Monday, December 6, 2010

Travelin' Poem

 "Toast to Hannah"

young Hannah was a travelin' child
born to a call of an ancient wild
queen of another highway line
stickin' her thumb out most of the time

looking like a wildflower in the sun on the side of the road though
she never be quick to admit she know so

bearing the foot of a soul sewn new
a smile way too hard to see
like a blind man tryin 'to eye a rain drop
on top an ol' redwood tree

the curve of a lost child and
voice of nervousness
unlike any girl I've ever met
now and since

if you're ever looking for a travelin' book
just look at the road young Hannah took
there you'll see foot prints o' black
shinnin' like obsidian and sharp as glass

to feel sorrow married to freedom
just watch young Hannah's
shackles and path




Seamus Fitzgerald
copyright 2010

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