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JerryPat
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since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991
Louisiana/America

0 posted 2010-10-31 03:33 PM



After I lay my burden down,
amid my verses and millions of words,
what will substitute my
pleasure as I travel that "other" path?
I can't see life without the written word,
a bleak and distant world that would be,
for they have been my lifeline,
my spiritual mentor,
to weather storms I have weathered.

I have been captivated by words,
And because of that I have been called absurd.
You write poems, ain't that a girl thing?
Can you make it so the words I can sing?
Somebody has to write 'em I guess,
Look at that guy Eminem.


In my wilder days
words comforted me
when women could not
it was a strange thing
the poems I wrote caused sighs
from the lovelies
still they couldn't understand my wanderlust

Words mean everything
They are conversational
Even if whispered

No, I can't envision me not laying down words,
even in the joint there were books,
Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment I read
apropos, do you not think?
Words put a hex on me.
Even books whose characters names
Were not pronounceable.
I took on Sarte, Camus, Genet
that bunch of pseudo-philosophers
but I liked what I read
at least the gray matter was being exercised,
that's always good


If these words I write now would be my last,
Hopefully I shan't have written in vain.
These faux literary expressions of mine,
wondering if my words could be the key,
for someone, somewhere to,
change their life and become a bard.

If that could happen
If my words could strike a match
That is all I ask


. . . and the Raven said, %!~#&(&#!$!

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Andrew Scott
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since 1999-06-24
Posts 2558
Redlands,CA,USA
1 posted 2010-10-31 03:42 PM


You ask for much, but I don't believe you can ask for anything less. Isn't it amazing what words can do? But as a wise man once said, "The pen is mightier than the sword." Keep workin' that keyboard. Thanks for sharing. Peace.

"We'll chase them like rats across the tundra."

JerryPat
Senior Member
since 2010-10-30
Posts 1991
Louisiana/America
2 posted 2010-10-31 03:55 PM


Ask for the moon and maybe you'll receive some stars. I can, as you said, do no less. thank you, Andrew.
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