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Learn from the creative poems created by passionate youth by reading their statements on the process of writing it or simply read their poems to gain inspiration! Click on the posts below to view the full poems.
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Missing and Murdered - Ella Lopes
In the twilight’s silent sigh, Whispers lingerie, voices cry. Amidst the shadows, lost they roam, The missing and murdered, far from...
She Was Born - By: Riddhi Barot
She was born. She was born in many places. She is still born everywhere. Here and there. The joy that they feel. Or whatever writers...
A Nation Holds Its Breath - By: Matthew Depew
Day One: the pen slashes— Twenty. Six. Orders. ink, not thought, bleeds across parchment. Questions? (there are none) Eliminated: trans...
Dual Duplicity - By: Sarah Pangan
Engrossed over the unborn But existence, far from adorned Birth and born, families torn Loving the embryo more Than those breathing...
Overhead - By: Jake Buhler
I shake. I shudder. Clinging to myself, as I would another. Overhead, gunshots dance across no mans land, Like a ballerina on a stage....
Arise O compatriots! - By: Lolade Alawode
Arise o compatriots! Nigerians do not obey. An economy of lineage. The men in blue with hands covered in red. Ever so free but convicted....
Praise The World - Rowan Cocksedge
Praise the world And her defiant daughters Praise the world As she lives on Praise the earth Her lands and waters Waver she might Yet...
Blackfoot - By: Sophia Coli
We are Blackfoot That doesn’t mean we should be underfoot I am proud of my family They survived a tragedy We will never accept your slurs...
Alzheimer's - By: Zeemal Ayyaz
She spent her days locked up in her room That held nothing but gloom All she could do was sit by the window And watch the sun rise and...
To Be A Women - By: Rozhan Kohan
To be a woman Is to be dead. I once knew a little girl Whose father locked her in the bathroom And hurt her until she bled. I once knew...
World Peace - By: Penelope Oliver
We were all humans in harmony Mammals in the meeting of the minds Beings in tranquility Before Class classified us Religion...
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