Drifting
drifting with the wind
across the desert floor
drifting with the current
to the ocean shore
drifting in the air
uncertain where to go
is like drifting through life
to end up in skid row
A skid row or skid road is a run-down or dilapidated urban area with a large, impoverished population. The term originally referred literally to a path along which workingmen skidded logs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skid_Row
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©DGA 09.04.2011 13:09
Adeeyoyo's Blog 
10/04/2011 at 6:28 am
Love the photo you chose, Denise. And the first 3 stanzas of your poem. The last stanza seems overly pessimistic. Not all “drifters” end up on Skid Row.
Some end up exactly where they need to be when they need to be there.
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10/04/2011 at 6:48 am
You’re right, Nancy. Not all do, but it is a warning to those with no direction/ambition (also I couldn’t put ‘perhaps’ at the beginning of the last line, lol). Yes,the photo is exactly what I wanted – to show how pleasant and easy it is to drift. 😆
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10/04/2011 at 7:05 am
You’ve got a point. 😀
As the caterpillar (or the Cheshire Cat) says to Alice, “If you don’t know where you’re going, then any road will get you there.”
And there may be Skid Row.
But I suspect that many on Skid Row ended up there due to mental illness rather than lack of direction.
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10/04/2011 at 7:24 am
… or addiction, which I think is the same thing.
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10/04/2011 at 8:50 am
now you have spolied my lovely day of drifting. I;ll have to go out and find purpose before I end up there 😉
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10/04/2011 at 9:35 am
Hahaha, I’m drifting too, this morning at any rate! *thinking… métier… métier…* I don’t think I have one. 😦
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10/04/2011 at 9:37 am
Resonates with my mood today, adee.
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10/04/2011 at 9:43 am
Me too, Cindy. 😐
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10/04/2011 at 11:25 am
Just don’t let one of these suckers “drift’ against your leg. I’ll tell ya.
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10/04/2011 at 11:33 am
Yeeeoww, I know! Never been stung, and don’t intend to if I can help it. Blue bottles were bad enough!
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11/04/2011 at 11:54 pm
Just so you know, the “ha, ha” comment was a reply to Carl’s but appeared in an unexpected place – I wasn’t laughing at you getting stung by bluebottles, Adee – I’m not that weird 🙂
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12/04/2011 at 3:34 am
I know you’re not weird, Bb. 😆
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11/04/2011 at 9:42 am
ha, ha
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10/04/2011 at 12:50 pm
hmmm…but how many do just that…just let the current take them until they get to the end…
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10/04/2011 at 1:19 pm
I’m guilty of that… but I’m not at the end yet, lol. 😉
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10/04/2011 at 2:36 pm
A great poetic homily. Love the picture.
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10/04/2011 at 3:35 pm
Thank you, Tilly. 🙂
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10/04/2011 at 7:45 pm
I like very much because the first three stanzas are set up to make you feel like you are ‘drifting’ toward some halcyon destination that actually ends up being a dire warning of a more dank and despairing destination. You did a beautiful job withe execution of this poem Denise. 🙂
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11/04/2011 at 3:50 am
Thank you, Val. 😆
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10/04/2011 at 10:02 pm
The pic has another significance, too – those sorts of drifters often poison anything that comes near!
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11/04/2011 at 3:51 am
Gee, I hadn’t thought of that Col, but it’s true…!
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11/04/2011 at 9:45 am
lovely rhythm and construction, Adee – like those drifting moon jellies – very calming. I oten think it would be great to have column tanks of them in places like hospitals
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11/04/2011 at 11:42 am
That would be very restful for the patients to watch, I agree. Glad you liked the poem, Bb.
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12/04/2011 at 6:09 am
I like this one – and thanks for the history lesson (I always thought skid row just meant on the streets).
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12/04/2011 at 6:30 am
Me too, Gabrielle, I also learnt something new. 🙂
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14/04/2011 at 11:11 am
I learnt something new as well. There is something attractive about drifting. I often like it to a gypsy kind of existence, which appeals to me. I really liked your poem.
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