Dennis,
I'd like to suggest that by writing this poem about feeling frustration at
having to decline choosing a path that your body can no longer take, you
have chosen to open another path of viewing the world by a person with
Parkinson's for those who read "bluff knoll"? Was it Barb Mallut who was
speaking on the LEEZA show who said that having Parkinson's had caused her
life's journey to take different roads/directions? Perhaps we are like
Robert Frost..." have taken the road less traveled and that has made all
the difference."
Thanks for sharing the poem with us. Jeanette Fuhr
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From: Dennis Greene <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Bluff Knoll - (a poem)
Date: Saturday, October 02, 1999 11:15 AM
Bluff Knoll
Whether you climb Bluff Knoll for the view,
or to be the highest thing
for a thousand miles in any direction
you will still have to pass this place
where the road ends,
and the path begins,
at a sign which carries the comment -
"Summit - three hours return".
But if you cannot go past that place,
because your used,
discordant body
will make of three hours an eternity,
then you are trapped here,
a tourist,
with the mountain filling your view,
following the path with your eyes
until you lose it among the trees.
I know that reality stands
between me and the mountain;
but what do I do with this need,
to take the path on upward through those trees
until I am the highest thing
for a thousand miles in any direction,
and can see everything
except Bluff Knoll.
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Dennis Greene 49/dx 37/ onset 32
There's nothing wrong with me that a cure for PD won't fix!
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Website - http://members.networx.net.au/~dennisg/
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