Symbol Poem Sample by Rombough

The assignment:
Choose four things you think of as symbols for your traveller and what he/she is going through.  (You have to start imagining a story here.)

Backpack, darkness, sea, and moon.
 

The freedom of travel, the long weary day.
Not sure where to go, finding my way.

I try for a rhyme, then I let it go.
I am on vacation.

The moon shines down on me like a lady
lighting my way
and the darkness around me
is absorbed into its soft light.

My backpack is not heavy
it rides the wave of my shoulders
like a small boat on the sea;
it follows me towards the horizon;
it stays close, like a friend.

I am the edge of the world.

Come and visit me
if you ever get the chance.