The Poet's Daughter: 🌿 Chapter 2: "Leaving Is Something I Know"
The Poet's Daughter: 🌿 Chapter 2: "Leaving Is Something I Know"
I Am Always On The Move - Long Out Of Sight
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Hello! I’m Emily Lupita. I’m a travel writer & artist from rural Iowa currently living between my hometown south of Des Moines - and Ankara, the capital of Turkiye. I’m also an English teacher & editor.
The Poet’s Daughter is a nonfiction project (in progress) on - Emily Lupita Explores - acreativity journal where I share explorations from my art desk & cultural travels, as well as motherhood with my two Autistic sons. You can read more about my father and his bardic poetry + creative work on - American Bardic Poet.
Emily Lupita
The Poet’s Daughter
Work In Progress 2024
Chapter 2: Leaving Is Something I Know
"Leaving Is Something I Know" explores the narrator's lifelong struggle with the nomadic spirit inherited from her poet father. Through a series of traumatic childhood experiences, she learns that leaving is a part of her identity. The narrator grapples with the consequences of her father's absence and presence throughout her life and the impact it has on her own journey, ultimately finding solace in understanding that her acts of leaving are a mirrored reflection of her father's legacy.
The story delves into themes of family, loss, and personal identity. The narrator's journey is marked by a constant search for belonging and meaning, which she finds in her connection to her father's unconventional naturalist minimalist lifestyle. Despite the challenges and pain associated with her nomadic nature, the narrator ultimately embraces her identity as a traveler and finds a haunting form of peace in the understanding that leaving is a foundational part of her life experience.
Chapter 2: Excerpt
“And what of the little girl that the poet had spent so much time and effort training in the mystical art and poetry of life? I simply could not go with him on his journey toward himself. From that moment he left us going forward, the visions in my head, the poetry in my mouth, the waking dreams and dreaming life that I inherited from my father - those things became my personal dark forest. The poet left me out there in the middle of that dark forest, for better or worse, all on my own. It took me decades to find my way back to the light.”
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Intriguing. The quote by RN Bellah is so true.