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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Lost Land

Unseen, seen, unseen.

Blink and it will disappear.

In cover it waits

for no one knows what.

Lost in the mid-Pacific,

traps protect the jewel,

never to be found.

Only the past may reveal

Secrets of the lost.