by Toni Rendon ’24 Why can’t life be more like The Sims Where no matter what day it is, we can always win Strangers come over to celebrate your birthday And people can empathize with you on your worst days Let’s build our home from the ground up A place where happiness can […]
by AJ Worsley ’22 happier when i’m away, i do my best to keep a distance. all i hope for is that while i’m away you forget my existence. if that were to happen, i’d have no reason to return, you don’t know what you have until it’s gone, a lesson you’ve yet […]
by Grace O’Connor ’22 She slowly heals as time pulls her forward. She holds tight onto the past like an old stuffed animal, As she is afraid of what the future will hold. The future is a sky stuffed with millions of stars. She is mesmerized by the stars that look down at her. She […]
by Taylor Rogers ’24 Green ribbons greedily grow, Spilling out of their small pots Like humans, they reach for the stars, Traveling higher and higher Diligently, I water these tiny ribbons, Watching keenly as they grow They steal from the soil below them, Clinging onto miniscule buds of water As they grow, they […]
When I should die, think only this of me: That there’s some weathered notebook tucked away Behind the dusty novels. My childhood reads These words—these words my childhood shapes From airy nothing into lines and scenes. With ballpoint tip to page, with blue ink running dry, I scratch and dot my i’s and cross […]
Can’t See the flow of the colors Stopped Feeling the breath of the wind Hollowness calling your name Do you fall back in? Come to me Looking around no one’s there So back to the grind instead Put pencil to paper and write beautiful words But the creative voice can’t be […]
I was fifteen years old when I decided I could handle the weight of being “sexy” for their love. I could put on the right clothes, give the right looks, say just the right things––– until they couldn’t get enough of me, trapping them in my prose. I was fifteen years old […]
Bright, silent, daunting Central to my narrowing vision. The floorboards of all things taunting My stare returning with derision. Every seat with its front bare No staring heads in sight None but those that at me glare Basked in blinding light. Should I try to glance? Dare I take that chance? One with pad and […]
by Taylor Rogers ’24 Exhaustion. This is the only emotion I can feel. Day after day, I tiredly watch the news, Where the same tragic story plays on loop. Each day, Another bullet tears through innocent flesh, Causing red to tragically paint the streets, Breaking the hearts of many, This tiny bullet wreaks its havoc, […]
by Sarah Heavren ’21 From Lil Wit to Tiff and Earl, From weekly meetings and issues, It is hard to say farewell Without needing a few tissues. The Cowl has been a great space To share thoughts and feelings, To craft poems and satire, Alongside great human beings. Across my five semesters Of writing for […]