mickey ears, screaming children & 10,000 suitcases

It's hard to believe that my last Spring Break has come to an end. I have six weeks left of college then it's off to the real world. Don't you dare ask me what my plan is when May comes because I have no idea!

I'm currently sitting in the Orlando airport waiting for my flight. I've been here for five hours already because I missed my flight this morning and the next one doesn't come till late tonight. All this time has forced me to be an avid people-watcher. I'm surrounded by Disney souvenirs, screaming babies, women who can't walk in their high heels, lost tourists, McDonalds, long lines coming out of the bathrooms and my delicious icy cold Coke. All this people watching made me wonder if any poets had used their observations as inspriation for their poems. I did a few searches online and came upon a few poems which brightened my day!

People Watching

by Debby Peebles

I'm watching the people,
who are watching their steps.
As they walk through life's days
and they watch other people passing them by,
like the sunlight and the shadows,
of another passing day.

I wonder, as watch, as the people move by,
as they wander away from me
and they move through their lives,
on their way to a home?
Or a family?
Or nowhere,
to nothing?

And as I watch and I wonder,
where they've come from and where
do they go.
Do they go there alone or into the arms
and the bossoms of ones who they love.
As watch and I wonder,
on my seat, all alone.

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People Watching

by Emma Feneley

You can read from his hands he's an artist,
Though in hers there's a lack of self pride,
Just to catch a smile as it falters
Is to gaze on whatever they hide.

Their eyes become novels of feeling,
But it's laughter that voices the soul
And the child within seems to surface
With troubles they think they control.

A shame is to glance at their company,
To watch Their watch them