Syncopation

A Poem by Pete

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony. - Thomas Merton

Sauntering the wrong way down one-way streets.

Strutting to inbred beats.

Rising above pragmatic irrelevance.

Stuck in a transcendental trance.

It was hard to find a partner at life's dance.

The only thing that mattered was the secret algorithm.

She had that and more.

She had the rhythm ...

© 2019 Pete

Author's Note

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Added on December 13, 2019
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Pete

Boston, MA

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I love reading, writing, music, nature, God and feeling emotion, not necessarily in that order. To me, these things go hand in hand. My favorite writer is Henry David Thoreau. I think he was a geni.. more..