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My Ithacan Heaven
I'm on a quest for my own unknown goals
Passing trails, tribulations, challenges, and tolls.
I've not a clue where I'm headed
And I don't dare look behind;
I just pray that quench for my thirst
Is something I will find.
May my path be a long one
With many twists and turns;
May it be the worthwhile experience
For which my being yearns.
For like golden grains of sand,
as the adage states,
time passes before the eye,
Yet I reach out for the present;
at any moment my life may transmogrify.
So set rainbows in the azure sky
And raise the sun in the east;
Make my happiness my everything,
My troubles, my least.
Many moons will pass
And seasons will make their rotation,
But let me not bore of this cycle
And rather enjoy Your creation.
Lather, rinse, repeat, minute, hour, day--
It's a vicious little circle in its own twisted way.
Constantly looking forward, over and over again-
An inane sort of comfort...
My Ithacan Heaven
Jessica Kijowski
Author's Notes
Jessica Kijowski
Webster, Massachusetts
"My Ithacan Heaven" was written in 2001 for my freshman English class. When I finished reading it in front of everyone, my teacher simply said: "In two years when you start sending in college applications, include a copy of that poem with your entrance essays." When I received the invitation to have my work published in Europe, I was ecstatic, but I didn't know which poem to chose. "My Ithacan Heaven" seems to be the poem people like the most, so here I am writing about it in study hall. I also have had thirteen other poems published and copyrighted in my name at Poetry.com. I would say that my ideas come from some traumatic experience or some other great event, by my only inspiration is living the life of a teenager.
If I Could Speak To Him In Song Titles
I Don't Know How to Love Him,
But Always Look on the Bright Side, I'm always
Thinking About You.
When I look In His Eyes, those Blue Eyes,
Maybe I'm Amazed at how I'm his Brown Eyed Girl.
But When You Say You Love Me, I wish I could Be Not Afraid.
And Whenever I See Your Smiling Face, I know I'm Blessed
More Than Words.
No Valentines, Thank You Very Much, just Run to Me with
Open Arms.
And though I Won't Say I'm In Love, always know that I Do Cherish You.
And When You Wish Upon a Star, just Dream On, and
I'll Be There.
And This Is the Night, that I'll whisper The Prayer that
He'll keep his Patience and Stay.
And I Swear, that just As Long As You're Mine,
I Will Always Love You.
By Jessica Kennedy
