Pratik : PRATIK SPRING 2021 HIGHLIGHT : IRISH POET EMER DAVIS POEM, "The Voyage"

Saturday, August 28, 2021

PRATIK SPRING 2021 HIGHLIGHT : IRISH POET EMER DAVIS POEM, "The Voyage"

EMER DAVIS

The Voyage

a faded paper kite

trapped among the branches

its journey cut short

trembles in the warm air,

For days it lingers

camouflaged between the leaves,

unable to slip through,

I watch it from my window

sheltering from inclement times,

and drift slowly

towards the broken thread

wrapped around the trunk,

marking its age,

its tapered ribbons blowing lightly,

covered in dust,

I close my eyes and

see it soar above the terraces,

disappearing in the blue horizon,

and unwrap the threads holding me back.

Irish poet, Emer Davis, a civil servant, has been involved in various writers groups, including the Green Ink Irish Writers Group in London, Rooftop Rhythms in Abu Dhabi and the Drogheda Creative Writers Group in Ireland. She set up the Poetry in the Park initiative in her local town in Ireland and organized the Drogheda Poetry Trail during the 2018 Fleadh. Her work with the Syrian migrants on Lesvos Island, Greece with the European Relocation Programme to support the resettlement of these migrants in the EU inspired her to write several poems about her experiences there which have been widely published. She also published a second collection of poems Chaat which explores her experiences and thoughts while living in India.

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