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JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06
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0 posted 2012-02-17 05:45 AM


I stand here
Looking down
At the bones of my life
Pages turned
Pages yet to be turned
I thought by now
I’d be quite dead
Never thought
I’d make it past thirty
Still . . .
There are pages yet to be turned
Dreams yet to be thought
About who I could have been
About who I am
I have tattoos
Would the other me
Have done so
I’ve walked on the wild side
Wallowed in danger's bed
Grinning all the while
These are the pages of moi
If I could live my life over
Would I chase the same
Nightmares

©Jerry Pat Bolton


~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

[This message has been edited by JerryPat2 (02-17-2012 07:06 AM).]

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Nicole
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since 1999-06-23
Posts 1835
Florida
1 posted 2012-02-17 06:45 AM


Jerry, there is nothing better than a book that still has pages left to turn.  I love the metaphor in this.  
ice
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since 2003-05-17
Posts 3404
Pennsylvania
2 posted 2012-02-17 07:00 AM


"If I could live my life over
Would I chase the same
Nightmares"

I believe the answer to that is yes.

Lives stay the same, once the moments of them are lived..it still would be you in the same situations, without any control over it.

But what is important here is the contemplations, and like Nicole said, the metaphor is well chosen.

Well done JP


JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975
South Louisiana
3 posted 2012-02-17 07:08 AM


Thank you supremely, Nicole, for your indepth observation of my poem.

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Yep, I imagine you are correct in your assumption, Ice, that I would indeed chashe thew same nightmare. Appreciate your revelation.

~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~

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