A poem 'Journeywoman' - travelling through the unknown landscape
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FormerMember
I would like to share with you a wonderful poem, by an equally wonderful lady who has been fighting bowel cancer and secondaries for the last 6 years.
JOURNEYWOMAN
I hadn't planned to go travelling
when - without warning - they sent me
on a journey to a land with no maps.
Sometimes I go on foot, climbing
slow stairs to the top of towers.
On other days I find myself blurring
through stations with unreadable names.
The lack of a guidebook disturbs me
at first. I want to know my destination,
time of arrival, will there be a bed?
But I've grown to like the unexpected:
a butterfly resting on a blue-painted door,
a walk on sand and seagrass.
Once I saw an eagle soar.
(Copyright: 2009)
The poem has been published in her first collection (please note that it is subject to copyright permission for reproduction) with all proceeds to Beating Bowel Cancer. If anyone would like more information about the collection, please send me a PM.
I hope you enjoy it as much as I have - I think her insight, use of metaphor and beauty of writing encapsulates what many of us have struggled to explain in plain speech.
P xxx
