Stories - Long Story Short Award - Fall 2020 - page 4 - Poetry

Poetry

1 min

Sail Away

Argel Monte de Ramos

I learned to read
All the ABC’s of life from the news
Ignored the things that are obvious
I ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Transformation

Rachel Bloomfield

Red, orange, and blue.
Those were the colors
I saw the world in.

Red for the ange ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Nostalgia

Shaan McGhie

The time will come
when you find yourself in a place more misty
than before, more ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Bought and Sold

Rachel Allen Everett

Mankind is a hideous, throbbing mass
Its ravenous sickly heart throbbing
Its veins probing ... [+]

Poetry

2 min

Hidden

Shane Miller

Pain! Woes! Agony!

Tears streamed from my unearthly face
What a ghastly display of ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

maybe one day i will give birth to a girl named esperanza

Emma Mendez

With these wings I’ll remember
how the cosmos:
the sun
the moon
and the stars held me ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Lifecycle

Sohel Vohra

Winter passes into spring
Seasons come and go
Theres a time for everything
For everything ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

"Always Parting”

Bryce Reynolds

Faces flash before me
and are swept away as easily

As leaves burning in bright hues ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Sinister Symphony

Kenley Kohls

“Hello!”
(“Hello”)
he hates you.
“Excuse me,”
(“No worries!”)
she hates you.
“Have ... [+]

Poetry

5 min

What it Means to be Different- You Must Suffer to Truly Live

Chan Cardin

What it Means to be Different-
You Must Suffer to Truly Live
-
Poems about the Transgende ... [+]

Poetry

2 min

Nature's lantern

Alexa Krywulak

Every day I walked the Lade Braes path to school. The tall oaks lining the path sheltered me from ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

John Denver

Heather Johnson

I’ll never sing at Carnegie—
My voice is quiet and small.
But there was one performance ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Oasis

Cameron Noval

The sun is setting
Or is it rising?
Who’s to say

Is this the end of our day, ou ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Musings

Jacob Schapiro

Sing in me, O Muse
but stay six feet away
I ask that you wear your mask,
Calliope, as you ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Unfrozen

Madison Hauki

My feet were frozen.

The holes in my runners didn’t offer any protection from the wet snow ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

The Excuses of the Accused

Sofia Navarro

Great Ocean of Green
you fall to a man made flame.
You are stripped bear from your mother’s ... [+]

Poetry

4 min

Mint Chocolate Chip on a Cake Cone From Baskin Robbins

Hailey Skinner

If you were an ice cream flavor, you would be Mint Chocolate Chip on a cake cone from Baskin ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Wyoming

Lucas Zuehl

You’re scared of Oblivion

You confess on the wooden porch
overlooking Star Valley
Lines ... [+]