To the years ahead

• Travel by myself with no itinerary
• Move to the East Coast
• Donate blood
• Find Platform 9 3/4
• Earn a masters degree
• Receive a sincere thank-you letter
• Serve a mission
• Get Married (stay married forever)
• Adopt a child
• Harvest corn (and other vegetables)
• Build a tree house in backyard
• Dye my hair red (I have always envied gingers)
• Read the Book of Mormon in a week
• Spend a month living off the land
• Play in a symphony
• Buy land
• Sew a quilt
• Accomplish a goal with no exceptions
• Drive on the freeway by myself
• Become published
• Complete a 1000 piece puzzle (I hate puzzles)
• Cry at beautiful music
• Go sailing
• Go on a backpacking trip
• See the Northern
• Eat a meal with a homeless man
• Teach in an inner-city school for one year
• Visit a third-world country
• Learn to play the cello: play Elgar's Cello Concerto in E Minor because it is beautiful (but really hard)(so maybe a simple sonata will suffice)(maybe)
• Learn to speak fluent French
• Ride in a hot air balloon
• Learn to waltz
• Pull an all-nighter
• Meet J.K. Rowling
• See a musical on Broadway
• Send a message in a bottle
• Work on a farm
• Bowl over 100 (ha)
• Go rock climbing outdoors

Collection of Haikus!

I wrote a few poems

With only three lines in them.

Share yours as comments.

I would rather not

Wake up tomorrow morning

For a day at school.

Organization:

Oversimplification-

Unbelievably.

At Graduation,

I will smile and cry a lot.

It is coming too soon.

I haven’t brushed my teeth

In forty-eight hours now.

Such is my spring break.

Stegasauruses

Aren't actually extinct

I wish I had one.

In Loving Memory

Now that that has been established

We were only human, after all.

It’s harder than it should be.

She liked the smell of flames.

They couldn’t put Humpty together again

We cut down the cherry tree

Then go ahead: Say something profound.

Someday I will be old, too.

I’m afraid of the dark.

Not as funny as I thought.

We sing sin, we dream big.

Thinking our strength is our weakness

I can still kiss you better

London Bridge’s falling down, falling down.

When Adam delved and Eve span

Required sacrifices not willing to make.

Mom makes better peanut butter sandwiches

Stand alone in a crowded room

If you want something, go get it

After all, tomorrow is another day

Everybody wants to go to heaven

I left a million dollars in—