iShine 8th-grade student Violet Cross wrote a poem and painted a picture representing her time at iShine and her promotion to high school, reported Stacey Savin, campus coordinator. Violet is an Escondido resident who has been part of iShine since 2nd grade. She enjoys painting, reading, and the outdoors. She plans to travel the world after high school. Her painting is now hanging in the iShine lobby.
The grove of stories
By: Violet Cross
Sometimes I’ll travel deep into my mind
There’s a great winding path
And the journey down it beckons me
Traveling through fields and lakes
Past great cities and small towns
Through forests and oceans
Up the highest of mountains
And down the lowest of valleys
And at first the journey confused me
Took longer then I had expected
But each time I traveled it
The steps came easier
Until I felt no longer of breath
And every time it looks different
Sometimes harder
Sometimes easier
But always, it arrives at a never ending library of branches
With trees of all shapes and all sizes
With books and with story’s
With collages and canvases
With ideas waiting to be painted
With tales yet to be told
Some of them mine
Some of them strangers
But most are of those I’ve never met
But feel as though I’ve known them
For as long as I can remember
And then no matter what turns you take
What staircases your curiosity takes you up
Trees of creativity surround you
And oh, would I love to lose myself
In the infinite grove of books
Story’s upon stories
Hanging there on the tops of trees
Swaying in the wind
Waiting for me to pick,
to share
Like apples in an orchard
Or berries
Or fruits
Waiting for the sweet Juice of adventures
To be consumed by all who read them
Fairytales and romances
Great quests and peaceful encounters
And All of them sitting
On the branches
Of the small library’s
That exist within the leaves
Somewhere along the path
Within our minds and souls
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