HOW TO BE YOUR OWN REAPER:
they dangled and cracked
like the hearts he
liked to collect,
ornaments that pulsed
like drumbeats,
sizzled like firecrackers.
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Read rest of poem by 15 year old Farah Ghafoor at Tunnel Magazine.
Submit to Tunnel Magazine here.
ON BHOPAL’S UPPER LAKE
by Devanshi Khetarpal
Each of us reads the water like a different loaf of bread
that’s been kept on the shelf;
bought two weeks ago
after much haggling.
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Read rest of poem at Parallel Ink
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Devansbi Khetarpal is a junior from Bhopal, India.
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Audrey Spensley | Avon Lake High School | Avon Lake, OH
Like a scientist I carve myself
out of the gentle slope of my spine,
watch flesh curl away, the disrobing
of a tropical flower. Later I’ll say
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Read rest of poem at The Blue Pencil: Where High School Writers Publish
(The Blue Pencil is on hiatus for 2015-2016. Find more publications calling for submissions from young people at the New Pages “Young Authors Guide”)
Iamb: Poetry for Young Adults 