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Robert Frazier
Senior Member

since 2003-02-06

Posts 1014

0 posted 2005-11-21 02:46 PM

Further down this distant trail
not marked, nor mapped, I travel
Whispers from forgotten past
siren's lure and time unravel
Unseen, but all familiar
these footprints in the sand
Record the journey's lonely pace
I stop to turn around

No veering to the left side!
"The folly of the fool"
No turning to the level right!
"King Logic is the rule"
No laying down to rest now!
"Labor for the feast"
No straying from lesser path!
"The first shall be the least"

Quiet fell the inner voice
still echoes in my head
I turn to face the truer course
the message ever led
And as I travel further
a lyric in steps abound
"A journey's not a journey, son
if you dare to turn around."

Marge Tindal

Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-06

Posts 42384
Florida's Foreverly Shores

1 posted 2005-11-21 06:29 PM

Robert~

This had a deep, deep feel to me~

'Quiet fell the inner voice
still echoes in my head
I turn to face the truer course
the message ever led
And as I travel further
a lyric in steps abound
"A journey's not a journey, son
if you dare to turn around."'

Poetic wisdom ... ahhh~
*Huglets*
~*Marge*~

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Nightshade

Member Patricius

since 2001-08-31

Posts 13962
just out of reach

2 posted 2005-11-21 06:33 PM

Wonderful. Much enjoyed.
hugs, Chris

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
~Carl Sandburg

Martie

Moderator

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since 1999-09-21

Posts 28049
California

3 posted 2005-11-21 06:35 PM

Robert

I admire this poem and the advice within it, for it applies to me I think, as well as you. Well done and thoughtful! Thank you!

Robert Frazier
Senior Member

since 2003-02-06

Posts 1014

4 posted 2005-11-21 07:17 PM

Marge, Chris and Martie,

Thanks for the kind words. I should have added an "ode to my Dad" on this one.
It's his voice, afterall.

Hugs All, Robert

Ratleader

Member Rara Avis

since 2003-01-23

Posts 7026
Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass

5 posted 2005-11-22 09:47 AM

"A journey's not a journey, son
if you dare to turn around."

I am going to take thes words with me today....I needed them badly yesterday, and I have a feeling that this is a day when I'll need them even more.

Yes.....this is going to be my new desk poem. One at a time, I put poems on my office desk, right in front of my computer monitor where I'll see them every single time I sit down. I leave whatever poem is there, until I see a new one that particularly moves me....time for me to take a walk down The Lesser Path.

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