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JOURNEY by Fateme Banishoeib

‘Journey’ is the opening poem of a collection of poetry and photos…

This collection is called Tea of Tibet, and collects the desire to explore and discover what makes us all human. Traveling to Tibet has been a dream coming reality for me.:Traveling far enough to meet myself.

Anthony Bourdain said that travel isn’t always pretty. It is not, nor is it comfortable, and it leaves marks in the memory and heart. As children, we are told that dreams help us to live better. As women, we learn dreams make our spirits restless. The dream is to leave something good behind.

During my travels, I used my eyes to see beyond the dreams; creating an extension of the heart using my pen and my camera. The magic is making up the journey as we go! Remembering who we are, and not what we are told to be in order to fit in.

This poem is dedicated to women who dream, to those who are forever seeking. May you also find yourself upon your journey! 

Journey
by Fateme Banishoeib


Separating the seeds from the dirt 

Discriminating

Making the difference 

Choosing 

Self-determining our intrinsic nature 

Without bending to “Sort of”


What do I crave?

What do I desire?

For what do I yearn?


The checkpoints to ourselves 

Holding to the inner energy of no cheating 

The journey to me


The trip to forget who I became

and remember who I am 

Walking

Talking


Under the roof of the world

A vacation from what I am not

That leaves only one me


The one thirsty for illuminate water pouring from the spring 


Fateme Banishoeib was born in Italy under the sun of a summer day. In her brings bridged worlds. She is a seeker and a traveler, is many and multitude, deep roads and wild forests. She is passionate about beauty in all its forms, infinitely in love with the heart matters and fond of diversity. Always with a poem in the hands, in the eyes, in the ears, believing that if we all have four brothers that represent and inhabit the four virtues a person needs to be safe and happy: intelligence, friendship, strength, and poetry…her four brothers are Poetry, Poetry, Poetry and Poetry. Her poems appeared on BeYou Media Group and she just published a book of poems and photo inspired by a trip to Tibet. Tea of Tibet, is available on Amazon both as paperback and kindle format.

~If you are interested in seeing your poetry appear in this blog, or submitting a poem by a woman that has inspired you, please click here for submission guidelines. I greatly look forward to hearing from you!~  
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