About the Young Writers Project
YWP, an independent nonprofit based in Burlington, Vermont, engages young people to write and use digital media to express themselves with clarity and power and to gain confidence and skills for the workplace and life. YWP publishes about 1,000 students’ work each year here, in newspapers across Vermont, on Vermont Public Radio and in YWP’s monthly digital magazine, The Voice. Since 2006, it has offered young people a place to write, explore and connect online at youngwritersproject.org, which has only one rule: Be respectful. For more information, please contact YWP executive director Geoffrey Gevalt at ggevalt@youngwritersproject.org.
Lydia Moreman, a senior at Champlain Valley Union High School, gets inspiration for this piece, When The Time Comes, from the natural world around her – “the owl’s hoot,” “the dancing trees,” the rocks and forest.
When The Time Comes
By Lydia Moreman
[W]hen tomorrow falls into slumber
and the owl’s hoot can’t wake it up,
I’ll meet you by the waterfront,
where the weeping dock hides.
When the badger stands up tall
and preaches to the sun
near the dancing trees,
I’ll run into your arms.
When the stars stop shining
and the fuschia moon cries out,
I’ll visit our old forest
and sit among the rocks.
If you want to find me,
use the moss as your guide.
Among the hanging trumpets,
I’ll wait for you to arrive.
