This poem was published in the Tico Times on February 18, 2011. We wish to share it with our readers because we feel it beautifully captures the essence of life in Costa Rica.
This poem was submitted [to the Tico Times]by Katherine Ridley, 13, who attended the Talarke School in San Ramon de Tres Rios from 2000 to 2007, and the European School in San Pablo de Heredia from 2007 to 2010. She now lives in Geneva, Switzerland.
Pura Vida
I know a country with a heart of gold and goodness.
The animals, so colorful and exotic,
They look like part of a dream;
The mountains that breathe fire
Like hot-tempered, scaly dragons.
The restless land that shakes and shudders
Letting the people know it is alive.
Bright red berries that sprinkle the coffee plants at harvest time;
Drops of blood on a green garment.
Sandy beaches snaking around the country:
Ropes preventing all that beauty from spilling into the sea
That already has its fair share.
Coral reefs that grow just as dense
As the rain forest with its endless showers
As if it was trying to wash the evil from the world.
And the people that smile as if life is good
Because it is.
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