We asked Canadian youth to take us on a journey. Whether physical, emotional, or spiritual, we wanted to hear from you about a time you found yourself in a place different than where you'd started. We wanted to know how you felt, what you saw, and what you hoped for. The result? Poems that tell stories, ask questions, and plot new ways of being for the teens who wrote them.

In Kyla Hatch's 'The Cliche', she chooses to deal with obstacles on her path "through words, and not through razor blades." In Ash-Lee Meldrum's 'Love Not Shared', we are taken on a visual journey towards the end of the narrator's relationship. Tiffany Gunton offers up things that stink, human waste, "stuff spilling tidal and sore" which stain the path to divorce in her piece 'c ouch.' In 'Free, not Beautiful' by Yelena Gyulkhandanyan, we witness a defining moment in a young woman's life which opens her journey wider than previous constrictions allowed. And in Camila Candle's 'What if?', we are asked to reconsider our expectation of a conventional pathway altogether.

Please also enjoy a poem published in the Open Category, 'Jasmine,' by Linda Nyachieo. As well, please check back soon for Re:verse's next theme and deadline.

Happy Digging!

Chelsea Rooney
English Editor
Re:verse Ezine

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