creative writing – Youth Voices

Eli’s Regret

Jayden, February 23, 2022, Creating, imagining, and innovating, Creative Writing, Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions, Showcase, Spring 2022, Stories, creative writing, Fiction., The U School, 4

Eli wakes up at the crack of dawn on Monday morning in the middle of Fall. Eli hates waking...

body of water under cloudy sky during sunset

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Nothing else to offer

Miriya, January 20, 2022, Love, Poems and Stories, Psychology, creative writing, poetry, 1

I am offering my love to you, since I have nothing else to offer. Keep it close like a...

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Gratitude

Elaina, January 18, 2022, Creative Writing, Poems and Stories, Writing, creative writing, ohs, poetry, 0

When you wake up in the morning To the sound of your alarm Are you grateful? – Are you...

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Surprise of a Sunset

Srinidhi, January 18, 2022, Creative Writing, Nature, Poems and Stories, Poetry, creative writing, Okemos High School, poetry, 4

I thought I’d awaken to a sky of silver. Heavy clouds covering the shining snow river. But there’s something...

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Words Buzzed Beneath

Chelsea, November 12, 2019, Fall 2018, Fall 2019, Poetry, Showcase, Writing & Communication, creative writing, Okemos High School, 0

When I was three Three maybe four She left us at that video store The words buzzed beneath the...

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Who I am.

Sydney, October 16, 2019, Fall 2019, Showcase, creative writing, Okemos High School, 1

I am Sydney Stephens, I like to be called Syd most of the time. Something to know about me...

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swamp poem

Grace, March 14, 2019, Creative Writing, Poetry, Read/Write Poems, Showcase, Spring 2019, creative writing, Nikki Giovanni, Okemos High School, 1

hot and sticky like fresh taffy the air hangs down on meit pushes on me like an extra gravitational...

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I am

Mady, March 12, 2019, Creative Writing, Fall 2016, Poetry, Showcase, Spring 2019, Where I'm From, Writing & Communication, creative writing, Okemos High School, poems, 0

I am from sneakers on soft grass on a dewy morning,from the steady rhythm of breathing and fresh air.I...

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“The Fish Who Lived” – Enticing Animation by Daniella L.

Daniella L., April 21, 2018, Scratch, Showcase, Spring 2018, Stories, Student-Centered, character development, creative writing, Digital story telling, scratch, script writing, story boarding, 0

In my story the main character is Blue, who lives in the ocean with his best friend Guppy. Guppy...

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I.S.O Nikki Giovanni

Zoe, March 13, 2018, Creative Writing, Happiness, Nature, Read/Write Poems, Showcase, Spring 2018, creative writing, Okemos High School, summer, sun, 0

summers are everlasting but i’ve learned to love the days spent in the sun with my mother soaking in...

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I.S.O Victor Cruz

Zoe, March 13, 2018, Creative Writing, Read/Write Poems, Showcase, Spring 2018, creative writing, life, Okemos High School, poetry, 0

DAZED AND CONFUSED WITHOUT MY MUSE AS THE DAYS GO BY I MISSED MY BEST FRIEND WHO EMBARKED ON...

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Animal Anecdote

Zoe, March 1, 2018, Creative Writing, Life on Land, Showcase, Spring 2018, creative writing, Okemos High School, 0

Tracks in Snow My audience for this piece is children. I would like my anecdote to have a younger...

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When there is pain, there is art. When there is art- something beautiful is created.

Em, May 3, 2017, Creative Writing, Poetry, creative writing, poetry, 1

With these beautiful words that have fallen away from my soul- this time- my tears will dry. they will...

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Someone Like Me

Em, April 19, 2017, Creative Writing, Poetry, Showcase, Spring 2017, creative writing, poetry, spilled ink, 2

It was the people we could be. The conversations, nostalgic desire/ what happened to us? I fell in love...

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Nobody, Not Even The Rain

Em, March 27, 2017, Creative Writing, Poetry, creative writing, fragmented thoughts, poetry, 2

I had only ever been kissed by the rain/ so gently as it may. I spent all of these soft wasted...

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The Rain Will Fall But Not Conform

Em, March 17, 2017, Creative Writing, Poetry, Showcase, creative writing, fragmented thoughts, Poem, poetry, 0

We are Raindrops in an endless ocean/ free-form and crashing, forever changing in a raging storm. Despite the unforgiving...

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Date with the Sun

Ariel, March 14, 2017, Showcase, Spring 2017, creative writing, Okemos High School, Poem, poetry, sun, 8

Poem in the style of Giovani that time the rays and my eyes made eye contact they...

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All Flame No Firewood

Em, March 10, 2017, Spring 2017, creative writing, fragmented thought, fragmented thoughts, Poem, poetry, 0

let my body- by the flames of your soul- be engulfed. however so captured by your pure & instinctive...

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Forgetfulness Equivalent to Carelessness

Em, March 10, 2017, Creative Writing, Poetry, creative writing, fragmented thought, fragmented thoughts, Poem, poetry, 0

i can not think so forgive me. there are these faceless shapes in the dark corridor with painted walls...

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A Reason Why

Em, March 3, 2017, Creative Writing, Poetry, Showcase, Spring 2017, creative writing, fragmented thought, poetry, wanderlust, writing, 6

Perhaps this is not an assumption or a conclusion the echoes of what once was- what is- of people...

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Some Nights

Em, February 24, 2017, Creative Writing, Nature, Showcase, Spring 2017, creative writing, fragmented thought, poetry, 0

There are some nights/ like this night/ where I wish to be one of those stars that you wish...

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Fragmented Thought

Em, February 24, 2017, Creative Writing, Nature, Poetry, Showcase, Spring 2017, creative writing, fragmented thoughts, poetry, 2