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JerryPat2
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since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975
South Louisiana

0 posted 2014-03-09 08:19 AM


    

I’m a minor player
as a poet I’m less than some
by that I mean
I recognize
how far I have developed as a poet
I understand
my wordplay doesn’t necessarily kiss the sky
with sparkling brilliance
ahhh . . .
still, if you hold my words
close enough
the inner me can be heard faintly
while others
with a more subtle penmanship
strike the right chords
making even the complexity of love
definable
I am but a near empty husk
moving along my rutted path toward the grave
leaving behind
raw words some deem offensive
hell some I deem offensive
smelling like that cheap California burgundy
I have a preference for
still, I do the best that I can do
there are even times
I shake my fist toward the sky

©March 4, 2014 / Jerry Pat Bolton


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

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Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere
1 posted 2014-03-09 08:51 AM


I hope that you have all your important things in order- Eulogy and epitaph written-those are your last shots to get your fist shaking and love verbage out there.  You never know they may be your most shining projects.

Lori

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


I guess they could be at that, Lori, but I'll leave the eulogy and epitaphs to others. Always appreciate you comments.

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

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