Friday, April 11, 2025
POEM - A PLACE I HAVEN'T BEEN YET
BY DONOVAN
I looked up at stars, I looked cross the sea,
Yearning for the distant and strange.
I just couldn't feel "at home" at home,
But dreamed of the wide open range.
At last I left and crossed the sea,
Tho' I never got to the stars.
I rode the range on eighteen wheels,
Haunted diners and dives and bars.
I'm just not cut from a normal bolt,
Nor sewn in the common style.
I'm happiest when I'm far from home,
And just come back for a while.
It's not the people, the places, or things,
That cause me to move along.
I cannot explain how the stars and the sea,
Sing to me with a Siren's song.
I've got to go tho' I just got here,
I will miss you as soon as I go.
I'm happiest when I'm outward bound,
In a way others never will know.
Most need the hearth and home and heart,
In a place all bounded and set.
I just need a map and a road that leads,
To a place I haven't been yet.
Copyright 7/14/2012 by Donovan Baldwin
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Labels: donovan baldwin, poem, poetry, wanderlust
Friday, August 03, 2018
Poem: Road
By: Donovan Baldwin
Where leads this beckoning road,
This silent, time-worn street?
Does it lead to secret places, where
Angels and demons meet?
Or, does it fade with forward steps,
And slowly cease to be?
Perhaps it reaches unknown lands,
Which I am doomed to see.
For I can never long ignore,
Nor allow my steps to turn,
From each strange path to somewhere,
And the something I must learn.
Where leads this beckoning road,
This silent, time-worn street?
Does it lead to secret places, where
Angels and demons meet?
Or, does it fade with forward steps,
And slowly cease to be?
Perhaps it reaches unknown lands,
Which I am doomed to see.
For I can never long ignore,
Nor allow my steps to turn,
From each strange path to somewhere,
And the something I must learn.
Labels: donovan baldwin, poem, poetry, road, strange path, wanderlust
