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JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06
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South Louisiana

0 posted 2014-03-07 07:30 AM



I wrote my novels
one right after the other
burnt the midnight oil
slaved away in the hot midday sun
tried for years
a agent to acquire
a publisher for to publish
nay
and nay again
impossible to break down those doors
self publish I’d always shunted
still, to be published
to hold a novel of my creation
in my hands
was burning a hole in my heart
so the self publish
route I went
as I continued to write
between books
I heard poetry calling me to the fore
and for all these years
my life have been spent writing words
trying to make them
appeal to the reading public
both the novels
the memoir
and the one children’s book
Momma, why doesn’t grandfather
write things I can read

my grandson said to his mother
so!
I wrote Josh’s Dragon
I mean, who doesn’t like dragons
oh, like so many
I found out
that writing was the easiest part
it was the marketing of them
selling what you’d writ
was the hard part
yes, I’ve sold books
not too many all things considered
I hardly even try anymore
plus I have run out of words
can’t write novels
I still have my poetry
I owe much to poetry
wrote myself out of the darkest dark
I am not the same man
I was for most of my life
my poetry made it possible
to forgive
all those who did me wrong
during the dark years
but best of all
I found a way to forgive myself
that my friends
was the best gift of all
I am living out my last days
a happy
contented man
I feel so fortunate to have found
my way to this point and time

©March 6, 2014 / Jerry Pat Bolton


~*~ There was a sign on the lawn at a drug re-hab center that said 'Keep off the Grass'. ~*~

© Copyright 2014 Jerry Pat Bolton - All Rights Reserved
Lori Grosser Rhoden
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since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere
1 posted 2014-03-07 07:45 AM


Often, as is the case here, your poetry is like the rings on a tree-telling the story of your life. This time from the perspective of writing. I'm sure many of us can relate to the power of writing in our lives. Thanks for giving us this opportunity for gratitude.

Lori

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975
South Louisiana
2 posted 2014-03-07 08:17 AM


Lori. thank you, and it is I who is the grateful one that you continue to read my poetry here in the Blue Room.

~*~ There was a sign on the lawn at a drug re-hab center that said 'Keep off the Grass'. ~*~

EmmaRose
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since 2011-03-02
Posts 1376
Midwest
3 posted 2014-03-07 10:54 AM


You speak for many who love and feel the calling of writing, whether the book is a commercial success or not.
I relate and admire such passion for this art, may you write on, always

JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975
South Louisiana
4 posted 2014-03-07 10:57 AM


Thank you Emma, it's sorta like a disease, this writing thing. appreciate your kind words today.

~*~ There was a sign on the lawn at a drug re-hab center that said 'Keep off the Grass'. ~*~

Jack Napes
Member
since 2014-02-22
Posts 290
Phaedra's Womb
5 posted 2014-03-07 12:52 PM


I read some of M&F.

Touch, but don't look

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant
since 2006-11-07
Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !
6 posted 2014-03-09 11:03 AM


very interesting 'life and reality write' !

[I can certainly relate as 'poetry' saved my life a few times (wrote my way out of 'the darkness,' etc.]


JerryPat2
Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975
South Louisiana
7 posted 2014-03-09 11:05 AM


Thank you Bruce. Poetry. Self inflicted therapy.

~*~ There was a sign on the lawn at a drug re-hab center that said 'Keep off the Grass'. ~*~

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA
8 posted 2014-03-13 10:20 PM


thank God...James
JerryPat2
Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975
South Louisiana
9 posted 2014-03-13 10:24 PM


Thanks James.

~*~ Being captured is beside the point,
the point is not to surrender.-- Nazim Hikmet ~*~

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