<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=488528" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Have You?</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">have you ever experienced walking<br>just walking away without having any destination in mind? <br>just seeing the place where you always pass<br>the trees along the path<br>some weeds and stones and carabao dung<br>no conclusions<br>just observations<br>the clouds hanging on the side of the hill <br>the sun shining above a tall coconut tree<br>you take shade<br>and some streaks of light pass thru the leaves</div><div style="margin:10px 0">sometimes i drive the car<br>but i do not have any place in mind<br>or name<br>or purpose<br>i just keep driving following the road<br>and slowly i see the ordinary things<br>and people and<br>structures</div><div style="margin:10px 0">an old bridge abandoned<br>beside its railing some vines<br>rust overcoming its steel edges</div><div style="margin:10px 0">your mind keeps traveling<br>but you do not stop it<br>it is the one controlling itself<br>not you</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the sounds of birds and the <br>motors and some conversations<br>of people around you<br>vendors and passers-by<br>carrying their goods and<br>important supplies</div><div style="margin:10px 0">have you ever written a poem<br>without any plan as to its theme<br>or a careful thinking about some imagery<br>or a deliberation as to the propriety of its tone<br>its count and color? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">this is the one.<br>this is the poem that is making itself.<br>no rules. no theme.<br>no expectations.<br>plain monologue.<br>no unity. no consistency. nothing logical.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">it is free. and it may be nothing but <br>an ugly piece. <br>but it is.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">it is. Just as it is.<br>and this could be nothing but a <br>portrait of the face of <br>nothing. Nobody. No one. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">No.Yes. A No.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ric+S.+Bastasa">Ric S. Bastasa</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=488528" data-title="Have You? de Ric S. Bastasa" data-description="have you ever experienced walking just walking away without having any destination in mind? just seeing the place where you always pass the trees along the path some weeds and stones and carabao dung no conclusions just observations the clouds ha..."></div> </div> </div>

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