SNHU Mountainview MFA Student

See there just now. Be still, take a breath.
Witness the flower as it grows to the light.
Above its stem to rise, witness all the wonder of life.

New in its form not ready to bloom, it must decide of its own heart the form it shall assume. As in mystery it grows within, doth not it resembles the others of the bed?
Yet when the moment arrives, will not its countenance be unique and pleasing to behold?
Behold the fullness, as the wind caresses its beauty and draws forth its essence that it might begin again.

Look there and be still. Whilst wind and rain and moon and tide do change, life awaits still.
And shall from yore make complete, all that once was be again.
Yet still repeat with its own unique countenance.

See there just now. Take heed and remember.
Exhale, for life is ever-changing as the river and the moon.
Always similar, yet never the same.

Vincent is an Aviation Maintenance professional who has enjoyed a distinguished career for the last twenty-five years. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing/English in February 2023 and is now in his second semester of graduate school at SNHU pursuing an MFA in Creative Writing. Though his chosen genre remains Mystery/Thrillers, Vincent enjoys the challenge of trying new types of writing including Non-Fiction, Essay, and the occasional poem. He says his fascination for interdisciplinary writing stems from his favorite quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: “The mind, once stretched by a new idea, never returns to its original dimensions.”