Upon Arrival: Commencement

Poems In This Collection

• I Want His Blessing, Too

  PoetJayson Nick

• Bow Tie

  PoetStephen Karnaghan

• Observation

  PoetFrancine Joyce

• emptiness

  PoetMelissa Reisetter

• Selfless

  PoetMadison Feeler

• No Escape

  PoetHailey Johnson

• Oceans

  PoetSarah Bennet

• Moonlight on Mother

  PoetJewel Dupont

• I'm Like...

  PoetKaryssa Richardson

• Revision of Child Bedtime Prayer

  PoetFred Mauldin

• Genetics

  PoetBrendan Smith

• Without a Friend

  PoetBuck Hedges

• A Naturistic Endeavor

  PoetAlvin Dysick Jr.

• Isolation

  PoetBrooke Culbertson

• Drawn

  PoetStacy Smith

• The Determination in Us

  PoetAnna Van Vleet

• Roses

  PoetF. Lindley Hopkins

• Farewell

  PoetColeman Sweeney

• The Dark Night's Sky

  PoetCharles Martinez

• Escape

  PoetTasmia Chowdhury

• Perspective

  PoetBrittany Wells

• Candy Apple Diamond Dreams

  PoetMark Frazier

• Life

  PoetSharon Amadori

• To a Chamber and a Chase

  PoetRocky Bragg Jr.

• Distraction

  PoetPhoebe Pillon

• The Awesome Opossum

  PoetNanci Falley

• A Fighting Heart

  PoetMegan Anderson

• Within Her a Real Angelic Being

  PoetCharleen Walker

• Ocean Air

  PoetDavidson Neville

• The Cadence

  PoetLinda McConnell

• wash

  PoetKaylien Ownby

• Success Is in the Start

  PoetJune Davis

• Sorrow

  PoetMelissa Antoye

• Prince

  PoetVy Sharieff

• Just Us Two

  PoetLinda Fuentes

• A Narwhal Named Steve

  PoetEzra Kronfeld

• Skin Deep

  PoetAbigail Kuhns

• The Illusion

  PoetBrooklyn Meadows

• Greatness of Love

  PoetShaun Gerardo

• When the World Stands Still

  PoetRichard Carver

• They Say

  PoetKarissa Lewis

• to coexist with flowers

  PoetAndrea Sanchez

• An Outcast Wish Heard Wrong

  PoetEmilee Jones

• Morning

  PoetElla Yu

• For You

  PoetChloe Kaelberer

• God's Seed

  PoetCarla

• Ana Lies

  PoetAshlyn Plum

• Land of Relationships

  PoetKatyrina Jesch

• Trying to See Through the Rain

  PoetKimberley Woodin

• Smile

  PoetElsa Nieder

• Stuck in the Closet

  PoetKellen Colson

• A Soldier's Cross

  PoetDarren Ehrlich

• Love Awakes

  PoetBrenda Williams

• Don't Cry Over Spilled Milk

  PoetKelsey Londagin

• Monument of Love

  PoetEdward Harper

• Time

  PoetEllarry Prentice

• Masquerade

  PoetJoanne Stovell

• My Darkness

  PoetJoyce Moore

• What Is Art?

  PoetAmanda Barclay

• Three Inches Tall

  PoetJulia Fiorello

• Solace

  PoetKrystin Taylor

• Falling in Love

  PoetShruti Chamadia

• Brevity

  PoetRebecca Spadacenta

• Dark Magic

  PoetLorenzo Santana

• Earthly People

  PoetGlame Parker

• My Pets

  PoetEmily Myers

• Anchor Baby

  PoetPat Hasper

• Catching Bees

  PoetHannah Betancourt

• The Persistence of State

  PoetJosh Frye

• Love, Peace, and Happiness

  PoetRebecca Salazar

• Because You Didn't Die That Day

  PoetKimberly Van Acker

• The Past

  PoetSteven Jackson

• In Flight

  PoetCynthia Morrison

• Baxter

  PoetCindy Borsvold

• It's You

  PoetChloe' Williams

• Weakness to Strength

  PoetChristina

• The Butterfly Gardener

  PoetIsabella Pelkey

• Renaissance

  PoetAzriel Apap

• Hell on Earth

  PoetSonia Varma

• Coming to Terms

  PoetNoah Obrion

• Guilt

  PoetTeresa Heavilin

• Subway

  PoetNatalie Gutierrez

• Uncles Like Mine

  PoetKylie Flynn

• Dreaming

  PoetOlivia Rinetti

• The Gift

  PoetJames Baker

• Stood Up

  PoetGrace Malone

• War

  PoetNancy Dinius

• Her Dare to Dream

  PoetRhonda Gross

• Of These Things I Dream

  PoetMegan Tolias

• About Last Night

  PoetZachary Rea

• Autumn

  PoetLauren Couch

• True Love Never Dies

  PoetDiane McGary

• You

  PoetJo Raetzel

• I Kissed the Sky

  PoetTrinity Bowens

• Free at Last

  PoetSophia Rumpel

• Let Me Travel This Road Again

  PoetSimran Chawa

• The Shore

  PoetMikayla Shaw

• If It Means Anything

  PoetCayden Enix

• Love Lost

  PoetJordyn Caughie

• Riverbank Ghost

  PoetSarah Knowlton

• I Know You

  PoetNaomi Fonseka

• Freedom Fighters

  PoetPresten Traxler

• The Virtuous Vine

  PoetWillison Reed

• Lift Up the Carpet

  PoetVictoria Green

• Talk of War

  PoetGrace Fairbanks

• Love Again

  PoetTeresa Brown

• Dealings in Hell

  PoetTroy Gordon

• A Walk for Memories

  PoetGeremiah Winker

• Recollections Tend to Breathe

  PoetAleah Dye

• The Sky

  PoetEmma Schroeder

• Synesthesia

  PoetMiracle Brocco

• I Have a Voice Deep Inside

  PoetKathryn Beard

• Forgotten

  PoetSarah Abdo

• Dad's Advice

  PoetDaniel Gibbons

• The Canoe on Alouette

  PoetTimmy Wang

• Adam

  PoetRachael Coombe

• The Memory Sharers

  PoetElaine Trehub

• What the World Needs Now

  PoetCassandra Wilkerson

• Dream

  PoetCaitlyn Burkhardt

• Ashes

  PoetRebecca Athanasiov

• I'm Glad to Meet You

  PoetThomas Laidler

• The Door

  PoetDandre Moy

• Trapped

  PoetKatie Kellenberger

• Acceptance

  PoetLissandra Molina

• Reflection

  PoetJoseph Pompa

• Story to the Wise

  PoetDavid Williams Jr.

• Withering Heart

  PoetPaula Bruning

• The Life I Desire

  PoetKyrell Newell

• Midnight

  PoetMelissa Lukins

• Sabbatical for Grace

  PoetAylin Wojciechowski

• Suburban Treachery

  PoetJuliet Koutny

• Daddy's Love

  PoetLanaye Jewson

• I Am

  PoetAnn Sdono

• Stations

  PoetAlayna Brandmeyer

• Alone

  PoetPaige Collins

• It

  PoetAlly Evans

• Burning Tree

  PoetAutumn McIntyre

• Last Plea

  PoetJudy Goldstein

• Don't Go

  PoetKatie Harris

• The Common Spelling of La-a

  PoetChristina Lewis

• My Sorrow

  PoetTammy Wheeler

• School

  PoetAmanda Thompson

• Jasmine Richards

  PoetJasmine Walker

• Seeking Nirvana

  PoetJulia Hyde

• The Crow

  PoetBarry Grissom

• Spring Angel

  PoetJulie Rambo

• Melting

  PoetLily Pinkowski

• Forever Not Gone

  PoetSarah Cary

• A Ghost

  PoetLynn Oliva

• The Dark Ain't Got Nothing on Me

  PoetNaeleen Fernandez

• In the Dark

  PoetTeresa Mejorado

• Amazing

  PoetKeyana Po

• Beach Nightfall

  PoetRobert Porter Jr.

• Waiting for a Sign

  PoetIrina Langer

• The Girl with the Lion Heart

  PoetBianca Santos

• The Thought of Metal

  PoetAlaxandria Hickman

• Over the Sea

  PoetJohn Minot

• I See You

  PoetDestinee Brown

• Sounds of War

  PoetRuby Holmes

• work in progress

  PoetFlora Jumbe

• Wildflower

  PoetCash Court

• Leaving Scars

  PoetVeronica Seals

• Blizzard of Saddness

  PoetAndrea Jimenez

• The Darkness Feels So Sad

  PoetBarbara Tantillo

• The Truth About Writing

  PoetMeghan Sullivan

• My Soul

  PoetEstefany Castillo

• Home

  PoetAmber Reinhart

• The Shadow of Life

  PoetDiego Garcia Hernandez

• With Shaky Hands

  PoetMegan Becker

• Necessary Lines

  PoetCharles Omer

• Please Let Me See--Remove Poem from Book

  PoetAlan Katz

• Darkness

  PoetEmma Vella

• A Tender Kiss

  PoetBrittany Jackson

• Prison of the Phoenixed Leaves

  PoetBaylee Kram

• Secrets of an Onion

  PoetBrooke Crouch

• Protecting Myself from Emotions

  PoetFaith Cleghorn

• What Basketball Means to Me

  PoetTaylor Kozelka

• Cold Letters

  PoetJaida Gray

• Windmill

  PoetSarah Vandermyden

• Manipulated Deception

  PoetSaad Mufti

• Future Self

  PoetFlorence Buie

• I Believe

  PoetMegan Timmer

• Cardboard Castle

  PoetJennifer Moser

• That's What Love Is

  PoetCassia Barker

• Hear the Little Children

  PoetCharlie Rankin

• You

  PoetCaitlin Tiger

• Dame, I Didn't Harm Thy Fortune

  PoetTheresa Maus

• Coal Fisch My Militia

  PoetLori Schneider

• Out the Window

  PoetAbby Locke

• Slavish Obsession

  PoetSerena Palumbo

• 15-Apr

  PoetNicholas Batdorf

• Ink of Lies

  PoetRhyan Beaulieu

• Life in a Nutshell

  PoetTarra

• It Will Be a Fine Day

  PoetEmcee Bee

• If Death Could Smile

  PoetMikayla Meyers

• Heaven's Handwritten Calligraphy

  PoetCristian Ramirez Rodriguez

• Looking for Slugs

  PoetAshley Johnson

• I Remember

  PoetIsai Contreras

• To Fly Away

  PoetCatherine Moore

• God Is Good

  PoetNancy Garcia

• Chance

  PoetJocelyn Spear

• God Is Near

  PoetKarolina Sampson

• Love

  PoetMadilynn Sexton

• The Lesser Half of a Whole

  PoetAshlyn Roble

• A Child Is Like a Flower

  PoetGenevieve Donovan

• Pine's Warned Splinter

  PoetDaniel Fenton Jr.

• Yellow

  PoetDiana Meekins

• Rain, Rain

  PoetSarah Vlha

• Cry for All Eternity

  PoetBethany Newman

• Aurora Borealis

  PoetAlice Xu

• Eyes of Brown

  PoetJaqueline Deemer

• Hope

  PoetGeisha Battle

• You Name It

  PoetChasatie Jordan

• Now I'm Gone

  PoetVictoria Buechel

• People from Outer Space

  PoetNicholas Cardenas

• Farewell

  PoetIan Duff

• Breathless Beauty

  PoetEltreta Wood

• Chaos

  PoetRegina Scott

• Beauty

  PoetJames Nielsen

• Struck

  PoetJulhianna Verma

• My Mind

  PoetJames Leonard

• Polaroid Party

  PoetMalorie Allen

• Love Is a Dream on the Beach

  PoetAlexis Messersmith

• Color of Night

  PoetAdam Kerr

• The Nation's Feast

  PoetClayton Bruce

• Mother

  PoetMarcelina Lopez

• Indetermenate Sentence

  PoetErnest Lesh

• You Can't Make Love Happen

  PoetDesiree Harris

• In My Father's House

  PoetWei Kinnie

• What If

  PoetArt Smalls

• Jim's Poem

  PoetElizabeth Fijalkiewicz

• If McLuhan Were Here Today

  PoetHannah Strait

• A Busy Street at Midnight

  PoetSipra Roy

• The Voice

  PoetErin Fitzgerald

• Sadness Underground

  PoetFrancesca Bohan

• Broken Home

  PoetAmanda Abelenda

• Persephone's Walk

  PoetEdlynn Nau

• Together

  PoetKyle Schlosser

• Phosphorescence

  PoetLindsy Weyrick

• When I See You

  PoetWilliam Robertson

• Fog

  PoetSavana Middleton

• Radiating Love

  PoetLuke Mueller

• Imperfectly Yours

  PoetDanielle Leonardi

• The Mayor and the Preacher

  PoetJared Thibado

• The One That Got Away

  PoetShaun Weller

• Forever Happy

  PoetChris Schenck

• my lying cry

  PoetCadence Harrington

• Silence Is Deafening

  PoetGabrielle Hosli

• Love Mask

  PoetOctava Moore

• Premature Marigold

  PoetNicholas Harnett

• I Met Them in December

  PoetMegan Smith

• My Wish

  PoetKenneth Fiyod

• Stay Open

  PoetBrian Ayllon

• I'll Watch You

  PoetHarleigh Batterson

• A Pretty Little Bird

  PoetTyler Holmes

• Sobriety Rocks

  PoetSusan Lake

• Hereditary Darkness

  PoetJaeden Rickman

• Eternity

  PoetKevin Forward

• Hollow

  PoetEmily Thompson

• Silent Harangue

  PoetAna Babcinetchi

• Spring

  PoetAnna Noga

• The Harvest

  PoetDaniel Deaton

• Cold

  PoetAshton Mitchell

• Broken Dream

  PoetJoanne Cherisma-Stallings

• Imagination

  PoetLuca Albert

• The Mountain

  PoetNicholas Sauter

• Your Stone Wall

  PoetAdrian Lovenduski

• Happily Married

  PoetElizabeth Girard

• Intertwined

  PoetHaylee Torres

• Untitled

  PoetSydney Delaurier

• Will You Still Love Me

  PoetEmily Quintanilla

• If Love Could Talk

  PoetJamie Ciancitto

• Lasting Love

  PoetShandi McDaniel

• First Date

  PoetJohnny Maldonado

• The Invitation

  PoetPatricia Wagner

• This Dance

  PoetSara Abdelnaby

• Worlds Inside

  PoetAnthony Miller

• 5 a.m.

  PoetMichelle Frederick

• Cameo Buttons and Gingham

  PoetAmber Sutherland

• Mother Africa

  PoetAzhane Patterson

• The Plague

  PoetEddy Graham

• Come to Me

  PoetMargo Venkateswaran

• Heaven's Doors

  PoetNeleah Watkins

• The Blouse

  PoetJeanette Watson

• The Real Me

  PoetCiera Taylor

• Delicately Woven Dreams

  PoetAmber Harris

• What You See

  PoetEmma Graeff

• The Blues

  PoetVinceline Bertrand

• Tempus Fugit

  PoetRebecca Driscoll

• Without Her

  PoetGreg Roberts

• Cat Patrol: Ode to Mandy

  PoetP. J. Stump

• Collateral

  PoetTatiana Courtney

• What Makes My Mom Beautiful

  PoetTaylor Wilson

• Letter from the Better

  PoetShailiegh Piepmeier

• The March

  PoetKrisann Schwanke

• Depression

  PoetJaney Trosper

• Above and Below

  PoetZoe Smith-Holladay

• The End of All Love

  PoetJulia Casale

• Crossroad

  PoetMitchel Harrington

• Dear State Representatives

  PoetJulia Sachse

• Breaking Free

  PoetKelly Chikey

• Honey Tree

  PoetSadie Lane

• Depression

  PoetSierra Abbott

• Shipyard

  PoetAyla Hoeve

• Art of Nostalgia

  PoetTaylor Parsons

• I Am Darkness

  PoetAleena Manoj

• Shallow Waters

  PoetMichael Peterson

• Walking Galaxy

  PoetJackie Boian

• Take a Walk Through the Meadow

  PoetAlex King

• Survivor

  PoetMatthew Sudduth

• Imagine

  PoetDestiny Curley

• Social Media Mask

  PoetRene Sacchitella

• Visage

  PoetMary Simmons

• Finding Strength in Epilepsy

  PoetMintoy Tillman

• Not So Special Day

  PoetRylee Lemley

• The Lost Paradise

  PoetAnitha Joseph

• Tears

  PoetHope Miller

• He Said, She Said

  PoetTheresa Seward

• Death, Be Kind

  PoetEvelyn Gonzalez

• Test

  PoetMedina Danish

• Mysteries of Their Minds

  PoetJustice Griffee

• Death's Heartbeat

  PoetPaul Kenward

• Depression

  PoetLeanne Mills

• Two Means to an End

  PoetIan Klein

• Melantho's Lament

  PoetAmanda Kural

• Duets

  PoetSamantha Meadows

• Modern Life

  PoetBraxton Stratton

• Fate

  PoetKeondra Scott

• Moon

  PoetCindy Barbosa

• The Journey

  PoetMichael Strand

• Why?

  PoetAlexis Gantt

• Look Up

  PoetAlexis Guevara

• Purple Heart

  PoetMagdelena Allen

• A Positive Spin

  PoetJanet Piper

• Battles Within

  PoetSateva Walling

• Pure

  PoetCarson Werner

• Toska

  PoetLauren McNamara

• The Artist

  PoetEve Schortgen

• Lost and Unfound

  PoetTerry Bonnar

• The Beast

  PoetJulie Stark