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The Music Carries Me Like The Wind Carries My Voice

Vallie McGallion, High School Contest Winner

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As if the sunlight, warm on my skin

Seeped below, trickled within

I feel the melody within me, visceral

Metaphorical, and all the while, literal

The beach’s breeze, blowing in my hair

Carries my voice away, elsewhere

Far away, my song is carried over the sea

And in return, a song lives inside of me

To the flora and fauna, I sing my song

My voice breaks barriers, language and all

So in the days, when I am weary and weak

The melody remains near me, and carries me to the mountain’s peak

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Playlist song: Pomme, “soleil, soleil”

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Vallie McGallion has had two works previously published by the Young American Poetry Digest. She is an aspiring journalist and writer with hundreds of works that she intends to share with the world.

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