VOX Teen Poetry: Addition
VOX ATL January 10, 2020
If my math is correct then if I write a thousand poems in my head the moment I think about killing myself then the thought
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If my math is correct then if I write a thousand poems in my head the moment I think about killing myself then the thought
ain’t no music in the grave but the rattlin of bones the resonance of moans the silence. ain’t no films in the bottom of the
I walk into the place that I used to call home Embracing my mother for the first time in forever But the love doesn’t feel
P-r-i-d-e The only thing I’ve seen Besides lost dreams that can shrivel up like sweat drops Heart stops from slanged rocks Because growing up in
VOX ATL staff member Shyne Jones shares his first poem, “Prison of Perception.”
2019 Atlanta Youth Poet Laureate Nathan Wallace brought his audience to tears when he performed this piece dedicated to his mother. Watch the video for
After having so much fun back in December, VOX ATL linked up with Atlanta Hawks rookie Omari Spellman to give Atlanta youth another chance to
VOX ATL was invited to create poetry about self-affirmation and love at The Villages at Carver Family YMCA in partnership with Georgia Cares, a nonprofit
In “Therapy,” poet Michaiah Edwards starts off by saying, she is in fact, not a poet.
…I am not yours.
I am a human and I want to be treated like one.
“R.I.P. to your burst bubble
Before, you thought we were trouble
This movie dragged us out the rubble
And had you colonizers
We are in a millennial civil rights movement, and “Black Panther” will go down in history as coming at the perfect time.