This year, I’ll finally turn an age I can’t say in Hindi. And even if I get around to finally inputting “fifteen” into Google Translate, I still won’t know how to say it: the syllables will rust and bend around my tongue like cheap metal, and I’ll roll my “r’s” in a way learned in…
Teenagers scroll on social media for hours. I myself realize how much I spent time on my phone staring at the screen for hours, looking for something interesting, silly, or funny to fill that void of boredom. High schoolers like myself spend so much time online, while we could be learning new knowledge through books,…
I’ve always been a firm believer in authenticity and establishing genuine relationships with people. However, this is something I continuously struggle with, as I feel that mostly people are solely interested and are content with casual relationships and transactional friendships. This is especially true in today’s day and age, where everything seems to be about…
Sometimes I find it intriguing how the media portrays wars. No matter how it’s supposed to be seen by the average viewer, when watching war on the news I’m horrified. I’m horrified that humans are capable of that level of violence. I bring this up because Donika Kelly’s poem “I Never Figured How to Get…
Jeffery Harrison’s poem “Amnesia,” describes a scene that most people reading the poem can easily immerse themselves in. A moment of remembering something, but it being on the tip of your tongue— a memory you can almost reach, yet one that becomes murky once specific details are required. Harrison was born in Cincinnati in 1957…
Here in Connecticut, I breathe in cold air; I breathe in the dying leaves that fill the sidewalk; I breathe in the freezing Long Island Sound. In Ormond Beach, Florida, I exhale. I love Ormond Beach so much…like so much. I love the way the sun turns my skin golden as I sit in the…
In the beginning of English class this year, my teacher emphasized an important idea that he wanted us to keep in the back of our minds when entering class discussions. As an introduction to this idea, he presented to the class a quotation from “Self-Reliance” by Ralph Waldo Emerson: “A man should learn to detect…