Long Off the beaten track(p) Poems

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Out Of The Way

As a self-proclaimed ruler of my person, I am mindful of the internal convictions, external constitutions as Lord overseer of my spotless realm,

Upon my own free will,...

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Blind Ambitions Of Glory

The daily news was splashed with a  sweet picture of an beaming  16 years-old lass..
As Felicia Mikat greeted an awakening  nation today with her athletic medals of world class..

Achieving...

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Far off the beaten track and trail
        on quest for music’s Holy Grail
led pilgrims on biblical scale 
         more than...

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- 252 - fireflies - 

      phantasy times dream
      luminous in the pitch dark -
      does not charge in rain…

...

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Akin to a journalist (hoofing
NOT huffing on the beat)
heedful, mindful, and pain fully aware, bleat
me, asper caveats help me set sights
tacking within parameters of lawfulness,

when questing without sparking browbeat
upon my person, or worse...proceeding toward
said abstract...

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I walked along route 58
There was Mumbai dreams and Harbor Freight
A hippie guy sold sunglasses from a stall
One had a rosy tint, I paid 5 dollars, that was all.
There was a warning label with it,...

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A plethora of attention
focused on twentieth anniversary
regarding terrorist attacks
upon American soil nine eleven
two thousand and one,
thus Schwenksville poet
opted for his best métier write.

While riding atop a yak
both feet went wickety wack
trudging beast of burden a...

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Did I send you away?
Did I go off the beaten track?
Is there something I can say
To make you want to come back?

Was it something I did wrong?
Did I come on much too strong?
Or did I...

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We piled into the car
Caleb and Mom in front, me in the back
We weren't planning to go far
A nearby arboretum off the beaten track.

We went north, there were many cars each way
Saw a motorcycle downed,...

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"Howdy to you all from Colorado!  This is Cletus Schlunk reporting,
Where gossip is fair and balanced and there is little or no distorting!
It's the home of the Rockies, Broncos, Nuggets and potholes galore,
And old...

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If I was rich and could live anywhere I wanted,
      I would buy my very own island on the St. Lawrence;
Somewhere between Ontario, Canada and New York,
   ...

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One little sidestep off the beaten track, 
Is a colorful garden of dazzling shades,
With blood red geraniums of scintillating hue
Interspersed by those of white and baby pink,
Where beauty sings mysteriously, 
Reigning in every theme, a...

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As luck would have it
I chanced upon the secret
of finding things not looked for,
to enlist serendipity on cue.

The more you look the less you see.
Stop looking for, and start looking about.
Expectation kills spontaneity.
So, stop planning...

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on a rearing steed Sir Rowelph rode
and rode, he rode through snorting nose
of thunderous fan, his stallion 
galloping, charging, claiming land
to the rhythm of a drummer’s hand
down silt and dust, a lust did wilt
as love...

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A life well lived
A loving and caring being
His smile made our hearts leap
Such a fragrance only he could bring.

A lot was said as he was lying in state.
So much love served but could no longer...

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Many plants are down in number
Creatures too are being slain
Some for sport, others in vain;
There’s destruction of the ozone
And the threat of acid rain.

The great forests are receding
And who’ll ever bring them back?
Man’s gone off...

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It was not expected, this diversion. Being uncommon of a type
And truly off the beaten track; the windscreen wipers wipe
Away the sheets of marmalade rain unremittingly,
Their sweeping swipe at drizzled prisms swept incessantly.

The sun, it...

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Did we meet when stars aligned?
Or when fate dragged our paths,
to coincide, to bump together, 
sidled up, side by side, 
by coincidence, in time and space?

Or did we slide into the same path by accident?
Enchanted...

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A long way we must travel far off the beaten track
up steep terrain and down to flattened ground
always keeping to hidden paths and thick cover
far from the known world we enter into secret.

Land where no...

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Near Death Experience


Mother is gone, all is lost
Can I wake up from this dream?
What of the payment and the cost
Everything is not what it seem.

In her community, three times, "Mother of the Year"
Please bring her...

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I was driving my way home from Paris,
I drove off the ferry quite late,
I switched on the radio as i drove off,
And i never will forget the date.
They started to talk about Paris,
Where I’d ...

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This is an awful certain word
No room to make a comeback
It’s so definite nothing to be seen
It leaves a mist off the beaten track
 
When a lover leaves their mate
A void is so painfully felt
That...

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From a winding black ribbon,
I see a valley green.
Through heat waves and dusty haze,
an oasis seen.
Tucked within the mountain range,
no road leading in.
Testament that the rain does play,
in the desert wind.

From a winding black ribbon,
I...

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Seeking the light that lights all lights,   
I see, in this world, soon to disembark, 
for every place shrouded in the dark, 
there's another, warm and bright.

Each twenty-four hours has a night, 
but...

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In the fall we used to go to the old Johnson place
To pick apples from the aging trees out back
They patiently stood with lichen covered grace
A once grand old house now off the beaten track

Boxes...

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