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Open Poetry #46

Poems about america

ziad
Junior Member

since 2009-05-23

Posts 15
London, England

0 posted 2010-06-01 09:11 PM

So i haven't posted on here for a while. I took a 3 month trip across america last summer... and i wanted to write a few poems about it.

it's untitled:

And as the pouring yellow of canvas and oil
melt into romantic streams that do not move.
The painting in which I travel; a peaceful path to wander.
Like a war within my seat, the Strife of longing shoots missiles
at the wheel behind the man.

This patch of land is not a field. It holds
a hope: warm in embrace under the calming sun
of modest skies. The birds have flown, away
for southern sun and greener grass. But Purple Martins
look at me from timeless trees. They sit watching
while sipping tea and counting time on golden branches
– The women sit among the roots and drink coffee,
counting cars because they have no clocks, no cogs
to move the hands of time. No metal or glass to ornament
their aging bodies that sit static through generations. Counting
cars and peering through the windows of our blue Chevvy – they wave.

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

1 posted 2010-06-02 06:31 PM

Very nice imagery!

Love,
Margherita

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