The students from 3LB-C have been venturing into a dark forest for the past couple of weeks .
Or was it inundated by bright light ?
Have they met any bears in it ?
Are they out of the woods yet ?
Their teachers are waiting for their reports ..................
It was July, the 26. I woke up at noon, after an amazing night spent with my boyfriend in our cottage near Elvedon, Montana, where we used to spend most of our holidays. Crossing the entrance hall to reach the kitchen and start cooking something, I found Will’s note on the table. It said he had gone out to buy something special for lunch, just for the two of us. I was glad to give up my purpose to boil an egg and butter my favourite sliced cereal bread, and went out in the garden. It was an awesome, bright day; the midday sun was shining right above my head, birds were singing on the tree branches and a cool breeze was blowing from the forest behind the house. I had always liked that quiet, peaceful forest, full of sounds and perfumes of the nature, so different from the chaos in the city, so magic that made you feel lighter and forgetful of your problems. I realised I had nothing to do, apart from waiting for the food to come and decided to go out for a walk in the wood. I would not have gone too far into the forest, just a few miles and back. It was a coniferous forest, so most of the trees were pines, firs and cypresses, but there were also several thin white trunk birches and high juniper trees. The sun made its rays penetrate in the spaces among the branches, creating a sort of mistic atmosphere when they projected the light on the wet ground and on other trees’ trunks. It attracted my attention and I felt suddenly like hypnotised; it was pure beauty I was admiring in astonishment.
ReplyDeleteI walked for a while and then, behind a huge sequoia, noticed a tiny rural house, in the centre of a perfectly green lawn, with red windows and a small door on the front porch. I thought it was really cute and wondered who lived there: perhaps and old couple or a lonely hunter with his loyal dog. However, I moved on, crossing the lawn and beyond the house. When I was among the trees, suddenly I heard a strange sound from behind a big red berries bush. I stopped and listened, nervous. I felt still and rigid, every muscle of my body was in tension. Silence. Waiting. The sound repeated, this time much clearer and louder. It was like a soft roar, that made the bush almost tremble. Surely it was an animal. I hoped not a big one, probably just a fox or a wild cat. I did not know what to do or think. I just stood, motionless. The roar repeated again and at the same time a huge mountain of what seemed to be dark brown fur rose from behind the bush. And I understood: it was a grizzly bear, just woken up from his snooze. Luckily, it had not noticed me yet. I closed my eyes and stopped breathing for a long minute, wishing it would not smell my fear. And then I started running like hell.
I was completely blind, tears welled up in my eyes due to the sudden shock when I realised how lucky I had been. But I kept on running away, going nowhere. In fact, I did not know where I was going and eventually felt I was lost.
It was a Beautiful day of summer and I decided to go into a forest, for a long walk. The forest was very dark even if was day time, because the trees were very tall and the light couldn’t pass through the branches and the leaves. I was walking on a path and I saw a beautiful butterfly ,I was very surprised to see a butterfly so beautiful and also I followed her, suddenly I found a house..It was very small but wonderful, it was surrounded by a picket fence, inside was a enormous garden full of flowers with many colors. The grass was very green and all was very precise, I went inside the garden and through a path I reached the house, also I Knocked at the door, but nobody answered, but I entered all the same. The house was very nice and welcoming! There was only a bedroom, the house was in fact very small. I decided to keep on walking through the forest. I followed a stream, the water was cold and clear, suddenly I saw a bear, my breathing become labored and I began to run, I was scared, the bear was very tall, enormous, brawn but he didn’t saw me fortunately, I carried on my walk in the forest and I reached a gate, I very curious, opened the gate and I found a garden, was great tidy it seemed that someone looked after and tidied it. In the garden there were many trees and flowers, there were a lot of butterflies colorful, and in the background was a rainbow that illuminated the green grasses , I come out of the garden because I saw a very high walk it was made of stone, It was bad, because it was too high, and I couldn’t see what there was behind the wall, but I could hear a lot of strange voices that spoke an incompressible language, I decided that I would be back the day after with a high ladder!!
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ReplyDeleteOne day I decide to have a walk into the wood near my home. It is a wonderful wood.I always go there to relax myselv. There are several type of trees: beechs,oaks,larchs,..and wild animals like roes, hares and birds. I'm cheerful and calm.I'm walking alone, when a come to a little river. I don't know how to go to the other side becouse it is plenty of water, so I sit down on the ground.I look in my bag to find something to eat and I see that there isn't my key anymore. It is a green, new key and it is the only one of my house's door. So I stand up and I decide to come back and look for my key. Now I'm a bit worried and agitated. I walk again in the wood and suddenly I see a key. I can't see very well how it looks like because it is on the ather side of a hedge. I decide to step over the hedge to analise it. But it isn't my key. It is an old, rusty one. I'm very disappointed. So I come back. I remember that perhaps I've put the key in one bag's pocket. I control and I find my key. I'm very happy and now relaxed again. After everything that have happened, I come home and I have a plenty dinner because I'm very hungry too.
SECRETS IN THE WOOD
ReplyDeleteI’ve always been attracted by woods: they are places where the nature still lives without the man, without streets or houses, and all the animals are free. Because of this, this year I’ve decided to spend my holydays in the north of Ireland, where the trees still cover the most of the land.
Left the hotel, I start walking through a path in the wood, everything is so calm and the only noises are those made by the animals, they’re so relaxing and beautiful that they seem a song. I follow the path up to its end and then I continue walking alone through the forest; the trees are so high that I can’t see the sky, the ground is covered with leaves and now it’s very hard to see anything: I think it’s better to come back to the hotel because it’s late, my clock says that it’s already 7pm and I’m feeling quite frightened.
I decide to come back to the hotel, but something catches my attention: there’s a light hidden by the leaves and I decide to reach it. I arrive to a small lake, the light I’ve seen was the moon reflecting on the water surface; it’s already very dark now. I feel a little bit peaceable: at least there’s a little bit of light around me! The water is strangely clear and I decide to go near it.
I’m very tired, so I sit on the ground by the water; there’s something strange there: it’s an old and rusty key, it’s half covered with sand and I take it. It’s quite heavy, but it’s beautiful and covered with writings that I don’t understand, I think they are runes or something like that. I decide to keep it.
I stand up and start walking along the lake; it’s not so big and I decide to walk all around it, hoping to find a route or a path to come back to the hotel or to reach a village. Half of the way I must stop: there’s an high hedge there and it’s quite strange: that place seems wild and forgotten by the human beings but the hedge seems very painstaking, like kept by a gardener.
I follow the hedge and arrive to an iron gate; I can see on the other side: what I see is unbelievable! There’s a small path which, through a garden, leds to a small cottage. There are flowers everywhere. I can see some light inside and smoke coming out from the chimneypot. I should go away, come back to the hotel; but I’m too curious and, if there’s someone inside, he or she could help me!
I open the gate and reach the house; someone opens the door: an old woman who, with a huge smile, invites me inside. I tell her my story drinking the cup of hot tea she had offered me. She asks me how I could manage to open the gate and I answer that I’ve found an old key by the lake; she seems excited and wants to see the key. I give it to her and she says that she had lost that key many years ago and that it is very important: not only because it opens the gate (there’s another exit from the garden too), but because it can open an extremely old big book too. That book belongs to her family from generations and has thousands of years; it contains many legends and the old woman, who is called Rose, decides to give it to me: she already knows all the stories by heart and she lives alone, so she couldn’t give it to anyone else. I’m so happy and fall, after just some minutes, asleep on the sofa. This has been a fantastic day.
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ReplyDeleteThis is of Valenitina Pederzolli.
ReplyDeleteIt's a good summer afternoon and i decide to go out to have a walk, because i'm very tired and i need a break. I walk through the town and i arrive in the wood. Here it is colder than in the town, the light of the sun is not allowed to arrive there because of the high trees. It's a quiet afternoon and the only noise that you could heard in the wood are the call of the animals,and the noise of the trees with the wind.
The street where i'm walking is very narrow and there are many stones near it. I continue to walk and i arrive to a lake. It's very big and the water has a color that i've never see a lake like this. It's a green-blue, it's so beautiful that i can't explain how i feel seing it. I wanted to go near it to feel how the water is, it's not cold as i though. I can see fishes and other animals in tha lake. It's a very good place but on the side, where i am, there isn't people, there are only stones and trees. From the other side of the lake i can heard some voices, i can see people who are swimming in the lake, other people who are playing tennis, volleyball and Football and i can hear a typical music of turistical localities.
I decide to go on and arrive on the other side of the lake, where there are people to talk and play whit, on my side i feel a littel alone. After thirty minutes walking i arrive on the side that i want to reach, but it's late and the people who were spending the afternoon here are not still here, yhe beach is desert. I find a small T-shirt on the floor, probably a child forgot it. I take it and i discover that this T-shirt hides a key. It's a very small key made of gold, i observe this key for some minutes...there is noone on the beach, so i can't give to anyone the key. I take it and i decide to returne back home. I go over the street again, i arrive on the side of the lake where i was before, but i can't find the street that i used to come there, all around me there is a barrier, and i can see nothing else as walls. The walls are very high and they are made of cement and stones. There is a door, a special door made of gold. I understand that probably my key would open the door. But i'm scared..i don't want to try..i wait some minutes and then i decide that it was the only solution that i had. I try to open it and i arrive in a new world, here there are not wars, suffering and diseas...it is a world where you can live in quiet, whit all people that love you.
It would be a great thing to find a key that open a so wonderful world, but it's impossible..so we have to build by ourselves a better world.
It is a cloudy day of spring, the classic day you have nothing to do, so I decide to go into forest that is near my house. I don’t go in there very often but that’s a reason more for going in there. In the forest there are huge trees that probably have hundreds of years and flowers that grow everywhere, it’s very colourful. The forest isn’t too dark because the sun light pass through the branches but the shapes of the shadows are a bit strange and in that moment I feel a weird feeling, but I keep going. Suddenly in the middle of the wood in the distance I see a stream. When I get closer I look and touch the water, it is cold and clean. As more as I look at the water I want to jump in, but it is too cold and low, so I start to jump from side to side, like if I was a little girl. Then I continued walking through the forest. Unexpectedly I fall over a stone that I don’t see because the grass is quite high. I lift and I see that falling I hurt my knee, so angry I kick the stone. In the same moment I kick the stone I see something shine. It’s a key! Why there’s a key in here? Has someone lost it? I look around to see if there’s someone but there’s no one. The key is quite big and new, but is rusted so it seems to be old. I decide to put it in my backpack and maybe I’ll find the way to use it. I’m so excited about it! Walking I notice that as more I walk through the forest it becomes more and more thick and darker because the branches intertwine and I have a feeling of loss and fear. But in the same time I’m deciding to go back home, before me I see a glade and in the middle of it there’s a low wall, high up to my hips, made of stones, that dived the glade in two parts. I don’t know what there’s in the other side, I can see only trees but maybe inside there’s something special, maybe something that the key can open, maybe there's only another forest. I don’t know what to do, so I just sit on the wall, stop thinking and look up to the sky.
ReplyDeleteI fell asleep and I didn’t realized how much was late! I lift up and I look at the other side of the wall, I continue looking around me and suddenly I feel incredibly relaxed and then I understand that I really love this place. Unfortunately the rain comes and I have to go back home. But quickly I hide the key between the stones of the wall and I write on a tree near the wall: “This place is mine and no one else!” . And I run away.
I open my eyes and immediately I find myself in a wood that is like a forest,around me I feel the sound of the warm breeze that slowly moves my hairs and remind me of the sea.
ReplyDeleteThe threes are big and really high,I can't see where they arrive.Their colour covers all the nuances of green and it is everywhere intense and brilliant!This makes me happy and relaxed,I think only about what i see.
In some points the colour is deep and there is an icy hair.
I walk and the wood becomes immediately more thick,gloomy and dark.I try to move the branches.
Now I see in front of me a huge meadow,in the center there is a well,the water is limpid like the sky.The sun reflect his rays,the atmosphere is magic and in the nature I feel free.
I walk near the well and put my hand inside it,the water is fresh and I find a key at the bottom of it under a stone.
I take the key, it is very old and rusty because of the water.
I put the key in my shoes and I decide to go forward..
Appears to me a staircase made of glass and inside it flows dark blue water,it goes up and at the end I find a red new door.It is small,to open it I must put the key at the top in the lock.
When I open it I fall down and I find myself on a wild immense isle,were the nature is wonderful and I fell good about myself...
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ReplyDeleteIt was a late afternoon and it was blowing a slight autumn breeze, and I thought it was a good day for a walk.
ReplyDeleteAnd so I found myself walking through a wood hearing the crunch of fallen leaves and looking at the colorful trees which nearly covered up the sun.
Unconsciously I was following a small path in front of me.
After a while all became a bit dark and the shrubs began all tangled and for a moment I felt oppressed but also it was mysterious and I felt curious about it.
Step by step I arrived at a small waterfall; I came up, I watched the water and I realized that it was extremely clear and pure, nearly crystal.
Watching at the roaring of this waterfall I felt free and positive.
Because I was so thirsty I bent and drunk some water. After I searched for my phone in my pocket but I didn't find it, instead I discovered only a mysterious key.
While I was thinking about its origin I noticed that it was a very rusty and old key and I understood that's not mine.
I put again the key in my pocket, I thought it could be useful.
I finally arrived at the end of the wood, I looked up and I saw a wall made of cement; I tried to watch on the other side but it was too high and I couldn't see anything.
I came near the wall, and I was very surprised to notice that there was a really small door with a big lock in it: I took my key and I put it in the lock, I entered...
It is a bright and muggy day of July. Driven by the heat I hastily decide to have a walk in the wood in the neighbourhood of my little cottage. It is a really bewitched place, calm and full of vegetation.. I’m also feeling good with myself, unconcerned and forceful.
ReplyDeleteShortly after one hour of walk I can make out a waterfall in the distance. Out of the idle I go quickly nearer.. What a spectacle all the gushes of water! As soon as I realize that it is tepid, I go bathing because I’m really in a sweat! I swim lonely under the shadow of the trees. Never felt better than now..
All at once I find a purple-coloured key on the floor. I pick it up and bring it out of the water. It seems brand-new!
Buuuuuuuuuuut.. not knowing what to do with it I leave the key on the grass.
Satisfied of my relaxing afternoon I catch the path to return home, a track never tried before.
The way is long and wearying, I plough through definitely exhausted.. but I cannot go behind: by doing this I would only lengthen it! I must sweat it out..
After some time I arrive in front of a huge purple closed door, part of a wall. Trough his windows I can see a familiar garden, a red car, one.. Hey! That’s home!
Enthusiastic I look round..
To the right I notice with effort a tiny sign with this indication on it: “To cross me, look for a key”. Ok.. Strange, isn’t it? I start thinking.. .. One moment! No no no.. please! Don’t tell me that it was the purple one of the waterfall! Noooooooooo
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ReplyDeleteIt's a sunny morning of july, unusually I wake up early so I decide to have a walk in the wood behind my gradparents' house. I arrived here a week ago and I haven't explored the place yet. Let's have a look!
ReplyDeleteI walk out the door putting on my sunglasses and I start walking towards the wood. I get into it and it is amazing! The sunlight penetrates into the thick brenches, the rays, like spotlights, illuminate all te hidden corners of this lively wood. I can hear birds singing and little animals running through the undergrowth. I find a path and I follow it lokking around me surprised by the beauty of the nature. I walk for a long time, now the sun is high in the sky and it's getting hot, I need water to refresh myself. Fortunately I hear some water flow nearby so I leave the path and start walking towards it. I find a stream that flows quickly through this enchanted wood. Without hesitation I dive into it, the fresh water makes me feel alive and free. But suddenly something gets stuck in my foot so I get out of the stream to check what it is. I sit on the groud and I discover that it is a key tied to a cord. It is an old strange key, very big with an engraving on it that shows a door in the middle of a glade. I'm curious so I set off again going towards the end of the wood, maybe the door on the key really exixts and the key opens it!
That place cannot be so far from here. Finally I get out of the wood, at first the sunlight blind me but immediately I realize that I am in the middle of a glade, it could be the one that I'm looking for! I roam around searching for the door, I see somethig in the distance covered by some trees, I draw up to it running and I can't believe it, it's the door!
It stands in front of me, it is a huge wooden door, from both its sides a wall starts running but I can't see where it ends.
I look at the key...I look at the door and I think to myself that this things happen only in fairytales, maybe it's too hot and I have hallucinations! I don't care about it I'm too curious, I want to open the door and discover what's behind it.
I'm opening it...I turn the key and pull the door very slowly, I enter and close it behind me.
There's nothing strange on this side! There is a glade like the other one, but wait!! Everything here is upside down!! HEEEEEELP!!
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ReplyDeleteI am walking through a wood.. I don’t know really why, I just know that since I opened my eyes I am seeing thousands of huge trees. I don’t remember what I was doing before waking up here. I feel myself strange, I am not used to walk in places like this, I always hated even go just seeking mushrooms with my father, I don’t like woods.. so, why am I alone in a wood? I am asking myself this curious question, when suddenly a enormous bird speeds close to me. It makes me so nervous, so afraid, here in a silent wood, without anyone near me. Looking at the sky I understand that it is maybe 10 a.m., but I can’t be sure of it because my stupid new watch doesn’t want to work. It’s strange, but I can’t pay too much attention to it: I have to find how to get out of this wood. I am thinking and walking, I am watching every particular that catches my eye, that maybe could help me, but here there are only firs and bushes. At one point, after a couple of hours spent going around among dead leaves and dry branches, I hear a sound.. it is different from those I have been hearing before, it is constant and it is not far from me. It seems the flow of a stream! Now I am running, I want to arrive to the water: I am tired, I really need to drink some water and to refresh myself. The stream is in full, but it isn’t big. The current doesn’t seem to be very strong, so I get closer to it. I am wetting my hands in the fresh water, when among the stones in the bed of the stream I notice something shining in an unnatural light. I extend a arm to catch it, I am touching it! I have the little mysterious object strict into my hand, but unfortunately I lose the balance and...splash! The fresh water reveals to be frozen and starts to soak my cloths. I can’t stand up: the bed of the stream is here, under my feet, but the current is getting stronger and I can’t find anything that can to stop my wet trip. The only thing I can do is hoping that it will finish early. The water is getting colder, the sun is beyond the trees therefore it can’t warm the wood. I am feeling more and more weak.
ReplyDeleteI am opening my eyes, for the second time today...my first thought is “maybe the nightmare is finished!”, but I realize where I am, I recognise the gloomy wood with its dark giants made of needles. Now it is late afternoon, the sun is going down and I am completely wet lying down on the shore of a small lake. I must have fallen asleep before, or I may have fainted. At this point I have to stand up, I can’t remain here forever! So I put my hands on the ground to help myself standing up and something small fall down of my fist: the sparkling object! It is a small key. I don’t know if it is old or not, the shape seems too elegant to be of a normal key but this one isn’t either worn and ruined like the ancient ones of some adventure films. It is really beautiful and, even without the beams of the sun, it has a particular reflection of light. In the distance I see something that stands beyond one fir. I go there and I find a imposing wall covered from leaves. Among these leaves I glimpse a small lock, small like the key that still is into my hand. I try to put it in the lock; I can’t believe it, this is the key to open this door and I found it! Now I can go out of the wood, I am sure of it! I am going past the threshold... but suddenly something changes. I blink and I understand to be in my untidy bedroom and that I have to go to school. It was just a dream, but now I won’t never know what there was beyond the wall.
I'm walking through a wood but I don't know why!
ReplyDeleteOne minute ago I was with my friends playing volleyball in a field.
However this is the best wood that I've ever seen.It is a sunny day and I can see a lot of coloured flowers and some nice animals too like squirrels and foxes. The trees are green and sun entered their branches creating a magic atmosphere. I'm feeling happy because here is all so quiet! What a wonderful place!
Suddently I sea strange cat that is running very fast. I'm too curious so I decide to follow him. Maybe he can show me other intersting places like this one! I'm feeling like Alice in Wonderland!
I arrive near a small lake. I think that I'd swim because the water is blue, sparkling and not very cold.
Yes, I could do that! Slowy I go into the water.I'm feling relaxed but a little alone. Where are my friends? Or better..Where am I???
At a ceratin point I notice something glistering in the grass that grow near the lake. I'm obviously really curious but a little scared too because I don't know what it is that strange object.
I stop to swim and approch the glistering thing. It is a strange, big key made of gold. Wow!!! Who belongs it? Why is it there? I'm very exited. I imagine it is the key of a big house or of a castle where kings and queens live! I'd really like to bring the key with me.Maybe I could find its owner too!
I continue to walk in the forest admiring the nature since I reach a huge barrier made of stones and wood.
What can I find on the other side? I try to climb it but I can't because it is too high.
I'm a little disappointed bud a ceratin point I notice a really small door but i'm not sure if now I want to go on the other side.
Finally I entered it and my eyes see a wonderful place. Yes, I am dreaming, it is sure that am I! How can I see the beach and the sea? One minute ago I was in a wood full of trees, but now? There are also a lot of people who are sun-bathing. I try to speak with them but unfortunately they don't speak my language.
I decide to walk along the sea and suddently I find a big trunk!Maybe I have just found a tresure!! I remember the strange, big key. Exited, I try to open it. I raise the cover but I don't find any gold coins or precious necklaces, only a lot of enormous beatiful sea shells! I'm feeling a little disappointed but however I decide to bring some seashells with me. In this way I can remember this faboluos but really strange adventure!
I returne in the wood and surprisingly I see my friens that are still playing volleyball!
I watch another time my seashells and I am happy because for me they are the best tresure that I've ever fuond!
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ReplyDeleteIn a spring day I was walking into a huge wood. There were lots of flowers everywhere and lots of trees, too and their interlaced branches created stranges and artistics images in the sky. The air was fresh and sometimes the wind brought some cool air.
ReplyDeleteIn the distance I heard a noise of water and walking forward that place I found out an hidden river with a huge waterfall.
The atmosphere was so relaxing and quit; there were lots of little animals like squirrels and coloured birds so I decided to relax myself there and I put my feet into the cold but clean water.
At a certain point I discovered something bright under the water into the bottom of the river and I caught it: it was an old and for a half rusty key. First I thought to throw it away but then I decided to keep it like a souvenir of my trip into the wood.
So, because my feet began to claim for the cold water, I continued my walk. The path seemed without end and I was very tired and frightened because the darkness was waiting to cover all and sooner everything would became dark.
In the meantime I was thinking this I went against something on the path that hurt my foot. It was a black box with a gold incision on and I noticed that there was a lock so immediately I caught the key that I had found and the box opened.
A sweet melody began to spread from this one that was a carillon and not a jewel case as I thought. Then a sound, maybe a scream! I was so frightened that I started to run along the path because was I felt that something was behind me. I was running so fast that I went against a hedge that didn't allow me to go to the other side and that was like a wall because was high and of sessile oak so if I climb it I risked to hurt myself. In a part there was a hole and I made it bigger so I went to the other side where I could see the working chimneys of a small village.
Alone in the dark.
ReplyDeleteI came in the wood because I wanted to pick up some strawberries but suddenly I got lost. Around there were hundreds of trees, but they did not look like normal trees, they seemed to have faces. I had never faced a situation like this one so the pain came on me and I fainted.
As soon as i wake up that I cannot remember anything. I stand up and I see some water in the distance but I do not know what it could be, maybe a lake or maybe it is only a pond. But I am really curious so I walk through the trees in order to discover what it is. I find out that it is a lake. I'm still frightened so I have a bath in order to relax.
Now that I am relaxed I start fishing . After I have fished for a while some fishes I find a key. It is an ancient and patterned key. It is really beautiful and it seems a fairy key because of its form and the decorations on it. But I do not own it so I do not know what I could use it for.
Suddenly the sky turns dark and cloudy. There is an impetuous wind too and it looks like the trees are talking to me like they want to say something to me but I cannot understand them.
While the water of the lake is rough, a little purple dragon comes to me, it seems angry so I start running away, looking for a way out. Finally I find a wall with a little door so I try to open it but I am too stressed and I cannot open it, not even with the ancient key. The dragon is now in front of me and I cannot do anything to escape from it. But now, looking at it, I understand that it is not angry with me, it only suffers because of the spine it has in its arm. So I take it away and the dragon thanks me. It is very kind, even if we cannot talk each other. It helps me to open the door and now I can see that beyond this wall there is my house! I cannot believe it, I'm finally home and I can play with my new friend Cyclee, the little dragon.
I am walking through a wood…I am so afraid, it is cold and dark…I don’t know if this is a dream or not, but I think I am lost into the wood….
ReplyDeleteThe trees around me are glumy and all gives me an horrible feeling. Where am I? Why I am here? I don’t have the time to answer to me because I want only run, I don’t know where….But I need to run away…
I see a claring in the distance, it seems lit…and I hear the sound of running water, I start to run faster. When I arrive, I find myself in front of a wonderful show. A small piece of wood lit by the rays of the moon, where a river flows peacefully, and all around there are flowers everywhere, of every kind and color.
I think it is an enchanted paradise, the water is fresh and clear…and I naturally have a drink, cause of the running before….
“Wait” I say myself, there is something that shines on the river bottom. So reach out, plunging the whole arm in the icy water and collect an old key…It seems like the key of an old chest. I don’t think too much and put it in my pocket. I continue to walk along the path until arriving at the tree line. I have to face a huge barrier…that keeps me from moving on, it is a great wall surrounded by barbed wire. It goes down and down throughout the wood. I can’t escape and the only way to move beyond is dig under the wall…I feel like a trapped animal, and I continue to hope this is just a dream…
After walking a hole big enough to make me go beyond, I lie and I go to the other side. On the other side I find a trunk…unattended…maybe the key…can open it?? I pull the key from my pocket and I hope is the right one..I open the trunk and I find a note inside, I read it….: “ Before going to sleep, don’t eat too much!!!!!!! “
My parents were in the restaurant with some friends, talking about work and other stupid things, and I was getting boring, 'cause I didn't have nothing interesting to do and so I decided to take a walk around this gloomy place, but I got lost and now I'm wandering for hours in a wood.
ReplyDeleteI've never seen a place like that, it is boundless, with many trees very closed each other, that don't allowe the sun to enter in and to warm, for this reason it's very cold and wet. There's something magical in this wood. I feel very strange, a mix of fear and curiosity inside me, but I keep walking, to find a way out.
In front of me there are many paths, I have the feeling to take the right-one. It's very narrow and full of branches, it isn't easy to walk through it; left is a ramp, so I walk the more inward as possible.
Suddenly I see a waterfall between the trees at the end of the path.. I get close to it... the water is so clear, it seems a huge mirror. Water has always gave me a sense of peace and tranquility, now most of my fear disappeares. Looking carefully at this amazing waterfull, I notice a small cave behind it. I enter it. It's very cold and dark inside, but I continue walking.
Suddenly I stumble into something and I fall down. A key!! A very big and heavy one!! What does this key open?? I am confused, things get stranger and stranger... I put the key into my pocket and I leave this cave, I don't like it at all.
Now I change direction, maybe I will find an exit to reach my parents and go away from this place! I walk, walk and walk...
It's 6 p.m and I'm still wandering in this bewitched wood..surely my parents are looking for me somewhere, worried. Maybe it's just a nightmare. Now it's completly dark, I can't see anything, I just walk with the arms in front of me.
Suddenly something stops me. I touch it. It is like a huge wall, made of stone. I find a door, I try to open it...It's closed!! I just can't believe it! And now? I feel like in a trap! But...wait..I have a key, maybe is its!! I put it in.. Yes! The door opens and...
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ReplyDeleteSuddenly I open my eyes, I feel weird as I've been asleep for such a long time. A ray of sunshine come from above, everything around me is opaque. I stand up and look around, I'm in a wood, a big wood, actually I don't remember why I'm here...Am I dreaming? This place is so strange, the atmosphere is calm, around me everything is quiet. I can't see the sun, only ray of sunshine can enter in the thick roof made by the the branches of the trees. I decide to walk to explore to forest. Although there's few light, I can see clearly how the trees are tall, I can't see their branches! Under me there are loads of green leafes, a bright green, like the leafes that are on the trees, they are soft and smell so good. I like this place, it's not frightful on the contrary is warm and comfortable, I feel relaxed and peaceful. It's so quiet, as if everybody are sleeping! What an amazing place, I wonder what kind of animals can live here. Absorbed in my thoughts I don't notice a small river that flow through the wood, once again I feel relaxed: the river's water is crystal and there are fish inside, red, little and plump. I bend over for drink a drop, suddenly the plumpest fish jump out of the water and fall on the ground. I should put him back in the water or he will die, so I come close, but the fish immediately turn in to a key. I'm a bit shocked, poor fish, the key is much more huge than him. I come even closer, the key is rusty and old, I take it and clean it...it's made of gold and it's so heavy. Holding the key I pass the river, paying attention to the weird fishes. While I'm wonder how can I use my new object, I fall over a three's root. Oh my God..in front of me stands the huge baria I've ever seen, I come close to watch it better, it's made of..chocolate..What? What's doing a chocolate baria in a wood? A lots of questions wander around my mind, but the most important is..Does my huge, rusty, old and golden key open it? In no time I begin to search a door or a place where a can put the key, but nothing: no gates, no doors, no holes, neither the little one. I start thinking about a solution, finally I get it: I'll climb the wall and I'll get to the other side..Brilliant..I begin to climb over, it's more complicated than I though, maybe it doesn't seem, but the chocolate is so hard to climb! I can hear a voice, boy's voice, coming from the other side, it isn't loud but I can clearly understand that he's speaking my language..So I hurry up... I'm almost on the top of the wall, when I smell a sweet perfume coming from the other side the perfume is so heady that I lose my concentration, I fall. I'm lucky, I'm on the other side, I'm in! I stand up quickly and i realize where I am..It's a landscape even more weird than the wood, the fish and the chocolate wall. I must be silent, someone is coming, it's better if I hide my self. I see a bush, better I think it's a bush: it's white and soft and it smells good and it taste good too. Everything here is eatable, also the people who are coming, if I can call them "people" are eatable!!! However behind the "bush" I'll be safe and I'll can analyze the situation.
ReplyDeleteThe melody, the sweet melody, was leading me through the wood.
ReplyDeleteBut who was my mermaid? And where was the path? I had lost it since I heard the hypnotic song.
The doubts started stopping me and the fear was taking me, when I gave me an account of what was surrounding me: it was a new part of the wood I’d never seen before, and it seemed to be in a fabulous fable; it was like if the beautiful green underwood, the huge trees, the scented flowers were whispering to me how much wonderful the nature could be. And I agreed with them. The fear went away and in my heart there was again only the melody, my hearts’ beats in perfect syntony with its rhythm.
And all the nature was singing silently with the melody, that sweet melody, so sweet that a tear came out my eye: not because I was sad, just to give vent to my happiness. I took it with a finger from my cheek.
Suddenly, the small drop solidifies, becoming a blue stone. Shocked, I started to pass it hand to hand. I was sure it was my tear, just water some seconds ago. To make myself surer about what was just happened, I watched the pebble nearer, descrying a really small inscription inside: ”Kingdom’s key”.
I was continuing to not understand. Yes, I was hungry, but not much to have hallucinations. After another look, I put the stone in my pocket. What was frightening me the most in that moment was the disappearance of the melody.
But when I took up my look, I saw something that shouldn’t be in an out-of-the-way place like that: only some meters in front of me, in a small glade, there was an unthinkable barrier on my walk. A house. Before it, on a wooden bench, an old man with a white beard was looking at me. Serious, he whispered: “Thus the lamb went to the wolf”.
I was doing a nightmare. Fortunetely I woke up, when I fall on the floor. But there was something unusual, I didn't lay on my bedroom's parquet. No, I laid on the grass, in a wood! How was it possible? The forest was so thick that the sun struggled to penetrate and the trees' shadows seemed to come alive, producing heart-rending cries. The only animals that I saw were insects, disturbing wolves and dirty boars. I had shivers. My only desire was to escape. More I walked and more I thought to have someone who falled me. I was anguished. I walked even more quickly, I ran and the steps were even more loud. I tried to turn me back and there wasn't anyone. Turning back I didn't see a stream and I fall into it. I can't swimm so the fear of drowning magnified everything. The water was more cold than it was, the backdrop was even more deep and the fair grew. Fortunately the stream wasn't too long and I arrived alive at its shore. With all the clothes wet I sat down looking at my enemy. Out of the stream, I noticed that it wans't so horrible. The water was clear, so clear that you can saw the flowers between the stones. Its sound was so soft that was the only thing that kept me calm in a situation like that. The sweet sound of the stream overhanged the cries of the trees' shadows. Taking breath after the shock of the water I touched something with my hand. I moved a bit a heap of leaves and with amazement I found a key. I didn't want catch it because it could be rusty and I could take any infection. But surprising it wasn't rusty, on the contrary! It shined!!! The key was as big as a shoes number 2.5, white as a wedding dress and heavy as a feather. It was so curious. Why there's a key like that in a wood? I didn't found any answer. But i felt that it could be useful. I stood up and continued walking through the forest. Holding it in my hand I could feel how smooth it was. The key kept all my attention that I didn't see the huge wall in front of me. I crush onto it. Onto a stone blue wall with a very big white stain in the middle. I didn't understand. Until I noticed something. The blue part of the wall was rough and the white one was smooth, as the key. It had to mean something! I did five steps backwards and I was boggled: the white stain was the giant of the key in my hand! I ran quickly in front of the wall searching a slot where insert the key. I was excitet to see what I could find on the other side. Fortunately with the hand I felt that one stone wasn't fully attached to another. I took the key and when I tried to put it through the stones I woke up.
ReplyDeleteIt was only a dream in a nightmare!
An unusual night:
ReplyDeleteI was doing a nightmare. Fortunetely I woke up, when I fall on the floor. But there was something unusual, I did not lay on my bedroom's parquet. No, I laid on the grass, in a wood! How was it possible? The forest was so thick that the sun struggled to penetrate and the trees' shadows seemed to come alive, producing heart-rending cries. The only animals that I saw were insects, disturbing wolves and dirty boars. I had shivers. My only desire was to escape. More I walked and more I thought to have someone who falled me. I was anguished. I walked even more quickly, I ran and the steps were even more loud. I tried to turn me back and there was not anyone. Turning back I did not see a stream and I fall into it. I can not swimm so the fear of drowning magnified everything. The water was more cold than it was, the backdrop was even more deep and the fair grew. Fortunately the stream was not too long and I arrived alive at its shore. With all the clothes wet I sat down looking at my enemy. Out of the stream, I noticed that it was not so horrible. The water was clear, so clear that you can saw the flowers between the stones. Its sound was so soft that was the only thing that kept me calm in a situation like that. The sweet sound of the stream overhanged the cries of the trees' shadows. Taking breath after the shock of the water I touched something with my hand. I moved a bit a heap of leaves and with amazement I found a key. I did not want catch it because it could be rusty and I could take any infection. But surprising it was not rusty, on the contrary! It shined!!! The key was as big as a shoes number 2.5, white as a wedding dress and heavy as a feather. It was so curious. Why there's a key like that in a wood? I didn't found any answer. But i felt that it could be useful. I stood up and continued walking through the forest. Holding it in my hand I could feel how smooth it was. The key kept all my attention that I did not see the huge wall in front of me. I crush onto it. Onto a stone blue wall with a very big white stain in the middle. I did not understand. Until I noticed something. The blue part of the wall was rough and the white one was smooth, as the key. It had to mean something! I did five steps backwards and I was boggled: the white stain was the giant of the key in my hand! I ran quickly in front of the wall searching a slot where insert the key. I was excitet to see what I could find on the other side. Fortunately with the hand I felt that one stone was not fully attached to another. I took the key and when I tried to put it through the stones I woke up.
It was only a dream in a nightmare!