“Roads were made for journeys, not destination”

I ride trains everyday
from home to work in any way
s-bahns, regional trains and ICE
not so expensive, the price is nice
one time we rode from Delhi to Mumbai
quite interesting, time just flies
I visit my cousin in Dormagen
that was fun, nice to see her again
this weekend we’re going to Berlin
lots of places to see, where to begin?
I ride trains everyday
from home to work in any way

Four years ago we had a tour of Japan. It was wonderful! Their public transport is very efficient. We were able to experience taking their bullet trains, the Shinkansen. We bought the Japan rail pass and we rode from one place to another, i.e. Tokyo to Kyoto, Kyoto to Hiroshima, Osaka to Tokyo, etc. We also bought their IC Card which we used in their local and regional trains. At first, it was daunting, as the system seemed to be complicated, but once we were at it, we nailed it! Such a wonderful experience.

Road is empty except digger

Storm coming and works its way

Other diggers are much bigger

Cars and lorries in the highway

Travelling is such a business

Slowly but surely works its way

Some strange notion of blitheness

Travel from one point to the next

Travelling is such a business

Some with their phones and writing text

Roads busy until darkness comes

Travel from one point to the next

Footsteps heard louder than a drum

Crying from some devious moment

Roads busy until darkness comes

Meeting him spur-of the moment

Road is empty except digger

Crying from some devious moment

Other diggers are much bigger*

(c) ladyleemanila 2023

*The Terzanelle

It’s a busy street on a normal day

Call for customers, money change hands

Church bell rings, room with music and bands

Women try clothes, men get out of the way

Broken gadgets repaired, fruit weighed

As the man patiently wait on his stand

It’s a busy street on a normal day

Call for customers, money change hands

It’s a good deal, shake hands and pay

The power of haggling and back to his Benz

Business to conduct and all his plans

Still busy even when the clouds are grey

It’s a busy street on a normal day*

(c) ladyleemanila 2023

*Rondel

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

For: https://secondwindleisure.com/2023/04/30/sunday-stills-views-from-the-road-all-3400-miles/, https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2023/05/02/photo-challenge-462-2/