American Action Fund for Blind Children and Adults
Future Reflections Winter 2024 PERSPECTIVES
Beach
by Mia Barone
From the Editor: Mia Barone is a fourth-grader from Mendham, New Jersey. She has been fully mainstreamed since preschool, and she is a fluent Braille reader and writer. She wrote this poem with her Braillenote Touch. Mia and the rest of her classmates read their poems to their parents at a special poetry celebration last November. Mia says of her poem, "I was inspired to write this poem because it is where I go with my family and I have been going there forever."
Spongy plants
Warm
Sandy
Blowing wind
Swishing waves
Beach air
Full of shells
Full of rocks
Can be any size
Screeching birds
Long swaying dune grass
Salt water
Fish in the water not on a plate
Big or small waves
Loud or quiet waves
Crashing sounds
Ocean mist
OCEAN breeze
Ocean air
OCEAN bubbles
Big or small shells
Ocean foam
Big or small rocks
Calming
