Poems: Part 1

New York, New York

Walking down the crowded streets
 The rush of the people, the city beats
 All around the people chatter
 All around, construction clatter.

New York, I love you
 With your beauty and lights
 Despite all your sins and secrets at night

Broadway classics and new shows about
 Singing and dancing and laughing aloud
 Never does the city sleep
 Not for student, nor actor, yet they all follow dreams

A Book

A book. What is a book?
 When in school, it’s a nuisance. When not, it’s a treasure
 When compared to reality, it comes as a pleasure
 Little thin pages making a pile
 The hundreds of pages, well worth the while
 It takes you to a far off land
 That only you create, only you can understand
 The fantasy place is yours in your mind
 Until the book ends, where your land gets lost in time
 But a well written story is never truly gone

The sequel is here, and it is a new dawn

Raindrops

One on my hand, one on my face
 Curiously, I gaze towards outer space
 People rush, hurry into shops
 Avoid getting hit by all the raindrops
 A little spritz,a little rain
 A little downpour, a little game
 Down a window two raindrops flow
 “Mine will win!” She shouts
 “Maybe so”
 Soon enough the rain near stops
 All that’s left are little raindrops

Lauren Kofalt is her adopted name, but she’s taken back her birth name of Zhu Ling Jin as of the past few months. She was adopted from China at age one and is currently in the United States. Zhu Ling Jin has been writing poetry since she was little and has always had a passion for it. She is currently attending Penn State University and is happy to share her poetry with our Universal Asian community!