The Wonderer

Just over the next mountain I journey past the horizon of my history- going past that which I have known where knowledge lies in the next sudden sunrise to follow the next bright illuminating moment harnessing an untouched, untrampled day bringing breathlessness in stirring breezes of new beginnings blowing across my epiphany of exploration and discovery Where my vision of unviolated beauty pure of scope and content lays in endless fields of unseen flowers and leaves aligning their colors and symmetry in perfection so alive and enfolded in their cradle of evolution my heart bursts with immeasurable pleasure Where I listen to the unheard symphonic poem as the oaks and willows model their lasting fellowship talking underground in fertile untouched soil speaking the ancient language of the eternal reuniting in continual rhythm as they gather each living thing under this sun as an intricate pattern of peace And as the day closes its mystical curtain I am struck by the introspective wisdom of deep still nights and the glory of a new moon as the spackling of shooting stars ignite my untamed desire to venture on pointing my way to follow my dreams by the light of their cryptic compass in my rite of passage to discover something greater than myself August 7, 2023 No. 1235 New Poem Only Poetry Contest Sponsored by Brain Strand