Stories - Long Story Short Award - Fall 2020 - page 5 - Poetry

Poetry

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A Girl Named Rona

Devin Tran

I fell in love with a girl named Rona,

She was simply irresistible.

At 19 she was ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Know Your Worth

Spencer Evans

I know you know the feeling
The secret sort of pain
The desperate cling to a shred of hope ... [+]

Poetry

2 min

Remember

Sarika Chawla

I.
Do you remember me?

II.
Dada Ji,
my grandfather,
Daddy says your cognition is ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Gen Z's Strange Fruit

Isabella Piacentino

We grew up glued to grains. Chipped pixels depicting clips and pictures. Last minutes of the latest ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Modern Dante

Hannah Dixon

I wandered ‘cross a glassy field of ice,
The lowest ring of Satan’s dreary realm.
Here, at ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Where is the future?

Amanda Lovell

History of an infinite idea
Record of the expansive mind
Now an era of submerged thought ... [+]

Poetry

2 min

Origin

Kiana Rawji

This is just the beginning.

As I stand here,
watching waves course between shores
like ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Love Russia

Isabella Acuna

Love Russia
That simple phrase
escaped Emery's lips
those lips
which uttered imagine ... [+]

Poetry

3 min

An Inci-dental Realization

Shreya Mantri

I lay there at a recline, uncomfy 165 degrees,
As blinding bright lights shone overhead.
My ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

City Non-Still life

Michela Miller

The dusky chill
tickles my bare arms,
nips playfully at my finger-tips
and blearily ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Requiem for Fall

Rebekah Olsen

The season of new beginnings.
Spring gets too much credit for new life.
The truth (that only a ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

September Seventeenth

Ruth Thomas

It was somewhere in Idaho
scrubby, stinking
And night settled in like fog about the ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Nothing Matters When You’re Horizontal

Chioma Ugochukwu

Soft silk sheets slip from my skin.
It’s morning.

It’s mildly unpleasant the way memory of ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

I Want

Becca Kruger

To soak –
in bathtub, in dish soap.
To marinate.
Remember –
one must be tender
before ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

The River Churning

Jacey Bruns

There’s a river churning in her heart,
Carried with a surge of pain

There’s a rive ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Garden plot

Jack Dean

Tarragon seedling
Slantways
Giant marconis
Face the sun

How can I show you!?
... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Moon, Soon

Christopher Kuebler

My grandson’s up there.

Up where?

Right there. You see him? I can’t.

I can’t ... [+]

Poetry

1 min

Memories

Skyler Denfeld

What if one day you forgot everything?
What if the distant memories became too distant?
... [+]