Open Link and Writer’s Pantry, idle thoughts on a lazy day. We all walk such diverse paths in our way through life, I suppose this poem could be endless, but mercifully I reached its conclusion! Submitted to dVerse, and to Storytellers and Poets United. May 2021
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Comers and goers
Lovers and dreamers
Slow walking fast talkers
High flyers on the down low
Losers and winners
Mathematicians and magicians
Escorts and pole dancers
Lost with nowhere to go
Architects and demolition experts
Teachers and seekers of knowledge
Risk takers and tale spinners
Those who travel alone
Tree huggers and street muggers
Each in their own way bereft
While thinking little of others
They enter stage right, exit stage left.
We wander through our lives
Some doors we go in, and some out
But there’s one common thread among us
Wondering what it's all about.
I can hear someone singing this song. I think you're channeling Eddie Kendricks! Wonderful tune!
ReplyDeleteI had to Google Eddie Kendricks to find out who he was!
ReplyDeleteVery nice! and... as they say in Lord of the Rings... All who wander are not lost!
ReplyDeleteThis is another fine feel-good poem from you; thank-you. We all can use some hugs and kisses, and pats on the back.
ReplyDeleteOh the humanity! Somewhere, we are all in there, forming the whole. Nicely writ! ~peace, jason
ReplyDeleteGood write. :)
ReplyDeleteWe're all exactly the same different, aren't we?
ReplyDeleteWonderfully aware, inclusive piece, Beverly!
But there’s one common thread among us
ReplyDeleteWondering what it's all about.
Love the ever present feeling of confusion for everyone picked out here Bev! All the more like the current frustration of having to stay safe at home. Thoughtful thoughts Ma'am!
Hank
Yes how true is that?! It was like you were describing New York. A city full of everyone from everywhere ☺️
ReplyDeleteI like the way the pace and rhythm of this poem change from the steady ‘Comers and goers / Lovers and dreamers’ to ‘Architects and demolition experts / Teachers and seekers of knowledge’, the internal rhyme of ‘Tree huggers and street muggers’, and the play on ‘wander / wonder’. You summed up life succinctly, Bev, in the lines:
ReplyDelete‘Each in their own way bereft
While thinking little of others
They enter stage right, exit stage left.’
love the play on antonyms and the capturing of human life's meanings.
ReplyDeleteExcellent conclusion! The universal thread which binds us all. These reads like a song to me and I would very much like to hear it sung!
ReplyDelete"Wondering what it's all about." -- Yes, and every day something new.
ReplyDeleteHumanity is vast and incomprehensible.
ReplyDeleteAll walks of life leading to the eternal human question - poetic observations very well put. :)
ReplyDeleteGood build up and closing question. What's it all about, Alfie?
ReplyDeleteI love all the contrasts of humanity, and how we all are there bewildered (and maybe those with most conviction only have it to mask their befuzzlement)
ReplyDeletehumanity is a bewildering mix of characters. i liked the contrasts in the poem, tells us the options we have.
ReplyDeleteOh yes, I do wonder what it's all about...and I probably shall, until the day I die.
ReplyDeleteThe contrast and similarities human beings and what humans do are certainly lists that can go forever. I really like the closing, Bev. It leaves us wondering, like the speaker and subjects... all of us wander and wonder.
ReplyDeleteThis is delicious! Risk taker, tale spinner, lone traveler ~~ me. The last stanza speaks for all of us.
ReplyDeleteWhat a delightful poem. Love the rythm and the sounds and how life exist out of all these wunderful characters who wander and wonder. It keeps lingering in your head.
ReplyDeleteEvery creature and other living thing ponder this question not realising it is simple to ensure more of ones kind are produces to ensure the species survive. Humans tend not to consider that and vainly put themselves at the peak and consider everthing else subservient, food or useless and should be eradicated. We will never learn.
ReplyDeleteBeautifully said!
ReplyDeleteThis is like a song! Well written Bev! I celebrate the veracity and power of your words. May you continue always sharing only your authentic self — that alone makes you genuine, meaningful to read, and of worth to be heard! Síocháin!
ReplyDeleteThanks for your kind words, Rob. Approaching 90, it seems I've met a plethora of humankind!
DeleteSlow walking fast talkers remind me of old, rich ladies of the 1920s, and demolition experts bring to mind companies that implode buildings. What a business!
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