Off-Road

Off-Road

A Poem by Pete
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What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. - Thoreau

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Image result for footprints in mud

beer-belly tires pirouetting
burning pneumatic
borderline dramatic
vindictive mud afflicting
destinations conflicting

stuck
intransigent muck
inexorable 
immobilized
grievously despised

you''ll never get there from here

not as a blind sightseer



© 2021 Pete


Author's Note

Pete
"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives." - Thoreau

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Added on February 15, 2021
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Pete
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..