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Open Poetry #16

Do as I Say not as I Do

jonmcm
Member

since 2000-10-11

Posts 222
England

0 posted 2001-10-11 04:46 PM

What A Journey!
Have you ever travelled
Without knowing the way?
Have you ever followed directions
Obtained from some stranger
You’ve stopped at the curb?
Have you read a map whilst
Still driving the car;
In the pouring rain;
On an unlit meandering road;
With misted window screen?

Though we quite often shun it,
There is advice to be gained
From various sources,
To put us on track, to find
That desired destination.
It is said that implementation
Of knowledge gained
Is the key to success;
This the vehicle for navigating
Safely, happily, and comfortably
To a journeys end.

Never having travelled
The most direct route;
Never knowing how a crow flies;
Never having met an expert navigator,
That is man, woman, or crow;
I wouldn’t know if this was true!
Yet, here I am offering advice
As though a cabby with the ‘Knowledge’
But isn’t that what we all do?
Isn’t this the way of the world?
‘Do as I say, not as I do’.

Dee
Member Elite

since 2000-08-19

Posts 2330
Queensland, Australia

1 posted 2001-10-11 05:19 PM

Jon, you made me think with this one. And how true your thoughts are.

Dee

I wish you every happiness and may you always have the best of the good things in life. a brand

Heather Miller
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since 2000-07-19

Posts 409
Bryan, Ohio USA

2 posted 2001-10-11 05:22 PM

Jon,
Thank you for the read. It was very good.

Heather (CherokeeGirl)

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With love it brings hurt with hurt bittersweet memories.

Duncan
Member Ascendant

since 2001-08-07

Posts 5455

3 posted 2001-10-11 08:32 PM

Never having travelled
The most direct route;
Never knowing how a crow flies

Me, either. Great lines here in a poem that gave me a smile. My Grandmother used to say that. Then, she'd just laugh and laugh at her own ornery nature.

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