Travel The World With Poetry: Travel Writing
Posted on: November 29, 20094 comments so far (is that a lot?)
By Earl J. Wilcox.
I wish I could write on a plane while traveling
to a city in the Middle East. Though my stop
is Dubai—peaceful oasis hundreds of miles
from battle zones in Iraq–if fear and emotion
trigger words, traveling to a world ravaged
by wars ought to give birth at least to prefixes
or shapes like words. Poems refuse to be born.
When I fly west for a visit with a sick sister–
a trip without a happy ending—should not
I at least find sounds to chart a poem about
endings and beginnings, family ties, siblings
and stepmothers, memories piling on top
of each other, emotions brimming above
and beneath surfaces to fill a chapbook.
My inability to write while traveling seems
a puny admission that whether the trip’s to
a place where pleasure rules or death keeps
company with everyone inside a sickroom,
something nudges me into solitude, space
for wonder, a momentary stay of the soul
until stability arrives as I wait, free to consider
how once again I breathe words and write.
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