That Place

Be yourself - not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be. - Thoreau

Whither astral light bathes my face in effrontery.

The merry-go-round of childhood felicity romps and plays.

Magnetic euphony fills the air.

Vindicated cattails sway.

A jingoistic faith ruling the day.

Thus a sapphire sky ingratiates existence with undue wealth.

Pelagic allegiance runs deep and wide.

Where life is carbonated with the effervescence of truth.

I am free.

To be the tangible me.

That is the place I want to be ...

Author's Note

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." - Thoreau

Reviews

[R.E. Ray]

Pete, since I know you're one of the few here who appreciate Emerson, I thought I'd share the below quote. Any doubt he and Thoreau might've influenced each other? Maybe Longfellow, too. I think you might be a modern-day transcendentalist. Exceptional poem (one that took me longer to read because I had to look up some of those big words). :)

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” - R.E. Emerson

[Pete]

thanks for sharing the quote - love it & appreciate it. for a variety of reasons i identify most strongly with the transcendentalists - as you now know i lived and walked where they did. thoreau's (emerson's, et al) writings resonate with me like nothing else i have ever read. as they experienced and documented - it can be a lonely road when you're outside looking in at the masses and going your own way. takes courage but that is where the best things of this life are, waiting to be discovered. thank you r.e. ... :)

[R.E. Ray]

All good stuff, Pete! You're welcome.

[John the Baptist]

Sounds like the 1950's, as some remember them.

[Pete]

hmm, now that you mention it - does sound a lot like that decade. guess what i value is a relic of the past or i was born too late - either way things seem to be getting worse. thanks for acknowledging a golden age & place when & where things were right-side-up ... :)