My First Publication...in college, at least.

My poem was accepted into this year's Mountaineer Week Literary Publication, "Voices of Appalachia". Here is a copy of my poem and a link to the online publication (should be available Monday, November 5, 2012)!

http://mountaineerweek.wvu.edu/voices_of_appalachia

I was in the Student category of "Being a Mountaineer"!

Gold and Blue

Williamson was my home.

Everyone was known.

With 100 in my class,

We were close and time went fast.

People I never met knew my name.

I sang my goodbyes at graduation and blew them all away.

For four years, I was Red and White

A few weeks by, and I knew

Maybe it wouldn’t be tonight

But soon I would be Gold and Blue.

I had been counting down the days

Ever since sophomore year

And I really couldn’t believe

That it was finally here!

This week everything would change.

I’d become a Mountaineer!

I’d come from pride.

I was used to unity.

I was very involved

I’d come from just being me.

I camped in Cooper’s Rock

And waited for the day

I’d move my things to a strange new place

Where I would have to stay.

I begged to leave high school,

I whined to leave my house.

All at once I cried

Because I wanted to stick around.

Eventually, my mom left

And I wasn’t scared at all

Welcome Week went by, I was alone

And lo and behold!

I was always in love with WVU

But, suddenly missed my family, too

Still, I’d never trade anything

For good ol’ Gold and Blue.