Category: Poetry

Hypothetical Imperative

by Kate Ward ’23 My sophomore year of high school my parents gave me some advice You can’t control how others react, you can’t control their emotions At the time this was some pretty bad advice and I threw it to the wind I can do whatever I want, people will listen to me Four […]

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This October Beach

by Marelle Hipolito ’22 Tuck my hair behind my ear, just one more time Before we leave this October beach behind Let’s look for one more shooting star Before you go and break my heart Take a hundred pictures of me in front of a blue sky Before you drop another goodbye Tell me you […]

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First Place

by Sam Ward ’21 Love is strange, strangers turn To best friends and back again When the feeling is less intense. Still, you left a mark on my heart Like an indent, and we typed the keys That codified the sequence.  “The sun still sets in paradise”  Even butchered Maroon 5 lines Reflect memories of […]

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Twin Flames

by Mariela Flores ’23 You are not the other half of me. You are not a better half of me. You are not a nicer half of me. You are not a half.   Love, you are the roots of old pine. Love, you are a perfect cadence. Love, you are the spine of my favorite […]

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Jamestown, VA

by Angie Nguyen ’22 falling in love with someone you shouldn’t is like an ending is written before the beginning. you don’t listen to the bells, warning you of the heartbreak and the tears and the way the sparkle in his eyes dulls eventually because you’re so enraptured by the i-love-you’s and the morning kisses […]

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Suicidal Love

Trigger Warning: This poem includes references to suicide and self-harm by Toni Rendon ’24 Can we dance like Snowflakes? Tumbling down until we hit the ground Blood pooling around us Scaring anyone who finds us  You should’ve known this love was suicidal When I told you I’d die without you Because I know the sun […]

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Poetry

by Sarah Heavren ’21 What is it to write poetry? It is more than merely meeting a meter Or pairing words to form a rhyme. I believe it reaches for something much deeper. It pulls and tickles emotions. It awakens them from a heavy slumber, Suppressed by the weight of this world. Poetry reminds us […]

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Aggressive

by Mariela Flores ’23 Today me and my peers were called “aggressive.” We were given the title and told to bear the weight of it, the weight of the word, the weight of all our ancestors before us who had heard the same complaint by the same white mouth, we are aggressive.       […]

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the Power of Her Thoughts

by Grace O’Connor ’22 She feels stuck at the moment like glue Unable to escape her internal misery. Oxygen barely fills up her shallow lungs, As her glassy eyes are begging for relief. White dots start to blur her vision, She tries to remember how to breathe. Her head feels heavy like an oversized bowling […]

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Six

by Ellie Forster ’24 Lying on the pavement My leg tickles as my sister Traces the shape of my fidgeting, Six-year-old self. She connects the line to its beginning, And its end disappears. The chalk brushes against the side of my knee And I giggle in discomfort I stand, take a breath And attack my […]

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