Beware the road least traveled, for it ambles over hills and plains, avoiding mainstream's common traps, while risking transcendental pains. A tightrope sans a safety net, the road to triumph and romance, winds on without regard, as if its feats are made by happenstance. Most efficacious lives parade intrepid hearts and daring souls, but media is loath to make reports on unsuccessful goals. Beware, the road least traveled may escort prosperity away.
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I left on a whim. Where will this country road lead? Not that it matters... Will the next hamlet I find embrace or turn me away? I strolled away from city noise, away from strain and crowds, Superior grants strength and calm, despite her nimbus clouds. At lake's edge I can sit and stare imagining beyond horizon's curved and lonely cusp live those who share my bond. For I could sense those roustabouts who stroll to water's edge and gaze at distant shores where I now sit near leafy sedge. They, too, would need their time away from work and all they feared, I wondered if daydreams of me came calling while they peered. I sighed and left the peaceful scene, recharged and ready, though I still recalled the unseen shore and those I yearned to know. The heron flies with neck retracted, short, Unlike its friend, the long-necked, graceful swan, and though they're known by egret, also sport the moniker of bittern, now foregone. No easy life, these water fowl dwell on, with fish entrapped when fortunate to dine. They nest, find marshy ground to build upon or teeter on a branch with keen design. The "lady of the waters" in decline as wetlands shrink from man's intruding use, the heron is oblivious to signs of human disregard and land abuse. They stalk their prey and stab with sharpened beak while unaware of avian mystique. Leaves fly on frigid wings, limbs sigh as wind traipses through them, chagrined, for though winter's not here, they know. |
AuthorJack has published over 350 poems in his career, many with his own photography. He specializes in a view of the commonplace and Americana. Archives
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