The Voice of The Woman

I hear her in my head
I see her standing next to me at night
I feel her watching me

There is a voice that tells me I am nothing
I have never met her
But I know her
I see her shadow looking down at me as she yells at me

She tells me I’m nothing
She tells me I will always be nothing
She tells me I’m not good enough

She is not a voice in my head, but something I created
She was made by me
Only I can get rid of her
Only I can let her go and destroy the next victim

Let the Poems Begin

Welcome to another year of Vision+Voice!

The submission window for the 2019-20 Vision+Voice Poetry Contest has closed. Winners will be announced on February 15.

Here are some important dates and details:

  • Submission Deadline – December 31, 2019
  • Winners Announced – February 15, 2020
  • Award Reception – April 17, 2020
  • All kindergarten through 12th grade students in the ACC service area are invited to participate.
  • Poems of all languages are welcome.
  • All poetry submissions will be published on the Vision+Voice website.
  • All winning and honorable mention poems will be published in the 2020 Vision+Voice Anthology.
  • One winning poem per grade will be combined with artwork by ACC students to create posters.

If you have been itching to get your poems out into the world and be a published writer, now is the time. Whether you have written one poem or twenty poems, we want to read them. You have until the end of the year to submit your poems, so it is time to flex those poetry muscles and let the creativity flow!

Remind your parents, teachers, and friends about this year’s Vision+Voice Poetry Contest so that we can beat last year’s submission count. Last year, we had over 700 submissions from almost every school in ACC’s service district – you can help us beat that number!

Feeling stuck? Check out this quick article with 36 tips for writing awesome poetry: https://www.writingforward.com/poetry-writing/poetry-writing-tips !

If you are a teacher (or parent) and want to know how to spread the word about V+V please email info@visionandvoice.org.

Dream

A Dream, a vision of my future,
A wish, a hope,
Clearest when my eyes are closed
and dark and blurry later.
A thought, A peaceful death
A thousand spotlights, No audience.
A thousand heads, No bodies.
Taking turns pushing ourselves away,
Reality fades.
A dream, a vision of my future,
The night but still the day,
The northern lights are rainbows now,
Notice how painted we look,
In a pool 15 feet deep
Too dangerous to jump in.
My enemies push me under,
But still I can breathe.
A dream, A vision of my future
I am excepted to a place if you are excepted.
We are dying
Building a horrible thing,
How do I explain it?
Nobody understands.
Too advanced, too strange,
Nobody understands.
Is this the end?
Nobody understands.
Why does it end like this?
Nobody understands.