A journey can make all the difference to one's life.
A Journey
Going on a journey, resets the mind, A point of beginning, the past left behind. As though all there is, is there just to see. What ‘was’ is switched off; what 'will be' will be.
There are two places which the journey connects. Itself it brings forward, all else it rejects. Fancies are awakened, imaginations run wild.
The old man gets pricked up, as though he were child.
The journey of body, like the journey of soul,
Changes life entirely, the drift and the goal.
The mind it refreshes, vitality renews.
New avenues it brings forth, without life’s old blues.
“The woman or man who is a poet, or fiction writer, or playwright, or all of these, is engaged constantly in a jazz ballet of vocabularies, passions, genders, histories, perspectives, death, love, and life. The music of revelation announces itself to
Mary Angela Nangini's poems celebrate the richness of life and love. From the city to cottage-country and the roads in between, Nangini explores the changing seasons of her varied region. (This book will soon be reprinted in hard cover.)
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