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Strikes

Cover artwork by Pragya Natarajan

Pragya Natarajan

August 18, 2020

Department: Poetry

Issue: Fun and Creativity

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Waves crashing
Bolting
Slapping your face

Lightning, radiating in the night
Excitement streams from every nook
A spark, a star
Splendor

Everywhere you can look

Galaxies collide
Shattering elements
Shattering lights
Fireworks crackling

Cleaved in half
Are the skies

A geyser, water crystalline
Comes into fruition
A sudden tremor
Grandness, fit for a masterpiece

Inspiration? No. Enlightenment.
Idea? Nirvana Embodiment!
Ingenuity or folly
Is the question

Of the vast depths
In thought
Canyons with valleys
It treads wary of the chasm

The trail, shall not be lost
It persists
Gripping tightly
Walking inside out, and hasty

Now how can this begin
How can the pen flow freely
What is the calling?
Of a rumination so spry, so fleeting

A moment in time
None to waste
Now how will it look?
If it starts off with a hook

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Pragya Natarajan is a ninth grader at Cupertino High School in California. Her hobbies are running, reading, writing, and painting. Her favorite color is red, and she loves covering things in duct tape.