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JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

0 posted 2011-11-02 01:31 PM

Why men seek out their weaknesses,
and back themselves into savage traps,
when the toughness of man can profit;
but sits alone, unused and discarded?
                    Man up.
I read once that the Beast will come
from the sea. In the Bible the sea
means the body of politics. I'm starting
to wonder if maybe that isn't true.
                    Look around.
Solitude. The moon has left for good.
I'm saddened. Can the night's shroud
cause my misery to fade into naught?
The pull of the undercurrent of thought.
                    Tugs at me.
Sitting here, alone, my thoughts free,
nostalgia should come a-knocking
remembering all the foul deeds once
was mine. Yet I only look to the now.
                    Past annulled.

They will come back, come back again,
As long as the red earth rolls.
He never wasted a leaf or a tree,
Do you think he would squander souls?

suthern

Member Seraphic

since 1999-07-29

Posts 20723
Louisiana

1 posted 2011-11-02 01:51 PM

Solitude. The moon has left for good.
I'm saddened. Can the night's shroud
cause my misery to fade into naught?
The pull of the undercurrent of thought.
Tugs at me.

I really like this, Jerry... It reminds me of many thinking times, sitting in the dark... when answers remained just out of reach.

Lori Grosser Rhoden
Member Patricius

since 2009-10-10

Posts 10202
Fair to middlin' of nowhere

2 posted 2011-11-02 02:00 PM

...past annulled... that is an accomplishment! Pat yourself on the back!

Lori

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

3 posted 2011-11-02 02:08 PM

suthern, I appreciate the feeling your input and c0mments had for this part of the poem. It is the sitting and thinking, wondering and . . . all of it, with the answers sometimes, as you said, just out of reach.

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Thank you, Lori. I do agree that past annulled is a major accomplishment. It has to be in order to go on . . .

They will come back, come back again,
As long as the red earth rolls.
He never wasted a leaf or a tree,
Do you think he would squander souls?

JL
Member Ascendant

since 2004-04-01

Posts 6128
Texas, USA

4 posted 2011-11-02 02:58 PM

"Why men seek out their weaknesses,
and back themselves into savage traps,
when the toughness of man can profit;
but sits alone, unused and discarded?
Man up."

Nice write Jerry.
Love that opening verse.

JL

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul,and with all your mind. Love your neighbor as yourself.
Maranatha!

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

5 posted 2011-11-02 03:43 PM

Thank you, JL. I had fun writing these verses . . .

They will come back, come back again,
As long as the red earth rolls.
He never wasted a leaf or a tree,
Do you think he would squander souls?

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

6 posted 2011-11-06 08:08 PM

Fine writing...James

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

7 posted 2011-11-06 08:32 PM

Thanks, James.

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