Do You Like Ellen Hopkins?

If you are a fan of novels in verse, check out this tale of two totally different girls,

bound by the same illness.

Poetry Submission

Disalignment by Mitch Winters

And how do I back down now? For through my betrayal I've found her.
Her words that both soothe and stab.

My equal and opposite number, standing atop her walls as I do mine.
Hearts surrounded in stone more formidable than the most intimidating of nature's mountains and sunk into fetid, acidic pits born of rejection. Irony jumps to my mind. How odd that we relate on what separates us from the masses. Both of us, not just tossed as trash but dropped to the ground like putrid and smoldering steel, assaulting the senses and melting the flesh of those around us.

Why is it I'm doomed to find happiness in transgression?
Is this what makes men evil? If so, is this what I am?
And above all else, am I in Love?




Would you like to submit your own poetry to be posted in the Bossier Parish Library teen blog? Email questions or submissions to yaservices@bossierlibrary.org!

Old Silou Ray - Poetry by Joshua

During the teen summer reading program, several teens chose a painting to write a poem or short story about. The poem below was written during this program.


Old Silou Ray
by Joshua Crochet

To stand guard, all night and day,
Twas the job assigned to old Silou Ray.

A deal from a man of mystical ways,
let old Silou Ray never run out of days.

As long as the fountain was guarded from whomever,
Old Silou Ray would live forever.

The man gave one rule that had to be met,
"Don't drink from the fountain, or you will regret."

After years passed his curiosity grew;
The secret of the fountain, he never knew.

Going mad to the point where he couldn't think,
Silou knelt down and took a long drink.

His spear and shield fell onto the floor,
for old Silou Ray was forever seen no more.


Artwork used with permission of artist, Stephanie Pui-Mun Law.