Poetry

Poetry·Analise Braddock, age 10 — A child vows to keep a secret forever, measuring that promise against apocalyptic visions of environmental destruction and the end of the world.

Poetry·Analise Braddock, age 10 — A young poet explores cosmic scale through parallel structures, contrasting the singular (one mind, one world) with the multiple (thousand eyes, thousand hearts).

Poetry·Analise Braddock, age 10 — A disembodied perspective from a ditch observes the world above—sun, sky, ladybugs—while grass grows wild around what remains.

Poetry·Analise Braddock, age 10 — A young poet stands with open hands, waiting to receive rain, life, and all the world's green until only she remains in eternal readiness.

Poetry·Analise Braddock, age 10 — A child observes others who seem to contain multitudes while affirming her own singular self—one soul, one mind, one heart against the night's thousand stars.

Poetry· — I sense a fragrance  Like old memories and new  Peace drifts through the air      Cherry blossoms bloom  With memory of winter  Lingering softly      Lush meadows grow...

Poetry·Emily Yen, age 11 — A young writer captures the moment of creative paralysis before inspiration strikes, celebrating words as 'lines of grace' that bring thought to life.

Poetry·Iris Chalfen, age 8 — A child captures the moment of falling asleep after shared laughter, hiding a precious feeling deep inside for safekeeping.

Poetry·Eily A. Chiu, age 9 — A child greets morning in a garden filled with roosters, geese, flowers, and a brook, experiencing each element as a gift from the natural world.

Poetry·Iris Chalfen — Whitewrite Flyhigh Windwing Blossombright Songsoul Mebe Beebold