What is Life? Nearly Impossible Challenge

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Open Poetry #17

What is Life? Nearly Impossible Challenge

Professor Gloom
Member Elite

since 2000-07-23

Posts 3082
of Depression

0 posted 2001-12-03 12:04 PM

When I have taken my last run,
lost the skies warmed by brilliant sun,
fallen within that final dream.
finished searching and finished thought.
when ended my float in life’s stream,
all accomplished then brought for naught.

for you there’ll be another morn,
time to lounge upon fresh mowed lawn,
and time to ponder why life dies;
moments to feel the roses’ thorn,
understanding beauty’s disguise.

will the mysteries go unfound?
voices of truth just lost in sound?
stop your looking for things you crave.
when all the answers still abound?
Even though I’ve found my cold grave.

Nothing prepares us for disguise,
all possibilities will be;
even when hidden from your eyes
your vision becomes a vanity.
Times of change you must undergo,
only to receive death as prize
but only then the meaning know,
of life beneath the living skies.

Gloom
a little rough,
but it was suppose to be.

For Poet DeVine, thanks for the Challenge

[This message has been edited by Professor Gloom (edited 12-03-2001).]

Mother_Earth
Senior Member

since 2000-11-20

Posts 1370
1/2 year Texas & 1/2 year Michigan

1 posted 2001-12-03 12:20 PM

Professor, you have painted many pictures for us to see with our hearts and minds. And,oh, the many pictures we in turn can paint. I liked this very much.

Poet deVine

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Member Seraphic

since 1999-05-26

Posts 22612
Hurricane Alley

2 posted 2001-12-03 06:35 PM

Ah, sir, you have met the challenge and made it your own. And I like it a little rough now and then..too much smoothness gets monotonous.

serenity blaze
Member Empyrean

since 2000-02-02

Posts 27738

3 posted 2001-12-03 08:50 PM

Prof...not even gonna comment on PdV's comment....but grinning like the madwoman I am...

YOU WIN!!! This is fabulous...there was an intimacy here, as there is in all of your work that makes the reader feel like you are writing for them only! Well done, my friend....I'm keeping this one!

Startime
Member Ascendant

since 2000-10-03

Posts 5918
Canada

4 posted 2001-12-03 09:19 PM

Rough it is, my friend, but still it touched the heart of me. Very well done. **hugs**

Love I leave with you whether it is in your life now or yet the essense of your dreams.

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