KSU LIBRARY—2018

Why I Write

“Why I Write” is a collaborative poem created by middle school participants in the 2017 Wick Juniors Writing Camp.

Sophia Lovinski

I write to grow
a world

     and let my imagination mold me
I write for reasons
     that cluster in my mind
          before they drift away
like feathers in
     the
          breeze

Wren Opperman

In a world so chaotic, so unfair
     I write to gain control of the page,
to go where my pen and I make decisions
     I write to make things fair

I write to
change lives

Lilac Secaur

I try to observe everything
     I hide with the pros, pretending
I have some clue of what I’m doing
     I write because the world
can make me feel
     like I’m the last leaf to fall

Laney Rozner

My pen twirls
     thoughts to ink,
brain to paper,
     writer to reader

Words fall down from my mind
     inspiration bubbles
like a pot of boiling water

Delainey Wyville

I write when I am fearful
     I write when I am glad

I write to
have a voice

because so many people do not
     have the choice to make that first pen stroke
to begin the fight

Ella Hassler

I write because I like the feeling
     of my pen
soaring across the page
     some call it writing,
others thinking

I call it
silent talking

Joshua Hlabangana

Writing is like living in a box,
     but you can go outside
and walk on an endless path
     piles of endless possibilities
pop up in your imagination,
     as you pass them by

“Why I Write” is a collaborative poem created by middle school participants in the 2017 Wick Juniors Writing Camp. The poem was edited by the Wick Poetry Center, and designed and illustrated by Cait Giambroni at Each + Every.

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