Here is the first round of poetry submissions The Eagle Times has received! Thank you to the students who submitted poems. It’s truly an honor to see your creativity come to light. To submit poetry for April, fill out the google form at:
https://forms.gle/ECpZqkdLxVtfv4C88
The Undeniable Inbetween
Zivah Hartman (’25)
I cannot express what you have done to me,
not within simple words. I am not sad or heartbroken,
yet I have no fulfillment of joy or put togetherness within me.
I am still pottery forming and collapsing, the clay too soft to break or be complete. I am the sun still rising, not bright yet not bleak.
After you I lost my absolute, I lost all the highs of my life.
I am stuck at the undeniable in between. I am the day of 60° to cold for a dress, to warm to grab a jacket,
complete uncomfortableness.
I am the shirt that one never wears, but can never throw out.
I am absolutely and completely confused, yet somehow I know exactly what is happening.
You did not break me but you shaped how I think.
You did not get rid of my beauty but you stopped me from seeing it.
You did not change who I want to be but you did take me off of my path.
Yet the clay one day becomes a beautiful pot,
It’s curves and shapes making its beauty.
The Sun will always rise and the cold Moon depends on its rays.
Days will always warm and cool the change making the beloved seasons,
I will escape the undeniable in between and move past the me that stopped for you.
Grief Which Eats
Milo Armstrong (’24)
I feel your death
Its teeth are sinking into my skin
The memory claws at my flesh
In a gas station parking lot
Slowly it eats away at me
And there is nothing left
Yet the memories remain
Of everything you were
You were the sand
Between the stars and the shore
You were the moss
Which laid in the river
You are a beautiful rock
Which I find on my way home from school
Suddenly I am whole again
Yet still missing you
Voices in Your Head
Sarah Brewer (’24)
A devil and an angel, both on my shoulder,
One whispers “evil” and the other “be bolder”.
The devil says “take the easy road, it’s fine”,
While the angel tells me “work hard and you’ll shine”.
Both competing for my attention
The devil wanting to lead me toward destruction
The angel reminds me of dedication
The devils tempts me with his twisted ways
But the angel guides me through life’s maze
Although the devil’s temptations turn to my meditations
The angel guides me through the darkest temptations
Fencing with Love
Ethan Barnes
Today I fenced with love
I had beat it twice before
so I thought today I’d win again
and maybe win a prize
But love is fickle and cunning
it had made sure all my prior wins were hollow,
The courage I had used was fake
And Love wanted to teach me a lesson.
So love made me fall in love
Beyond infatuation
It made me dream and dream
And wonder after my sanity, spending my days daydreaming about a girl.
It circled past my parry
and turned my knees to jelly.
It showed me what to do
And turned my courage into a shrew
It made sure my feelings
Would tell me that they could never be shared,
It told me I’m not good enough
And laughed at my imperfections.
But then I had a thought.
And I decided to write sleep deprived poetry.
Because for some reason
I find great clarity
When I’ve had no sleep
And I should be sleeping now.
And although I’m still no closer to an answer
At least I have a plan
It may be bad but what the crud
My senior year’s almost done
So I think, in the end I’ll ask,
The girl I love to Prom
And brace myself for laughter
And definitely for rejection
It will sting,
it will hurt but that’s Life.
And what’s life without fight or fright
And some good old Epinephrine?
But maybe I’ll get lucky
And Love will let me win
Since this time it’s beat me down
And defeated me soundly.
The only thing I know Is I cannot run from Love,
The way I ran from Math.
I must face my one true love.
