During spring 2024, 11 juniors and seniors spent their three-week intensive taking Creative Writing: Poetry, an English-elective course. Taught by English Teacher Sean Patella-Buckley, this class explored the creative process of reading and writing poetry, experimenting with a range of subjects, styles, and approaches. Students were encouraged to take ownership over their own work by connecting with and analyzing the poetry that they produced. As an assignment for this class, each student selected one poem to share with the UPrep community.

One More Goodbye

By Nathan L.

The sun was setting in a puddle of

Glowing bright orange leaving a

Trail of pink in the sky

As if it were saying

Goodbye

 

These two kids were skipping rocks

That left a trail of ripples each

ending with a plop. This

Maybe the last moment

Here. Maybe this is

Goodbye

 

With a long sigh and the cold gentle

Breeze tickling my skin

As it slowly got softer

As if it were saying

Goodbye

 

I sat on the chilling rocks. Watching the sun

peak behind the Mountains. The

salty ocean smell crept up

my nose, reminding me

of the moments I wasted.

The moments where

I didn't say

Goodbye

 

I wish I could meet this beach Again, to say hello.

So I can feel the heat radiate from the train tracks,

have the fire popping in the distance, see the

ocean waving at the laughing, carefree

children playing on the beach I wish

The sun set a little slower,

slow enough

to say

one

more

goodbye

 

August gives me

By August P.

An energy

Like that

Hot summer day

 

A gust

Of cold

Air

Slicing

The heat

 

A strength

Found in the

depths

Of love

 

A morality

From my

Parents and

Brother

 

An eclipse

Concealing the

Hardship with

Joy and boisterous

ebullience

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