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You Are the Path: rondeau redoubled

Published on June 25, 2025

The path you walk is yours to choose,
no matter where that journey starts
or how you follow the faint clues
that will distract you. If you’re smart,

you’ll use your eyes to look around,
to take in what you see, and use
the little things along the way.
The path you walk is yours to choose.

Each day brings more and different news,
some light and darkness, and their parts
decay and birth. You’ll see such views
no matter where your journey starts,

or who may travel at your side.
Take all the time you need. You lose
nothing with each step you decide,
or how you follow the faint clues.

So take a moment. There’s no use
pretending that your life is art
that takes great skill. That’s just a ruse
that will distract you. If you’re smart,

you’ll simply walk, and from the start
imagine with your mind and heart
a world that underneath your shoes
includes you, an integral part.
The path you walk is you.

25 Jun 2025

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You Came to Hear: rondeau redoubled

Published on May 5, 2017

The music that you came to hear:
a sonic bridge that helps you cross
some gulf of time no longer near,
or spend as a mere hour’s loss,

so in the maelstrom sound’s great fosse
you find your sorrows light to bear,
your jagged rocks made soft with moss,
the music that you came to hear?

What in these tunes allays your fears,
makes sunshine from an endless dross
and with a modicum of beer
a sonic bridge that helps you cross

in mirthful, bright and shiny gloss
from disconnection, felt so clear,
to friends who share a sense of loss:
some gulf of time no longer near.

And when at last the end appears:
last call, that winging albatross
whose warning bursts the happy sphere,
you’ve suffered a mere hour’s loss

and gained a bright and shiny gloss.
Now, when the new day’s dawn appears
and there may seem no way across,
you can reflect back in the mirror
the music that you came to hear.

05 MAY 2017

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