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Dark Storm Brewing
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Dark Storm Brewing |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana 
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there it is again the rage and the dark like a vicious thunderhead inching back in my life a frigid frost settling around my heart didn’t sleep a wink last night just lay there as the dark took over my body worse even it entered my mind it camouflages who I am or maybe it brings out the real me don’t know I’m to the point I don’t care this dark is aged within me all these long years a sensation of a winter’s storm and fear ahhh . . . day by the following day I have collected until I now have a lifetime measured in years to get to where I am today finally at peace with myself even knowing my special sun is steadily sinking into its last horizon to end it all and leave me alone with the dark I thought I had seen the last of it not knowing it had been lurking waiting its chance to escape the prison I’d regulated it to however . . . the only thing is what it does not know I banished the dark from my life before I can do it again I hope sure I can I know I can I know how to deal with you now I know how to stuff you back where you belong I’ve done it once I can do it again so don’t make yourself too dammed comfortable I have to believe that and pray that I am right ©March 30, 2014 / Jerry Pat Bolton ~*~ Why do we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway? ~*~ |
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Lori Grosser Rhoden Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202Fair to middlin' of nowhere |
And apparently you were able to send this demon back to hell where it belongs. Good for you, my friend! Don't cha just hate it when you get ambushed by the dark side? Lori  |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
Good morning, Lori. It wasn't too bad, it's just that sometimes "they" appear to give me trouble, but I pretty much have a handle on how to deal with them. ~*~ Why do we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway? ~*~ |
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latearrival Member Ascendant
since 2003-03-21
Posts 5499Florida |
You express so well the feelings someone I know well, lives through from time to to time. He seems to brood about the past a lot, no matter how much I know his worth and tell him so.It is sad when the past keeps coming in to smack one in the head. It depresses one when really it should not be there at all. I hope today you can get out into the fresh air and feel alive and whole again best to you, Jo |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
Thank you, Jo. I have, over the years, been able to beat back the darkness of my past. Still, every so often some of them reach out trying to control me. So far I have been adept at banishing them back to that lock-down inside my brain. I appreciate your concern. ~*~ Why do we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway? ~*~ |
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EmmaRose Senior Member
since 2011-03-02
Posts 1376Midwest |
the dark writing is cool, it gives credence to your life lived. it makes for real good poetry, everything can't be sugarfluff and roses, that's boring. so is it better to have a life without callouses and be bland, or have lived, even in pain at times? I always think that when I read darkness, as good as this is |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
Yes, Emma, yes, you are right on. Thank you. ~*~ Sex on television can't hurt you unless you fall off. ~*~ |
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Redstart Senior Member
since 2014-05-16
Posts 535 |
Poetry should be about fearlessly sharing our innermost thoughts, and you have certainly acheived that in a way that draws the reader right into the poem. Our minds are such that we can never deny our past but, as you so eloquently describe, we can seek to control the dark side of memory. |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
Thank you, Redstart. Welcome to the Blue Room. ~*~ Sex on television can't hurt you unless you fall off. ~*~ |
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