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Joyce Johnson
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0 posted 2002-10-19 06:24 PM


No Secrets

I can't reproach my mom and dad,
Since I'm sure they could not know it,
But making my young life happy,
Has stifled me as a poet.

I have no deep despair to plumb
To find the shameful angst and gloom.
I'm left without a dismal past
With no dark secrets to exhume.

So I must write of happy days
Instead of misery and shame.
If I am neither Poe nor Plath,
They surely are the ones to blame.

By: Joyce Johnson 10/19/02

© Copyright 2002 Joyce I Johnson - All Rights Reserved
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1 posted 2002-10-19 06:28 PM


Joyce:  Count your lucky stars! There are so many stories from the grim side!  Lovely poem!

Betty Lou Hebert

Joyce Johnson
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2 posted 2002-10-19 08:04 PM


Thanks Betty,  And I know I am lucky.  Joyce
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3 posted 2002-10-20 06:31 PM


Joyce~
I got a real chuckle out of this~

For myself ... I'll take 'happy' any day ~
MY thanks to your parents !!!
*Hugs*
~*Marge*~

~*The pen of the poet never runs out of ink, as long as we breathe.*~
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ellie LeJeune
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4 posted 2002-10-21 05:59 PM


How blessed you are, dear Joyce

A friend hears the song in my heart, and sings it to me when my memory fails.

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5 posted 2002-10-22 05:29 PM


I could agree with the other replies out of respect for their talent and goodness, but I must disagree. Pain, misfortune, disappointment, once experienced can only serve to inhance the pleasure of success, happiness, and the joy living.

the woods are lovely, dark, and deep, but I have promises to keep, and many miles to go before I sleep...Frost



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6 posted 2002-10-25 04:11 PM


hi joyce, I wish I'm more positive like you I think I need to be more thankful. I like this poem

Eliza Simmons
~Sometimes when I look back at what I wrote, I don't recognize the 'Me' in the past anymore.

Joyce Johnson
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7 posted 2002-10-25 05:07 PM


Thanks everyone and dear Pegasus.  I think everyone knows who has read my poems that I have had my share of sorrow.  But not in my childhood.  My folks worked overtime to keep our lives sunny and carefree.  I shall be ever grateful to them.  Love, Joyce
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8 posted 2002-10-25 07:25 PM


I liked this. You were fortunate as child, so few aren't.
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