Issue 15
Whim
Allen Itz
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The Path through Maygreen Meadow
my life has passed in a wandering way
like the path through Maygreen Meadow,
curving this way and that
with no apparent reason but that
nature seems to avoid straight lines
and sharp angles of any kind
I look at the trail and wonder
about the ways it could have gone
but didn't, the twists and turns
that didn't happen, might-have-been milestones,
explosions of stars never seen, maji
looking at the wrong part of the sky...
but never matter, it went as it went
because that's the way it went, and visions
never seen or counted fade from never-was
beyond that, there's no way through
that doesn't end at the other side
and Death doesn't care the course
that takes you to his door, so my life
is fine with me, I've followed the path
as it took me, not always happy
and sometimes afraid, but bedrock certain
that what I am is what I'm supposed to be
~Allen Itz
Allen Itz says, "I began writing poetry in the late 1960s, then quit and
didn't start again until I retired a couple of years ago. Since then my
poems have appeared in a number of online and print journals." Email.
© 2004 by Allen Itz. All Rights Reserved.
© Copyright 2004 by Cayuse Press. All Rights Reserved.