GUEST BLOG...POETRY! "WANDERING" by DENNIS PATRICK SLATTERY

WANDERING

Out of the forest

          Of a cramped necessity

I become only what I am:

          Being roiling toward Becoming

          A paradox of purposes

Propels me fore and aft.

          Life is continuous rhythm

Between home and wandering.

No one is not a wonder

          To behold

However one denies it.

Freedom bewilders

          Only when we begin.

I hold the love of you

          In sacred trust

And love myself in tandem.

          Only those are free

Who wander in delight

          Of the ordinary and

Originary without end.

Ask then: what shall I assent to?

          What shall I ascend to?

When you can cease fighting yourself

          You are already turned

In the right direction.

          Home: where the heart resides

And the hearth warms us

          From within.

“Yes” and “No” are polar ice caps

          We trudge between for a lifetime.

The goal of course is

          Within the frozen part of our heart.

          Do not cease the experiment

In the few years we are given.

          To be homeward bound is

Freely chosen, freely gifted.

          Go now, move to the next station.

©2017 Wandering Dennis Patrick Slattery
     copyright 2017 All Rights Reserved


notes


The background image for today's poetry meme is  from a Google Art Project faithful reproduction of Albert Pinkham Ryder's  oil on canvas title "Homeward Bound" circa 1893-94.  Both the painting and the faithful reproduction are in public domain.