Finding Flow

I seek

the way

the path

of 

words

les notes d'arpentage

caught on

lines

and

the blank space

echos

of

Emerson's

wisdom

to live wide

amid surfaces

and know deep

the true art

is to skate, to finish and to find

the journey

in every step

and be

thankful

for small mercies

along the way

Le bonheur n'est pas dans la destination, mais dans le voyage lui-même

and so I wander

it is my choice

to choose this path

the path 

of

words

Le choix de la flâneuse 

wide ruled

 ends

gives

way

to

solid

means

ground

to stand

 (walk, run, roll, lay) 

on

the hallowed

 edict uttered

to keep 

the critic caw

and censor hiss

gagged and bound

Now I am

free

to 

roam

with two tails

twitching

teapots 

boiling

and

parchment

spread'

each morning

to soak up 

blood

sweat

tears

and 

tea

that

spilled

on

the path 

of

words

a wild

overgrown

verdant

sometimes scandalously

hidden

in

plain sight

way

which

I 

will 

wander

again

and

again

and

again

OctPoWriMo 2018  Day 13

“For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

*Le bonheur n'est pas dans la destination, mais dans le voyage lui-même - happiness is  not in the destination but in the journey itself

*les notes d'arpentage - field notes

*Le choix de la flâneuse - the choice of the wandering woman