passion
Writing
Crimson and Blue
By Gus BrandmeyerThere is crimson and blue on the floors,
Where the players shoot, shoot, shoot, and score,
In the stands the crowd cheers,
For all of Lawrence to hear,
Basketball is in our DNA,
Ever since James Nai,
Searching for Starry Night
By Guanghao YuWhen I look into the lonely night sky,
I am reminded of yesterday’s passion.
Didn’t the stars fill the sky last night?
Didn’t your face reflect
The radiance of the moon?
We made music in the air, dancing
Under heaven’s light.
Parting Gift
By Guanghao YuGive me an unagitated evening,
where I could sleep-walk
under a light rose-petal sky,
and arrive at your door,
40 miles away,
just in time for dinner.
Colorado Green
By Guanghao YuHave you seen her? You must have seen her,
she’s one of the trees, with all the rain
that she can bear:
Eye color? Colorado green.
Hair color? The evening sun.
Don’t mistake her voice
for the hidden opal stream.
A Writer's Rhythm
By Gabrielle BrazzellSometimes all it takes is
A lyric of a song
A fragment of a conversation
A moment captured in a photograph
Then suddenly there you are
Using whatever you can
Napkins, paper, your own skin
Praise Poem
By Ethan HermanI believe that I am tasty Hershey Bar.
I’m 4'11" and, I think I’m as tall at the great big Redwood tree.
I’m as handsome as a daisy.
When fall comes it brings multi-colored leaves that are the best to look at.
I believe that I’m a great big shiny star.
Hollow
By Emily WilkinsonI am in love with a girl… who is afraid of breakfast,
who brews coffee in the morning like gasoline feeding a starving engine.
Her fingers dance around the machinery of her waist out of step with reality.
Forever in Paradise
By Emily SteinmetzNot all passion is love or an action,
it is a feeling and can be full of hatred.
The enemies of which we seek,
the monsters that we associate in our dreams are stuck within our heads.
The Walk On
By Daniel MarkiewiczThe fans knew it was the end
Their championship hopes were looking as bleak as a stormy night
As the star player fell down in fear
There was a crack that was clear
For his leg bone was fractured with an ambulance near
If Only it Wasn't a Dream
By Christopher MooreI can hear the loud silence
coming from the 100s of seats.
The pristine Steinway grand sits right in front of me.
I touch the black bench and feel its leathery surface.
I sit down and realize
幽玄 (yūgen)
By Catherine Strayhallthe moment that i lost him/i threw my belongings into my backpack/grabbed my hiking boots, and headed/to the great appalachian trail/where each step i took/over the dusty earth/reminded me/of growing up//i heard my dad/in my best memories/speaking/breathing/as he walked tall beside me/and constan