Welcome back to Verbatim. This week we hear from Amaya Ingram. The staff of the Wood River Land Trust picked her poem, Big Wood River, as their favorite for this year’s Heart of the Valley Contest. Ingram is a senior at the Community School. She plans on attending college next year and plans to study abroad in Spain. In the future she hopes to pursue a career in documentary film making and writing. Perhaps we’ll see her book on the shelves of Iconoclast on day.
Big Wood River
Steadily it continues-
Twisting, swirling
On a mission-
A set course.
Steadily it continues-
A fish jumps
A slippery,multi-colored rainbow
Steadily it continues-
The water’s body glittering
Tantalizing the passerby
Man and beast
Steadily it continues-
Crisp coolness
Inviting for adolescent
summer play
A splash
Steadily it continues-
A hikers boot, a biker’s wheel,
Hastily parts it’s waters, yet
Steadily it continues-
The valley’s life force,
Man made snow
Golf course landscapes
Running fields of alfalfa,
dotted with cattle
Steadily it continues-
Our economic prosperity
Unsuspecting of it importance
Steadily it continues-
Naturally
Purely
Freely
Steadily it continues.
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