M. Hank

M. Hank

VT

14 years old

Posts

  • Green

    When I think of the color green, I think of the trees behind my school. In kindergarten, when kids were cruel and words hurt more than sticks or stones, the trees were there.

  • I made tea

    I made tea this morning.

    I put the leaves in, watching the steam dance with childlike wonder.

    I returned to my laptop, staring at a half finished chapter, the bags under my eyes more apparent than ever.

  • Bittersweet

    I always said that it’d be the best day when I leave this school

    But I’m not so sure now.

    Sure, it wasn’t always easy,

    But I gained so much good:

    The best teacher I’ve ever had.

    The confidence I always needed.

  • Jester

    I will be the court jester

    But when you remind me of my past

    My lungs refuse to laugh

    Now I fall quiet

    A sad smile dances on my lips

    As I glance at you with pain in my eyes

  • happiness

    Rain.

    Laughter.

    Smiles.

    Swimsuits and twister.

    Getting soaked just for fun.

    This is girlhood.

    This is happiness.

    This is freedom.

Loves

  • Poetry

    By wph

    When You Are Old

    When you are old

    Your skin will become like paper,

    And your bones will be like the wooden ribs

    Of a lantern

    So that the world will see the light in your chest.


    But I don't need to wait

  • Poetry

    By wph

    Wendy Darling

    I hung in the sky, frowning down at the city below me

    Scowling because Peter Pan went away.

    I had stretched, and my body had run away

    In the years since then. 

     

  • The Girl I Wanna Be

    She loves everyone,

    so everyone loves her.

    Even when she's crumpling inside,

    She'll always show the side of her

    that's always willing to be positive.

    When you want to throw your world away,

  • The stone and the river

    They said to think about who you are

    And who you want to be

    After camp

    And I thought

    What if I don’t know

    The changes I want to happen to me?


    What if change

    Is best

    Faced like the wind

  • Legacy

    I hope that our legacy is our effort to love, that it is the times we held umbrellas above other peoples heads and shared whatever food we had and pointed out the stars.