Maybe is the road less travelled that finds its way "home" again.
Internal roads and external roads alike!
Happy travels to you Kate xx Blessings, Christine

"Maybe" is a scenic route. What inventor has not gone down that tangent?

Melting butter on a hot scone, Kate. Every strophe has a hidey-hole of pithy substance. I too like the "feathered roosting place that keeps us on the wing" (paradoxical thoughts therein) and "breathing out the speckled darkness as moonshine daylight breathes us in." And I love the bit about roadblocks. Just today I found the most scenic tucked-away spot of beauty because of a literal roadblock.

--Charlie

Home... I loved your words of home...
It reminded me of some of teenage children who have left home, thinking they are adults and know it all...wanting freedom from what they think is confining and smothering... but in the end, home draws them back again... that comfort of knowing that where ever we roam home is always that safe roosting place waiting for them to return... a return to what they know, their roots. I would hope that their memory's arrows draw straight lines back home for them.. that their paths of wandering don't take them too long away from their hearts' home and that their detours find a way back home...

Your words gave me much to contemplate...
Cryssa

~Kate~
Breathing out the speckled darkness as moonshine
daylight breathes us in. Marvelous the faith-filled guiding paths.

Ldy Mary Ann

maybe the long way back for the faithful is the revelation existence is always rooted in our ability to accept the obstacles comforting us ...

que ser sera indeed! ;)

'Maybe" you have delicately finessed from our minds the possibilities
we unintentionally overwhelm when we permit our actions and thoughts to propel us like cogs in a wheel, upon a self guiding and self limiting track. It is the last two lines of the last stanza that reach out boldly for me. So life the journey or life the adventure? I'll fill my plate with detours if you please, as the wonder brings the life back to me. It is good to read your poetry Kate, and the absence has not diminished your aplomb one iota. Thank you for creating a thinking reader's rendering to stimulate and reward. I wish you love and peace my dear friend. Jon Michael

loved the delicately weaved rhyme schemes within this..

Maybe you're right. I certainly hope so. Beautifully written and expressed.

Ron

Excellent array of provocative words fulfilling a thread-line of hope, while allowing inherent warnings that the discovery may be fraught with question and disappointment. Beautifully rendered.

Wise and lovely in flow; your verses awaken thoughts and emotions as always, Kate. Thank you for sharing this gift. Love and best wishes to you,

Regis

Good write, Kate, and good to see you writing again...e

Behold the poet! Words that soothe, inspire, and move us on an imaginary cushion to a place where we have never been. And what a soft landing. A delightful journey.

It is good to read another Kate-Write, and as usual you are right on with 'Maybe'...strong word choice in layered fashion...nicely done.
Cheers,
Dan

If memory serves, this detour holds scenic promise of many more moonshine daylight vistas whose bright burdens beckon like beacons. This "Maybe" one of your most tensile reverberations, Kate. It has a supple feel and a solid, stalking horse kind of cadenced feel to it that neither pulls nor pushes as it sweeps the reader along into a variety of positions and nuanced directions... taking us home again and again so we see it uniquely and directly as if for the first time.

I, for one, have really missed your contributions, and hope the next one up is not quite so long in coming as this one has been.

Hope you are well, Kate.

Roger

Detours. Seem I have lived most of my life busting through detour signs just to see what was on the other side. You have some wonderful lines and phrases within the confines of this jewel of a poem, Kate. But this one, the last verse says it all . . .

"Que sera is for the faithful
who walk a laid-down track;
faith-filled wonder guides the paths of those
whose detours call them back."

very nicely worded, i like it
budd

Good Morning Kate!

So good to see you back!

It's funny how many of us are on the same wave length. Your poem is refreshing. Your depth of emotion strikes a chord within me.

Hope you are well and always know that your poetry touches so many people

Much peace love and light

Amber.

Ah yes if it weren't for the road blocks in life where would we have ended up. Happily driving over a cliff that wasn't supposed to be there but alas no warning sign was posted.


George