Animals’ First Christmas by Luise Seeker An ​December 2025 Monthly Story Challenge Winner    Click the "Clap" button if you liked this story! ​ ​ The wide white world was beautifully clear And muffled sounds were all you could hear When Santa was stirred by ...

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Animals’ First Christmas

Here We Go – Song Lyrics by ​Megan W.   A May 2025 Monthly Story Challenge Winner  Click the "Clap" button if you liked this story! ​Here we goThrough the doorInto the great unknownHere we goTwisted inside outAnd shoved outside inHere we goI didn’t knowThat ...

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Here We Go – Song Lyrics

Just A Pat With A Hat by Mehda, 8 An August 2024 Monthly Story Challenge Winner  Click the "Clap" button if you liked this story! Just because of a pat, With a hat, Came out a very cool four winged bat, A funny ten tailed ...

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 Just A Pat With A Hat

The WORLD Above by Sharanya, 10 An April 2024 Monthly Story Challenge Winner  Click the "Clap" button if you liked this story! Imagine you’re in a world so high, High above the blue, blue sky. With Martians goin’ round on Mars Smiling happy in their ...

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The WORLD Above

Circle of Friends by Max Chen An April 2024 Monthly Story Challenge Winner  Click the "Clap" button if you liked this poem! When you meet someone be friendly and say hi,  Play with them, have fun and say bye. You just made yourself a friend.  ...

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Circle of Friends

We invited our former homeschooling student, Micah Ackerman Hirsch to share his wonderful techniques and poetry tips for our young poets and writers. Micah is a graduate of University of Puget Sound, an amazing liberal arts college, and is an accomplished writer with an interest ...

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10 Minutes A Day: 21 Short Poetry Prompts to Start A Poetry Habit

Happy New Year! Here's a beautiful poem to ring in the year by one of our teen writers. May you all have a wonderful, healthy, and prosperous 2023 and beyond.  Thank you Andrei for the poem! White Rose by Andrei Genzel  During the season of ...

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White Rose by Andrei Genzel

The Trek on the Mountain by Tobey Liu Little birds chirping, I see a coho salmon. Bunny runs by me. Rustling leaves shaking, North Wind blowing soft, gently, Small breeze sings to me. I look up and see Gorgeous mountains with white snow, Bald eagles ...

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Poetry: The Trek on the Mountain 

After Rain by Sierra Elman (Age 12) sweet earthly scent evokes image of serenity, chirp of chickadee,  crow of sleek raven,  declares finale of the rainstorm sky rocks itself  to sleep beneath its vast gray quilt, as a final trickle of water  seeps from a ...

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Poetry: “After Rain” by Sierra Elman

Beyond the Dark Woods Green by N​.B. - Age 12 Beyond the dark woods green, A dancing sunbeam can be seen, Carried gently by a breeze, As cornstalks gold its warmth receive. Carried far into the sky,  Back up to its burning eye, Decked in ...

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Poetry: “Beyond the Dark Woods Green” by N.B.