Poetry!

This semester Olivia and I are in the same poetry class, so we thought we might post some of the poems we’ve been working on in class. Here’s one of the first ones I wrote for an assignment called the “narrative/place” poem. It’s based off my multiple trips to June Lake with my parents every summer. Still a work in progress!

June

Through the sage brush

and wildflowers,

along the softly

speaking

stream,

past the trembling aspens

of a thousand carved out names,

lies a place out of a dream.

Where tiny hooves

line dusty paths,

and the air is crisp

and

thin,

over beds of fallen needles

is where summer oft begin.

Where green reeds sway

on silver shores,

and gulls chatter from

the

sky,

the trees sprout hooks and sinkers

that taunt the passers-by.

It’s here among

the quiet pines,

where jays stretch their wings

and

land,

that love, laughter, and lessons,

start with fishing rod in hand.

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