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The Traveler
April 23, 2017
Snowflakes descend from above
Each unique in design
Flat onto the floor
Into anonymity
Lingering on the hill
And in the valley
The lonely frost
Sleeps undisturbed
Footsteps crunch the wasteland
Adding blemishes
Soon to be covered
As if they were never there
© Steve S., Marblehead, MA
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This poem is based on Ezra Pound’s work promoting a modernist aesthetic. This poem is minimal in its usage of words. A limited amount of characters are used to portray a particular feeling. This technique is similar to the one employed in Pound’s “In a Station of the Metro”, where he uses minimal words to express an image. This poem, “The Traveler”, displays a valley filled to the brim with snow and a lone wanderer trudging through it. The feeling this poem expresses is that of paralyis and stagnation.