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Cynical Skin

Asja Walker, Staff Writer December 8, 2015

‘Everything will be fine’ That’s all they ever say The people who hold onto their flimsy beliefs That nothing is wrong with me I wish they could see who I really am Underneath my skin,...

She is my goddess, always. Photo credit to Leilani Gibbons.

Leo

Savannah Keith, Poetry Editor December 1, 2015

I idolize her fly-aways Like sylphs, Banding on a vibrant dull. A lion's song, a kingdom come, A crown of soot and soil. I adulterate her cupid's bow A psyche, Bending on a serpent whim. A hierophant,...

“Years of laughs and love…” Photo taken by Isabel Romero.

Life in No Particular Order: A Collection of Haikus

Leilani Gibbons, Staff Writer December 1, 2015

First, you pass away your soul will leave this green earth, and it is peaceful   Then you graduate. School was only some short years now you’re on your own   Before you know it, you are...

Though our love is young, I do hope it never ends.

“Her One, His Only”

Tiffany Lovell, Staff Writer November 30, 2015

These moments are those I must transcend Yet the happiness ceases to end With the pallor of my skin Upon yours through thick and thin I needn’t worry about tomorrow Because your love is...

Mother Nature sings a lullaby for her children

Elements

Raicheal Havins, News Editor November 20, 2015

Shadows dance, choreographed by flames. Smoke flicks up into the night, towards oblivion. The pyre, the gloom, the burnish. Sun and Moon struggle for dominance in the dawning sky. Clouds drift...

As you joined in creating yourself, and died only to be reborn again. Photo used with permission by Leilani Gibbons

Reawakening

Tinaye Gibbons, Staff Writer November 17, 2015

You are in a constant state of revival With every moment a dawn of beginnings.   When you answered the call to arms, As you were devoting Laying down your life for a ruthless God. As...

Dancing in starlit puddles of light, she calls to us, waits for us.

Celestial

Megan Hoffman, Staff Writer November 2, 2015

She dances through the galaxy, Cloaked in luminosity, Her dark hair mocking the swirling of stars, She wanders the moons, A shimmering star in the distance.   The freckles along...

“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.” ― Laurell K. Hamilton, Mistrals Kiss

An Ode to My Lost Time

Diana Rodgers, Web Editor November 2, 2015

Drip, Drip, Drop My sanity slowly drips from my veins while I lie alone in my room. I look around to see the world moving, double time, as I remain stagnant. Lying was not my own choice though; O’...

“Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.” –Mother Teresa

The Warmth of Another

Matthew McFadden, Staff Writer September 24, 2015

I feel alone.   Surrounded by friends who love me With a passion that glows As bright as his forest green eyes When his face lights up in laughter.   Yet I can’t help but...

Nature is a mother, fiercer than her blooms.

Vaporous

Savannah Keith, Poetry Editor September 24, 2015

Boys like Persephone with their ankled Flowers, beautiful Are the harbringers of a reality With limp-spread wings and slacked backs And kisses from their succubi, golden. Boys like Hades with their...

“You’re too afraid to grow, to prosper, to bloom. But what you’re able to sow, the potential has so much room.”

Bloom Where You Are Planted

JoAnn Ahn, Staff Writer September 17, 2015

“Bloom where you are planted,” You probably heard before, But have you ever realized How much it has in store?   You are too afraid to grow, To prosper, to bloom, But what...

Tonight memories come in waves and I find that I am drowning.

Memories Come In Waves

Jessica Prouty, Staff Writer May 12, 2015

In the first few hours of the morning, I'm haunted most by memories of dying summer days that transitioned to scorching black nights. Nights spent burning up raw emotion, taking in my desires...

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