At Her Majesty Ria Celeste's Service Poem by Tumisang Ramarea

At Her Majesty Ria Celeste's Service



We left long before the sun rose high,
Stars still appeared in the morning sky,

Alfredo and Russ were before us,
Outside the glass, the bus left the grass,

From brown to green, it turned before the screen,
I heard a bird scream, beyond the clear stream,

Beyond the clear waters, swam the mighty one,
They call her Celeste, the queen of fun,

For a week we toiled to mend her ways,
Concealed deep under trees, away from rays,

But we did indeed let the sun caress,
Our skins, on the rocks, in the water, careless

After a week of work and fun, we returned,
Fulfilled, refreshed and our skins tanned!

Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Topic(s) of this poem: adventure
POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
I wrote this for a competition at UWC Costa Rica. Our English teacher had challenged us to write sonnets about our Service Week experiences. My group had gone to do some trail maintenance work near Rio Celeste. It is from there that I wrote this poem.
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