So Our Words Can Join Our Wisdom
Cynthia Dominguez
Balboa High School

We will write poems
because we feel the
warmth of the sun
that lets us wander
Our eyes become
glistened
We will write poems
because we want to
escape...
Escape the world we
live in
escape televisions
radios, phones, pagers
Enter a world of
trees, animals
campfires
We want to feel
the warmth of our
emotions

We will write poems
to release
our souls
receive new ones
as if to be baptized
We become new people
not only in appearance
but in
feelings and
thoughts

We will become
our perceptions of nature
become closer to
our surroundings
What we think of the trees...
we will become
What we think of the animals...
we will become

We will write poems
so our words can join
our wisdom
Our thoughts
wander
The Ground we walk
speaks back to us
We listen to it
Write what we
feel
listen
hear
think