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Open Poetry #42

Regrets?

Gunslinger
Senior Member

since 1999-10-09

Posts 901
TX, USA

0 posted 2008-03-19 04:36 PM

Years somehow seem to edit photographs locked in the mind;
Of people that I knew back when and where.
Removing imperfections, their enhancements are so kind-
I hardly seem to recall they were there.

Every lady was a goddess, every friend a work of art-
And their memories rest easy on my mind,
Now it's real hard to remember just why we had to part...
And what on earth I hoped that I would find?

The tender words, "I love you," were a joy to hear back then,
When I was young and "going down the road-"
But I'd leave her sad and crying, just a brother to the wind,
The curse of all who've ever rodeoed.

Jason and his argonauts and the elusive golden fleece-
Could well have understood my youthful quest...
Although their search was centered in a land far to the east,
And mine was mostly in the great Southwest.

So now I live on memories, they're all that I have left-
But memories won't warm a bed that's cold...
And all the "almost made it's", and "nearly won it all's"-
Don't mean a lot now that I'm growing old.

SEA

Moderator

Member Seraphic

since 2000-01-18

Posts 22676
with you

1 posted 2008-03-19 05:46 PM

so call up some of those Goddesses and see what they are up to now

Gunslinger
Senior Member

since 1999-10-09

Posts 901
TX, USA

2 posted 2008-03-19 05:58 PM

What was it that George Strait said?
"All My Old Flames have New Names?" lol

Marchmadness
Member Rara Avis

since 2007-09-16

Posts 9271
So. El Monte, California

3 posted 2008-03-19 06:27 PM

So try out some new flames with old names.
Ida

Robert E. Jordan
Member Rara Avis

since 2008-01-25

Posts 8541
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

4 posted 2008-03-19 07:02 PM

Gunslinger,

This is excellent work. It's great to see some real poetry posted here today.

Bobby

SEA

Moderator

Member Seraphic

since 2000-01-18

Posts 22676
with you

5 posted 2008-03-19 07:11 PM

ahhha yes, some might even be on second new names eh?

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