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Queen of the Night

Cover artwork by Ekam Bedi, age 14, India

Kasthuri Gaddam

May 7, 2025

Department: Poetry

Issue: State of Mind

Flowers with pink, flowers with blue, 
colors are amazing too. 
But if you took a flower 
and turned it into something new, 
you could find there’s more to them, 
and here’s a clue. 

With a mind sharp as a tie, 
you can turn a flower’s eye 
into something divine. 
Like a cherry blossom. 

Or a crown with green gems, 
or a gown with layers so deep, 
that you think of yourself as a designer, 
dancing with the leaves. 

Dancing with the flower petals, 
with bees buzzing as you sew, 
and flowers like a piece of silk 
falling to your knees. 

A flower is more than a color. 
A flower is the queen of something new.

painting of flowers
Artwork by Ekam Bedi, age 14, India
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Kasthuri Gaddam, age 11, is a fifth grade student in Massachusetts. She enjoys painting and other art activities. She loves writing poetry for her great grandmother, who lives in India.