By Kristen H., TIWP Student i believe good things come to those who waitto those who are kind and patient. i think everything happens for a reasonit’s hard to remember in the momentbut the day you look back and think“huh, i was lucky”i like to think it was because i waited fate is a funny […]

By Katherine D., TIWP Student “Yes, of course it hurts!”I laughWhen you pinch me in that playful wayThe autumn breeze tickles my earsAnd my handsAlthough always coldAre warm this time in yoursThe fall leaves crunch under our feetAs we take another stepLeaving the world behindThey say October is a special monthA dangerous monthFor either you […]

By Stella, TIWP Student The wish started in first grade:superpowers, two specifically,invisibility and teleportation.(I debated flight butthat would draw too much attention.) School was way too boring.I made my plan to escape class,turn invisible then teleport outand no one would notice I’m gone.I could go anywhere I wanted. But that’s just a dream.I’m pulled back […]

By Lina, TIWP Student For a second, I thought they could actually see me.That the stars were gazing down at me in quiet anticipation, as though they had mailed me a gift I had not yet learned how to open.I was never one to presume the universe was aligning itself for me. I never believed […]

By Zara, TIWP Student For a second,I thought they could actually see me.And then I remembered that they don’t care enough to look.For a second,I thought they could actually hear me.And then I remembered that they don’t care enough to listen.But they should.Open your eyes to this monstrosity,let your ears ring with the horror.We are […]

By Kristen, TIWP Student Inspired by: Pylon and In Motion by beabadoobee Closure is a funny feeling.It’s not quite acceptance.more like the swirling of rainwaterin a storm drain on the side of the roadafter a heavy, turbulent downpour.Not the ending you wanted,but the one you knew was coming.Bittersweet in nature,like a car ride home after […]

By Zara, TIWP Student We are simplerun downtragic accidentally absolutely present. We are the creative genius behind the automobileand the scythes come to execute the believers. We are sheep that believe they are shepherds,the artist that draws inside the lines formed by the imprint of our fingernails. We are blooddripping from the rooftopand rain running down […]

By Lina, TIWP Student It is too difficult to write flawless poetryor words that encapsulate exactly what the mind speaks.The psyche is too profound to be consummately represented on paper.Yet in a world that praises masks to hide our passions behindwe must write our emotions into existence.We must let the world make a spectacle of […]

By Stella V. TIWP Student Each person has their own stamp,their fingerprints woven into the skinjust like trees, strong and older,each ring of the rough tree bending with stories. Reaching high, intertwining in the skyproviding a canopy of safety,we run and play under ituntil we grow tall like the trees. Hair rooted to our headour […]

By Zara Q., TIWP Student My English summer reading tells me,“Every good poet needs a good spring poem,”then goes on to say there’s no way to make them original,and therefore their captivation to the audience has ceased to be nothing,and I guess poetry is dead. So tell mewhy are we assigning value to a poem?Why […]