Nina Oteria Foster, whose poem "Leaving It Behind" received Honorable Mention in this year's NCETA Student Poet Laureate Awards, is a senior at Raleigh Charter High School. She has written poetry since her middle years and has self-published a volume of poetry entitled Sunshine @ Midnight. For the past two years she has been the assistant at the NC State Young Writers' Workshop. Nina also won the At-Large award in the 2009 Raleigh Fine Arts Society short story contest for her story Caution: Slippery When Wet.
Leaving it Behind
by: Nina Oteria
chase me on the wind
chase me like change,
like revelry with no writhing regrets
chase me
into the chapped, chipped, charred corners
chase me
I challenge the pretty, prude past
chase me like freedom and failure and the fall
for I am on the wind,
unwieldy, changing dang direction on a whim
no seven sails,
no captain, nor compass
so chase me
chance, fate, change:
I challenge you.
chase me.
2 comments:
another good one! i'm really fascinated by the use of the word change in the second sentence. change could be what we all fear or little pennies on the side of the road. love the complication of that :)
Wonderful~!
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