Poetry

The marshy fields and prairie views
are beautiful to me,
its beautiful in its own way,
no one made it,
it is natural and calm.
It's a place with no advertisement.
It is real.

-Sophia

My thoughts are cloudy yet refreshing.
Every moment to me is a part of history.
I view life as a play with many actors.
We all do the same things but in different ways.
I view myself as a tall building in a busy city.
I have broad shoulders to take on the world.
I’m an old soul.
I soak up wisdom like a sponge at the carwash.
My wisdom allows me to be free.
My faith allows me to live.
My love gives me hope.
My life is like the first day of spring.
This is me, go figure!!

-Ellen

Why?

Why can't I be?
Why can't I be the skinny, tall, beautiful girl that always gets the spotlight?
Why can't I be the bright of the brightest stars in the sparkling summer sky?
Why can't I be the lead of the perfects?
I just sit and wonder why and let time pass by.
Sometimes you just gotta just sigh and realize that you just gotta let it go by.

-Colleen

I see beauty in empty alleys and pathways.

The beauty is the desertedness of it; like when people have just left and you see what they left behind; a footprint or a piece of paper.

The beauty is what could have happened or what might have happened long ago, or just a few minutes ago.

The emptiness is beautiful; it leaves you free to create instead of the usual…everyone telling or showing.

You are left to think for yourself, left to your own uninterrupted creation.

-Madison

Beauty

When sitting alone in pure darkness any presence, is possible.
Free to do as the mind pleases, for no judgment can occur.

Looking into the sheer emptiness can give a person the feeling that the moment is everlasting; beauty in itself.

The idea of a frozen moment is the freedom to savor life; to not care about anything except beyond and away.

In darkness, picturing anything is possible, allowing the mind to see only what it chooses-what it sees is beautiful.

-Molly