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The Weights We Carry: Poems from a solo bike-packing journey around the Scottish Highlands and the Orkney Islands by C.D Seventeen features some beautiful poetry. Â A trip with a total distance of 658 miles (1058.95 kilometres) and a duration of forty-six days, with mostly wild camping. C.D. Seventeen is originally from China. She moved to the UK at 17 on her own to study psychology. The Weights We Carry is her first poetry collection.
I want to leave this world behind, jump on a bike, go on a journey without others, dive deep into the self, and let the weight of my human identity dissolve into the wind. In the wilderness, I see my emotions floating in silence, and I repaint them with my own colour. I hear the purpose of my life defined by others washed away in the rivers, and I rewrite them with my own melody. I taste the bitterness of my history while I bury my sorrows under the pink-coloured beach on a remote island. My past and future end in the pouring rain while I merge my soul with the spirit of the sky creatures. Then I know what it means to be free…
The Weights We Carry is an utterly beautiful and very personal collection of poems. Each poem is accompanied by a photo taken on the author’s epic bike ride.
Some of the poems are pretty abstract while some are very emotive. It’s a book you can dip in and out of and one you will find yourself coming back to time and again.
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