too easy They'll send us to the cove. The cove? Come now, you know. The place at the edge of dawn, in the twilight zone. Of course you know, how couldn't you?...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  This Hell

  

  By kenzie_treub, Orlando, FL

  How is it that Every time I try to Live my life again, you Lie and cut me down....
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Free Me

  

  By kenzie_treub, Orlando, FL

  Fighting for the Right Reasons Everyday Endlessly...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Please

  

  By kenzie_treub, Orlando, FL

  Don't let me disappear. I just want you to know- Please don't let me go If I ever feel like letting go, Don't let me fall, Because I promise you At the end of it all I'll regret my impulses. I know you'll blame yourself, so save yourself the trouble Don't ...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  The Confines of my Mind

  

  By kenzie_treub, Orlando, FL

  I walk in a somber, desolate, desperate daze, Struggling to climb from the depths of blinding darkness. Only to be trapped within a murky smoke filled haze, That overwhelms like a black tenebrous cataract that is endless. My mind is the tenacious, terrible enemy, The claustrophobic cage from w...
• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  MRI Machine

  

  By kenzie_treub, Orlando, FL

  The most fearful place that I have ever been in my entire life is inside an MRI machine. From the outside it appears relatively harmless: white and circular. However, if you peer inside, it is an intensely frightening locale. Inside an MRI machine, it is exceedingly cold, claustrophobic, intensely...
• Nonfiction > Heroes
  My Drama Sister, Amanda

  

  By kenzie_treub, Orlando, FL

  When considering the proper individual for this journal topic, the first person that sprang into my mind was my mother. However, I believe that most people admire their parents, as that should be a given. Therefore, I decided to write about a special friend of mine that I recently made this year. ...
• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  Symbolic Object

  

  By kenzie_treub, Orlando, FL

  All my life I have had a fascination with Greek mythology. When I was four, I named my cats Zeus and Apollo, and later when I was in the second grade my teacher, Mrs. Savedes, was from Greece and spending time with her fostered my interest in Greek mythology. As I have grown older my love of Greec...
• Nonfiction > Personal Experience
  Telling Tales

  

  By kenzie_treub, Orlando, FL

  There is a legend in my family regarding my grandfather that my Dad and I have concocted over the past few years. Basically, we have come up with this story by paying attention to various clues about my Papa's past and we believe that we have solved the mystery. You see, my grandfather suppose...
• Nonfiction > Academic
  William Golding's Perception of Mankind

  

  By kenzie_treub, Orlando, FL

  It is evident that as the article, "Everyone is a Potential Torturer," by Gaia Vince, states, every person on Earth has the potential to perform acts of evil. This is my belief as well. I believe that this is ultimately what William Golding feels to be true. His intention in writing Lor...
• Nonfiction > Academic
  William Golding's Lord of the FLies: Man's Capacity for Evil

  

  By kenzie_treub, Orlando, FL

  Published in 1954, William Golding's novel, Lord of the Flies exemplifies man's capacity for evil which is revealed in his inherent human nature. The underlying evil within man is the most prominent theme of the novel, and perhaps its most controversial one. To portray this theme, Lord of...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  Lord of the Flies Alternate Ending

  

  By kenzie_treub, Orlando, FL

  The red-haired boy stared as the man in uniform walked forward. The man towered over the boy at six feet high. He was dressed in a naval uniform with a gun strapped to his hip. However, this gun was concealed by his naval coat. The man had piercing blue eyes and pale-blond hair, as if he had nev...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Assassin

  

  By kenzie_treub, Orlando, FL

  When darkness falls across the land, those with the minds of assassins rise from the shadows in their natural element. Seeing what others can't see during the dark, yet fail to see in light as well.  Stalking through the shadows, the assassins walk unobserved to those drunk in their ignorance....
• Nonfiction > Academic
  Religious Solutions

  

  By kenzie_treub, Orlando, FL

    My name is Huang Li-liang and I am a political and policy advisor to our leader, Jung Shang. As a legalist, and expert in government affairs, I have observed that our country has slowly deteriorated, and I believe that it is time for me to offer assistance to my fellow countrymen in solving thi...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Trapped

  

  By kenzie_treub, Orlando, FL

  Trapped is what I feel. L O S T blinded-I am deaf-mute. N E E D to see the truth.E S C A P E the bondage of uncertainty. B I N ...
• Fiction > Romance
  A Dreadful Romantic Day

  

  By kenzie_treub, Orlando, FL

  BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP! The alarm was going off! Ugh! Another day, another “fantastic” day at work. As I sat up, I heard even more beeping coming from the kitchen. Frantic, I slipped on my slippers and ran, or more or less slid to the coffee maker. It wasn’t too far a run. At 28, I had onl...
• Poetry > All Poetry
  The House of Stafford

  

  By kenzie_treub, Orlando, FL

  A scandalous house, A place of secret deception, A land of destruction, Yet an abode of reflection. The Stafford House has always been cursed, Every member has suffered intense pain, Whether deserved or not, Stafford’s are always treated with disdain. Sister Joanna was treated wrongf...
• Poetry > All Poetry
  Sister Joanna Stafford

  

  By kenzie_treub, Orlando, FL

  A woman of nerve, A victim of defilement, A nun of vigor, A mother, daughter, sister, A quiet yet fearless nun...
• Poetry > All Poetry
  Prioress Elizabeth

  

  By kenzie_treub, Orlando, FL

  Sophisticated, Graceful, gentle, and loving, Commands reverence, A woman of dignity, A kind and caring lady...
• Poetry > All Poetry
  Dartford Priory

  

  By kenzie_treub, Orlando, FL

  A place of great faith, A place of pious belief, A place of secret, A sacred world of kindness, A place of horrid scandal...
• Poetry > All Poetry
  Margaret Bulmer-A Contradiction

  

  By kenzie_treub, Orlando, FL

  Dearest cousin Lady Margaret Bulmer, My surrogate sister, My best friend, You have left me to care for your son, My father’s son, my brother I am not sure whether to forgive you, For your sins, for your deceit For your lies, I do not know whether our friendship was real, Were we really...
• Poetry > Haiku
  Bishop of Winchester

  

  By kenzie_treub, Orlando, FL

  Man of betrayal, Man of deceit and great shame, Weak man, a coward...
• Poetry > Haiku
  Athelstan Crown

  

  By kenzie_treub, Orlando, FL

  The secrets you hold, They bind a man wrongfully, Why are you of weight?...
• Poetry > Haiku
  Brother Edmund

  

  By kenzie_treub, Orlando, FL

  He mixes his herbs, He sits without expression, What is he hiding?...