The poem will be included in the 10 Anniversary edition of The Alexander Muse which debuts in April 2019. For submission guidelines, visit https://thealexandermuse.blogspot.com/p/the-alexander-muse-submission-guidelines.html . The magazine is open to all Alexander County high school students regardless of educational institution.
"Why
Teen Poetry Happens?" by TPH Teens 2018/19
It
is where pens click, pencils drop, and papers fly -
drawing,
writing, singing or dancing.
Maybe
you don’t know where you’ll be tomorrow,
I
have ink within my veins and a pen upon my palm.
My life is parchment, my soul a quill,
dripping in black liquid.
I have
poetry, music in the heart,
words
in the air, notes on a guitar.
My feelings are as a river
flowing through and through.
Friends
together, connecting with others,
lead
within my bones, a pencil in my hand.
Aspirations lie within the very craft
of a word, a note, a stroke.
Let
the words forever stain,
something
no one can take from me.
Sometimes
being lost is the best way to be,
the
best way to be found.
My
rhymes be sung as psalms
like
I’m finally free.
Free
to be myself, an escape
from
my anxiety.
Let
what I’ve said live on,
not
just wash away as sand.
Special
in so many ways than one,
a
love for creativity in my chest.
So
let invention begin,
let
me bring forth my best.
