Pigtails and playdates.
Yank her pigtail off her head.
Best friends forever.
-Chloe Murphy
Bad anxiety,
go away at once, right now.
You are unwanted.
-Matthew Crocco
I say I love you,
only to satisfy you.
I do not love you.
-Julianna Villella
Trigonometry is so confusing.
Can’t see the right angle’s
Tangent the teacher goes on.
-Christian Manie
In isolation
We barely see each other,
But we talk the same.
-Brianna White
My brain is hurting
I write down numbers and think
It’s complicated
-Amanda Trifon
The teacher stood up
and corporally punished
the class for one crime.
-Timothy Klaum
Born to be a pair.
Not blood but sisters at heart
together we laugh
-Olivia Evola
I am not ready.
So why does the teacher call?
I am now the fool.
-Ilyaas Fedaie
Calculus is hard,
finding limits of functions
was not made for me.
-Hannah Cruz
Like crunchy cornflakes.
Gold leaves rustle underfoot—
Beauty in decay.
-Jakub Pipota
Flies swarmed our
school. I’d never kill one,
but lord do I want to.
-Tina Khoshkehpazi
Flirtatious glances
only interrupted by
Farrell’s angry shriek.
-Elvira Taku
Feels like I’m in Penn
Station every time I try
to get up the stairs.
-Katherine Gotard
Bullying is wrong.
But if they didn’t see it—
It didn’t happen.
-Keara Shea
Hallway Haiku and More...
(Lunchroom, Hallway, English, Math, Global. Bus, 406 (9), Science, PE, Library, Bathroom, Staircase, Graveyard, Track, P-Lot, T-court, Back Field, Art, Turf … .)
Screenguards bound to desk
Stoping the flow of knowledge
Seperating us.
-Shannon Turner
Memorizing is
my demise— formulas bring
tears to my blue eyes.
-Abby Dinstell
Bloodshot eyes gleaning
Her benign touch I adore
Asphyxiating.
-Cal Eidinoff
Thumb on his two lips
Pressing ever so slightly
He listens, he does.
-Matthew Masaya
Right out the door, gone.
The years left without a trace;
Their echoes too sparse.
-Adam Tabibzada
I love you so bad
My exalted salted fault---
Mcdonald’s hash brown.
-Chelsea Perry
Dreaming of being
The masks that cover faces,
Hugging more than me.
-Ashley Herrera
Chilly breeze bounces
Off of my left shoulder blade
Whoosh it bursts and flows.
-Zaen Asghar
Chickpea hummus, sit.
Perhaps bell pepper poets
Will tickle your fancy
-Sophie Fyfe
Eyes are glistening
Shining blue in the moonlight
I gaze into them.
-Noah Biton
In The Silence,
The World Begs For Air.
Daily Mask Usage.
-Aaron Jurrist
In the midst of the
Field, I absorb and transform
Nature’s wispy air.
-Sophie Sieli
Masks taped to our mouths
The new style accessory
We can’t leave without.
-Maria Garcia
Blowing a balloon
for a physics lab becomes
a big bioweapon.
-Humza Asif
Tripping over stairs
Running weighed down by my books
No time for lockers.
-Caroline Schrama
Your life flourishes
though we know of your demise.
You write when you're wrong.
-Mary Reciniello
My day has been bad,
but it all gets better when
the Whitman dog licks.
-William Valle
Laughter fills the air.
This room is my safe haven—
4 years gone so fast.
-Olivia Bonomo
Crisp weather out now.
So why the hell haven’t the
flies died already.
-Kayla Andrews
Only five minutes
to try and get to Guam and
back. We need more time.
-Keara Shea
My shoelace untied
first period pen doodles-
I'm not really here.
-Melissa Portillo
Moving pens, bell rings
five more minutes we say as
we begin to guess.
-Marta Campos
We are not all lions.
Some are frogs, monkeys, deer, bugs.
Part of the same kingdom.
-Sean Williams
I dash into school,
the clock strikes seven thirty.
A white slip of shame.
-Darren Bentler
Expansive green field,
filled with students having fun
stomping on goose poop.
Crowded hallways filled
like congested arteries.
Again I am late.
-Aiden Smyth
Words fade into
obscurity, can I please
just take a nap?
-Tina Khoshkehpazi
100 wing boys
share kisses with 9th grade girls—
I just walk away.
-Olivia Bonomo
Heavy breathing that
is followed by soft curses—
The mile is over.
-Elvira Taku