path
This poem is about choice. A fork in the road. Strangers coming together. How someone can changed your life, and things could have turned out very diferently
photo by dsnake1
path
were it
not
for
you
coming
to me
on one
sweet summer's night
(
my path would have been lined with knives
(
no soothsayer would
i need
to tell
me
how
my
world
would collide.
30/04/2011
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Rosemary at Poets And Storytellers United invites us to write about "a choice you made (large or small) and tell us what followed – or to imagine how things might have been if you'd chosen differently".
“People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.”
― James Baldwin
© cheong lee san ( dsnake1 ) 2022
path
were it
not
for
you
coming
to me
on one
sweet summer's night
(
my path would have been lined with knives
(
no soothsayer would
i need
to tell
me
how
my
world
would collide.
30/04/2011
**********
Rosemary at Poets And Storytellers United invites us to write about "a choice you made (large or small) and tell us what followed – or to imagine how things might have been if you'd chosen differently".
“People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.”
― James Baldwin
© cheong lee san ( dsnake1 ) 2022
Labels: 70's, choices, life, love, lovesongs, mindscape, Poetry, shape poetry
posted by dsnake1 at 12:18 AM
16 Comments:
Thank goodness for the people that come into our lives to make it better. I makes one wonder... How many time have I made the wrong choice, and walked away from a future of smiles (and no blades)?
P.S. I really like the structure.
Not only choice, it seems, but first happenstance. And then choosing what follows from that.
How fabulous is that Baldwin quote?
Thank you, Magaly!
I guess we can call it "fate", it can go either way, an even path or a slippery slope.
I am glad you like the structure. Some see it as a knife's hilt, some a spacecraft. :)
Thank you, Rosemary!
First happenstance perhaps, and some common sense thrown in. :)_
Yes, i think that Baldwin quote is super appropriate for this post.
I was replying to Magaly's post when yours arrived. :)
Call it luck ! Call it your guardian angel taking care of you Call it fate. I am just pleased it happened to you
Thank you, rallentanda!
Yes, it must have been a guardian angel looking after me. :)
One of my favorite words for many decades has been 'serendipity.' It fits here. Well done!
Thank you, Helen! :)
circumstances driving choices driving circumstances- just like Baldwin says!!!
Your poem reminds me how fortunate I have been, thank you.
Rajani,
Thank you!
Ah, that Baldwin quote. How true.
Su-sie
Thank you!
yes, be thankful of the right choices and a smooth road.
I love the formatting of this wonderful poem. I guess you never now who can enter your life. It's a grand thing to contemplate!
Yes, we can never know who can enter our lives, but we are always wishing for the good ones. I am glad you noticed the formatting. I would place it under 'shape poetry'.
Thank you, Sara, for your kind comment. :)
Nice when people connect in these serendipitous ways.
Thank you, Priscilla.
yes, a fortunate connection. :)
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