Published Poety

This poem was published my senior year of high school. I credit my english teacher with getting me into poetry and forcing me to expand my gift. Mrs. Diana Darling has been teaching for almost 40 years; 20 of those years were spent teaching Advanced Placement (for college credit) english classes. In all of those years she had yet to have a student become published. The delinquent from Knightstown who wasnt smart enough for AP classes, was her first. She surprised me on senior awards day with that announcement that I was to be published in an anthology of poems.

A Celebratiion of Young Poets
Indiana - Spring 2000

ISBN 1-58876-009-x

My Poem can be found on page 20

Love and Glory Past

You filed me heart with joy and gladness;

You replaced my endless sadness.

I gave love to you, and you to me.

You said together we would always be.

We sat and talked for hours and hours;

Our love was like a field of flowers.

We Met as friends; time gave us more.

We experienced what true love is for.

Now you're gone and I wonder why.

Upon doves wings, I wish I could fly.

You've destroyed my joy and gladness;

Now all I feel is despair and sadness.

We sat and talked for hour upon hour;

Now our love is just a wilted flour.

Our love will never again be true;

My memories of us are forever blue.

David Kingshott

Mrton Memorial High School

Knightstown, Indiana

Grade 12