Over the next few weeks, we'll be posting the winning entries from the 2010 Darien Library Teen Writing Contest.  This entry is Shipwrecked on an Island Distant: An Emulation of Edgar Allen Poe by Matthew Golino, who won Second Place for Poetry  Grades 10-12 . 

If you would like to share your stories, poems or essays, email them to hmartyn@darienlibrary.org

Shipwrecked on an Island Distant by Matthew Golino

A storm had come to plague my ship,
The winds were moving like a whip,
And then the boat began to tip.
Oh, the ocean's heart was cold.

My heart a pounding, mind a teeming;
Could it be that I was dreaming?
More so than before was seeming.
Towards the twilight sun I rolled.

Moving faster, pace was quicker,
Soul was peeling like a sticker,
Burning like a basket wicker,
Cast unto hither shores of old.

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