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Bella Dowd

Bella Dowd

11th-grade student at Delta High School in Aptos, CA and a finalist for the 2026–2027 Santa Cruz County Youth Poet Laureate.

Aug 3, 2026

The Hive Poetry Collective

The Hive Poetry Collective

Santa Cruz Youth Poets Laureate 2026-27

Aug 3 · 59m

Farnaz Fatemi
Farnaz FatemiHOST
19:02
So if you're ready, please go ahead.
Bella Dowd
Bella DowdGUEST
19:06
Okay.
Bella Dowd
Bella DowdGUEST
19:08
Um, this one is called Reaching For This Moment.
Bella Dowd
Bella DowdGUEST
19:12
There is a moment where time stops.
Bella Dowd
Bella DowdGUEST
19:15
I feel the wind whisper on my face, blowing everything else away.
Bella Dowd
Bella DowdGUEST
19:19
Music vibrates around us, brightly colored hair flicks this way and that, heads bobbing to the beat.
Bella Dowd
Bella DowdGUEST
19:26
The air almost sparks, a warmth rising inside my chest.

5 MINS LATER

Farnaz Fatemi
Farnaz FatemiHOST
24:47
Oh

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