Places with less where there is more
Places with trees towering tall
Looming overhead to make you feel obsolete
Places with starry night skies
That makes your life feel complete
Places with chaotic rock fixtures
That are totally unique
Places without skyscrapers or sidewalks
That take out the beautiful green
Places with sky breaking mountains
Where rivers flow through filled with sardines
Places with crystal clear water
Where your reflection stays pristine
Places that make you wonder
“Am I in a dream?”
Parker Schmidt
Grade 11
Creative writing definitely wasn’t my first class in mind for one of my elective choices. Even with this, creative writing has really shown me that writing isn’t so bad, and when I’m motivated to do so I can actually be pretty good at it. While I’m writing I feel really calm and collected with all of my thoughts. Writing has given me an outlet to express myself and get things off my chest that otherwise wouldn’t have been lifted.
I really enjoyed writing Places With Less Where There Is More not only because I think it's the best poem I have ever written, but also because It really brought my joys of nature into light. The title Places With Less Where There Is More, I thought, was a really good opener for my poem by showing the simplistic aspects of nature and how I would rather have the scenes I described in the poem than concrete filled ones. I really liked how I put together the structure of the poem. The structure being every line starting with “Places” and being separated in a rhyming pattern with the last word of each stanza rhyming in sets of 3. The last stanza of my poem, “Places that make you wonder ‘Am I in a dream?’” was the perfect closure because it shows how these types of places seem inexistent today, by calling it a dream.