Trying to catch up - bear with me. Once I have this done I'll be all caught up and I won't overload with posts anymore!
Inspiration:
Life comes at us fast. Without a doubt there are hills, valleys, and plateaus. On occasion these moments make for a memorable (if not defining) experience - one that is remembered throughout a person's life. For many, the senior year of high school is ripe for remembering and celebrating. Let's choose a moment or series of moments from your senior year of high school that captures your fondest memories.
Process:
Take a few minutes and write down a series of memories from your senior year of high school.
Start with the year you graduated to give the poem some context.
Don't worry about rhyme or chronological order, just weave in the highlights of the memories you will always carry with you.
End the poem by sharing what you thought your future would hold during that time.
Two-thousand fifteen
Four and a half years ago
yet a lifetime chasm between then and now
It began with a sunrise on the football field
Music, laughter, hugs, and dancing
Starbucks coffee and donuts
Notes to self
So young, so alive
Friday night football lights
Tie blankets
Milky hot cocoa
Marshmallows
Keeping the crisp wind at bay
Themes:
White out
Pink out
Muskie spirit
Neon
etc.
The brisk wind cooling my hands as I tie balloons and streamers
To the football stadium on the Friday of homecoming week.
Student council volunteering
Planning a food drive
Collecting cans and raising funds
A trip to New York City with Model UN
to see the United Nations headquarters
hundreds of students waiting in line
waiting for security
waiting
waiting
cold toes
cold fingers
cold nose
A prom dress with silver sequins
Royal blue
Fake pearls on a headband
Laughter. Incredible laughter
and sweaty bodies
heads tossed back in mirth
standing in a circle singing
"Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" by Greenday
It is filled with aimless wandering in JCPenny as I search for the perfect yellow
graduation dress
To pair with my purple necklace and earrings
And robe
I remember my heart thudding in my chest
My palms coated with a thin sheet of sweat as I open the commencement ceremony
with a
poem.
My poem.
A poem I wrote to describe the collective fear and excitement
of tossing our graduation caps
The ending - a sunset
On a football field
On the edge of twilight
As the sky turns from
Transluscent
to
Opaque.
The beginning and end
on a football field.
The continuation of our lives
on a football field.