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Query Letter For A Life
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Query Letter For A Life |
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JerryPat Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991Louisiana/America 
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 This life I present, while it is rich with diversity is not a life synonymous with good wine and brie. This life would make twenty movies of the week though I'll be the first to admit it is hard to critique. It began badly, life was given up, like infant buffet that's just a nice way of saying it was thrown away. Its younger years are fraught with pain and tears a soap opera of despair, bloodied soul it did bare. Of course, the world is not all darkness and pain early on this life learned how to laugh, to maintain. It figured out that if it could relate a good joke act like a clown, it made itself just like real folk. Too many years of being browbeat, put to shame and physically mistreated, forgetting was its aim. It is no mystery that early trauma begets odd behavior, we like to call it our misery façade. But, see, this is the crux of the deal, life is real put it in a book or movie, you'll see it has appeal. I'm giving you a heads up, this life is dramatic this life has survived not a few of life's wrecks. Life pulled out all the stops in its madcap way had fun, hi-de-ho, although just a piece of clay. It faltered, it fell into dangerous, sinful ground so far you would think it would have drown. But if you are looking for excitement to buy you can do no better, life really does apply. When life put its mind to it, it didn't fall flat women, ah, we must, have to, speak of that: Womanizer, swain, stud, cavalier, swinger, profligate rake, sugar daddy, roué, gigolo, walking phallus, paramour, debauchee, rounder, wooer, wolf, skirt chaser, lover, lady-killer, Lothario, Don Juan, Casanova, satyr, dirty old man, seducer, betrayer, ravisher, despoiler, lecher. Oh, didn't I say, life is a man, a man for all a real man who doesn't high-tail from a brawl. A man who can be tender with tears in an eye watching a sensitive movie, may even sigh, A pearl among swine is how life does rate is all of the above when they open the gate. There is so much more I want to convey if you buy life's story, you'll have a bouquet. When early morning quietness seeps into my being it's like I'm being hugged by everything good in the world.—August 16, 2010 |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
And a many-flowered bouquet it is... this deserves a second read, just to savor all of the variety you've brought, to life. |
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JerryPat Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991Louisiana/America |
Thank you Sunshine. Poetry. Writing. I actually believe it saved my life. When early morning quietness seeps into my being |
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BluesSerenade Member Patricius
since 2001-10-23
Posts 10549By the Seaside |
I like the idea of a bouquet instead of a bunch of weeds. Like anything and everything, we must tend to our life with care if we are to reap what we sow... There is no greater gift! IMHO  |
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JerryPat Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991Louisiana/America |
Thank you blues, I hear you talking. It just seems to take some people longer to realize that than others. When early morning quietness seeps into my being |
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Lori Grosser Rhoden Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202Fair to middlin' of nowhere |
Jerry I felt this was me in some places, felt good to get it off my chest so to speak in reading you. Writing saved your life to make it a gift to others  Lori |
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JerryPat Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991Louisiana/America |
Lori, your comment is the ultimate a poet can ever receive. To be able to live within another person, especially if that other person is a poet is a grand moment indeed. Thank you. When early morning quietness seeps into my being |
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nakdthoughts Member Laureate
since 2000-10-29
Posts 19200Between the Lines |
Jerry, I feel the same " Poetry. Writing. I actually believe it saved my life." Thank you for conveying this~~ M |
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Marchmadness Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 9271So. El Monte, California |
Life can be hard. "Do what you have to do to make it better." Ida |
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JerryPat Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991Louisiana/America |
There are many of us like that, nakdthoughts, where the mere act of writing, even it it brings back ugly's, is vital foor mental health. <><><><> Ida, you have the right idea. However, sometimes ignorance and hardheadedness gets in the way of that. When early morning quietness seeps into my being |
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ethome Member Patricius
since 2000-05-14
Posts 11858New Brunswick Canada |
Great ramble Jerrfy and yes, it's a life saver for many. Plus it's very fulfilling on every level. Super read! Eric ain't doin nothin at all just answerin the call |
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JerryPat Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991Louisiana/America |
Yes indeed, Eric, satisfying is the word. When early morning quietness seeps into my being |
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Margherita Member Seraphic
since 2003-02-08
Posts 22236Eternity |
Yes, life is thus multilayered and not always easy to cope with, but your talent in writing no doubt gave you a purpose that is rewarding. Love and Happy New Year! Margherita |
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JerryPat Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991Louisiana/America |
Happy New Year with love back to you, Margherita. We all have our "crosses to bear," and it is how we bear them that make us who we are. Thank you very much for your kind comments. When early morning quietness seeps into my being |
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ethome Member Patricius
since 2000-05-14
Posts 11858New Brunswick Canada |
Could be the theme of many types of prose. You know what I mean? Eric ain't doin nothin at all just answerin the call |
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