North Hennepin Community College issued the following announcement on April 13.
In honor of April being National Poetry Month, we’d like to share a student poem. Madison Herold, is a student in Kara Olson’s, Writing Poetry class this semester. Her poem is titled, When it starts.
it’s neutral,
a flat-line moving
forward.
Every time
it’s different.
I never know
how it will start.
This time it starts out going down.
It descends into a cave,
pitch black.
I feel the walls shaking
Rocks tumbling
Loud shrieks above.
It takes a sharp plummet down.
Skin boiling,
Burning, a foul smell of melting flesh.
I look down, my skin is fine.
I hear voices screaming.
My mind is racing.
Then it slowly climbs out of the cave,
A light summer breeze
floats across my skin, as I reach the end,
light engulfs.
The sweet sound of birds hits me,
shortly after the fragrance of spring flowers follows.
Relief painting my face.
It’s neutral again.
A stopping point.
A soft breeze floats
past and surprises
me as I lay down my head
and fall asleep in my bed.
Original source can be found here.
