NaPoWriMo--Day Two

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.