In winter 2025, students at The Pearl had the opportunity to take our unique class” Sound & Ink: Music, Identity, and the Art of Zine Making”. In this class, students could receive an English Language Arts High School credit in a topical and creative way.
We are happy to showcase our incredibly talented student, Charlie, who created a marvelously creative zine in the shape of an origami swan.
You can read the full poem featured by Tumblr user @mumblesplash below:
Hope is a plant you can care for or killHope is a discipline, something you chooseHard to stop looking for; easy to loseHope isn’t something to have or to takeIf you can’t find it, it’s something you makeMake it from willpower, make it from spiteLearn how to weaponize love in a fightHope is a shield and a thing to defendEnd in itself and a means to an end.Hope is exhausting, to find and to keepIt’s not a promise. It doesn’t come cheap.Hope demands motion, it never stands stillrolling the dice; rolling boulders uphillHope is the turn of another blank pageSometimes it feels more like sadness than rageHope is a burden, but it can be sharedHeld like a hand in the dark when you’re scaredOr like a patchwork of words on a screenHalf the first line written by a machineSomehow achieving some measure of goodMore than you ever imagined it wouldCarrying further than your voice aloneTied by the thread we’re all following homeHope is an underground glimpse of the sunHope is a poem that still isn’t done