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Tuesday, 16 December 2014

A poem about travelling and love by David Tombale: Landscapes

Leaving home is a journey into the unknown and that suspense of learning what lies over the horizon is what Landscapes is all about, that and sharing those discoveries with someone you care about.

Landscapes

The hum of the engine is the only sound that
stretches between us, in the pale glow of moonlight
your face hovers like a passing cloud across this
windscreen as the night owls screech in the distance
and we leave the city behind us, it’s lights flickering
on and off like a little flashlight sending out a
message in morse-code, love me, love me says
this code as the whole expanse of the city lies there
like a map seen from the window of a passing plane,
and somewhere above us it flies crossing oceans and
foreign lands we dream off in between our bites of
filling station pies, and cups of luke warm coffee we
sip as dawn warms our freezing hands pointing west
ever west, beckoning our flagging spirits and laying a
promise like a fragile egg in the nest of the landscapes
we’ve yet to see.

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