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I want to see you

By Jordan Singh on October 1, 2019
Arts and Culture   Poetry   YSA youth contributions
I want to see youLet’s dive into the deep blueY’all need to hear my point of view Yes we don’t always

The cycle of destruction in American cities

By Charles Blackwell on September 1, 2019
Arts and Culture   Poetry   YSA youth contributions
Angel Brinston and Inti Gonzalez A frame, a skeleton, another crane, another construction site, a point of destruction, a high

Eating A Mango

By Julia Vinograd on May 1, 2019
Arts and Culture   Poetry   YSA youth contributions
I am eating a mango with many paper towels, getting the sweet sticky stuff all over me. I am a child, eating a mudpie of the sun and not interested in all the things I’ll understand when I grow up.

Street Musician

By Julia Vinograd on May 1, 2019
Arts and Culture   Poetry   YSA youth contributions
(Enera Wilson) He sits on a blue egg crate under a street corner tree, His long crossed legs balancing a

Downhill

By Julia Vinograd on May 1, 2019
Arts and Culture   Poetry
I don’t have a home and I live here all the time.

Thunder Under the Sky

By Julia Vinograd on May 1, 2019
Arts and Culture   Poetry   YSA youth contributions
It’s raining in the ruins. Carved Pillars holding up clouds. A cracked marble stage surrounded by crouched drummers. Thunder in

Eat your heart out

By Mary Stackiewicz on April 1, 2019
Arts and Culture   Poetry
The hate you have in your heart is darker than my skin. Since you don’t like my darkness anyway you

Adrift

By Joanna Bragen on April 1, 2019
Arts and Culture   Poetry
Who is still here with me and where has everyone else gone where is my anchor when all my security

Worth a Thousand Words

By Claire J. Baker on March 1, 2019
Arts and Culture   Poetry
A riveting black & white photo: a homeless man & his dog asleep under freeway overpass. The dog’s head rests on the man’s hand, a guardian in

Faithful Fools Retreat on the Streets

By Maureen Hartmann on March 1, 2019
Arts and Culture   Poetry
I felt like a fool, like St. Francis of Assisi, who was a fool for Christ, wandering the streets in the Tenderloin

A Revolutionary Mind

By Kaleeo Acatar on March 1, 2019
Poetry
So I’m hearing you won.  Slowly dancing to Blackstones  Beat  Thus selling our streets  to the point where  your even

Three Haikus by Needa Bee

By Anita de Asis Miralle aka Needa Bee on February 1, 2019
Poetry
Politricksters  Babylon leadersRule with lies, harm those with lessGet paid for their crimes Homefull Houseless on the streets.But with love
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