My black sisters are often forgotten and ignored.
Student Poetry
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
The 2019 Foley poetry contest: Metaphors so simple and clear
Entrants to this year’s contest included poems about human trafficking, the Mueller Report, priestly abuse and screen addiction.
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
Meet Atticus, the Instagram poet who never takes off his mask
“Atticus is a storyteller, observer…. He loves the ocean, the desert, whiskey and playing with words.”
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To
There comes a day
When you realize
That some people are temporary.
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
The Kaleidoscope
The angry shards of crimson, roaring through the tube/
Running through the fields of gentle greens and sprinkled/
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Agape
My god is patient. She curls like ivy around a crumbling world,/
And howls in the stillness of the night, the silent spaces no ritual can fill.
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
how it ends
hearing and feeling are technically the same thing so when we talk on the phone
i can pretend it’s as good as touching you
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New Testament
I met Judas at a roof party in late October. The Ghost had warned me about the devil in the form of a man too charming to deny.