Young Writers Project is a creative online community of teen writers, photographers, and artists, based in Vermont since 2006. Each week, VTDigger features the writing and art of young Vermonters who publish their work on youngwritersproject.org, a free, interactive website for youth 12-18 years old. To find out more, visit youngwritersproject.org, or contact Executive Director Susan Reid at sreid@youngwritersproject.org; 802-324-9538.
The creative process is anything but singular. Some describe it as a contented sigh of emotional release; others, as a painful but necessary extraction; still others, as the frenzy of a hyper, caged animal suddenly unleashed. That last experience might be what this week’s featured poet, Molly Quavelin of Burlington, would best relate to. Poetry can be many things, but in her case, it is nothing short of fierce.
Poetry
By Molly Quavelin, 13, of Burlington
Words
stampede out of my hands
in the rush to escape the confines of my body,
spilling across pages
and pages of paper,
filling an endless sea,
with bones of ink
and wings of lead.
They scream to be the first written,
the thoughts puncturing
my skull to pour out
like a monsoon,
uncontrolled and wild,
the anger turned majestic,
like a raven,
metamorphosed into a living creature
by my yellow pencil.
Jumbled thoughts,
unknotted and smoothed
by my fingers.