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JLR
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0 posted 2001-05-28 12:44 PM


I sit here wondering


I sit here
lonely by choice and circumstance
no longer understanding my own life
wondering was there a single moment
of determination
if so
did I not notice, or simply ignore it
if so…if I’d known
would I have chosen not to love you
I sit here wondering

You sit there
protected by denial and disillusion
still a false participant in your own life
closing your mind to the moment
of reckoning
when it comes
will you stonewall, or simply surrender
when it comes…since you know
will you chose not to have loved me
I sit here wondering


© Copyright 2001 JLR - All Rights Reserved
pamela08
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since 2001-05-27
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California,USA
1 posted 2001-05-28 12:53 PM


love is something powerful that we will never figure out...well written

it is better to have loved then to have never loved at all

true beauty comes from within not from without

Krawdad
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since 2001-01-03
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2 posted 2001-05-28 12:59 PM


Was it choice
or is it change?
Will we ever wonder?
Curse or blessing?

We write . . .

Krawdad
/:-}==
=#===

Paula Finn
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missouri
3 posted 2001-05-28 01:54 AM


UH HUH....hugs
Sven
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4 posted 2001-05-28 02:32 AM


sometimes, it's better not to wonder. . .

great job with the poem. . . a lot of emotions going on here. . .  

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To the world, you may only be one person. But to one person, you may be the world.

Watersign6
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5 posted 2001-05-28 05:03 PM


all i can say here is that i love it,it is so full of emotion,  
Startime
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6 posted 2001-05-28 05:08 PM


Love the one thing we all crave and the one thing we understand the least about. Eternally we wonder.....This is a wonderful poem with heartfelt emotion in it. Thank you for the read and the thoughts it gave me. {{{BIG HUGS}}}Much love to you from me.

Love I leave with you my friend whether it be in your life or of yet the essense of your dreams.
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theLadypoet
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since 2001-05-28
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7 posted 2001-05-28 05:21 PM


One of the definitions of poetry is word
useage that makes us feel.
This poem sang to me.
Thank you for enriching my day with
your beauty.

theLadypoet

Titia Geertman
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since 2001-05-07
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8 posted 2001-05-28 05:24 PM


You'll never find out I guess
Love is unpredictable, it comes and it goes, but one moment you'll feel it in your bones that "this is it". Unfortunately, sometimes it takes many rehearsels to get a good play.

So keep rehearsing.
Loved your poem.

Titia

walker
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since 2001-02-11
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9 posted 2001-05-28 06:15 PM


JLR- Great poem with sad ending, probably about a great love with an unfinished ending(also very sad).
ParisGrl
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10 posted 2001-05-29 06:14 PM


Don't think about it......just live.
vandana
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11 posted 2001-05-29 07:20 PM


There are so many things to wonder about like stars etc.Sit here just wondering that I enjoy your poem very much
Severn
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12 posted 2001-05-30 04:40 AM


This is fairly matter of fact, which such an edge of melancholy. I like it. I like how you ask questions without the questionmarks - it's a technique I use sometimes...helps to add a touch of finality..and it shifts the tone of the poem too.

Do think that maybe these two lines:

'lonely by choice and circumstance
no longer understanding my own life'

contradict each other a little bit?

I'm not sure it matters if they do...I just wonder...

Good work, JLR

K



JLR
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13 posted 2001-05-30 02:02 PM


pamela08---So very true...thanks for reading.

krawdad---Curse or blessing...I have also wondered.  And so, as you said, 'We write...'  Thanks for your poetic response.

Paula---I knew you'd get it!  Thanks.

Sven---sometimes, I do think too much.  Thank you as always.

Watersign6---Glad you enjoyed...thanks for responding.

Startime---Love, the eternal wonder...in so many ways.  Thanks.

Ladypoet---Thanks for your generous words!

Titia---I think perhaps this was the 'good play'.  So glad you enjoyed.

walker---Odd to consider an ending...unfinished.  But so true!  Thanks.

Laura---I will if you will.  Ha!  Thanks, kiddo.

vandana---What a nice thought to wonder...thanks.

Severn---Exactly!  The puzzlement of a loneliness chosen more from neccesity than reason.  Thanks for your thoughtful comments.

Irish Rose
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since 2000-04-06
Posts 10263

14 posted 2001-05-30 06:52 PM


I know loneliness, this is so utterly sad.

Kathleen Blake

"When red-haired girls scamper like roses over the rain-green grass,
and the sun drips honey."
Laurie Lee


Secret Whisper
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since 2001-01-25
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Through the Looking Glass
15 posted 2001-05-31 06:55 PM


Loneliness can eat away at the very soul. I pray you find true happiness.

"What I was living, the same am I now, dead." --Capaneus, THE INFERNO

Saunni
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since 2000-07-11
Posts 1777
West Virginia
16 posted 2001-05-31 11:39 PM


JLR, goodness, I so have been there. Wish I could explain it also but there is no need. You took the words right out of my mouth and said it better than I ever could! Enjoyed!  

Sauni

Sauni :)
Have you ever known the color grey when the nighttime finds you weak
I have, I've walked that road each time; that's where my angel sleeps

OLIAS
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since 2000-06-20
Posts 1090
Pearl city Iowa
17 posted 2001-06-01 06:39 PM


I think I might have mentioned it before but I love your style of work its very direct and powerful, I read quite alot of your work, I may not reply but I enjoy it very much, and this piece is no exception. Thank you.

Regards,
Olias.

Zinsser
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since 2001-02-27
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Calif.
18 posted 2001-06-20 01:47 PM


Powerful....
Thanks
Connie

Janet Marie
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since 2000-01-22
Posts 18554

19 posted 2001-06-20 02:20 PM


oh this one just cuts me deep...
my goodness...Im looking around to see if you are peeking in my windows...
you wrote me so well here...
hauntingly well written JLR...
lonely is something that can own us...
take care
jm

she said I dont know why you ever would lie to me
like I'm a little untrusting when I think that the truth is gonna hurt ya
~MB20~

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