Courage

Left: I am holding a copy of my poem “Courage” at the Bus Lines Contest Awards Ceremony; Right: A closer picture of the poem (transcription below)

In fall 2013, my poem “Courage” was one of the winners of the Charlottesville Area Transit (CAT) Bus Lines Poetry Contest. For a year, a copy of the poem was placed on one of CAT’s buses for bus riders to read and another copy was sent to the University of Virginia’s Special Collections Library.

Courage

By Natalie Smith

That tall, timid girl

Who tries not to be noticed

Decided one day to be dauntless

So she riled up her courage,

Stood up,

And asked him:

“Will you come to homecoming with me?”