Bed and Board by The Silk Road
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By Ed Crane
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Our outdated French steed sleeps for the night.
The local Caravanserai awaits our tomorrow visit.
In the hush of dusk sound settles with the day’s dust.
Birds and insects rest vocal chords as the air cools.
We eat stuffed green paprikas from plastic tables on an earth floor.
The town’s Minaret pokes up framed by distant hazed grey hills
The call to prayer echos across flat rooves and parched fields.
The ancient hypnotic song gently breaks the silence.
We listen to the unknown words without loss of the calm we feel.
When the salah is over and the muezzin’s gentle voice drifts into distance
we experience a moment of tranquility we can never repeat and an image we can never forget.
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Comments
Quite a picture of the cool
Quite a picture of the cool of the evening, with dust, and sound settling with the heat of the day. A strong memory. Rhiannon
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I feel like I've
been on the Marrakesh Express...
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A lovely atmospheric poem, Ed
A lovely atmospheric poem, Ed. Enjoyed it very much.
Best, Luigi
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Evocative
of time and place and calling song.
Ewan deserves a medal for inspiration, this is the second enjoyable "sound" poem read today :)
Best to you
Lena x
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Enjoyed thi so much. As
Enjoyed thi so much. As someone who doesn't travel, I love it when reading can whisk me away in a few lines, and you do, I feel I know the smells, the resting day, the contented expectation of more discovery tomorrow
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Enjoyed thi so much. As
Enjoyed thi so much. As someone who doesn't travel, I love it when reading can whisk me away in a few lines, and you do, I feel I know the smells, the resting day, the contented expectation of more discovery tomorrow. Sorry, repeating myself :0)
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A magnificent sound and word
A magnificent sound and word picture - like Lena I've come here from another brilliant poem inspired by Ewan. We should make him do the inspiration point every week shoudn't we!
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the call to prayer, the call
the call to prayer, the call to poetry. Much the same inner landscape.
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This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day
Succinct and vivid, this poem takes you there, and that's why it's our Pick of the Day.
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You say it's a moment in your
You say it's a moment in your time but it also seems timeless - a moment that could have happened throughout history. Really beautiful picture.
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Moments in time captured so
Moments in time captured so evocatively. Beautifully done and congrats on the pick. Paul
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