By Sol Dente, TIWP Student In the east, the people know them by nameBy the footprints they make in the rain, by the torrentAnd screaming they take and they bring as theyMake a wake in the way of the floodsThese giants that walk with the names ofOur friends, of the people we meet aroundBushes and […]

By Maeve Clinger, TIWP Student When we metyou were everything, everywhere, all at the same timeand I was just a girl. You were mountains built over time that used to be tiny hillsand I was just a girl. You were castles and kingdoms dipped in starlight and skyand I was just a girl.  You were […]

By Maeve Clinger, TIWP Student nothing scares me morethen the fact that youcan make me feeleverythingornothing with a single glance

By Maeve Clinger, TIWP Student He can give you light.He can give you childlike innocence, fairytales, princesses and princes.He can give you mornings, rays of sunlight,white lace.But he would sacrifice you for the world. I could give you night.I could give you starlight,passion,queens and kings.I could give you evenings,dancing in the dark, black satin. And I would burn the world […]

By Hazel Smith, TIWP Student (i’m burning up)im on firethe flames kiss my fingertips and it spreadsmy clothes shrivel and warp and the ash fliesmy hair lights up now i have a mane of orange and yellowa halo of smoke above my head im on fireand nobody sees it so my rings meltand my lips […]

By Hazel Smith, TIWP Student will i be gone tomorrow?i wonder if you want to knowi don’t intend to beit’s just my actions that contradict my speech this morning i realized i can’t recall her laugh.i felt nothing. maybe i want to be locked downbut i push you away when i need you the mostam […]

By Hazel Smith, TIWP Student i didn’t want to be friends with themi wanted to BE them we had everything they hadmaybe more you threw it all away when you threw me out and locked the door we flowed so naturallybut i couldn’t love youif you didn’t love me blocking people for kicksjust to see […]

By Hazel Smith, TIWP Student she floats down every staircase her angelic aura flickering whites and silvers cloud her eyes and she takes my breath away classic but untold she loves wild things people who will never wait the prettiest trope i’ve ever known and i can hear her bones creaking her class heart cracks […]

By Mina Talebi, TIWP Student I never thought it would be you,Blond hair,Green eyes,That smile,But I love how you walkAnd swoon at your wordsAnd get lost in your voice for a while. And when you don’t text me back,I’m not trying to be clingy, I swear,But I hang onto the space between those three dotsAnd […]

By Audrey Howard, TIWP Student shining bursts scatteredacross the heavensthrown by the darkness herselfpushing the moon far in the sky