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There Will Come a Time.............one more oldie
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There Will Come a Time.............one more oldie |
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Balladeer
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since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA 
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There will come a time, not far away, I'll bid this earth adieu As we all must when our time comes To tell us our turn's through. I'll have a lavish funeral My family will be sad. They'll stand around and talk about The happy times we had. And, at the club, my golfing pals Will tell jokes and recall The silly way I swung a club Or how I hit the ball. My kids will often think of me - Some funny anecdote About some foolish thing I did Or simple poem I wrote. Fifty years pass. All friends are gone Most everyone I'd known. My kids will be grandparents now With grandkids of their own. Yet, still, though quite infrequently, An opportunity May come around to give someone A cause to think of me. Another hundred years go by. Now no one has survived Who walked this earth when I did At the time I was alive. All stories are forgotten. Every Thing about myself. My life has been reduced to but A picture on a shelf. Another hundred years. By now All photos are gone, too And every house that I lived in Plus every place I knew. I will not have existed And I know this well because I had a great-great-grandpa once But don't know who he was. I don't know what he liked to do, What kind of job he had. No way to know what made him tick, What made him smile or sad. So that's the way it is, my friends. It happens to us all Who don't do something glorious That history may recall. And so I sit, with pen in hand, Creating verse because It's not to show you what I am But to show the world I was. |
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Tracey Member Elite
since 2001-08-29
Posts 2808where insanity meets breeding |
What a lovely write, and so true too. We will be fond memories to our families and friends, but in a couple of hundred years we're completely forgotten. Unless we get sent back here again. But that's another subject.  If she who dies with the most toys wins, then can I have some toy boys please? |
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doreen peri Member Elite
since 1999-05-25
Posts 3812Virginia |
michael, you are so beautiful this poem is a treasure i never read this until now beautiful............... !!!!! -------------------- ... you will be remembered, believe me..... in the hearts of generations on a tree, in passed down praises, rhymes and jokes and truths sent to the world.... and though our youths sometimes seem fleeting your star will shine as it does here forever will your heart endear, so many lives you've touched.... you've given all to me so much! .............. wonderful writing, michael! thank you for reposting this. |
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Duncan Member Ascendant
since 2001-08-07
Posts 5455 |
See, this is what I was afraid of. I had been quite successful in deluding myself, now you come along and I read the truth. In all honesty, if I'm remembered for more than a season...I'll be grateful. |
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Twilight Myst Member
since 2001-10-04
Posts 58Just A Myst At Twilight |
This blew me away...!!! Bravo to you sir!! |
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nakdthoughts Member Laureate
since 2000-10-29
Posts 19200Between the Lines |
sighing...you write the truth so well ~Wynter "The worst prison would be a closed heart". |
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Martie
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-09-21
Posts 28049California |
Me too, deer, me too. Hugs and love to you! |
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LngJhnAg Member Elite
since 1999-07-23
Posts 3508Boot+Kitty=Poetry in motion |
Mike - great poem here - I like the conclusion, but I do have a "minor" correction. Why do you think it will take 100 hundred years to get rid of your photos? I'm trying already to get rid of the ones you sent me - lol. |
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Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
Don't worry deer - Every time LngJhn tosses one of your photos away, I send him another one of you...  I do like this poem - You're just so darned good... |
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Ven Member
since 2001-10-01
Posts 102U.K. |
Very clever poem. Like this one a lot |
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MARK V SHELDON Member Elite
since 2001-06-21
Posts 3015In a corporeal internship... |
Very moved by this one, Michael -- the topic, the unfolding, and especially the punchline at the end. Here's to your memory! (...I mean... Here's to your not being forgotten!) -MVS "Learn to let go of fear, doubt, and disbelief..." --THE MATRIX |
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sunshinemist Senior Member
since 2001-09-29
Posts 595Fl. sunshines early mist |
Michael, What a lovely write!! I was captured to the very end. How true your statements. You have a special gift with pen in hand! warm smiles, ~Marie~ |
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Kit McCallum
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Member Laureate
since 2000-04-30
Posts 14774Ontario, Canada |
Oh, you amazing poet. You my friend ... could never be forgotten. Not in 100 years, not in 500 years ... nope, no way, no how. A man with as many wonderful stories as you woven through such incredible cadence and rhyme as this ... will live on forever!  Best wishes, /Kit |
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Topheth Member
since 2001-09-08
Posts 297Texas |
Always always a pleasure to read your words sir. I humbly follow. |
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rwood Member Elite
since 2000-02-29
Posts 3793Tennessee |
You Are...and always! And then some. Fantastic write! Sincerely, Regina |
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Enchantress Member Empyrean
since 2001-08-14
Posts 35113Canada eh. |
YOU have a way about you....don't know what it is....but you will never be forgotten poet Sir!!  It's something about the way you write...I'll think of it and let you know. Just kidding! Good read. ~Hugs, NancyLee~ ~Time has cast a spell on you, |
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Moon Dust
since 1999-06-11
Posts 2177Skelmersdale, UK |
wow not seen this before but I liked it. I sometimes think this way. I breathe the dust, the dust is me. |
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Poet deVine
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-26
Posts 22612Hurricane Alley |
Not only do we have your poetry to show that you 'was' here..but don't forget the Balladeer Button!!!  |
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Denise
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-08-22
Posts 22648 |
I wouldn't forget you even in a thousand years! Great expression, Michael. Probably the same reason most writers write! |
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Tracey Member Elite
since 2001-08-29
Posts 2808where insanity meets breeding |
Yeah, I've always wondered about that Balladeer button. Wow, to have a computer button named after you. For sure you'll live on in memory for a thousand years now. You lucky old dog you. The rest of us can only dream of being that famous If she who dies with the most toys wins, then can I have some toy boys please? |
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Balladeer
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
Tracey..yes, you're right! That's a theory I tend to agree with.... Doreen...WOW! What a beautiful response! May I assume you liked it...? Duncan...I've read your work. You will definitely be remembered  Twilight Myst...Well, come back!!  We need you! Wynter...thank you for trying me on for sighs..I appreciate you Martie...right back atcha, sweet poet!  LongJohn..did I say years? I meant minutes! I'll send ya an album for Christmas Nan....whatta pal! Send him a lot of hamburger hats, ok? Ven...thank you very much MARK...LOL! Drink to my memory any time, my pal sunshinemist...and it's not easy to capture the mist! I thank you! Kit...if YOU don't forget me, it will have all been worthwhile!  Topeth...and I appreciate your reading. I thank you Regina...a fantastic from you is very special. THANK YOU!  Enchantress..I have a way? Most of the time I don't even KNOW the way! But it makes me feel good you think so  Moon Dust...I'm happy we share the same thoughts! DeVine...that's right! 200 years from now when Passions is still going strong someone will ask Ron about that button and I will live again! Poets will punch me for eternity! Denise...please don't because I'm always gonna remember you, too! Tracey..yeah, leave it to me to have a button that, when pressed, takes you right back to where you started from! Very apropos! If you ever get a button, I promise to press it! [This message has been edited by Balladeer (edited 10-05-2001).] |
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Honeybee Member Ascendant
since 1999-12-26
Posts 5372Ontario, CANADA |
"And so I sit, with pen in hand, creating verse because it's not to show you what I am but to show the world I was!" Wonderfully expressed, excellent message! I love it! Into my library this goes~ How could I EVER forget you?! Never! Take care, Melissa~ "Poetry is not an opinion expressed... |
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Heather Miller Member
since 2000-07-19
Posts 409Bryan, Ohio USA |
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LITL, Heather  Without the experiance of love where would we be? We would have no memories to cherish. |
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Mysteria
since 2001-03-07
Posts 18328British Columbia, Canada |
You know something - you are just too darn good you are! This was wonderful Michael. ~I always have time to listen to someone talking from their heart~ |
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Midnitesun
since 2001-05-18
Posts 28647Gaia |
LOL. And when the future layers of life settle in, there will still be some ballad-ears, and someone will no doubt ask "Button-button-whose got the button?" And of course, they will all point to you. |
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dgvarner Member Elite
since 2000-05-13
Posts 3552High Springs, Florida |
oh this is so very awesome...you and margie should get together and write sometime! (she had one on the same note not too long ago...) much much enjoyed...maybe we will all have some little something to be remembered by..we just have to keep writing down all those cool things in our heads and in our hearts i guess...  hugs, g ~dgvarner/fallen rain~ |
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