1986-1990: These are some of my better early poems. If I wrote poems like this today I might not be happy with them. Nevertheless I think they have a strength and character of their own and are worth including if only to compare with my later work.

Lost

Is it better to be lost
than trapped?
Like an island unexplored,
not mapped?

An uncharted island could move
and who’d care?
But one that has a place
wouldn’t dare.

published 2010/06/05 in Proximity / Writing / Poems / 1986-1990
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