Maybe if I healed and prayed, you would be healed and stayed.. Maybe in another life we fell in love without the fight  Maybe if I said the truth, we could snuggle up and drink wine in a booth  Instead...

Slowly rolling into the clear spot  My car found peace  And then my foot stepped to the east  When near it a black toy my eye caught    Picking it up, its form was clear  And...

As I stand on the edge of graduation, My last poem emerges, what feels to be my most heartfelt creation. In the quiet spaces where my thoughts intertwined, I reflect on the freedom, the beauty,...

Leave your worries by the shore and dip your toes in the sand,  When you can no longer bear to stand, When the world seems mute and calm,  I wrote a poem, only to throw it away because that’s...

My tiredness hangs around me like a disease.  My soul slowly dying My hope does not increase  I have lost the energy for crying    Demons ask to be let in  The water, too thin...

When life tries to tear you down, you must learn to stand, to stand taller than you ever have above your five-foot frame.   Stand as tall as the redwoods you admire to be as strong as them, you...

There was nothing that prepared us for that day Driving to your house the day I got the news Sorry, I ran a few stop signs on my way Mother and father were nice enough to answer but speechless...

Staff writer Samantha delights us all with another one of her poems! Check out Samantha's here!

Running past the river, running past the daylight feeling it coming back through your veins in the night, where the voices surround me  the weight of the world on my shoulders, heavy and tight, as...