Journal for The Journey-A Poetry Class

The more I travel
the more I am confused
about the ignorance
of those around me
when I return.
I left them behind once
and they never caught up
and I can never return
to who I was before.

How can I take part
in bashing this group or that
when my feet have
graced their soil
and their faces
have left their print
on my soul.

How can I not refuse
to call their country
a third world nation
when its the only world
they know, and one
I'm blessed they showed me?

How can I not make welcome
those people in my home
when they so graciously
opened theirs to me?
How can I make them see
the change they made in me?

How can I ever doubt
the strength of the human spirit
when I've seen what they must do
just to live and raise their children?
How can I not sense
the passion shared with me?

So I walk among my people,
now whole but somehow not,
there are parts of me left scattered,
in countries across the globe,
and parts of me made whole
by their hospitality and love.




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Your assignment:

1. Please write a poem based on the any part of the prompt provided. It can be in any form or free verse. It should be at least 8 lines long. You will not be graded on the form or lack thereof. What is important is that it be REAL to what YOU think and who you are. It should not be written to impress someone else.


The prompt is the quote above: "Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living." –- Miriam Beard


2. Please post your poem in text form (not as a bitem) under a thread called "(your name)Prompt Poem" in forum no later than Monday, February 9, 2009, at 8pm Writing.com time.

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