Posts
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What Is Art?
What is art? What a question. There are so many answers and so many opinions. But I think art is technique. Art is passion. Art is love. Art is writing. Art is human. You are art. I am art. Art is amazing.
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The Time I Flew
I was cold. I shivered up in my sheets and peeked out my window into the night. The moon was stone cold, making me shiver even more. I leaned back and my head hit the pillow, and I pulled the blankets over my head. I began to feel dizzy.
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Winds that blow
Close your eyes and embrace the wind
Embrace yourself and your thoughts
Love Earth, yourself, and others, and plant your feet in the soil of life
Once I was whisked away by the wind
Loves
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A Palmful of Metaphors
I’d like a palmful of metaphors,
Ones to use every time
I put a pen to a page,
To plant in my heart
And become submerged in my hope,
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Men We Reaped
Inspired by Jesmyn Ward
I wish I could tell you how I mourn your innocence,
how I pray for a shield,
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Emojis
I scroll through the options
Endless rows
And rows
And rows
Of smileys
And animals
And faces
And people
And things.
I scroll through the multicolored hearts
The laughing faces
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Mundane
a lesbian couple on my bus home from school
a man in a punk battle jacket on the street
my mother's female CEO group chat blowing up
four of my teachers taking the following day off
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Why do we fight?
I feel scared whenever I think about the election.
Because of what is at stake.
Because really it’s everything that’s at stake right now.
Freedom.
Justice.
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November Fifth
No one can predict
Our country's future
Various people watching and waiting
Eager and scared for the outcome