Poem Highlight: Etude of the Eye

Featured! This poem was written by Braden River High School student Ari Smith.

The powerful Hurricane Milton passed through our state a few months ago, but its impact lingers long even after our skies have cleared. One of our students from the River has channeled the shared experiences of loss, resilience, and hope into a personal poem.

Etude of the Eye

Out the slotted window, stare

Listen to the rippling air

To meddle with the nature's force?

Or stand and watch? It runs its course

The howling wind, sardonic chorus

Telling us it is coming for us

Blast-full force to contravene

Humanity and public mean

Gluttonous as sky, it drinks

To power up as wet ground sinks

And in its wake is naught but squalor

As all the winds proceed to holler

Vexed be those who claim their stay

As out to sea, to their dismay,

The tides remove their earthly home,

So left are they, to walk and roam

In adversity, we stand

United in this land

This fight we pose against weather

We're in this, all together