When Comal County resident Gwen Estrada’s dad died when she was 15 years old, she turned to poetry as a coping mechanism, documenting her grief through stanzas and rhymes. Written in composition books ...
These two poems, a villanelle and a sijo, were written by my former students. “The Immortal Pain,” by Lilly Ray Grief is a pain that never dies. You faded behind eyes of pale blue. I watched life ...