Allure of Travel

Written on one of my many bus rides to work in the early morning

My morning journey

In between

The setting moon

And rising sun.

 

Luna's yellow glow catches

My eye,

Her fullness ...

Placid, serene.

 

The deep

Dark sky

Swallows light

All around me.

 

Opposite,

The darkness

Fades to light ...

Embrassing a rising sun.

 

Darkness in blue

Turns to sky

Of blue;

Filling with a yellow horizon.

 

Silouettes reveal themselves

Reminding me

Of the world that

Engulfs our existence.

 

The beauty of the mountains glow ...

Thinking of home now with a sky

Full of shimmering diamonds,

Not revealed to me here.

 

Dark blue,

Now sky blue meets yellow

And merges into a green line,

Following the horizon.

 

The city around me

In full life now.

Soon my journey will end.

 

I'll go on and forget ...

Still anticipating tomorrow

When this gift will travel

With me once again.

Reviews

[Jeff Bresee]

To be able to notice and appreciate the beauty that is always around us...if we just take time to notice it. I'm guessing that the others on that bus with you, missed the beauty of this poem which was all around them...just like it was around you.

[Emily]

Very nice poem. I like that you have found such beauty in what to others seems to be a mundane event. I can hardly imagine the half-asleep people around you on the bus were enjoying this beauty as well. Interesting perspective you offer here. Well done.