Bark

Bark! Woof woofy wooof!

Bark grrr no cat! Dog! WOOOOOOOF!

Food food yummy whine grrrrrr!

Bark barky barkkkkkkkkkkkkk!

Rawrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

Whine whineeee take me for a walk....

When everyone is walking fast, I speed up to match their pace

Even though it brings my legs to stone

When everyone is reading a certain book, i open it up too

Even though the story is boring and I yearn for a more interesting one

Because I don’t want to stick out like a weed in a field of wildflowers

Then my petals would fall out, leaving me with a million stares

So I zip up my jacket and pull u...

Summary of story: A girl who is devastated from her sisters death meets a duck which changed her view on life in many ways she never expected it to.

I close my eyes at 10:00 pm on Friday night.

_I see a vision of me, Ivy and dad going downtown. Ivy is extra excited because we are letting her show us the new slide that they just put into the park. Ivy loves slide and I hate them, but I’d do any...

A beautiful piece🖤

It’s almost my turn.

Like a lingering worry, The thought of being up on the podium hangs over me.

The feeling of dread

Like a disease, it multiplies as each second passes.

But they call me up anyway.

Like dust on the floor, I’m swept into

this darkness.

I walk up to the stage slowly.

Like a cat hunting, I’m careful with every step I take.

The audience is completely full.

Like...

We all get into my friend Mariah’s car. She drives us to our hoco 2017. We all blast musicout so loud abd shove sour patches into our mouth. We approach the driveway and something catches my eye. I see a bunch of limousines. And a girl with curled hair and a large purple flowery dress. Thats when i realize how underdressed I am. I'm wearing only a plain black dress with nothing on it. I begged my ...

Mochi: I hate reading!

Me: you are wrong reading is the best!

Mochi: No! Math is more important than reading! You are going to live your life off of numbers! In reading all you do is just read words.

Me: that’s not true! Books make you learn more about and connected to the world

They deepen one’s perspective of life

They also better your personality

Mochi: blah blah stop using such teenpage...

Date: 5/3/24

Written by: Safia Valika

Age:16

Leaves blowing forcefully

Away from their only home

Down to an unpleasant pile

Ready to be tossed away

As they seize from the perfect green

To an ugly brown

Pleading for the absent water

As they begin to weaken

From the warm and blue skies

To the cold and windy gray

As the flowers so prevalent in spring

Now falter and die down

Your painting is a ...

Jitters before a hike

Imagine if you had only one arm, and you were tasked to carry 16 sets of 4 heavy textbooks and go on a fifteen minute walk from your house to the library. Imagine the nervousness you would feel before performing the task? That is exactly what I felt when my family was going on a trip to Peru to hike up Machu Picchu. During the several months before our trip to Peru, my dad ke...

Letting go of bonds

Like yours and mine

I am your teddy bear

That now you’ve outgrown

The days we spent together

Are now like a fallen rose petal

Laying there the sidewalk

How could you forget those precious days?

How could you forget all the

Talking we did about our woes?

The countless we spend together?

Leaning on each others shoulders?

All the excitement when we saw each other?

How coul...

The First Day of a New Year for me…

  Is a contrast to a completely erased slate 

  Old mistakes, still like 

  A lingering worry for your friend

 As I loathed the urge for the truth

 Expenditious hours filled with continuous events

 Made the clock tick faster than a cheetah’s run

 Pondering reflections going on the bottom 

 Of my endless to do list 

 No time to escape the dark cave

As butte...