Poems

By Maggie Reynolds 9% Thats how many  American teens identify As LGBTQ Now There’s another number as well 68 Sixty-eight percent of LGBTQ teens are out to their parents What about the other 32%? Why  Why are 32% of LGBTQ teens afraid  to tell their parents the very people who brought them into existence about […]

By Ariana Price I am from a petite town filled with luscious forests and friends who reside closeby. A town called Wayland. I am from the school bell’s calm hum that immediately starts chaos, and the “click” sound of students typing thoughtful poems in English. I am from bikes around my neighborhood  listening to other […]

By: Ariana I would play Hatikvah loud on my violin So that the melody sinks in Blast it out to everyone I would be a beacon of light, like the sun I play it especially for those who think That we’re not native to Israel, or that we’re fake That we don’t belong here or […]

By Frankie Zilembo RED Red is the blood from the Stonewall riots Glass bottles and dreams of freedom fly in the air  Those riots are the spark that started what we have today The drag queens, queers and people with mismached genders are not in the wrong   It is the people with strong hate that […]

Graffiti on the walls of the bathroom stalls, The words that bash that hurt that bruise. Don’t make our community your muse, Engraving your cruel thoughts  making letters into gunshots.  This sound of slur we need to stop;  This school is not your little prop. The silly things people write don’t go away, those words […]