Stone Soup

Where young artists paint the world with words

The international literary project for students 8 - 18. Stories, poems, and art by young writers and artists since 1973.

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HOPE

Hope is a friend
or maybe a foe.
It carries me
across the treacherous ice
and the darkening sky.
It watches me
with glistening eyes
knowing me better than I.

Tatiana Rebecca Shrayer
Tatiana Rebecca Shrayer, 13
Brookline, Massachusetts