VOX Teen Poetry: Quarantine Things
Zakai Beck
April 27, 2020
VOX ATL’s Zakai Beck aka Zakai X delivers a new series of poetry inspired by being quarantined.
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VOX ATL’s Zakai Beck aka Zakai X delivers a new series of poetry inspired by being quarantined.
VOX ATL writer Maya shares a new poem, “Feathers.”
Humble yourself Who are you, what have you done? It may be a bright day for you but who’s to say others like the sun
Sony o sony could you please hurry up Been waiting on the 5 now I heard I’m in luck Sony o sony could you please
“Being stripped of our rights and everything we have ever loved / But even still, we remain the best creatures known to love,” writes VOX
VOX ATL teen poet Zakai Beck debuts with his poem “Human.” A piece about our differences that make us all alike. We make up earth.
I named him sky, the golden boy Skin bright, beams bouncing off my hippocampus cold-hearted and hot-headed So high my eyes turned red for him
managing my cold sweats and nightmares is quite a task By quite a task I mean extremely difficult, seemingly impossible, and nonetheless necessary so I
VOX ATL’s James Rhee delivers a poem about being OK with where you are.
This is a disappearing act. It is strange how phone calls sound like alarms How alarms ring of tornado warnings How tornado warnings mirror evacuation
VOX ATL staff writer Christina Norris shares a poem about going from grade school to college.
Most days I feel nothing. You can’t imagine how hard it is to get free when the shackles are your Kin folk The tightest knit