EG TED DAVIS - POEMS

EG Ted Davis is a poet living in Boise ID with work that has been published in various online and in print literary journals.

​It is my path

​My path can lead to
right and/or wrong.
It contains both
good and evil,
but I, as it's walker,
have been given the
independence to step
between the two,
the ability to decide.
I can make it narrow
or I can make it wide.
I can make it curvy
or I can make it straight .                          
I can stay on it                                           
or I can step off,                                      
to its sides, each side
lined with ditches.
I can step into them,
I can even
stumble into them.
I can stand at rest.
I can even go
backwards but
not too far.
No matter how
I walk my path,
It has a beginning-
with birth,
and an ending-
with death.
It is my path,
and on it
I must travel.
 

Boise (of now and to come)

What once was open spaces,
are now crowded out by greed,
what once was a lower cost of living,
is now outrageous in taxation,
what once was country quiet,
is now intercity noise ridden,
what once was one of the top five
greatest places to reside in by polling,
is now polled in the bottom five-
as another Arizona or southern
Californian overpopulated desert...
 
and dare we call this Progress.
 
 ​

Caution

​Caution your words,
for ugliness spoken can
become your present reality.
Caution your thoughts,
for your imagination
conjures good and evil-
in the quietness of the your mind,
which can hasten one's death.
Caution for what you wish,
for wishes do indeed come to pass.
 
May the fruits of goodness
overpower the shadow
of darkness-that pulls
from behind, dragging
down your mind.