By Clara V, TIWP Student She wasn’t prettyPretty wasn’t the right word for itShe was beautiful, but not in the easy wayYou had to have been looking for it in order to see itand some people would miss it entirely Because her beauty wasn’t in the shape of her head but the way she held […]

By Viviana Sanchez, TIWP Student You’re sweet as cotton candy and deep as the pacific. Your as intricate as mushroom roots  and because of that you’re wise. So that’s why I think you’re telling the truth. That’s why, when you told me up on the roof, you’d figured it out, I believed you.  You did […]

By Auhona Newaz, TIWP Student Ok, ok, let me start from the beginning. I was sleeping and sleeping even though I couldn’t sleep and I dreamed about me and who was it? Oh yeah, I remember it was Margret and I’ll admit it, this dream was kinda hazy and crazy and dazey.                                                                                           Where was […]

By Kea Yoshinaka, TIWP Student This morningI woke to scattered light across my comforter,an elegant ballet of sunbeam dancers,the tinkle of piano keys swirling through the air. And the scent of blooming poppiesrushed gracefully through my mindlooping down my lungs. I opened my mouth and let a bouquet spring up.Daisies, lavender, tulips.We make eye contact.I wonder […]

By Viviana Sanchez, TIWP Student She felt that’s where she must stay,in the stars,far away,looking down upon the world with half-closed eyes,breathing in, drinking up lies. She was selfish.Cold.Hypocritical, judgmental, paranoid.Hurtful and harmful.She didn’t want to be.But do the morning birds mean to wake you? No and that is the cycle of the universe,the march […]

By Caroline Hesby, TIWP College Student the flow of wind and water.the flow of qi — cosmic current,cosmic energycosmic energya source of life and prosperityflowing through a village,cleansing Earth as it goes. the flow of wind and water. I crack open my chest andentice the cosmic current.I hear it whispering around me as I walk,like […]

By Kea Yoshinaka, TIWP Student To see things as they areis to see the bags under your eyes,to see the shaking hands of your friends,to see the tears of the girl in the cornerthat you preferred to imagine as a peaceful recipient of life’s many gifts. To know things as they areis to feel the […]

By Mina Talebi, TIWP Student I think I figured it out.FinallyFinallyI think I figured you out.Last week I remembered the word toxicAnd it didn’t fit you.TOXICMeans tequila that doesn’t go downMeans bile in my throatMeans dad yelling at meMeans my trash bin when it’s that time of the monthMeans dirtyMeans wrongBut not you.Never you.Toxic is […]

By Mina Talebi, TIWP Student Before I met youI had pretty much given upOn BFF’sAnd friendship braceletsAnd promises about how we’d never fight.I’d been scarred so much,This doesn’t feel right,I’m almost there but just Not Quite. And I read a book the other dayAnd this girlShe loved her friend so muchThat she said“I love you”With […]

By Audrey Howard, TIWP Student At times the words flowfreely and at libertyat other timesthe words come like dew droplets in a land plagued by droughtlike trying to drink from a bare, dry, desolate wellthey can be gloriousshouts of prevailing victorya story incomparably divinepoetry simply wondrousenrapturingheavenly delightful, captivating, enthrallingthey can be bittershouts of losscries stemmed […]