Welcome to GIRL.COM.AU's Creative Corner. Each month we give budding young readers the opportunity to submit poetry, short stories, or artwork and have their work published!
AFFIRMATION
(Dedicated to my best friend Jaci Tranter)
I believe that you have to listen to your heart because it will always tell you the right thing I believe if things go wrong it is for a reason I believe you don't always know why it is I believe no matter what any one else thinks You do what you think is best That's why I believe we will always be friends I don't care about the rest I believe that they were right And yes, we were wrong But it's not going to stop us being friends Because friendship is so strong Friendship will last longer Especially when it's true AND I believe that's me and you
- Shelley
GIRL
What a lonely life What a lonely world What a Sad Being Who'd want to be a girl?
Where's the life of laughter What happened to the child? Now locked in a cage we hide Till we go crazy and wild
The wounds go deep The bruises blue The pain is hiding Inside of you
The love is still there As bright as ever But how can we last Is this forever?
- Katherine Donlon
When will it be? That you will see That you and me Are meant to be
- Kelly
ONE STEP
With darkness as my leader The light seems out of place The shadows that the evil cast Fall upon my face
No one believes this girl is troubled They just ignore it. Will not see That all this girl really needs Is a loving family
Instead they push her farther away Not far, Just out of reach So if they took that small step closer Her life would be complete.
But they won't take that step They sit back, Watch and wait They torment her with her presence This distance she can't take.
- Pruey
LOVE
What is love? Love is the butterflies in your stomach When the person you love walks by Love is the goose bumps on your arms When you look at him eye-to-eye Love is a drug that makes you high When you hear his lovable voice Love is the heat that melts your heart When you realise you have no choice What is love anyway? Love is when you care for someone Without putting on an act True love is just simply When he loves you back
- Dani P.
Whispers through the night Mean so much to so many, Loud screams through the day Can be ignored so easily. Are we trapped within our speech? Maybe? Does anyone really ever understand our true feelings? Or does silence speak for us?
- Frances Cusworth
NAMELESS
I'd love to fly It's my one true wish I'd love to swim In the sea with the fish I'd love to walk Across a thousand plains And for you I'd walk Over burning flames
- Susan Goodman
QUESTIONS
The silence surrounds me. Maybe I should ask, For I do not know the answer... Now there is talking I have lost the opportunity I may never know the way.
- Carlie Di Pilla
NOT GOOD ENOUGH
I'm not good enough for you Not popular Not cool Don't smoke Don't drink You don't know I exist I look at you You look away Will I ever, Ever be good enough?
- Nathan Johnson
We are so cruel We are so mindless We close communication We then see spirits die. We see beggars on the street We see homeless in the gutters. Once successful businessmen Were shot down by their own ignorance We say we are friends for each other We say we are united But when it comes to sacrifice Where are we? We're not in sight. We see people, so lost We see people fall down. Do we ever stop and help or are we too good for that? We live in a material world Filled with technology and noise We need to hear some silence, Or else live a life of fraud.