POETRY
The Poetry Gallery includes poetry entries and winners from our detention center writing contests as well as our poetry programs with our other partners. We hope you find their stories inspiring, truthful, thoughtful and sometimes funny!
Each artist whose work is posted on our site has signed a Heard media release or verbally given permission for the work to be posted on this site and shared via our social media platforms.
Grown
Deborah Bowers August 2, 2023, Friends of Guest House
Rainy Day Limerick
By the residents of Friends of Guest House June 23, 2023 Rain is a drain Causing all sorts of pain...
You Call Me Different
By Sarah Beth Young-Williams Friends of Guest House, June 6, 2023
If I Ruled the World
By Sarah Beth Young-Williams Friends of Guest House, June 6, 2023
I Am Your Protector
By Sarah Beth Young-Williams Friends of Guest House, June 6, 2023
From a Caterpillar to a Butterfly
by Patience Pitts-Worrell Friends of Guest House, May 24, 2023
Thank you Buubey
by KC Beachboard Friends of Guest House, May 19, 2023
Grateful
by Leann Pritchard Friends of Guest House, April 24, 2023
I Love Me!
May 3, 2023, Friends of Guest House: Two authors wrote some powerful prose today about how they...
Spoken Word: You Are!
February 15, 2023: If pictures can truly melt hearts there will be puddles all across America with...