theplantnews
The Machine
Joshua J. Frederic Contributor I remember a heavy cloud of lies Roaming in the corridors It reeked a sterile scent, yet unclear Not old...
theplantnews
- May 13
- 1 min
Bones
Laury Charland Creative Writing Editor I found bones in the woods last night. Mother, I swear they weren’t his. I found bones in the...
theplantnews
- May 13
- 2 min
Free Verse - I wish…
Cristina Lijoi Contributor I wish I could tell you. I’ve lost and I’ve loved, and I’ve cried, and I’ve laughed. yet not a loss or love or...
theplantnews
- May 13
- 1 min
Ode to Sleep, Rest, Dreaming, and all the things that lie between.
Adrian Darwent Contributor Revisit the right of perennial rest Before familiar fading flared the fire Before me, Marx, Madonna, and...
theplantnews
- May 13
- 2 min
Unrealistic expectations of living as a teenager in today’s society
Shaelyn Diabo Contributor Growing up in a digital world has stunted the growth of those who have more potential than brainwashed and idle...
theplantnews
- Apr 22
- 1 min
Roots
Laury Charland Creative Writing Editor She watched the desert stretch on, a vast wasteland of nothingness and memories she’d rather...
theplantnews
- Apr 22
- 1 min
Let’s Just Talk
Adrian Darwent Contributor Okay. I’m listening Two hearts beating An autumn flutter Wings powdered together Sticky like your gloves At...
theplantnews
- Apr 22
- 1 min
In and out, an Explosion
Tanya Lemieux Contributor An avalanche hiding behind The mist of a crushing crowd. “Is it better to speak or die?”[1] If only I could...
theplantnews
- Apr 22
- 1 min
Untitled
Cedric Boudreau Contributor It spends its leisure reading old books made of leather rotting green brown The damp book, heavy with mold,...
theplantnews
- Apr 22
- 1 min
To Fomalhaut
Victoria Volpato Contributor The constellations smiled at each other. They winked and flirted and danced and floated; Gemini held — arm...
theplantnews
- Mar 23
- 1 min
Humankind’s Features
Émilie Hébert Contributor Colored faces, black and white Eyes, lips, tears despite Minds torn turn upright Human nature all unite Ugly...
theplantnews
- Mar 23
- 1 min
Untitled
Adrian Cerone Contributor distance in years between us i wave goodbye each night to the man i was when i lay down looking for sleep,...
theplantnews
- Mar 23
- 1 min
Patsy
Emma Majaury Contributor Sometimes, I am beautiful— But only when it’s right. Because they are afraid of me, A woman with looks that...
theplantnews
- Mar 23
- 1 min
A Wish for Someplace Else
Ben Bisaillon Contributor Leave your jewels in old shoes salt water makes it easy to float still drown in ocean air setting sunlight...
theplantnews
- Feb 19
- 1 min
We Like It Loud
Gabriel Gefin Contributor When shards and vessels meet Where the thickened river sleeps Our organs dance to hearty beats And scream “We...
theplantnews
- Feb 19
- 1 min
Echoes
Donté K-R Contributor From inception, there lived something primal Off and running before it could grow legs to stand on Mesmerised by...
theplantnews
- Feb 19
- 1 min
Excerpt from “Off the Deep End”
Savanna Vita Contributor Every dark emotion you’re feeling hits you like punches from a fight you were never going to win as you slide...
theplantnews
- Feb 19
- 1 min
My Consumption
Victoria Volpato Contributor The slippery slope of self-sacrifice, using me to get what he wants magnifies the feeling of hatred...
theplantnews
- Feb 19
- 1 min
Afterthoughts
Adrian Darwent Contributor Oh, to be (only) a lesson in love The sky, healing, exists (foremost) above Your halo, a cold gin and tonic...
theplantnews
- Feb 19
- 1 min
Chapters
Laury Charland Creative Writing Editor Do you ever wonder what comes next? After a big break, I mean. After you’ve been fired, or...
theplantnews
- Dec 10, 2021
- 4 min
Creative Writing of December: By various authors
Curve-ball Unless you have a crystal ball and a flair for the mystique, you can’t predict what happens to you. There may be cryptic...
theplantnews
- Nov 20, 2021
- 7 min
Creative Writing November 2021
It’s all it is, really. After the year has culminated in its phantasmal climax, there is nothing… But I joke. It’s time to harvest, can...
theplantnews
- Oct 19, 2021
- 1 min
The Bees' First Sting
By Tea Barrett Contributor Coats over costumes like clouds covering the sun, Sneaking sweets out of your sack. The evening always ends...
theplantnews
- Oct 19, 2021
- 1 min
Confessions of a Cashier
By Kayla Joy Friedland Contributor between the buzzing and beeping and sweet potatoes rolling beyond the carpet and to your feet where...
theplantnews
- Oct 19, 2021
- 1 min
Dr. Seuss’ Drunken Rambling After a Marital Affair
By Isabella Blu Ptito-Echeverria Voices Editor “You’re a nose-picker, head-splitter, tooth-breaker, shit-eater!” A finger pointed like...
theplantnews
- Oct 19, 2021
- 1 min
I Love You in the Morning
By Emmy Rubin Contributor I love you in the morning, When you dance in the bathroom As you brush your teeth. I love you in the afternoon,...
theplantnews
- Oct 19, 2021
- 1 min
Occult
By Mayan Godmaire Creative Writing Editor Penchant for the occultist crashing on the third floor on the futon. Wax drips, skulls, hot...
theplantnews
- Oct 19, 2021
- 1 min
Black And White
By Aspen Crick Contributor It’s that time of year again: Spooky season, Her favourite season. A smile escaping her lips As smoke makes...
theplantnews
- Oct 19, 2021
- 1 min
Yes, You Can be Them
By Christopher Dimitriadis Contributor Yes, you can be them. I want you to be them. Be yourself. Your true self, my darling. Yes, you can...
theplantnews
- Oct 19, 2021
- 1 min
Tragedy
By Julieta Lozano-Ramsay Contributor Taking it for granted, the oldest tale Tragedy makes the hermit set sail Tragedy reassigns value...
theplantnews
- Oct 19, 2021
- 1 min
The Blackness Of Night
There’s something exquisitely cathartic in October. You bring out the rats, you feel the first sting of cold on the wind, you dress to...
theplantnews
- Jun 13, 2021
- 1 min
The Brave Members of The Plant Team Write Haikus!
On Architecture By Arwen Low Brutalist blemish Reason needs some rococo De con struc tion ism On Good Eatin’ By Mia Kennedy Chicken,...
theplantnews
- Jun 13, 2021
- 1 min
Too much,
By Alessandro Mortellaro Contributor Too much what? Is it an abundance Of something (un)wanted? Or merely being overwhelmed? Too much...
theplantnews
- Jun 13, 2021
- 1 min
Moment Lost
By Anastasia Papakonstantinou Contributor Wind whips through my hair, Below, a sea of deep blue, Above, cool open skies, No railing to...
theplantnews
- Jun 13, 2021
- 1 min
Icarus’s Curse
By Georgia Svourenos Contributor As she gazed at his unconscious body, lips parted and lightly snoring, she couldn’t overcome her sudden...
theplantnews
- Jun 13, 2021
- 3 min
My Oldest Friend Loves Windows
By Carson Sawyer Laframboise Contributor My house is up in the Utilitarian Meadows. It’s an ironic name, since most of the houses have...
theplantnews
- Jun 13, 2021
- 1 min
the lovers
Cyrielle Ouedraogo Contributor he lays his hands upon her own and feels the way his dermis burns, the subtle tremors of his bones, the...
theplantnews
- Apr 24, 2021
- 3 min
April Showers
To me the poems this month all have that feeling when you wake up to a gray sky, everything is wet, and it’s raining. It’s the start of a...
theplantnews
- Feb 22, 2021
- 4 min
Love as Universal Constant
Ironic that the holiday of love falls in the coldest month of the year. We all know love can shock the system in a variety of wild and...
theplantnews
- Jan 21, 2021
- 3 min
Ethereal
Poems published in the December 2020 Issue This month, each contribution I received was more ethereal than the last. If the naked trees...
theplantnews
- Nov 23, 2020
- 3 min
Present Passed Future
When I came up with this month’s prompt, I expected to hear about at least one spaceship. Sci-Fi may have gone out the window, but talent...
theplantnews
- Oct 24, 2020
- 4 min
To Fall
Whether it is in summer’s glorious plunge into cold weather, in the ocean’s crashing waves, in the cause of a scraped knee, or simply in...
theplantnews
- Oct 2, 2020
- 4 min
Connection
The following poems treat human relations and their intricacies. Self and lover, self and stranger, self and society, self and self, and...
theplantnews
- Apr 17, 2020
- 1 min
You
Skipping Stones By Darcy Burnett Finger curled around a paper thin stone, Place bets on this rock. At the valley of rippled reflections,...
theplantnews
- Apr 17, 2020
- 2 min
Human Nature
Like the sun illuminates the day, we illuminate our truths when we put pen to paper. March’s Creative Writing section explores human vs....
theplantnews
- Apr 17, 2020
- 4 min
Home
Published in the February Issue This February’s Creative Writing section is full of Dawson students’ different perspectives on what it...
theplantnews
- Dec 10, 2019
- 1 min
Plum
Nina Dumornay Creative Writing Editor In a flash, we are blind. Our eyes are open and staring, flushed with light, as a sheet of white is...
theplantnews
- Dec 10, 2019
- 1 min
The sixty-five-year-old bathing suit
Sarah Gabriel Contributor Hanging in Nana’s closet, waiting to be wanted, hung a sixty-five-year-old bathing suit. Being of a lavender...
![投影 [Tóuyǐng]](https://static.wixstatic.com/media/dca56df6a9084cf28a24627a8b1286d4.jpg/v1/fill/w_473,h_355,fp_0.50_0.50,q_90,enc_auto/dca56df6a9084cf28a24627a8b1286d4.jpg)
theplantnews
- Dec 10, 2019
- 1 min
投影 [Tóuyǐng]
Gonzalo Lecaros Contributor Look at you. How much have you changed? One year has passed now. The Sun rises and sets, but you don't...
theplantnews
- Dec 10, 2019
- 1 min
Closer To You
Lucía Linaje-Ferrel Contributor I know you didn’t mean to upset me When you said we had little in common It’s true Which thread connects...