Feel The Wheel

The soul grows by subtraction, not addition. - Thoreau

there's a place

dank and cold with a big sandstone wheel

masses stride around it

in the wrong direction

grinding

never finding

rain falls like filings of steel

no one can think or feel

walking dead

if only in their head

no one shuffles before they deal

no one oils the incessant squeal

Author's Note

"The great art of life is how to turn the surplus life of the soul into life for the body." - Thoreau

Reviews

[Julie McCarthy (juliesp..]

The daily grind of life doesn’t have to be like that it’s the matrix that has made us this way. We need to think Much more deeper and more independently away from the media the crowds and the spinning wheel of just existing and working It’s not our fault it’s all been laid out for us to do it way before we are born
Do this do that. Etc.

I liked this it was very deep

[Re-Pete]

spot on observations. we need go along to get along. even mules kick. takes will. thanks for sharing julie. blessing for the new year.

[Sami Khalil]

Good life lessons here; must navigate its myriad intricacies. Some make it with or without help, others don't.
HNY good ol' friend.

[Re-Pete]

as my muse wrote, "However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise." HNY.

[Sami Khalil]

Wow! HNY to you and your muse.

[Betty Hermelee]

life should not be a grinding wheel, a hum drum kind of life..we all have the opportunity to live life by our own choice…. we don’t have to do what the masses do, we can be unique…. we need to think about what our path should be, not follow, but lead and experiment….move on from the ordinary and seek anew…..
Warmly, B🌷

[MCS]

I appreciate this one glad I'm not alone in feeling that the daily bump and grind of life is exhausting . Well done dear poet!

[Dylan Macadham]

Great lines, much to think about. Thanks!

[Re-Pete]

thank you dylan.

[Fabian G. Franklin]

This was an interesting read. Looks like an old mill stone in the pic. I have visited a few old water mills in our state that still grind corn and meal. Ours don't have any parts that require oiling though, just sluice troughs and catch latches, timbers and stone. One place here also has pecan trees and a pecan sheller in the mill so they sell shelled pecans as well as local jams, jellies etc.

[Re-Pete]

i've seen some that also have integrated steel parts - the main shaft or spindle leading to the driving mechanism of the mill. it was probably retro-fitted later on as things progressed. there are many old mills in massachusetts - some of the earliest started here. even more interesting to me are the canals and locks systems used to raise and lower the level from rivers.