Poetry

Poetry·Esther Hay, age 8 — A morning walk through a dewy forest becomes a sensory journey as cold droplets fall from flowers and trees, chilling the narrator.

Poetry·Audra Sanford, age 8 — A child recalls the warmth and safety of being held by their mother in their earliest memory, describing it as their happiest moment.

Poetry·Zeke Braman, age 9 — A nine-year-old transforms the mundane task of folding laundry into an existential meditation on life's overwhelming choices and uncertain futures.

Poetry·Adele Stamenov, age 10 — A moment of anxiety dissolves into calm through the ritual of making tea, where milk clouds float in their own suspended world.

Poetry·Carolyn Lu, age 13 — A seventh-grader chronicles her weekly emotional cycle through structured verse, from Sunday's YouTube freedom to Thursday's tennis exhaustion.

Poetry·Evangeline Flynn, age 10 — A small boat drifts on crystal waters under a rainbow sky, its peaceful rocking motion mesmerizing the observer in this watercolor-inspired meditation.

Poetry·Galen Halasz, age 13 — A young writer confronts human hypocrisy and self-righteousness, building to the admission that we're all guilty of the stupidity we see in others.

Poetry·Lucy Hurwitz — I wake up on that side of bed. My leg’s my arm, My arm’s my head.

Poetry·Eli Nimchonok — Some wars lead to the ancient Egypt story that keeps on going It is so ancient it’s God in heaven with the sun and moon When the cell comes you...

Poetry·Eli Nimchonok — The mind is birthed in the day but in the night it is silent Every day the mind has a memory and removes the math When the mind music comes...