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Magic suitcase



everytime she fills the case
she moves

takes the life
that folds
and special pocket folders
held by bands
and snaps
the metal close

the handle crafted

keep it empty and she stays


dreamcatchers hang
on windows
catching dreams

the sky changes colours
from grey to violet

breezes move
neath open
sash

Shes filling it again
and when its full
she'll be en route
leaving
behind the leavings

only light and shadow
smokescreen
and player

sunlight in her pale
eyes


— Esker, Apr 01, 2010

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Region, Country: north ontario, CAN

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Esker

Esker

16 years 2 months ago

a freinds story

we laughed walking together about travelling This is her story that I dedicate in a poem Esker~
Esker

Esker

16 years 2 months ago

Hull

her eyes I can relate her youth gone but happy she smiles we are knowing in our ways the travellers she wants to settle I dreamed of it when travelling ~
Esker

Esker

16 years 2 months ago

write our rights

correct? passion is our plight eh? )canadianism( I read and enjoy also the works of yours will comment soon Esker~ Post Script... I cropped my Avatar like yours im kinda a fan
seabhac

seabhac

16 years 2 months ago

The title captured me

I really enjoyed this wistful poem and it is lovely that you wrote it for a friend. There are people who come into our lives and travel on to other destinations but leave a part of the longing behind.We all wish we had the freedom to do it but feel tied to family,job and the habit of where we are at.We are all travelling down variable pathways even when we think we are in the same place, all it takes it an awareness of where you are and a lot of bravery to pack the suitcase and step onto another road. Great write and held me right to the last word Seabhac
Esker

Esker

16 years 2 months ago

So true

I am here many years peeling layers and sticking masks aside unpacking the packing like Lord Jims stories the vessels he sketched in my head Movies "never get out of the goddamn boat unless you absolutely were going all the way!" same author movie by Cappola I see movement like asian dance like cloud realms be they rain or snow filled the heat as thick as the cold sensations prickling memory alive alert to thunder and my heart tied to the captstan of resonsibilities realizing I have made freinds in my dreaming here and here we have travelled in the womb in our aged ways and in new eyes as period favours come and go in colour script and form yet to the core we are human feeling what we can like whispers in the arms of tethered trees that roam alive outside or at distant horizon edge our roots our reachs our passions Esker~
Esker

Esker

16 years ago

M

talked to her again we waver on wavelenghts like signal to signal smiling in the gulf the great distance preening so different are we that the same we are