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Linguistic Outcast

By Allyssa Herlein

Many people can’t fathom

my language

or why I communicate 

in a manner different 

than them.

They fear oddity,

panicking at the individual

who will violate

the common order 


Beauty

By Caroline Hanson

I am an emerald waterfall flowing with knowledge,

Running through life like a wolf. 

While my imagination is like sea, always more to discover.

There’s more to me than what meets the eye, 

And only some can see it.


Thoughts Speak Louder Than Words

By Cassandra Griffing

All eyes on those who shimmer with dialogue

All eyes on those with tongues aflame,

blinded

 by their empty words

that block genuine insight.


They Don't Know

By Drew Gilworth

“Work Harder,

Do better,

Study more,

Don’t act stupid,

Pay attention.”

These are the things that run through my mind nonstop,

But they don’t know.

I call myself dummy after dumb blonde,

But they don’t know.