{"id":39688,"date":"2024-05-22T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/?p=39688"},"modified":"2024-05-20T13:44:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T17:44:28","slug":"poetry-with-the-clarion-april-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/tartan-news\/2024\/05\/22\/poetry-with-the-clarion-april-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry with The Clarion: April Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cSpring\u201d by Carissa White, Creative Writing graduate<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Spring flowers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gentle rain<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Warm sunshine<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Springtime is here<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New life begins<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A time to start again<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fresh start<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The past put to rest<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The past does not define you<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cThoughts\u201d by Joseph Dacsil, Creative Writing student<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thoughts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They play with you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Begging to be played in your mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They linger like the smell of blueberry wine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She dances under the moon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Only to fade into the distance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her voice, the voices inside your head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You hear before you go to bed.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cClass of 2013\u201d by Haylee Eyler, Creative Writing student<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve long outgrown the pencil marks in the doorway<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The corners of my childhood bedroom,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peel to reveal,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the shades of my adolescence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think that\u2019s where they hide<\/p>\n\n\n\n

in each and every color<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Younger versions of me<\/p>\n\n\n\n

that I will never know again<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who whisper and wish their dreams to me at night,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And dance with the headlights<\/p>\n\n\n\n

from the street-view window in my bedroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hushed and hopeful<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That I fell in love<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or became a marine biologist<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or learned to hula-hoop<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So I could beat Marney Tompson,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once and for all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They walk with me,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

hand in hand<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And tug me around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So that I might continue to be<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Each and every person I was<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this bedroom before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Featured image from Canva)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Submit your poetry to: clarion.central@gmail.com<\/strong><\/a> for a chance to be featured<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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