Poetry Tuesdays - Outtakes

 In the spirit of sharing our students work, we will post the rest of the submissions for Poetry Tuesday on our blog!


These are the additional submissions for the prompt: 

We are coming up on the fall season. Write a short poem about what fall means to you be it the season or the action or sensation of falling.



Ribcage Rest by Karely Gallegos Gonzalez


The crunchiness of leaves,

gives such an unexpected twist.

There is a hot brew in my veins,

it sings a familiar tune,

almost as sharp as the midnight sun.


Today is a crisp autumn day

and it all began,

with the dirt's carcass.



Untitled by Blackrose


I don’t enjoy the fall.

Harsh, but true. The world around me turns shades of brown. Everyone dresses in hues of orange and yellow. All the greenery loses its vibrancy.

Nothing stays the same. Change is inevitable in nature. Maybe that’s why we didn’t work out. You went with the flow of the season, and I couldn’t let go of the life that I knew was left in me.

I refused to fall. I couldn’t fall in love with you, not the same way you loved me.



Insidiously Taken by Karina Saenz

Was it an act of falling

That brought me here

To my knees

To this darkened wasteland


Was it an act of falling

That allowed me

To reach this chasm 

To this black hole of existence


I did not feel it 

The fall

Was graceful

Carefully executed


Was it an act of surrender 

That left me alone

To the mercies of silence

To the lulls and heaves of sadness


Was it an act of surrender

That chained me here

To my own unholy boulder

To the dark water of the mind


I did not feel it

The surrender

Was unwilling

Insidiously taken




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