Author Archives: theatala

Elite and isolated, the chicken and the egg Compare compare compare til there’s none left in sight. 300 megapascals 400 degrees self imposed for constant metamorphosis Starve a little longer, validation will taste so good Your best is enough, and something you’ll never reach How dare you sit before your legs give out on theirContinue reading “Summa Cum Laude”

Raul Lopez is a graduating senior at Pembroke Pines Charter High School who enjoys writing poetry and shooting/editing pictures. “Layer 09: Love,” an example of digital art, features Raul’s poetry and photography, compiled using photoshop.

Kiley Irizarry won first place for “Perfect System” in the Poem for Two Voices category of the 2021-22 Broward County Literary Fair. She is finishing her sophomore year at Pembroke Pines Charter High School and is a member of NEHS. Kiley has loved writing ever since 1st grade when her teacher would assign creative writingContinue reading “Perfect System”

Melanie Jomsky is a graduating senior at Pembroke Pines Charter High School and a member of the National English Honor Society. In her free time, she enjoys creating art, making music, and writing. “Skin and Bones” is made from woodcut print and ink.

YingYing Zhu is a graduating senior and HIP historian at Pembroke Pines Charter High School. She has drawn all throughout her life and specializes in acrylic, digital, and ink prints. She is a past winner of the Marine Industries Art Competition. “Luna Moth” is an ink print.

Jailyn Joseph is finishing her sophomore year at PPCHS. She has always enjoyed drawing and joined many clubs and after school activities related to art. Creative expression is very important to her, and she hopes to share her art with the world. “Eris” was made with spray paint on poster paper.

Zayna Diaz is a graduating PPCHS senior. She really enjoys making art, especially painting, drawing, and sewing. She’s also a huge soccer fan and loves watching films and tv shows.

“If I was a Blue Bird” is a watercolor piece made by Isabella Angel. Isabella is a graduating senior at Pembroke Pines Charter High School. She created this piece without sketching anything out; the brush was in control of the final product.

As I studied myself in the mirror, nothing looked as it should. The lacy sleeves were too tight, scrunching up around my armpits, while the torso was too big and sagged around my breasts. I lifted the veil over my face, yet the mesh was too fine and I could hardly see my own reflection.Continue reading “Chained Down”

A sonnet is a fourteen line poem usually written in iambic pentameter and following a particular rhyme scheme. This sonnet follows the rhyme scheme of an English sonnet. Monday morning sun beats down like a bat It greets the cool air rolling off Rock Run It was here my sunflower faced wife sat We spatContinue reading “Bucklebone Bob’s Dead Wife”