Silk Road

WEDNESDAY CHALLENGE

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SILK ROAD

'Silk Road'.

The phrase echoed in my mind

From my earliest days.

I never questioned it.

There was a Silken Road

That wound through Asia.

I pictured it as made of 

The finest purple silk.

I saw it laid out beneath my feet,

Leading to some place of splendour.

Maybe it led to Shangri La,

A place where everyone was

Always young.

My images were those of 

Fairy Tale,

And yet I knew this Silken Road

Existed! 

Magic Carpets,

Genies in Bottles,

Wishes Coming True,

These were all fantasy.

I was too sophisticated for them.

But a Silken Road!

That was real.

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Of course, I am wiser now.

It was a Route,

A Silk Route.

Not a Road at all.

It was a series of trade connections.

And one of the items traded

Was silk.

It was important,

It was vast,

It made civilisations.

But it was not magical.

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Hey Ho!

We live and learn.

I have learned to live

Without magic.

Almost.

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The Silk Road

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OFF COURSE

My love lived in a block of flats

On the other side of town

And sometimes being away from her

Really got me down.

One day while I was languishing,

Downhearted, and alone,

I saw a way of greeting her

By a method all my own.

I made a paper aeroplane

From a love-note I had written,

(As you can tell I was deep in love.....

Absolutely smitten!)

With well-honed origami skills

I folded and I fashioned,

A paper aeroplane which spoke

Of a man deeply impassioned.

I cast my plane upon the winds;

It flew just like a bird.

I knew that it would reach my love

And carry each loving word.

It circled in the breezy blue,

It fluttered in the sky

Then, like a stupid boomerang,

Came back and hit me in the eye!

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