Another poem

I wrote this poem last school year. It deals with the Virginia Company's arrival to America and how they viewed the land. Shoulda sent it in somewhere, as this is the 400th anniversary of the event, but I don't know if Jamestown would be particularly pleased with my views. Enjoy!

1607

Stephen Brown

Copyright 2006

Glistening clarity washes below us

Green density comes into view

Drop anchor, step cautiously into new antiquity

Soft granules of anticipated welcome remember our footprints

We take it in…virgin territory

Virginia

Freeform and untamed

Shall we truly carve this into submission?

Leaves clap polite applause, not knowing our intent

In and from God’s creation we bring forth our creation…

A wall

Our first gift to this land is a border, a fence

Nature is already unnatural

We shut ourselves in and declare separation

Thunder of drums ripples in the distance

We know we are not alone, not the first

“God gives us this land as fulfillment of promises ancient”

Will we be as faithful to our promises?