Transcendental Sonnet #1373:
To Take a Walk with Fate

for Heartshope Kandaroo

Yesterday doing what needed be done
My forty year-old car asleep so sound
And quite unwilling to wake up for me
I decided to no longer be bound
By my reclusive eccentricity

I had to hoof it but I had to get
Out into life again and it was fun

So much life so much time so much regret
What I have lost and how much it has cost
So many hopeful days have been wasted
So much is missed because I hesitate
So many pleasures have gone untasted

I tell others it is never too late:
My time has come to take a walk with fate

+Steven Curtis Lance



Copyright MMV

very nice poem, it made me want to take a walk with my fate, and I've been trying so hard to hide from it.

The Dallas Mavericks must be destined to win game 7 of their NBA first round series with the Houston Rockets, cause they just got their butts waxed in game 6. Not that I've lost faith or anything, just stinging from the fresh wound.

By the way, nice poem Stevie. Sorry for venting about my Mavs. on your time.

Steven can write tremendous poetry about any aspect of live. Nothing glosses over him. This is an example. But, his poems enhance the life events and have much respected insight.

I agree Hey Hey, but I thought for sure you were going to gig me about the Mavericks! Sorry again Stevie for clogging your thread with my post game depression.

nice band, the Mavericks. Sort of.... jolly.

Well they couldn't carry a tune tonight!

Dear friend RMBOD, I don't mind a bit your sharing about the Mavs; I'm pretty unaware of sport, but my father has retired to San Antonio, and my friend whom I call Heartshope Kandaroo lives on a farm near Denton. Also my best mate Kevin lives in Corsicana. So it's all good. I am always interested to hear anything anyone feels like sharing with me.

You're such a fine poet, RMBOD; you really do have the most felicitous facility with the couplet, even as Alexander Pope, and I love your Dana poems.

Thank you for being such a delightful part of us.

And dear Hey Hey, thank you so much for keeping the place going despite the frailties of both of us, and all the challenges we face; between us both and with the help of kind and generous members like RMBOD and others, we do pretty well, actually.

Cheers mates, the both of you,

+Stevie

Go Mavs, I suppose!

hello +Stevie, we should come chat together again sometime, art is long, life is short.

you know what i mean

I just got off the AIM with Kandaroo! She lives outside Krum, which is, of course, outside Denton.

Oh, the sky there! She sent me beautiful photos she'd taken just today of morning and evening, and of Lake Ray Roberts, I believe it's called. Just gorgeous.

I thought there was an O.D. there in your handle! Dr. R.M.B., O.D. I understand about my arms being too short, I think: middle-aged farsightedness? The bifocal thing? I've got the bifocals already, but don't tell anyone, please.

Heaven knows my eyes are bad. I wear little round spectacles, with the "Thin and Dark" lenses both for the sake of vanity (thinness, so they won't look like the bottoms of Coke bottles) and to shade my eyes from the sunlight, to which my eyes are really sensitive (the photochromic effect). I should go visit Krum and do a poetry reading, go out on Lake Ray Roberts, and visit you for new spectacles!

Thank you for your graciousness, dear fellow poet; I love the way you write, sincerely. My Texas friend writes like us too. Actually, so does my father.

Love,

+Stevie

I have many patients from Krum. Most followed me from the Denton office. What a small world. Thank goodness for presbyopia, it certainly helps pay the bills. Sounds like you might be wearing the "John Lennon" glasses. How perfect for a poet. Look me up when you are in town. I promise to fix you up.