High Division

Honorable Mentions

It all seems like a distant memory from 20 years past when it was just 6 years ago when I was a carefree little boy who only cared about what video game I will play today or what TV show I'll be watching today or if I had an A in so and so class or if I need to word harder in that certain class or anticipating going to church gatherins on Sunday. Then she died and I fully experienced how messed up death can be on a little boy's life and how messed up life is. I was shocked everything seemed like a dream I thought that if I woke up it will all be a dream but I never woke up and I never will. I was in a haze everything was scary I didn't know what to do I didn't know how to deal with it instead I let all the bullying all the lies all the emotions bottle up and up and up until I finally blew up on a teacher then got more counseling and that didn't work everything kept bottling up and I started not caring where my life went where I went in society if I became a bum or an entrepreneur. I didn't care if I lived or if I died. I started to hate god and hate everyone. But I've seen the error of my ways and the stupidity of my days when I thought about these forbidden things. Now I see these distant memories as a time when I was happy.

by Bill Andrews

Life

"Laugh as much as you breathe

Love as long as you live"

So goes the quote

But really

Grinding through life leaves

little breath

For more than a moment's

struggle to breathe.

I Laugh.

by Cinthia Zepeda

The Sun Shines, the dunes glow

As you come up closer

The true height of the dunes is revealed

The trudge to the top is great,

But the run down is better!

by Wyatt Walsh

I confess...

I've never been the type to give up.

But lately it never seems to be enough.

I've really tried to be so strong,

So no one knows anything is wrong

But inside my feelings grow,

But inside I feel so low.

On the outside I smile, I laugh I talk

But I always keep my emotions on lock.

Love has never been my life

But nothing ever felt that right.

But of course, it didn't last,

It happened so slow, but ever so fast.

by Abby Rossi

Sunflower

yellow, brown

beautiful, big, blooming

loved, ladybug, many, golden

bluesky, seeds, mexico

bursting, warmth

Smile

by Marisol Meza