Student Poem of the Month — September 2005
 

 
Window Seat at the City Bakery
© by   Annalee Kwochka

Have you ever watched
A single leaf
                           Float
                  To
                            the
                                      ground?
Details
A dandelion seed climb to the heavens?
Details
While the world is whirling round you
A hurricane of color
Have you ever seen
The way the leaves
                                    shudder?
And those leaves are part of a tree
That is one of a whirlwind of trees
Creating oxygen
To bear life                   forward
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Then there’s me, a tree loving tomboy
Who dreams of peace,
Sitting somewhere on this planet
This continent, this country
This city, this street
This seat by the window
Breathing

Previously published in the North Carolina Poetry Society's
Pinesong: Awards 2005. Used with permission of the Poet.
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