Thursday, November 21, 2013

Poetry: 'I, Ne'er-Do-Well'

Big, small, short, tall, steep, deep, sleet's maul;
Rainfall, sunshine, day, night, climb, crawl;
Wander, wonder, touch, smell, taste & see
 
I, Ne'er–Do–Well.
Ocean, sound, bay, and rift;
Bight, fjord, coastal strip;
Foot hill, mountain, cave, and cliff;
Valley, desert, ridge & creek;
River, vista, plateau, peak;
Easy, moderate, strenuous, stream;
Ravine and all things in between!
It's all I think, am, love, and dream
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To people places never seen;
To someday speak, "Then-There I'd been";
Towards all things earth and space made keen;
Where All is never as it seems;
And All gathers and loses steam;
It's depth and breadth I'll always knead.
On this, the Bread of Life, I'll feed;
until my time has come,
and I've returned to where I'm from

The End, where I'd begun.
The End's where I'll begin.
My friends, we'll meet again...
And, on that you may depend!
This senselessness that send;
This trek portends what lay in wait beyond the Idler's bend.


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