This week's poem is an original that I wrote when I was a senior in high school. I enjoyed my 20th high school reunion last weekend (see post two below this one), and I thought it was appropriate to post a poem from that time of 1989.For my senior spring break, I was fortunate enough to go on a trip with three friends and my best friend's parents. My BFF's parents rented a sailboat complete with captain and cook, and we got to come along for the ride. We each paid for airfare to the Virgin Islands (actually my grandma was kind enough to pay for mine), and they took care of the rest. It was so wonderful and generous of them to share such a special trip! So we lived on the sailboat and sailed the Caribbean for a week. A wonderful, memorable, picturesque week.
I've always thought this trip would make a great setting for a YA book. Maybe someday I will tackle it, and write a book about four girls on spring break on a sailboat.
Here's the sailboat. Its name was the Southern Cruz.
Here's the four senior girls having the time of their lives.
Before I went on this trip, I wrote a poem in English class. Here it is!
THE DREAM by Kelly Polark 1989
My dream is of a sunset
softly falling beneath the sandy horizon.
Its lovely reflection on the Caribbean blue,
the fresh breeze rippling the pastel purity.
The only break the peaceful water allows
is the gentle jumping of a dolphin
calling
calling me to escape to a life in paradise.
The promising future will
make this dream
a reality.
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