Big Ideas of “Everything Sad is Untrue”
What is true evil? Daniel, the main character, presents evil as all the kindness that an individual hasn’t given. It’s all the times a person could have helped someone but didn’t, faked empathy, not...
View ArticleNew Years
New Year New Me It’s how we all start But how many hold on Some push forward with persistence While most declare defeat yet again The toxic cycle of “renewal” seems to never end How do we define one...
View ArticleImagine: Part 1
Imagine: Part 1 A paradise is what the girl imagined as she laid down to sleep that night. The stress of her monotonous work and deadlines were removed and long forgotten. Her new escape now being the...
View ArticlePoem: To: Mom
Dear Mom I love you forever and forevermore The second I opened my eyes you were the whole world for me And today I still see you the same way A magnolia tree I spot with the oncoming season of Spring...
View ArticleImagine Pt.2
As Lynn opened the door to her house, she saw the stacks of paper on her dining table stacking up. Habitually, she took a turn to her bedroom ignoring the taxes that were laying there. It was wonderful...
View ArticleImagine Pt. 3
Professor Crem awoke from her peaceful slumber, kicking her blanket off lightly with her feet. Letting out a hum of satisfaction, she looked out her window near the foot of the bed. I suspect a new,...
View ArticleThe Preventable Tragic Ending of Romeo and Juliet
The love of Romeo and Juliet The Shakespearean play Romeo and Juliet is known as a very tragic love story, but could their fates have been different even if the plays events progressed slower? The...
View ArticlePoetry and Artwork: A Ferris Wheel
Elevated from the ground and completing endless rounds of circles until the operator decides to stop the machine. Funnily enough life reflects the same thing. The redundant cycle of our daily routines,...
View ArticleRest
Each night when you rest your head on your pillow Are you truly resting it? Is your mind in sync with the state of your body, or do you hope that lying down will lull your head to sleep? The creeping...
View ArticleA Dream for Alabama’s Future That Came True
I remember being elated when I had won the game for the first time. Sitting in a circle at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, docents in training would play the “Shuttlesworth game.” People would...
View ArticleChange
What a peculiar thing it is Change Such a small word, yet the effects it carries are otherworldly It doesn’t ask whether you’re comfortable or not. It doesn’t wait for the “right moment” to...
View ArticleFebruary
February spreads its wings from the long winter In its last stretch, it welcomes a few thunderstorms too. Students realize the last part of the school year remains as we near the end of one season and...
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