By Audrey Howard, TIWP Student green cascades over the bleak cover ofcold frosty cruel snowrippling crystal clear watertransforms solid ice

By Maeve Clinger, TIWP Student My love I cannot give you much I am not the dashing hero  Coming to save the day I am not the sweet, neighborhood boy Holding flowers and waiting at your door But I can give you this I can promise you this Even though you don’t know me yet […]

By Mina Talebi, TIWP student I don’t want to talk to you when I’m sad. I’m afraid that my tears might rise to ceilingAnd the lights will flickerAnd my lungs will shudderAnd I don’t want you there when I drown.Maybe my sobs will shake my bodySo hardThat my ribs begin to snapAnd you’ll be able […]

By Riley Faust, TIWP Student I heard it before I saw it.  Not the crackling, lively sound of fire feeding on wood, but the screaming. The agony conveyed in loud, harsh sounds from the back of someone’s throat. The sound of panicked footsteps running over creaking planks. A name shouted from safety, begging its owner […]

By Olivia Falk, TIWP Student The first year of high school?It’s overwhelming, but don’t let it drown youIn the moment it might feel hard to let goI knowBut don’t box yourself in like I didToo preoccupied with homework, no time to talk, my patience ran thinBecause my programming said priorities before peopleBefore experiences, fun, laughingBefore […]

By Olivia Falk, TIWP Student I just can’t get it rightToo much of that spice, not enough of the otherMy soup lacks the heat that makes my mouth tingle yet doesn’t stop me from taking another generous biteMy meat is chewy and tough, yours practically melted in my mouthJust by picking it up, it would […]

By Olivia Falk, TIWP Student Cerulean eyes and messy dyed hair to a face overtaken with large framed glasses, who everyone assumes the worst of, they just don’t see himA face overtaken with large framed glasses to a strawberry-blonde in a bold, monochromatic outfit that exudes confidence, who hides her shaking handsA strawberry-blonde to a […]

By Harper McIntyre, TIWP Student The motion of the wavesmoved with the momentum of the momentIt seemed perfect yet flawedThe way the tide poured into my poor soulthe way the wind blew my mind away and left me breathlessI drowned in my dreams that drained my thoughtsand led me to you

By Harper McIntyre, TIWP Student I am a match ready to be litI am a puzzle waiting to be solvedI embrace my own emptinesstill my emptiness hastily dissolvesI am lost in the world I createdto keep me content while I’m still herecause this world can start to get frighteningwhen you base it off all of […]

By Harper McIntyre, TIWP Student A dried up creeklike the intervals in joywe found silencewe found stillnesswe found greatness in our empty eyesour empty handsour empty heartsbut now the emptiness is goneand so is “we”but in this new tributary called “moving on”I’ve found more greatnessaccompanied with its usual emptinessjust a little less with only half […]