Category: Poetry

How to Write a Love Poem

AJ Worsley ’22    Light a candle, admit your flaws, set the tone.  Don’t let the process turn your heart to stone.    Find warmth in lost love, but always try to keep it in your sight.  The best love poems are written after the love has gone to light.    Compare your lover to […]

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How Death Lingers

by Mariela Flores ’23 Content warning: This poem contains themes of death and suicide. Both of my parents teased their death. One friend took their death and plastered it onto every wall of my life. I had my very own half death, one at twelve, another at fifteen––I am starting to think these events are […]

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An Ode to 2020

by AJ Worsley ’22 Conspiracies roll around in my mind as I do in my bed. Another night where I cannot fall asleep. I turn on my fan for noise but I am not warm, so I aim it towards the ceiling. There’s something about my bedroom that has never felt so unfamiliar before. My […]

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New Year’s Eve

Anna Pomeroy ’23 As the year’s clock begins to wind down, I am reminded of the infinite cycle that begins every new year. As it strikes midnight, we cheer and clink glasses filled with bubbly and Ambitious hopes for the next months to follow.   Our warming smiles are not the only thing that lights […]

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The Shattered Ornament

Taylor Rogers ’24 I left a glittering ball of green at your doorstep, Knowing the emerald hue was a color you adored.  Patiently, the sphere sits outside, Waiting for your comforting touch to pull it off the empty porch.   The ornament watches the world in awe, As December rips off her white jacket,  Letting […]

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A Cry from the Heart

Toni Rendon ’24 A cry from the heart   Echoes through the night  It soars among the stars   And heads towards the light    A cry from the heart  Can be heard up high   When a true love’s kiss  Turns out to be a lie    A cry from the heart  Is a somber tune  It […]

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I Wish

Mariela Flores ’23   I wish I could float inside the slits you let open  like a seed in a line ready to sink and to grow. I wish I could dive   into your veins and feel your hot blood crash against me.  I want nothing more than to burn from the spark in the […]

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Five Ways to Look at Hands

by Mariela Flores ’23 ONE  I fashion a gun out of cold flesh,   and point it directly at my enemy.   There is no hesitation in this kill,   you are at the mercy of my hands.      TWO  When the wind turns my bones stiff   and the ground is frozen,   warm hands find my flesh   and […]

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Rule Book

AJ Worsley ’22   get down on your knees  rub your face across the grass tickle your cheek with excitement, you feel something.   drive to the water, one hand on the wheel, your other is holding on to life. you haven’t felt alive in a minute.   the skylines reek of hope but you […]

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Umbrella

Anna Pomeroy ’23   They say it’s bad luck to open an umbrella indoors. I never seemed to understand that–– Why not be granted the extra protection before you even step outdoors? It’s rather a challenge, standing down the hall of my mudroom As I glare down the open door drowned with rainpour. It’s a […]

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