Young Writers Project is a creative, online community of teen writers and visual artists that started in Burlington in 2006. Each week, VTDigger publishes the writing and art of young Vermonters who post their work on youngwritersproject.org, a free, interactive website for youth, ages 13-19. To find out more, please go to youngwritersproject.org or contact Executive Director Susan Reid at sreid@youngwritersproject.org; (802) 324-9538.
Creative expression is the language of the soul. We use visual art to communicate what we see in the mirror or in our dreams, just as we use poetry to voice our desires, fulfilled or dashed, and to translate pure emotion into tangible concepts. This week’s featured poet, Evie Crowell of Milton, demonstrates the catharsis of putting pen to paper to assuage the great swirls of feeling that at one time or another come to engulf the anxious, lovesick or ebullient minds of us all.
Being a poet
Evie Crowell, 14, Milton
Being a poet––
I think to be a poet means
to be one to bleed out
on lined paper
and express the hurt
you must feel.
That not everyone is going to
understand the
“language” we speak
to communicate.
That sometimes the words we write
hit like a truck we didn’t see
coming.
We write to conquer the fear
of not being
understood
by others.
Writing our feelings
is like exhaling a
big breath
we’ve been holding in
for
way
too long.
