“Spring” by Carissa White, Creative Writing graduate
Spring flowers
Gentle rain
Warm sunshine
Springtime is here
New life begins
A time to start again
Fresh start
The past put to rest
The past does not define you
“Thoughts” by Joseph Dacsil, Creative Writing student
Thoughts.
They play with you.
Through you.
Begging to be played in your mind.
They linger like the smell of blueberry wine.
She dances under the moon.
Only to fade into the distance.
Her voice, the voices inside your head.
You hear before you go to bed.
“Class of 2013” by Haylee Eyler, Creative Writing student
I’ve long outgrown the pencil marks in the doorway
The corners of my childhood bedroom,
Peel to reveal,
the shades of my adolescence.
I think that’s where they hide
in each and every color
Younger versions of me
that I will never know again
Who whisper and wish their dreams to me at night,
And dance with the headlights
from the street-view window in my bedroom.
Hushed and hopeful
That I fell in love
Or became a marine biologist
Or learned to hula-hoop
So I could beat Marney Tompson,
Once and for all.
They walk with me,
hand in hand
And tug me around.
So that I might continue to be
Each and every person I was
In this bedroom before.
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