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Island Boy
Boy of the Island with sparkling eyes
Calling the wild deer by name
Watching the squirrels store up for winter
Thinking that you'd do the same
Alone on your bike along bumpy roads
Helmeted warrior you'd ride
Playing Nintendo with bubbling laughter
Keeping the pain pushed aside
Talking of somedays when you would be better
The world of Disney you'd see
Hopes and bright dreams of a seven year old
The somedays that never would be
Now you are free as the gulls overhead
Free as the wandering deer
You can see many places
And tell us great things
But we
left behind
can't yet hear
~Colleen Slater
An award-winning poet from Washington State, Colleen's poem Perseverance was sandblasted into concrete at the Point Defiance Promenade in Tacoma. Her work also appears online and in print. Email.
© 2000 by Colleen Slater. All Rights Reserved.
© 2000-2002 by Cayuse Press. All Rights Reserved.
This page updated April 23, 2002.