Viking Verses

We spend our days in the light but our nights are filled with darkness. We are trained to fear the dark as the dark is unknown.

Switch off the lights. Children are too afraid to explore. Tell stories of the unknown, and knowledge will be refreshing.

The monster under the bed, we know is inside of us. Sometimes we wish there was one, as we could have a secret friend.

It would no longer be the unknown, as we could see it is real. The world isn’t here to hurt us, we are only immature beings.

Growing up with a night-light by our side, never truly understanding the unexplored. We tell ourselves of terrible monsters until we realize we are those monsters

As we grow up, The dark is far less scary. We learn night is similar to day, but the night is infinite.

We’ve Never Read About Two Princesses

by Molly Smith

Once upon a time there had lived a princess in love with another. One wrote a book about journeys she took, but the Urselas ripped out its words.

It was red and it bled vacancy throughout our lesson plans. They’d rather have seen my friends and I bleed than to know the red on their hands.

It was orange and it was citrus made to fuel above the heat. When they stuck with their mocking and banned us from talking, we would yearn for more vitamin D.

It was yellow and it shone its light where we wanted to be if it happened. We would break our new pens and study ‘til 10 hopping 10-year-late trains to Manhattan.

My Sun Pendant

by Mirabella Gibson

You know what they always say, Things come and go, But my sun pendant hangs on like a best friend, Sparkling and dazzling, Smiling to others on my chest as I carry my body through the long days

This one day, though, was a good day A type of day that makes you smile and reflect while falling asleep, Her eyes stretched throughout the steps of the Day, latching onto curious eyes.

“What a pretty necklace!”

“Oh my god I love your necklace!”

“Who bought your necklace for you?”

It was green ‘cause it knew it had always been ready and blinking to tell them to go. They never opened eyes to responsibly drive or listen and get it and know.

It was blue from its cutouts, its rips, and its scribbles and time spent on one hidden shelf. The shelf was built by the senate, “different time back then” generations, that deemed it not fit for much else.

It turned purple because they had wanted that. They took floors so their words could reach far. They aren’t people who share. They aren’t people who care. They just can’t have us know who we are.

Who reads the writer and who writes the reader? Is it us as our fighters or them we call “speakers?”

My pendant’s popularity sparked one Flirtatious interest that day Her moment came in the nick of time, When the hormones raging from his looks and words were making me blush

“Who bought your necklace for you?”

“I did myself, actually” design by Victoria Foster

She stuck out from other necklaces at the store, Her magic, Her flow, Her majestic self, Something I aspire to be one day.