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Chalmette Guy
Senior Member

since 2009-03-11

Posts 1257
Louisiana

0 posted 2009-07-14 04:05 PM

I suffered a million deaths
In a series of fits and starts
Reborn anew each time,
A sum of random parts

Embraced, I now confess
Every variance in minute detail,
And each one a heavy stone
In the walls of my own jail

No comfort found in knowledge,
Wisdom offers only contempt
For I cannot recall
Whence from these deaths I was exempt

Paid a price with each rebirth
Of myself too much exacted
Lost even traces of reminders
As the rules are enacted

Want to talk to my former self
The prototype incarnation
Perhaps blend the best of all parts
If given to that inclination

Or simply remember once again
As I sit in silent awe
How even the best parts of me
Became my fatal flaws

Maddening, how change can be,
How much in constancy we depend
And how fruitless are our labors,
Chasing nothing in the end

Greeneyes

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-09-09

Posts 9903
In Your Poetic Mind

1 posted 2009-07-14 04:22 PM

wow!

Or simply remember once again
As I sit in silent awe
How even the best parts of me
Became my fatal flaws

in such complete understanding of this....

~~**~~
I never let one moment define me,
I define myself by all moments and how they teach and touch me......02

Chalmette Guy
Senior Member

since 2009-03-11

Posts 1257
Louisiana

2 posted 2009-07-14 04:30 PM

Thank you Lauren.
Or should I say, sorry?

Artic Wind
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 8080
Realm of Supernatural

3 posted 2009-07-14 09:55 PM

I agree with her, this is from the mind of a great writer. Excellent work

ARCTIC WIND

Klassy Lassy
Member Elite

since 2005-06-28

Posts 2187
Oregon

4 posted 2009-07-15 12:23 PM

I agree...Wow! Tremendous introspection. My heart quails at the human frailties

which would most likely break us if spirit didn't move us to challenge them.

You have power in pen! Loved this one!

OldPoet
Member

since 2009-06-30

Posts 112
The Left Coast

5 posted 2009-07-15 12:43 PM

This is just excellent, excellent poetry. Smooth flowing metre and unforced rhymes all encapsulating deep introspection. Bravo!

"And every time I've held a rose
It seems I only felt the thorns,
And so it goes" - Billy Joel

suthern

Member Seraphic

since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

6 posted 2009-08-12 05:40 PM

Poignant... and perfect poetry. I am jealous of your rhymes... beautiful work!!

Alison

Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-27

Posts 9318
Lumpy oatmeal makes me crazy!

7 posted 2009-08-15 01:19 AM

CG,

This is amazing. I think it's one of your very finest poems. I am keeping it .. you done good.

A

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