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• Opinion > School / College
  Pressure

  By Meredith M., Spring Lake, NJ

  It's September; that means it's back-to-school time. Some students are excited, others are nervous, and there are of course a vast majority of students that are just plain depressed. The relaxation and freedom of the summer is refreshing, and who wants to give all that up to sit in a class...
• Opinion > Love / Relationships
  Teenage Love?

  By Meredith M., Spring Lake, NJ

  Do you believe in love in high school? Could it possibly exist? No way, kids don't know what true love is... But, how many people do you know that dated in high school that are currently married and happy? I personally know about 4 couples very very well that are now happy after being high school...
• Poetry > All Poetry
  Through the Midnight

  By Meredith M., Spring Lake, NJ

  There is no way to describe depict portray illustrate explain you. us. You remain illicitly within me pulsing, throbbing. You've been tattooed into my skin: needles shooting starry ink, deep. Deep and permanent. I've been forever stained. By you. Your beauty strength passion fire. Y...
• Fiction > Realistic Fiction
  Drowning

  By Meredith M., Spring Lake, NJ

  And then I was sinking. Drowning, reeling. I'd only tried to wash my hair; but I got tangled in the tresses, fingers, bubbles, water. I was stuck. Trapped. Earlier I peered over the porcelain edge. The pearl coastline mesmerized me almost as much as the shimmering reflection that billowed beneath...
• Poetry > All Poetry
  7

  By Meredith M., Spring Lake, NJ

  Vibrant, whitewashed, welcome dream. Barely meeting at the seam. Loose control: anticipation... Lose control- gratification. All at once, conjoined - Alone. Feeling; wheeling; reeling; known. Senses, senseless. stimulating. Beauty; oneness. Cocreating. Necessity, my need - desire. Senso...
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  5

  By Meredith M., Spring Lake, NJ

  Fearless. Fear less. Wild eyes. Symbiotic truth and lies, Abandonment - Emancipation, Gradual assimilation. Color: taste it, fill your chest. Feel a little, know much less. Clouded, vibrant certainty. Puzzle - wonder quizzically. Live conundrum; simile. Ridicule, debauchery. Recognizin...
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  4

  By Meredith M., Spring Lake, NJ

  Shining, glinting. All a dream- Tales of fiction fill a ream. Hold it. Capsulated, kept. Steal what happened as you slept. Clouded, blurry, vague, finite. Corners of the mind at night. Time unspent, while put to use; Extroverted, famed recluse. Self contained and selfless sharing. My ca...
• Poetry > All Poetry
  3

  By Meredith M., Spring Lake, NJ

  All we are may just be skin. For all we know there's naught within, Except for tears and beating hearts, As they are proven, public parts. We live and give; we also take. There's love we feel, there's love we make. The tears fall freely from your eyes... Feigned smiles make up your diguise....
• Poetry > All Poetry
  Dance

  By Meredith M., Spring Lake, NJ

  Calloused feet, rough ripping flesh. Muscles burn with every stretch. Splinters, feel it, own the floor Always meaning something more. Dance a story, save your life, Cooccuring peace and strife. Dimming lights and wild hair, On soft worn wood, my soul I bare. Passion, fire, fur...