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Creative Writing

Poem: The Climbing Tree

Branches of brawn  Leaves of lust Soft skin on softer moss   Growing limbs  Reaching higher  A playground for the mind   Then green turns gray And to the cradle they return Once saplings, only ash
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October 30, 2021

Branches of brawn 

Leaves of lust

Soft skin on softer moss

 

Growing limbs 

Reaching higher 

A playground for the mind

 

Then green turns gray

And to the cradle they return

Once saplings, only ash

Scholar-athlete Cody Going: off to Division 1

Scholar-athlete Cody Going: off to Division 1

Cody Going has been in Mission Viejo high school’s football program, a team ranked number four in California by MaxPreps, for five long years. From his time in eighth grade to now he’s been able to see the athletes at Mission Viejo High grow from teammates to a...