"All truly great thoughts are conceived while walking" Friedrich Nietzsche


Flight of Imagination

A mile or two of my morning walk
Takes my mind on another walk
Of miles and miles in time and space
Into the realm of heart and soul,
Continents and hemispheres I scale
Go over hills and deep into gales
Dive into seas and fly into space;

Time does not pose a limit here
One minute I am in childhood, the other in dotage
I conjure up images of past and present
I dream about the future so pleasant
With a bit of imaginative stride,
I reach Paradise, in a trice.

Sometimes I fly to you, my love
In times past with the peace-dove

And sometimes I just contemplate
On my losses and my gains

Many a problem have I solved
While I go about my walks
Many a poem have I written to enthrall
Heart and Soul, the masters of all…

Author: Zoya Zaidi
October 2, 2005
Aligarh (UP), India
Copyright©: Zoya Zaidi

Photo: 'Morning walk on Dolphin Point, South Coast, Australia' by and ©: Zoya Zaidi




Poetry by Zoya Zaidi
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Written on 2007-11-05 at 17:52

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Esti D-G
Lovely, lovely song to your amazing approach to life!
Loveyouloadz estix
2007-11-06


Esti D-G
Lovely, lovely song to your amazing approach to life!
Loveyouloadz estix
2007-11-06


lastromantichero The PoetBay support member heart!
A very clever poem Zoya so often the need to unburden come manifested as a need to walk.
well done rgds Mike
2007-11-05


Kathy Lockhart
so true Zoya! Inspiration comes in walking one's mind as well as walking one's body. And, as you say, it often coincides. : )
2007-11-05