This is a poem that Megan wrote as an English assignment depicting a ruinous city on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea.
Remember
Grasses weave, waves crash, blue sky overhead
Wheat and flax; gold, blue, red
Stone, half –sunk, buried underground
Colors abound.
Mountains rise, birds call, breezes from the sea;
Olive, Alder, Oak; Ash- the sacred tree.
Foam-tipped waves crash,
Song-sweet melody. Storms lash,
Hawks winging through the sky
Never an eye is dry;
Remembering the glory of this place
Below the mountain’s lofty face;
Where once men stood to destroy
Windy, High-towered, topless, Troy.
-Megan Kobus