Teen Ink

Advanced Search Results

• Poetry > Free Verse
  Sisterhood

  

  By ShadowPuppet, Grand Rapids, MI

  thin black snakes curl smoothly away from your eyes they rest peacefully on your skin, asleep the whole day until 3:07 in the girls' bathroom when your crystalline tears bring them alive to wiggle and glide down your perfectly rosy cheeks before you smudge them away with angry fists and remove...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Perfect Imperfection

  

  By ShadowPuppet, Grand Rapids, MI

  perfect imperfection the faded photograph sepia-tone, bent and torn, soft in the folds his girl and her boy worn-thin straw summer hat, green-checkered, white-buttoned jumper black dress suit, pale blue tie to match the ceiling of heaven hands in gentle embrace lips overflowing with laught...
• Poetry > Free Verse
  Weekends

  

  By ShadowPuppet, Grand Rapids, MI

  I love sleepy Saturday mornings and the way Billy Joel sings “chev-er-o-let” and Keeps the Faith unfailingly through the night while I dry my eyes from an illogical crying spree only two minutes long, but devastating to the pillows good thing it’s a Friday night Laundry Day is Thursda...