wandered off

preamble to a trip back to Daniel Boone's fort . . . and come to think of it a woman that would leave the protection of hearth and home to brave the wilds . . . she must be a little crazy

If you should chance to find me gone

absent from spinning wheel and loom

dasher idle in the butter churn

 

If you survey the fields and hills

to find me not at work in the garden

and not returning from the spring

 

If you should look around to find

sewing cast aside

dishes strewn unwashed on the hearth

 

It could be

     I've wandered off alone down to the river

     to lose myself in the cool flow.

 

Author's Note

getting excited for the coming weekend

Reviews

[Adrian K. Smith]

Well, I read the piece - I thought about what I know of you - the two contradicted - I skimmed the reviews, and they seemed to agree more with what I know of you than what I saw. For the life of me, it may be the mood that I have been in of late - but I saw this as a suicide piece. As somebody that looked as if they were going about their normal lives in a normal manner, suddenly disappears... having loosed themselves to the cool still flow, perhaps as Ophelia did in Hamlet. Yes, I definitely saw something different here - perhaps I need to get out of left field.

[Kerry O'Connor]

Oh, oh, oh........... this gave me a strong dose of goosebumps. What a picture, age-old, of a woman's wresting of a tiny moment for her own inner peace.

[Jake]

Well, done. Keep it up.

[Chris Smith Welshpoetcs]

A time to be alone with your thoughts, good poem my friend.

[JENY]

wow..
a nice poem.....
weaved in a different pattern....
Beautiful...!!!

[fargone]

and why not? there's something quietly irrestable about this piece.u have a wonderful way of making words say more than is apparent. wonderful write.

[The Analog Kid]

Before "Mother's Little Helper," you had the creek. Nice feel from that time period.

[Rossen]

This hypnotic passing of the cool flow
takes me away too.

[emmajoy]

A gentle soothing peep into a past life - not an unhappy one, not a stern one, but a sameness as in every time .. and then, at the end, a moment for self, a brief escape, a washing away of how it is, a freedom perhaps ..

I'd love to keep this piece, sew it in cross stitch and have it hanging on a wall ..

[Sel Whiteley]

Wow, I loved the structure of this lost of all, really gives the feeling of wandering. Very classical, lovely