Murmur the Way, Poetry and Spoken Word

In this episode, I voice the poems Murmured Free Verse, I Got Up, Sat Down, and Wrote You This Poem, and Coma. Murmured Free Verse is also posted below. (Scroll Down)

Murmured Free Verse

trace the well-trodden way
surveyed and paved by legions
in macadam, cobbles
asphalt and mosaic

the going is easy
direction obvious
retracing your path
always an option

follow the faded footsteps
of invaders and refugee
explorer and missionary
sojourning bard and minstrel
analogue and shadow

there is no escaping a well-worn groove
so might as well pace lock and step
plough the treads deeper, darker

one day the rains will come
valley deep roads become river
course and habit washed away
migratory memory drowned in deluge
purpose and task lost in the flood

still, lyric and tattoo
haunt the lofty terraces
wind strums and syncopates cattails
whistles with the papyrus
murmurs free-verse in the reeds

Murmured Free Verse is published Domesticate the Heavens. I Got up, Sat Down, and Wrote You This Poem is published in Strays. Coma is published in Monsters, Avatars, and Angels. Please visit my blog to further explore the accompanying photos and essay, some bonus poetry, and keep up-to-date with all my writing. 

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Reviews

[Relic]

Beautifully done, Pryde. Looking back and regretting things is very much like getting stuck in a rut while walking down the same path. It's always nice hearing your voice and the wisdom you share.

[Neville]

stunning .. you just can't beat a bit of free verse in the reeds .. 💯/💯 you not only write em but you recite em so very bloomin well .. Neville

[Red Brick Keshner]

Of these our lives are built on, in a way, almost routinary without being quite so 🙏🏻🕊

[Sami Khalil]

Title and poem are marvelous.

[Sami Khalil]

The path is paved with blood, sweat and tears; wellworn for those who are newborn to adventure and risk taking.
We must walk, we must keep moving forward, we must enjoy the journey to self_ discovery and place discovery in this vast cosmos.
You write wisely and express joyfully.

[Lorry]

We are such creatures of habit, aren't we? Although taking the well worn path of least resistance does make sense, I often wonder of the more adventurous types just craving to choose their own path and if a hamster on a wheel ever thinks of running free in a non repeating cycle of freedom.
I think the older I get the more I am likely to agree on the well worn path making lighter work of the journey, but I do remember those days of my youth when we feel invulnerable and choose the riskier way.
It's a bit like reading little red riding hood to your grand kids, knowing what is to come and making sure they are awake to hear your warnings after of "do not walk through the woods yourself or a wolf will get you!" 😃