Tumble weed

Tumble weed tumble weed

I'm going to find the sea

This desert is no place for me 

I'm going home

I will tumble on 

Until the nights turned black

Well the odds are certainly 

Stacked against me 

The ocean calls i finally will be

In a place to call my own 

A million endless miles

I will call them all my home

These million endless miles

I can't wait to roam

So I see them now they are so blue

The stars how bright they' shine

Well this little tumble weed

Oh how he did cry 

He needed out of that old desert

The close to him have died

So now he is smiling 

He is free 

He is blowing into the sea

How magnificent of a journey

This old tumble weed

Reviews

[Zoe Jay]

Very evocative. I love the use of the tumbleweed as, I think, a metaphor for aging and being ready to move on into the next world. Tumbleweeds are aways ready to move on. Although there is an odd desolation in the feel of this poem, almost a sadness, I actually find it a comforting poem. The tumbleweed does not fear the sea, which is surely a hostile environment for a desert plant, but rather, looks forward to moving on, changing, living in this completely different existence. The need to escape the dry, barren desert that this conscious life has become. Absolutely excellent metaphor and parable, neatly written.
PS: "roam" not "rome" :-p

[Kate Hunter]

good job. Very imaginative.

[clauds294]

I liked this poem, only I wish the sentences were longer! Just to have more to read :)

[Sarah Jane]

I love how its about something that would be considered nothing. Who would have ever thought of a tumbleweed wanting out of the desert. I think that to diffrent people, it could be a symbol for their own life.

[SpokenWord]

Being able to take every day things and turn it into art is always poetic. Like I would have never thought of writing a poem about tumbleweed. Nice writing.

[Frank F. Atanacio]

a very well put together piece the flow was exact good entry my friend :)

[Shadowlily]

Very interesting.. being a young writer isn't always easy.. but you have great promise in your words.. expect to hear alot from me. I will be reading more of your works.

[HopelesslyDevoted]

lots of thought put into this one, keep up the awesome poetry!

[iamcarolfierce]

very deep. :) like it though.

[Im His Daughter]

cute... different but cute.. A tumbleweed wanting to leave the desert hmm