The standard English curriculum at CHS is infamous for solidifying a structured “TIQA-IQA” essay into the minds of students, but April brings about a new iteration of writing. In 1996, the Academy of American Poets launched the yearly celebration of National Poetry Month to spotlight poetry’s contributions to culture and society. Students are encouraged to write poetry in classes and many others are self-taught poets—spreading their messages through carefully constructed language. The Wolfpacket would like to feature the wonderful student poets at CHS in celebration of National Poetry Month.
By Olive Haynes-Bendian
We take and take and take,
Unabashed and free;
freedom or fake?
I promise, there’s no fee
So just pick up the screen,
They cannot stop, man they are so scrappy
Despite everything, you try to make yourself clean
They think it’s the key
To happiness?
It’s in our gene
It gleamed from our own consumption
To desire a scene
And in the end we find that it is only our assumption
The chains that bound us are invisible
But when we turn on the light; we can truly see that we are unlimited
By Mairead Lucke
you can always come home
a brief break
turned into a year-long vacation,
filled with the false promise of self discovery,
full of homesickness.
and now you’ve returned home.
the sinks have rusted over,
and the garden has withered.
it no longer looks like the place you called home,
but nowhere else has either in a very long time.
but it still smells like home:
the sharp scent of pine needles outside.
the sweet peaches rotting on the grass.
the freshly washed bed sheets.
it may take a long time to be home again,
but it’s more home than anywhere else.
