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Day 1 | April Poetry Month Challenge | Away to Paradise

Updated: Apr 1, 2020

WFSC Creative Writing Facilitators Mike Deregowski and Kelsey Hoople challenge you to participate in national poetry month. 1 poem a day for 30 days with no working ahead. 😉


Overall theme 'The Great Escape'.


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Day 1 | April 1st | Away to Paradise


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Lana O'Neill
Lana O'Neill
Apr 12, 2020

Away to Paradise

Sun’s kiss on my face,

Warming. Ocean’s surf, lulling.

Salt air, lungs gorging.

Fingers graze blonde sand

Cocoa colored toes wiggle,

Euphoric with calm

Pineapple’s sweet tang

Sticky; lingers on my lips

With rums, slaking thirst.

Tropical dreaming

Ravages worry and stress

Freeing me to Be.

Lana O’Neill

April 12, 2020

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Linda Pedley
Linda Pedley
Apr 03, 2020

1. Away to Paradise


I close my eyes - images rise

From deep within, memories flow.

A stream of tears fall from my eyes

As thoughts recalled from long ago.

My heart yearns

My soul learns

Nightly sojourns

Take me away to paradise.

There is no rhyme or reason

No road too short or path too long

Travel no matter the season

Hold my head up and stay strong.

My heart beats

Memories repeat

Temptations compete

Take me away to paradise.

And when upon waking I remember

A smile replaces the tears

It was fall in the month of September

But... wait... that was so many years...

My heart aches

My heart breaks

Longing fades

Not going away to paradise.

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Amanda O'Driscoll
Amanda O'Driscoll
Apr 02, 2020

Away to Paradise


I cannot escape to the still and the calm

I’m anxious and holding chaos within

A necklace you gave me is clasped in my palm

It reminds me of where I need to begin


I close my eyes and recall your advice

Our minds hold power to create and imagine

In a moments time I’m away to paradise

Capturing stillness in a mountainside cabin


I embrace my minds full artistry

Allow myself to release all tension

I’m away in a place of ingenuity

Paradise is my creative invention


Amanda O’Driscoll

April 1 2020

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lawrence.jar94
lawrence.jar94
Apr 02, 2020

Away to Paradise

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It is in the dappled light

Of a moss strewn forest

Where a silence is broken by the babbling

And laughing brook.


Where stories of a fanciful sort

Of kings and queens, the Elvish and the fey,

Can take root

Like the shoulders of mountains and steps of tree.


In these dappled woods,

Amidst the mist of shrouded hill

And the call of wild-bird-jays

I can always find my way,


Into the dreams of childhood

And away from the bustle and drear

Of a world material, unimaginative,

And oh so full of fear.


Amidst the dappled golden lights

And the canopied crowns of evergreen, redwood, and willow,

My feet will always find…

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