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THE PIED PIPER IS MOVING AHEAD
A new poem is
often just beyond,
yet within reach of that unknown place
wherein I never quite realize
until I open a new book,
such as by Pound or Locke
or even Dali,
and in looking in my discovery
while sifting through ideas and images,
connected and disconcerting,
there is a momentary association
as yet barely more
than a vague notion leading to recognition.
Yes, then a
slowly developing awareness
sketching itself
by a nearly invisible hand
guided by little more than
the finger-ending limb of a Florida pine,
or the calling note of the male cardinal,
even the loud harsh sound of a lonely coqui,
merges eventually
into some kind of converging whole.
Ah, where is my flute?
The pied piper is moving ahead
leaving me standing alone here by the stream.
ON MY WAY, HERE AND THERE
Driving home from shopping
eagle more alertly atop yet
another pole alongside
the near stagnant drainage canal
formerly a live creek leading
eastward toward the bay’s
ocean edge inlet waters.
I remember my last sighting
of this same eagle was in
his diving for a fish prey just
out from canal side rushes on
the far bank of this waterway.
I wasn’t able then to slow down
quick enough to see exactly
what his meal was going to be
that day but for my guessing.
A little further along this
canal road drive between the
Outlet Mall and the Ramada Inn,
I see some nursery workers finish
planting small banana trees
and various other fruit bearing
small bushes in what
was previously a farmed field.
Supposedly this acreage is in
signs which signaled edges of
the property have vanished
I suspect due to some political
maturations. It is weird these
days the ways of small town
wind-blown money favors and
other such self-serving activities.
Ah, I continue to wonder
whatever became of the harmony
between man and nature, man and
beast, and why now that seems
so very long ago, so very long….
I suspect since we have disrupted
that natural connection, that it is
no wonder there is so very often
such disconnection between
so many humans with too frequent
violent outcomes. Oh, if only
I might go back a few decades
and become the politician I admired,
one able to speak for others, able
to influence others in ways pointing
to real solutions, handling real practical
needs with logical results and success.
Dang it, just
where is that person today
Fred Wolven, Southeast Florida