My Name is Zahra, A name that my parents gave me, Like flowers growing on a tree, Waiting to become those beautiful, Pink, little, and delicate flowers, Wanting to be nothing but perfect My name, my name, Feels like a soft pink blanket, Wrapped with hues of ethereal pink If my name was a
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Four children, same thoughts: They don’t belong in the world, and nothing will change that. Little do they know, they’re not alone, and they matter. Just like you and me.
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Author’s Summary: My poem, “A Letter To My Depression,” talks about how the lure of numbness makes depression so easy to fall into, but in the end, it’s “feeling” that makes us whole.
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Author’s Summary: A haibun is a literary form combining prose with poetic language and a final haiku. Burning haibuns take the initial haibun and “burn” it through a few rounds of erasure until it becomes the final haiku. I wrote this for an assignment at a summer program I attended.
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Author’s Summary: This is a slam poem I wrote my Freshman year. I actually got to perform it at my schools Poetry Slam where I won third place!
