calliope – Page 8

Need to Speak

it’s been a fortnight and i still feel the urge within, this voice inside calling out. Screaming. Gasping, thrashing and then, whimpering. […]

Connecting the Dots

by loh pei yi

The pain was excruciating.

Sparks and sparks of pain fizzled in his limbs, like balls of fire, penetrating his body, gnawing at his soul, menacingly devouring any sense of comfort left within him. […]

Photograph

by tan qi en

Notes: This poem was awarded the Merit award at the National Poetry Festival Competition (English) 2016

sprint (a self portrait)

by tyrina toh

Notes: This poem was awarded a Top Prize at the National Poetry Festival Competition (English) 2016

lmao wall – results

the results of the lmao wall is out !! do read the jokes carefully selected by our calliope editor and have a good laugh :^)

Are We Really So Different?

by Jaime Pang

Take a look at the people around us who laugh as we do, smile as we do, and see the world, our world as we do. Now let me ask you again – Are we really so different?

Class Clowns

by anonymous

there once was this child; he was peculiar. An oddity, a blob of colours that mashed themselves not into a homogeneous hue, but a whirlwind of blinding ocean.