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KINGDOM ADVENTURES BY GILDA PINEDA DIONELA

Narrow Road

that Leads TO

Paradise

Saint James Park

I Tis is a pageantry of fowers
ENGLAND
that is the envy of top foral
discovered a forest
designers in the world.
tucked in London,
both an ancient
Tere are trees submerged
in the water of the lake that
and modern city
of the world. One
fne afernoon the sun was grow strong, leaves swaying
gracefully as the wind blows
shining so bright at 31 upon them.
degrees Celsius. Tis rarely I sat on the bench facing
happens in the fnancial the lake. (Memories fashed
city of the world. Old trees in my head when as a little
with fresh dark green leaves girl I would run across the
are scattered everywhere. It feels and looks so much like road to go to a guava tree planted close by a running
“home”. Tere is a lake with water as clear as crystal. Fowls stream, where it bore fruits year round. Te sweetest
of many kinds such as grey guava in my memory was worth climbing and taking
heron, smew, Ross’s goose, the risk of drowning for. Te same tree that my sister fell
whistling duck, coot, eastern from, straight into the stream, she almost drowned.
white pelican, Egyptian goose Te birds were singing seeming not to have a worry
and many more abound. about anything in this world. A yellow butterfy encircled
Flowers are of diferent me as I sat quietly. Visitors from diferent nations passed
varieties and colours from by but it was as if I didn’t see anyone of them. Te cool
deep purple, magenta, fuchsia, breeze was perfect, it was a tropical like weather. I could
KINGDOM ADVENTURE
By Gilda Pineda Dionela yellow, bloody red to white. have sat there all day doing nothing.
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