Our second poetry excercise for Creative Writing Class.
By the way, I love this class.
"A World So Distant"
The first time I imagined myself as a brave explorer
I was a curious boy of no more than five
Set on letting my mind take me places
No man had seen or ever would.
My imagination took me to thick jungles
Dense with lush draperies and lumpy couch cushions
Over tall mountains no larger than my bed
And caves cramped below box springs.
I jumped from table to chair
Narrowly escaping the perils of carpet hot as bubbling lava.
A distant voice cried out of danger
But as a brave explorer I knew I must continue.
Continue because I knew these lands
Though endless in my mind would someday vanish
Just as the décor of the rooms changed
So did the gears of my imagination
Clanking slowly to a stop
And quickening then in the opposite direction.
No more lush jungles, just stone jungles.
No more imagined lands, just the cruelly real world.
Every day the worlds faded
Deeper in the back of my mind.
They had been there for years,
Ever since the first time I grew up.
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Clarification, please. Did you write this or was it something you read for the class?
Not only are you a graphic designer you writing talent is awesome. Just one heck of a very talented individual. And my son on top of it all. Keep posting those writings, I do enjoy them.
That is my work.
Wow, I'm very impressed. Obviously, since I thought it could have been someone else's published work.
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