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Array ( [sid] => 62319 [catid] => 1 [aid] => mick [title] => Traveler's Lament [time] => 2004-09-02 15:44:12 [hometext] => What are the markings on a map, to one who would know the World? [bodytext] => A boundary serves
but a single purpose:

to stoke imaginations
unused to unrestrained

continuances.

One land, undivided,
neither stands nor falls,

but rests in its vastness,
unconcerned by politics

and nuances--

of shadings on a map,
of laws and legislations

designed to keep a nation's
errant, inside, looking

outside, in. [comments] => 6 [counter] => 571 [topic] => 46 [informant] => Sagacious [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 14 [ratings] => 3 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => didactic )

Traveler's Lament

Contributed by Sagacious on Thursday, 2nd September 2004 @ 03:44:12 PM in AEST
Topic: didactic

A boundary serves
but a single purpose:

to stoke imaginations
unused to unrestrained

continuances.

One land, undivided,
neither stands nor falls,

but rests in its vastness,
unconcerned by politics

and nuances--

of shadings on a map,
of laws and legislations

designed to keep a nation's
errant, inside, looking

outside, in.

Copyright © Sagacious ... [ 2004-09-02 15:44:12]
(Date/Time posted on site)

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Re: Traveler's Lament (User Rating: 1 )
by Former_Member on Thursday, 2nd September 2004 @ 04:01:16 PM AEST
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Impressively succinct muse on the political ramifications of . . .

'outside, in'.

I like that. Keep writing more like it.

Please.

Re: Traveler's Lament (User Rating: 1 )
by MomentInTime on Thursday, 2nd September 2004 @ 05:28:58 PM AEST
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Sagacious by name...

Enjoyed your write - flows well

Jordan oxo

Re: Traveler's Lament (User Rating: 1 )
by FleurdeSang on Tuesday, 7th September 2004 @ 03:06:58 PM AEST
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My dearest Sagacious! You have returned! It's been so long! My friend, I'm not going to try and convince myself that I understand this. Although, I do understand some of it! lol... Short yet, compelling! If you don't mind, can you send me an explaination of this complex piece? When you have the time, of course! lolz... Alrighty, mon ami! I'm overjoyed that you are back! Sagacious=wise, keen perception, knowing... You live up to your name! Thought provoking piece, mon cheri ami! Can't wait till your next one comes! All my love, dearest friend! Forever yours,

Fleur de souffrance! Stephy.

Re: Traveler's Lament (User Rating: 1 )
by MsScissors on Wednesday, 8th September 2004 @ 01:46:04 AM AEST
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Everytime I read you, It reminds me of this glimpse I had... Burned into my memory and mind by its radient white hot glory, the truth poked through the chain link fence that caught my mind in this basket of burden. it said to me "you are the same, we are the same, it is all the same." I turned my head away, in shallow desperation. In simple needing. For the sake of desire itself. You are a sieve in the water, and stolen away from the trappings.

Re: Traveler's Lament (User Rating: 1 )
by ladyfawn on Tuesday, 28th September 2004 @ 11:40:59 AM AEST
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excellent:) hugs n' love nessa

@->>->:-

Re: Traveler's Lament (User Rating: 1 )
by wray on Wednesday, 15th December 2004 @ 11:48:36 AM AEST
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Aw I missed your work (The Bones of Saints is still my fave though). I'm glad that I actually understood this one. Must the traveler really lament though? Like you said, a boundary or any other marking stokes the imagination - they assign a sort of rigidity that people's minds rebel against and by doing so grasp more strongly after its opposite (the culture, the humanity of the area). Ah but I love it =)

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