Stone Soup

Where young artists paint the world with words

The international magazine of stories, poems, and art by young writers and artists. Published continuously since 1973.

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The water skeeters

On the water
the bugs float,
lazily, legs stretched out,
looking to grip a stick or stone,
camouflaged in serenity,
as if, do I have to hide from frogs today?