This is actually a poem which I wrote for the FOURALL Magazine Spring Internship Program as a Creative Writing Intern, and it was featured in FOURALL Magazine’s sixth issue. You can read that here! I’m pretty proud of it, so I thought I’d post it here too. The poem focuses on memories and draws off of some of my fondest memories with old friends. I hope you enjoy it!
Flutters Of Memory
Delicate flutters, colourful shards;
winged memories lead you through
mind-museums, marked by butterflies.
Catch it. A splash of a park bench,
warm hoodies, pink energy drinks,
frosty tendrils of wind carrying snowflakes
onto mischievous tongues.
Catch it. A spark of a classroom,
brown blazers, creased paper planes,
soft chatter roaming through the air
between close friends.
Catch it. A speck of a forest,
winter coats, crackling campfire,
an arm around shivering shoulders
under a darkened sky.
Follow fleeting fragments of memory
as they dance down trails of youth–
some sweet, some blue, but all vivid and true.
