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"Fall Leaves" by John-Morgan is licensed under CC BY 2.0.

Fall Leaves

Sydney Williams, Guest Writer October 13, 2025

The best part of fall is the leaves— They are so pretty on the trees.   But when they fall, I don't get sad; It actually makes me kind of glad.   Leaves on the pavement make...

When you're gone

When you’re gone

Israel Cummings, Staff Writer October 9, 2025

every time you leave it’s my biggest pet peeve i don’t like being alone i want to be with you even if it’s just through the phone   still, your silhouette stands watching...

I used to be

I used to be

Israel Cummings, Staff Writer October 9, 2025

i used to be happy i used to have dreams i used to be snappy i used to want to do big things   now that you're gone i tried to get help back when we would lay on the lawn but...

The Home That Never Was

The Home That Never Was

Nathalie Lagula, Staff Writer October 3, 2025

In the hushed corridors of what-ifs,  We measured the walls with absent hands,  We traced outlines of a life in empty air— A future we drew but never lived.    Sunlight dances...

Blade of Grass

Blade of Grass

Sydney Williams, Guest Writer September 18, 2025

  Blade of grass, so skinny and green, You really are a beauty queen.   As the wind rushes by, you start to dance, because you’re better than all the other plants.   I...

Vienna

The Night We Danced

Mary Lopez-Furlong, Editor in Chief September 15, 2025

  The night we danced Fleeting yet timeless Eyes locked, we glanced Euphoric yet crimeless   Swiftly we moved away  From the piano and bar We looked for our gateway And...

Apricity - the warmth of the sun in winter.

Apricity

Patelyn Pyle, Staff Writer September 9, 2025

Bitten by the crude cold Feathers lay ruffled and daunting Encapsulated, sullen in stiffness  A cloak of bleak, freezing white Both bitter yet sorrowful Warmth shines in to savor the taste Hitting...

An Empty Crib

甘え

Kyla Crane, Staff Writer September 7, 2025

Brush my cheek the wind, I breathe in its soul, rooting, Just as fall leaves drift.

'The Conversion of St. Augustine' by Fra Angelico

Confessions of Summer

Eva Windle, Staff Writer September 7, 2025

From June until the middle of August, the only book I read was Confessions by Saint Augustine of Hippo. It took a long time to digest and required more concentration and devotion than those months allotted...

Perspective members in Scholars in Unity!

A Collection of Poems: Mrs. Culbreath’s Students

Dublin Adams: I Am I am Dublin Aine-Noelle Adams.I am special, with imagination.I wonder if Nenu will come back.I hear a loud noise when it’s a quiet noiseI see dead people.I want Sun and Moon, the...

Amnesiac

Amnesiac

Eva Windle, Staff Writer March 8, 2025

How do I describe the memories I’ve lost? I can’t recount what I can’t remember, so I collide with a blank wall over and over. For me, it’s like reaching to pick up something, and when I finally...

RawPixel

Told the Muse

Patelyn Pyle, Staff Writer March 3, 2025

    My art remains solemn; it’s lurking behind Rejecting falter I turn    To inspire, I must gnaw on perfection   Regressing in a sense of self, my painted urn  Rejecting falter I stare,...

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