Travel Poem by David Mayerhoff
Travel
Travel allows us to grow
Beyond our conditioning
Beyond our provincial upbringing
Beyond our horizon
We see how others live
How they celebrate
How they aspire
Even how they suffer
We are challenged
To go outside ourselves
And to speak in a different tongue
To be courteous to the foreign
We are challenged
How to be guests
In a domain
Not our own
We are humbled
By what we have
And what we don't have
By comparison
We learn
The interplay
Of geography, climate
And culture, if not religion
All this
Will bring great benefit
As long as we are ready
For it
As long
As we are mature enough
To grow
By opening our eyes
And not simply
By opening our wallets
Just to say
That we were there.
Traveling is a great experience that widens one's intellectual horizons and worldview. It has its challenges and its bliss as rightly depicted in the poem. The anticipation and delicious foretaste of it makes it very exciting. An insightful piece of poetry, well articulated and elegantly penned with conviction. A lovely poem indeed. Thanks for sharing David. Please read my poem POETIC MASTERPIECE.
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5/5/2024 3:53:45 PM # 1.0.0.1119
Travel allows us to grow Beyond our conditioning Beyond our provincial upbringing Beyond our horizon........the very first stanza is soo telling...... soooooo true my dear poet... like your poem very much. lots of thinking has gone into this poem. .thank you. tony