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Lori Grosser Rhoden
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since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

0 posted 2017-04-26 10:04 AM




I guess its best
to have a destination
in mind.
Living a day at a time,
not thinking about the rest
of creation,
it’s easy to get stuck
mired in the daily muck.
Dreams of anywhere but here,
is nowhere to go.
Away is not a place to venture.
It is only a vague sense of where
there’ll be a show
of some adventure.
And dreams can dwell
in our hearts and heads a lifetime
but never take us anywhere.
Pennies in a wishing well
won’t move us one step in time,
just penniless and here.
I guess a plan is needed
to get from here to there
or you’ll just walk in circles endless.
So if goals are set and heeded
and achieving is your only care
you will be met with success
and actually get somewhere.
But, if you’re like me
adrift in a sea of uncertainty,
tomorrow is hard to see.
The future unclear and iffy,
it’s hard to imagine a plan
other than
go with the flow
whichever way the wind blows
I’ll let it take me
as long as it doesn’t break me.



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JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975
South Louisiana
1 posted 2017-04-26 12:02 PM


You have me worrying about you, Lori.

~ If they give you ruled paper, write sideways. ~

P.U Stinkenbaum
Member
Posts 388
No Fan Of Exhaust Fans
2 posted 2017-04-26 12:52 PM


quote:
"The future unclear and iffy"
It is for me too Lori Rhoden, as it is for many others, so we're certainly not alone although our realities may be different.
quote:
"it’s hard to imagine a plan
other than
go with the flow
whichever way the wind blows
I’ll let it take me
as long as it doesn’t break me"
Yes, sometimes that is the path of least resistance and I also tend to cruise along with the current, with an occasional variation. Emerson put it this way; "The quality of the imagination is to flow and not to freeze".

Yep! Let's both keep our temperatures above 32 degrees, no matter what else is encroaching on us!

Be well and thanks for your inspiring poetry.  


Pass the Glade if you're going to do that here...

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere
3 posted 2017-04-26 01:54 PM


I'm okay Jerry just airing my grumpy laundry. I consider you all my friends and that's what friends are for. ~L
Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere
4 posted 2017-04-26 01:56 PM


PU,
Thanks for your thoughtful response. I swear I'll keep it above freezing and keep moving along so rigor mortis doesn't set in. ~L

P.U Stinkenbaum
Member
Posts 388
No Fan Of Exhaust Fans
5 posted 2017-04-26 02:10 PM


That's it! That's the way!

Pass the Glade if you're going to do that here...

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