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Open Poetry #41

Paths and Passages

secondhanddreampoet
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since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

0 posted 2008-01-21 07:30 PM

paths and passages

we walk too many
  paths
to gaze at the one
  bright moon…
determined
and helpless
as a rose in the
  wind…
until we are lost
to the endless
weight of Time.

TomMark
Member Elite

since 2007-07-27

Posts 2133
LA,CA

1 posted 2008-01-21 07:36 PM

Beautiful poem and truth about life.
Tomtoo

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

2 posted 2008-01-21 08:29 PM

This is so very true. Well said.
Ida

Bobby Jordan
Member

since 2007-08-13

Posts 491
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

3 posted 2008-01-21 11:00 PM

Secondhanddreampoet,

You've been into the moon again haven't you.

I remember looking at the moon in your mountains, while standing in the cupola of the Crestmont Inn with a pretty girl. She was a waitress, a fellow worker. Those were the days, happy days.

What a sight.

Bobby

tonyV
Junior Member

since 2008-01-14

Posts 36

4 posted 2008-01-22 01:08 AM

I loved that bit. Short, but powerful. I can't even find the right words at the moment to explain why I liked it.

passing shadows
Member Empyrean

since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
displaced

5 posted 2008-01-22 09:48 AM

sure would be easier to have a map huh?

I myself am a seasoned traveller but I'm older now and my feet hurt so I think I'll just sit right here to gaze at the moon should it happen to peek out

loved the poem!

ArtSolstice
Member

since 2007-03-18

Posts 498

6 posted 2008-01-22 01:12 PM

This perfect write is clear as a bell in the distance on a dark, cold night. It reminds me of Chatwin’s “Songlines”, a travelogue proposing that we are intrinsically nomads, walkers, travelers, who settled into an existence contrary to our natures.

Thank you for posting this most beautiful work.

ThisDiamond
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-02-22

Posts 9353
Michigan, USA

7 posted 2008-01-22 08:10 PM

A beacon to follow...always

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