Brent Nicol Introduction:  Dreams Up High

                         This poem I wrote took me about 30 minutes to write. I looked at my notes from the video we watched in class, and I tried to tie together the whole story within 14 lines. I found out that meeting the required limit was very easy because, as I was writing, I began to realize that I had to make sure that I did not go over the limit. I also tried to make each stanza a different part in the story. The first stanza was more about the dream and preperation. The second stanza is about the dream being achieved.

Philippe Petit had and extraordinary dream

to walk he twin towers on a beam. 

His dream was as tall as the towers

as his passion grew and flourished.

He disregarded the law as his passion grew

and he climbed to the top and no one knew.

He planned his dream and thought it impossible

but his tenacity and courage did not waver

as he gathered supplies and snuck

 to the top of the of the south sky scraper.

Using his supplies that he had taken to the top

he began to see his dream unravel.

He secured the cable to both tall buildings

and was starstruck by the beauty 

at thirteen hundred feet up.

He began to walk his dream along the cable

and he began to dance and jump

and he floated like a bird on thin air.

He flew for fourty five minutes

and he made eight passes back and forth.

The people of New York cheered for Philippe 

as his dream was coming true

He achieved the impossible 

which teaches us one thing

that life is good and you

should never stop following your dream.