Best Not The Destination Poems

Walking through gardens
Feeling your presence beside me
Strangers passing by, lost in the darkness
I see the reflection of the city lights in your eyes like stars so near
The icy july wind carries your perfume to me
Your voice echoes through the winter air and your smile, my...

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It came at the right time
Just before my fragile heart
Was about to burst with the largely
Unnecessary stress of work

Some things have to be completed
The boss's demands
Wielding power with no
Consideration for the small man

Or the small woman
(not so small now actually)
I think we are both tired
But...

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It is a lumber, man! all lumber
It makes your life-boat heavy to pull
and you nearly faint at the oars
That’s life.

You lose your freedom by anxiety
No time to watch the windy shadows
skimming lightly over the shallows
That’s life.

No time to watch the woods all green
or the lilies...

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Milestones in Life 
By Franklin Price
11/13/2015

Milestones in life are passing
Time stops for none at all
From the day that we are born
Not so  long before we crawl

Then unsteady steps we take
Next thing you know we run
Passing by the markers
Headed for the setting sun

The first day...

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My radio antenna
Is getting a brand new song
Every time I think I'm right
I end up, terribly wrong

So now I want to listen
And to tap my feet
To go with the flow
Perhaps the right philosophy?

My brother's intellect
Is truly dazzling
He calls me "a believer"
I'm the moron of the...

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May 25th, 2015
                                          My...

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Always take the longest route to everything
You will have seen the world before you die
It’s not the destination, but the path your taking
You don’t need anything else beside the wide sky
Be the truth in this world, drowning with lie 
Feel the wind, smell the sea...

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Truckin' along the road of life,
    Facing the music head on,
Roadside entertainment
    and exits to the past
Fly by.

Wind in your hair,
    A song on your lips,
Desire to succeed
    fueling your life
Full speed ahead.

But...

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It's a hard choice
And it's so goddamned  unfair       
That I can't choose both
I'm trying to take the road
That I think I should take
I don't know which road I want
My mind is on fire
But my heart has gone numb...

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"It's the journey that matters and not the destination."
 I'll bet whoever said that never used public transportation....

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Life is a journey to another place.
We know from whence we start
But not the destination.
It lies somewhere,
That terminus,
Within the scope of time and space,
Yet still may be,
For some of us,
Beyond the reach of our imagination.
...

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Skies vibrate with strange  cloud formations,
To the calamitous thunder of the v-twins powered best.
The trees give up their last held golden jewels,
As they awaIt their oncoming, slow winters rest.

The motors wind, and so does the road
Twisting past stones as the placid pools run. 
They shimmer with...

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On my journey through life sometimes I have blind spots
I am so focused on my goal that I do not see
what is around me in the world . . . 
     I am fixed and obsessed with a single minded purpose
I...

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I sailed many miles 
The sun, high 
In a pure azure sky 

Moons and suns, 
passed by 
Still I sailed, 
pushing through a starlit sky 

This boat, 
I feel its' force within me 
It's sails, it's lungs 
It's body, the sea 

Worlds passed 
slowly beneath...

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This morning I was accepting and governing in my seventh decade,
twilight crept and words without sound said, you're just a facade,
then the darkness enshrouded,
and the sheild of confidence faced the sword of doubt,

time and change are guaranteed constants,
how much time do I have,
what personal changes...

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