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.
If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, it is also in the ear; if our unique freckles, curves and scars can add to our charm, so too can our honking laugh or shower-song endear us to others. This week’s featured poet, Amelia Cannizzaro of Essex, relates beauty to a record forever humming in the background of our lives, occasionally tripping over the odd scratch in the shape of a flaw but always flowing on.
Beauty is a record
By Amelia Cannizzaro, 13, of Essex
I believe that beauty is a record.
It continues on and on,
sometimes running into scratches that mess up the beauty of it as a whole,
scratches that force the song to become distorted.
Although these records have bumps and scratches,
they remain beautiful.
Every record sings a different song,
tells a different story.
There is so much variety when picking the music you enjoy.
There’s joy and sadness,
anger and despair,
confusion and heartbreak,
yet they are all beautiful.
Some records hold secret meanings behind their lyrics,
hoping the listener will catch on.
Some records spell it out so easily,
the listener understands almost immediately.
I believe that beauty is a record.
And I believe that record is my life.