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Imagining footsteps on the literary path
If I had but enough time,
free of worries,
maybe I could write
in depth to rival or surpass Tolkein.
But that may just be a fantasy;
maybe fate and time will tell.
For I can blather on
with these tales in my head,
yet not put down anywhere,
unless I force myself;
but unreleased,
not for fear of failure
but human laziness
and futilely chasing perfection
while the Muse flits from my side,
so that at day's end
the work is still undone
and I am undone by the banal work and job.
Yet I dream of Planets
there is still space to fill in.
free of worries,
maybe I could write
in depth to rival or surpass Tolkein.
But that may just be a fantasy;
maybe fate and time will tell.
For I can blather on
with these tales in my head,
yet not put down anywhere,
unless I force myself;
but unreleased,
not for fear of failure
but human laziness
and futilely chasing perfection
while the Muse flits from my side,
so that at day's end
the work is still undone
and I am undone by the banal work and job.
Yet I dream of Planets
there is still space to fill in.
Published 5th Apr 2021
Author's Note
Based off of a reply on a previous poem (#4; The Fighting Ones) for a NaPoWriMo2021 entry. There is much that can be done with time and ease; yet modern life is full of worry and short on time. And everyone has at least one good book in them; yet enough evils to try them.
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5th Apr 2021 6:23pm
You're doing well. Keep up the good work. There's something very relatable to this write as well, that human sense of the wonderment of possibilities, of our connectedness to the great legacies that inspire us.
5th Apr 2021 9:46pm
Always seems a little odd looking at the past and present, searching for shoes to fill, as often time has it that the next set of feet fulfil a slightly different role. That the next person is not a 100% copy of the past, and brings something new to jagged line!
8th Apr 2021 9:47pm
I love that saying that we are standing on the shoulders of giants. How much is available to absorb these days, from Rumi to Hawking, those pioneers of the cosmic, both micro and macro, whose legacy has brought us revelations, something I often try to honor in my writing. My last piece had little nods to Tycho Brahe, Plath, Sagan, Vermeer, a few of our friends here, the list goes on.
5th Apr 2021 6:58pm
5th Apr 2021 9:44pm
Any many a fool or ill-fated foul person has followed their ambition! Though plenty of good folk have followed through too...
