By Julia Lima, TIWP Student I am angry at you, World! I am angry because you pick and push and shove and cut until I can reach your standards I am angry because you have standards I am angry because I can’t break free of your standards I am angry because you tell me to […]
Don’t Agonize, Organize
By Isabelle, TIWP student We are still here, the girl in the back of your Math class, the best player on the high school lacrosse team, and the waiter at your favorite restaurant, still here; still fighting. You can’t see the blood on our knuckles because that’s not how we bear the battle scars. They […]
She Is A Woman
By Julia Lima, TIWP Student She is a woman. She has been shamed by this world for her anger. What once was her ally has transformed into an immense war beast. She is suffering, suppressed, strong. She is unsociable, unstable, unleashed. She is shamed and shushed and shining. She is ready for her power to […]
I’m Sorry
By Emily, TIWP Student I hate it when you yell at me. I hate it that you yell at me when we both know I’m trying my best. But apparently my best isn’t good enough for you. I even went in and talked to her about what I could do to be better. I studied […]
A Child of Sun and Moon and Stars
By Hannah Brown, TIWP student A child of sun and moon and stars, Angel kisses graced her skin. Stormy skies resided Behind her tormented eyes. Wishing for a shooting star To light the hopes within. The dreams resting on her collarbones, Fueled by cold seeping through her fingertips. Warmth leaving her hands As they […]
I Am More
By Julia Lima, TIWP student I am more than brown eyes and black hair. I am more than “Some Kind of Latina.” I am more than “You Speak Spanish, Right?” I am more than “Sorry, Let Me Explain it in Easy English.” I am more than “Are Your Parents Legal?” I am not what you […]
We Don’t Always Speak With Words
By Loryn Nieto, TIWP student You see, we don’t always speak with words. Our hands squeeze feelings and trace messages about how the breeze feels and how the sun gets hot. Our heartbeats run for miles in the green springtime, and they slow when they come across peaceful meadows filled with tulips. And they like […]
Reminders to Myself (and Eventually, to my Daughter)
By Riley McCormick, TIWP student Take trains by yourself to places you’ve never been. Look at the architecture, the history, the flowers. Sit in a cafe and people watch. Kid, you’ve got to love yourself. Don’t whisper, don’t surrender, don’t apologize. Be you, be unafraid. Kiss who you want to kiss, or don’t kiss at […]
Dear World
By Kate Nerone, TIWP student If I had lived forever, And was baptized in the first Explosive sunrise, And kissed upon the head By a mother of salt and dirt And seeds, I would tell the world Not to hurt her. If I had lived forever, And had ripened amid the music Of dialects and […]
Are You Listening?
By Julia Stewart, TIWP student At first you listened You strained your ears to grasp it After a time you realized; There is nothing. Not the sound of frogs shouting their desires Not the wind bellowing its pain. Finally you have been left there, In that fraction of a second. You soaked it up like […]
The Intuitive Voice 