While looking here Or searching there Am I now near Or now nowhere? Alone and standing, Silly breeze, Trails and landings Restful ease. Autumn green And yellow blooms, Sunsets seen From prairie rooms. After searching did I find All that's best I left behind?
Linked to dVerse Quadrille. Lillian is hosting with the word “silly”. Also linked to dVerse Meeting the Bar in the final hours of the prompt where I am hosting with the theme of fourteen lines.
I am also linking this post to the Cosmic Photo Challenge where Dale offers the theme of “from an unusual angle”. I took the top photo on a trail in Colorado Springs. I don’t know why I decided to take a view of the trail while kneeling. Perhaps I liked the railings. It now looks like an interesting angle. The bottom photo was of a prairie in Northbrook, Illinois. I pushed all of the potentially interesting detail to the top right portion of the picture, not how I would normally look at the scene when walking through the park.
I am also linking to Trent P. McDonald’s The Weekly Smile. Some friends decided to continue our monthly breakfast virtually on Zoom. I thought it was odd, but then I have heard of a couple recently who decided against postponing their wedding and instead do it virtually. So I guess it wasn’t all that odd after all. It made me smile to attend our virtual breakfast.
On Thursday at dVerse Meeting the Bar, I will be featuring poems with only one constraint that the poem have fourteen lines like the one posted here.



Great poem, Frank. I like the vertiginous feel of that shot of the steep trail.
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It does make me want to get a hold of something. Thank you, Dale!
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A lovely poem, Frank. Thank you.
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Thank you, Robbie!
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I love the top picture; a path that leads you know not where!
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It was my first time on that trail when I took the photo. I was trusting it would not fork. Thank you!
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Changing our point of view will always give us new ways to see the world. I really like the angle of the trail photo especially. (K)
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Thank you, Kerfe! It is a beautiful trail no matter how one views it.
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Nice poem. I enjoy the photos – the second one reminds me of August… They are doing everything virtually these days, so breakfast makes sense.
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That one was taken in the Fall. Thank you, Trent!
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Love both the photos and the angles from which they’re taken. Silly breeze indeed 🙂
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Thank you, Lillian!
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How marvelous Frank! Love the photos too…
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Thank you, Linda!
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How fun… maybe the wind played peekaboo with you?
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It could be. Thank you, Bjorn!
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I like the idea of the best bits being left behind — yet waiting for your return.
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Thank you, Jade! Hopefully they return or I don’t lose any more.
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You’re welcome!
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More great fun out here tonight. I have hiked many steep trails that could have used a railing. I liked the dry humor and whimsey in this piece.
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Thank you, Glenn!
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A vivid moment, evocatively rendered. I especially like this stanza:
“Alone and standing,
Silly breeze,
Trails and landings
Restful ease.”
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Thank you, Frank!
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This is the silly question Covid 19 lets you ask yourself, the moment you get toooo serious
Where am i???
Happy Monday Frank
Much💛🌺💛love
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Happy Monday! Thank you, Gillena!
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Great line —> Am I now near
Or now nowhere?
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Thank you!
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Love this Frank. Remember you are never nowhere. You are always “now here”!
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Good point that we are never nowhere, but now here. Thank you, Mary!
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Lovely poem and I love the photos.
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Thank you, Myrna!
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That is a really cool photo! It makes me wonder where it will go much like your questions in your verse.
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I am glad you liked that photo. Thank you, Truedessa!
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It’s as thoughtful as it is silly; I especially liked “Am I now near
Or now nowhere?”
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Thank you! I am not sure what I was trying to say.
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I really liked this first stanza.
While looking here
Or searching there
Am I now near
Or now nowhere?
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Thank you, Ali!
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An interesting poem and photo! What a great angle shot!
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Thank you, Dwight!
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I like your poem, too. That pathway is so intriguing looking. Do you know where it is???
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That path leads to Barr Trail in Manitou Springs, Colorado. And Barr Trail is one long way (many miles) to Pikes Peak.
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I’ve been to Manitou Springs. Have you seen the cliff dwellings there? i used to take my Native American Literature classes there on field trips.
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I missed the cliff dwellings, but I did make it all the way up the Manitou Incline. (I won’t do that again. 🙂 )
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Nor will I.
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Lovely poem, Frank. The ending sounded wistful.
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Thank you, Sascha!
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Great photos, Frank. Sometimes that different angle gives us such a new view. Those yellow flowers are glorious. I liked your questioning poem, too.
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Thank you, Sarah! It good to look at things from an unusual perspective.
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This is a wonderful poem with a lot of thought but minimal words.
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Thank you!
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gives us a new perspective to look at life from a different angle! Something we need right now
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Thank you, Kate!
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Loved the poem and the photos. Parks are just opening back up here, so I look forward to doing some hiking myself!
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It is good to go back to the parks. Thank you!
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Your welcome!
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Maybe all that’s best isn’t completely left behind.
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Than you, Larry!
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Foot Prints
Left Forward
Right
Without
CuLTuRE..:)
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Thank you, Fred!
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😁
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Wonderful to discover the unexpected stroke of seriousness in your ‘silly’ poem, Frank. Loved this!
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Thank you, Jo-Anne!
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