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Independent Student Newspaper for the University of Texas at San Antonio

The Paisano

Independent Student Newspaper for the University of Texas at San Antonio

The Paisano

Independent Student Newspaper for the University of Texas at San Antonio

The Paisano

Poetry by Helen

Poetry by Helen

Helen Tippins, Contributor April 14, 2026

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...

THE DEVIL AT MY CARDOOR

THE DEVIL AT MY CARDOOR

Ezequiel Pena, Staff Writer October 1, 2025

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...

Quietest Quiet

Quietest Quiet

Samantha Ysaguirre, Staff Writer April 23, 2024

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...

Reaching to purgatory

Reaching to purgatory

Ezequiel Pena, Staff Writer April 23, 2024

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...

Poetry society is back from the dead

Poetry society is back from the dead

Lauren Hernandez, Assistant Arts & Life Editor February 27, 2024

The Student Poetry Society is alive and thriving. What was once a desolate club with barely enough members to qualify as such is now an exciting collective of talented students eager to create art and...

Aphantasia

Aphantasia

Robert Gonzales, Contributor July 6, 2023

Molten clocks melted over my head, slowly warping to decay, but time went on without the direction of its hands. Umbral moths rose from the earth and swallowed the light of this...

Celebrate National Poetry Month

Celebrate National Poetry Month

Samantha Ysaguirre, Staff Writer April 18, 2023

The special occasion to celebrate poetry is the month of April. It is the most prominent literary celebration in the world. Its creation encourages the reading, teaching, and artistry of poetry. To those...

Lilac in the new spring

Lilac in the new spring

Samantha Ysaguirre, Staff Writer March 28, 2023

What I have forgotten about love is seen in the lilac this spring. What always seemed black and white now gleams of purple, blue and hues of pink. Thoughts of insanity still swirl in my mind while...

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