This Poem was Submitted By: Jillian K Sorenson On Date: 2000-07-25 13:21:55 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Praha

Black lettered signs fly by etched with names I cannot pronounce. The gentle back and forth rocking which previously lulled me to sleep, a child in its mother's arms, slows and then utterly stops. A monotone voice states in a language unfamiliar what I had already realized: I have arrived. I am compelled to whisper the trite phrase: It is beautiful. The bitterly cold wind rushes  into my nose, batters my cheeks to a pinkish glow. The air smells of winter, though fall has only just begun, reminding me that snow here is not an anomaly, a news story, but merely a feature of everyday life. Now the leaves turn, tomorrow they shall fall, and soon a white blanket will lie upon the land, obliterating the exclamations of the ignorant.

Copyright © July 2000 Jillian K Sorenson

Additional Notes:
This is a train ride to Prague, Czechoslovakia.


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