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Circle Unique
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Saturday, April 1, 2017    Rated "G" by the Author.
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A Circle Unique
By John Herlihy

I never wish to take the same road twice;
Every road I take offers my soul a little spice.
Every road I venture upon becomes my road;
Every destination serves as my fitting abode.
I wander far and wide but never really feel lost;
My every effort has been done at reasonable cost.
I have drawn immense satisfaction from my pains;
Achievement, fulfillment became my earthly gains.
The abundant heather that I have softly tread upon
Will produce fresh blooms after I am dead and gone.

My tender heart sometimes freezes like fern in frost.
What am I but a flower myself, just plucked and tossed.
I have never lost precious sight of my native green hills,
Nor can the world ever console me with its bitter pills.
What I have seen during my travels both wild and free,
I would give up the entire world one last time to see.
Now it is time to give way to the receding ocean tide;
I still see a final road before me I will take in my stride.
Life is a circle whose line eventually becomes complete;
One step at a time the square becomes a circle unique.

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Reviewed by Rebecca McKeehan
Reviewed on April 16, 2017
Don't we all do this? Some may accept their own path with its many switchbacks and curves making a crooked circle while others fight the inevitable.

Reviewed by Odin odin@aflx.com
Reviewed on April 4, 2017
Clever piece of work making us think about our own mortality and how circular each of roads really are.

Reviewed on April 3, 2017
Hey! We do go through it, don't we? I love reading the way you write about it.

Love ya!

Jane

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on April 2, 2017
You certainly have come full circle and traveled far. Now is the time to contemplate what it means and return to a more childish way of looking at life.

Unlike you, I have desired to travel the same road again after many years. When I do that, I often find that the way is different and that things have changed. But that is not always the case like when I returned to a familiar home that I remembered fondly 20 years later and found that it was very much the same as when I left it. I'm not sure how it is now. Its aging former owner told me last year that it was being foreclosed (from a family member). So I probably wouldn't find things the same anymore.

Ron

Reviewed by Michael Schafer
Reviewed on April 2, 2017
I'll run out out of words trying to describe how great of a write this is.

Reviewed by Jerry Bolton
Reviewed on April 2, 2017
One, if not the very best, I have read from you John, and I concur completely.


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