Marwood is...
2022 Poetry Class Group Poem
Marwood Is:
Not a place, it’s a people.
We have been to so many campsites over the years.
We have even been online which was as messed up as it needed to be.
We have been to many campfires that whoever wants to share is comfortable to.
Marwood is not a place but a people.
Marwood Is:
Friendships
Like being there for eachother
Hugs that wrap you in a warm quilt.
Words that rid you of all your guilt
Feelings of forgiving and giving people
From all over, here for you.
Marwood Is:
Me, you, us, them, together.
Smoke and sparks in the air,
Sage burning kindly.
Arms wrapped around each other, giggling.
Stars and late night snacks.
The smell of well water, the taste of long awaited toothpaste, and a desperately needed shower.
Your heart beating so fast, if it's from your crush, a best friend. If it’s from the sweat of you running to hug your other half.
We are Marwood. Our hearts. Our souls. Combined.
We are Marwood.
Marwood Is:
A circle of bursting hormones
Breaking into harmony, holding the note of untrained voices,
The rhythm passing from hand to hand around the circle,
A current that even the youth that don’t know the lyrics
Can taste vibrating on their tongues.
Marwood Is:
The warm fluttery feeling
Like the sparks of campfire
Are popping in your heart
Strings are being pulled, and water is flowing
How could this stop?
Why are the sparks so momentary?
Why are they so strong?
The imprint of arms around you
I still feel it
Who is this?
Its Marwood
staying , sticking, festering
The imprint is hard and brave
No matter how much you feel
It never goes
I need to hug back
But there are so many sparks
Its impossible
Marwood Is:
Its light traveling to each of our candles
Candle to candle
We smell the smoke that comes
From each other’s cores
Listening to the crackles
Of our hardships
Caring for our counterparts
And friends to continue
All our flames burning brighter
Marwood Is:
Hearing people speak about their experience without ever opening their mouths
It is finding comfort in others touch like sleeping after crying
It is group hugs that make the sweat stick to your body like a magnet to a fridge.
It is screaming lyrics at top of your lungs just enough to make you not lightheaded
Marwood is where I find peace in myself
Marwood Is:
A FAMILY
We cry together,
We love together,
We STICK together
It’s the hugs
The salty tears
And the love that squeezes you so tight you can barely breathe
Marwood picked us upland glued us together
It gave us the give of friends that will be FOREVER
Marwood Is:
Always changing
With every breath
We take, it becomes
Ever so slightly different.
With every word we way
The energy of the camp becomes more powerful.
With every step we make, we can
Feel the heartbeat beneath the ground