NaPoWriMo PROMPT: write a poem about a specific place — a particular house or store or school or office. Try to incorporate concrete details, like street names, distances, the types of trees. Little details like this can really help the reader imagine not only the place, but its mood.
Maple Leaf School
Report cards saved by his mother,
Perfect attendance, high marks,
First, Second and Third Grades
In a three-room school
In Tillamook, Oregon.
Almost a hundred years later
I found it, still standing.
No longer housing children.
Yet there lingered scents
Of oiled floors and crayons.
No more shouting and singing
In the school yard.
No patient teachers
Guiding young students
Through lessons and texts.
Now restored, open for visits
Maple Leaf School
Where Dad learned his numbers
And his letters,
In Tillamook, Oregon.
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